Lizzie
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Unknown in Unknown

Biography

☨ ♀ Lizzie
Lizzie in World War I pulls munitions in Sheffield. Elephant trainer is Richard Sedgwick.

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀, unknown age
Status:	Lost to follow-up
Origin
Born:	* unknown
Birth place:	in Asia unspecified location
Death
Dead:	†
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Unknown, in Unknown

Date of arrival

	Unknown from Thomas Ward

1916-00-00	Thomas Ward from Sedgwicks Menagerie

Record history
History of updates	2018-05-08

Latest document update	2024-03-10 16:51:37

† Lizzie is a dead Lost to follow-up Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died at Unknown, in Unknown, .

Origin

Lizzie was born unknown at Asia unspecified location.

Comments / pictures

Lizzie in Unknown

According to Sheffield amateur historian, author and illustrator, Clare Trowell, it was not known how she wound up at Tommy Ward's, a ship breakers and scrap metal merchant in the city.

Little is known of her fate after the war, however, an expression "done up like Tommy Ward's elephant", which was used when somebody was carrying something heavy, has survived in the area.

There is also some evidence that she went on to work at a farm where the ground was more forgiving.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Lizzie, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Unknown in Unknown. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=6219. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24745705
Illustrated War News, 9 February 1916, pt. 79, p. 3.
http://www.nfa.dept.shef.ac.uk/jungle/index4d3.html

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