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From doglawreporter.blogspot.com/2011/06/messenger-dogs-soldie... "Edwin H. Richardson Lieutenant Colonel Edwin H. Richardson was not a shy man and portrays himself as fighting for years against institutional ignorance about the value of war dogs. Even before the war, he states that “I was the sole person who took any interest in trained dogs for the army and police, and the outflow from my kennels constituted the only source of supply.“ When World War I began, Richardson tried to persuade the powers that be to let him train sentry dogs, already known to be in use by the Germans. His idea having been rejected, he began training ambulance dogs, but this came to little because the Germans did not respect “the inviolability of the sacred symbol of the Red Cross, whether on man or beast, hospital or ship.” Also, the nature of the Great War was that it involved little movement, often only glacial change in the positions of the front lines, which did not suit ambulance dogs that could be used primarily in finding the wounded after a battlefield was controlled. Richardson concedes that the “only ambulance dogs that were used with any success were those with the German army when the Russians were retreating on the Eastern front.” Richardson, Edwin Hautonville, 1863- wrote "British war dogs, their training and psychology" [1920], archive.org/details/britishwardogsth00richrich Elsewhere his middle name is spelled "Hautenville" and the title page of "Forty Years with Dogs" (found somewhere on eBay) has that spelling. See also community-2.webtv.net/Hahn-50thAP-K9/K9History13/ A BIOGRAPHY OF E. H. RICHARDSON

Good catch! Looks like he was using collies. That looks like Richardson in the linked picture also.

Is this the same woman who was standing on an elephants leg in an earlier photo?

Kate Feely.

No, not a P-35 This is the BT-8 which was the Company's first major order. Photo might even show the prototype on a test flight. Stig