Meet ‘Bill the Bastard’, the unlikely war horse hero from the Battle of Romani

Australia’s greatest war-horse was the unlikeliest of heroes.

The big, partly broken-in stallion played up so badly while being loaded onto the troop ship he was nearly left behind in Australia.

On arrival in Egypt, he was declared unrideable and given an unflattering nickname.

“He was called Bill the Bastard because no man could mount him and ride him. He threw them off, he didn’t just smash them into the ground, he put them into orbit,”…