Throughout the centuries dogs have been employed by warring "nations, Wall writings of nearly 5,000 Med dem to repel an enemy. 5 ago prove that the Egyptians
the Great employed them jas sentries Four hundred English terriers, presented by Henry VIII to "Charles V of Spain, fought with the "tenacity of their breed "for the] Spanish Mercenaries!
At the beginning of the Great War, britain had no trained dogs. But before the war was over 7,000 trained dogs were killed on active service and "many times this number wounded. Belgian sheep dogs, English Airedales, (Canadian and Alaskan Huskies,
"played their parts and many gained Alsatians and a host of mongrels high distinction.
The hastily arming nations have not overlooked the usefulness of dogs as accessories to modern warfare. Bel-jum, France, Italy, Russia Bulgaria pave their War Dog Schools. In Austria each animal has its own gas "mask! Whereas in 1914, Germany bad only 6,000 trained animals, today "she has 50,000 dogs well schooled in "the arts of war.
To what use can dogs be pūt in "modern warfare? Apart from their Jactive participation on the battlefield end in its close proximity, the dogs'
est asset in time of war is their "powers to bolster up man. The "Imorale of the troops in the Great War Was greatly strengthened by the specially trained war dogs and the many little mongrels that threw in their lot with the soldiers and made billets and Ndugouts their temporary homes in bebanee of all military regulations!
"Faithfulness Several thousand dogs have been Itramed as sentries, and many rore o for ambulance work. It vas in this feld that the war dogs
during the War, though it mus! admitted Ghat the services, of 440 tablished their in France
transported from Alaska and tily trained to relieve a battery in the Vosges, were more spectacular. The battery in question had been cut off from its source of supply for a fortnight when the dogs arrived, and within four days the animals had transported 90 tons of ammunition and food to the gunners.
One example of the faithfulness of service ofthe military dogs is instanced by Flambeau (the Torch) who ier eight years was attached to the 92nd Foot Regiment of. the. Alphine Chasseurs. Never once during his long service did he miss a post, regularly making the difficult ascent to Fort de Sauliéfes with the post strapped to'his body. A few months after being:"retired" to the vally barracks at Lanslebotirg, apparently having a premonition that his end was near, the animal once more climbed the 8,700 feet to the Fort.
During warfare, casualties amongst the war dogs will be considerable. And with this fact in mind a military hospital for the wounded has been set up at Jena.
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