Sauce
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Butlins Holiday Camp Skegness in United Kingdom

Biography

☨ ♀ Sauce

Alternative name:	Saucy, Jumbo

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀

People killed:	1
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:
Imported:	1898? by Firma Carl Hagenbeck
Death
Dead:	†1960
Death reason:	age:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Butlins Holiday Camp Skegness, in United Kingdom

Date of arrival

1957-00-00	Butlins Holiday Camp Skegness from Codys Circus (Harry Cody)

1952-05-24	Codys Circus (Harry Cody) from Ringlands Circus (Big Tom Fossett)

1947-00-00	Ringlands Circus (Big Tom Fossett) from Dudley Zoo

1945-00-00	Dudley Zoo from John Swallows circus

1922-00-00	John Swallows circus from Herbert Taylor

1904-00-00	Herbert Taylor 1904-00-00 from George Lockhart Sr.

1902-00-00	George Lockhart Sr. from Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Neue Pferdemarkt)

Record history
History of updates	2010-08-19

Latest document update	2024-03-11 23:26:53

† Sauce is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1960 at Butlins Holiday Camp Skegness, in United Kingdom, .

Affiliated people

1: George Lockhart Sr. (owner from 1902 to 1904) 2: Herbert Taylor (owner from 1904 to 1922)

1: Wilhelm Philadelphia (trainer from 1898 to 1902 ) 2: Ivor Rosaire (elephant keeper from 1957 to 1957 )

Origin

Sauce was born wild . and imported 1898? by Firma Carl Hagenbeck

Comments / pictures

1898: From import of India, the 4 elephants Salt, Sauce (later Jumbo), Vinegar and Mustard, were trained by Wilhelm Philadelphia, a number called "The Cruet", which was sold to England in 1902 and later presented as "Lockharts Elephants".

1957: Salt killed the 56 year old groom William Aslett from Peterborough

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Sauce, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Butlins Holiday Camp Skegness in United Kingdom. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 8 April 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=2789. (archived at the Wayback machine)