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A Real Dog of War

... Real Dog of War. amusing letter has been written by a corporal the Array Service Corps, who sends home a photograph of a dog, and was through the battle of Mons, right through the battle of the Aisne, and has seen more fire than’Old Nick 1 wiH buy hini'a ...

THE DOG IN WAR : BEING TRAINED FOR CROSS-COUNTRY TRACKING

... THE DOG IN WAR : BEING TRAINED FOR CROSS-COUNTRY TRACKING. This photograph shows a British war-dog undergoing training for cross-country tracking under Major Richardson’s system. —[Photograph by Photopress.] once if there was anyone in the neighbourhood ...

Published: Saturday 17 April 1915
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 149 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

THE DOG IN WAR ; WORKING INDEPENDENTLY AS A FINDER OF WOUNDED

... THE DOG IN WAR ; WORKING INDEPENDENTLY AS A FINDER OF WOUNDED. The dog's wonderful faculty for rescue-work is employed in war for finding wounded. The animals are trained to earn/ back to the ambulance post something belonging to the wounded man, and ...

Published: Saturday 17 April 1915
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 54 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

TERRIER DOG SHOW. WAR CHARITIES CHAMPIONSHIPS AT WESTMINSTER

... TERRIER DOG SHOW. WAR CHARITIES CHAMPIONSHIPS AT WESTMINSTER. Three hundred terriers were benched yesterday at the Horticultural Westminster, when the War Charities Championship Tenier Dog Show Wad under Ner.nel Club rules. The quality of the 'exhibits ...

Published: Wednesday 15 December 1915
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 140 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THE DOG IN WAR : A CANINE MEMBER OF THE GERMAN RED CROSS

... and for fighting in the arena. Such dogs, it would seem, when used in battle, led the first charge against the enemy. Hence the command Let loose the dogs of war ! According to Strabo, mastiffs were also used in war by the Gauls. And this was certainly ...

Published: Saturday 17 April 1915
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 315 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

A GLUM AN TRAIN ED WAR DOG

... A GLUM AN TRAIN WAR DOG From Private in the Lancashire Fusiliers, iccminting remarkable dog story. “According to one of our sentries’ statements Germans must have some highly trained dogs. About a month ago was duty in thu ruins house; this house ve term ...

Published: Thursday 25 February 1915
Newspaper: Stonehaven Journal
County: Kincardineshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 677 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE WAR DOG. His Past Fights and the Fights to Come

... THE WAR DOG. His Past Fights and the Fights to Come. But I must introduce my Musketeer. He was a man of five feet nine, and turned of forty year. He was hard and straight, witk, aquiline features, dark moustache, keen and steady eyes. I knew by his bearing ...

Published: Sunday 25 July 1915
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 399 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A FRENCH SENTRY and his WAR DOG on DUTY

... SENTRY and his WAR DOG on DUTY. 44 WHAT WAS THAT?-- AN OUTPOST ON DUTY IN FRANCE WITH A FRENCH WAR DOG The French sentries are making good use of dogs to help them in the course of their duties. After being first used as Red Cross ...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1915
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 139 | Page: 11 | Tags: Illustrations