wardogs

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British messenger dogs with their handler, France, during World War I

from National Library of Scotland

  • CraigShipp.com Photos - Events / People / Places said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called WorldWar, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Maxim mitrailleur van het 7de Linieregiment | Maxim machine gun section of the Belgian 7th Infantry Regt.

from Liberas

  • jamica1 said:
    Extraordinary

messenger dogs and handler near Villers-Bretonneux, 1918

from Australian War Memorial collection

Maj. Richardson & British Red Cross dogs (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Art Siegel said:
    Related to
    Getting bandages from kit of British Dog (LOC)
  • swanq said:
    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
  • Art Siegel said:
    Good catch! Looks like he was using collies. That looks like Richardson in the linked picture also.