LONDON.- A stunning bronze sculpture of three elephants titled `The Wounded Comrade’ by the American artist, Carl E. Akeley (1864-1926), will be sold at Bonhams Sporting Gun Sale in Knightsbridge on July 27. The powerful bronze which stands a foot and a half tall and broad, shows two elephants supporting a wounded comrade, holding him up on each side. The emotion in this work clearly shows the bond between these intelligent and sensitive animals, and just how much we yet have to learn about them and their world. Estimated to sell for £40,000-60,000 the bronze has an interesting history. It was begun by Akeley in 1913 at the suggestion of the American financier J.P. Morgan. The bronze was exhibited at the Winter Exhibition of the National Academy of Design in the same year, earning him membership of the National Sculpture Society, and he went on to produce about twenty bronzes in total over the next twelve years, as well a