loo British War Dogs 



Keeper Hedley testifies to the good work of his dogs 

 at this time and also during the last offensive of the war : 



" I can faithfully say my dogs did excellent work, 

 especially on two occasions. The first offensive which 

 the Germans made on Kemmel Hill between the dates of 

 16th April and the 25th April, 1918, and the second was 

 when we made the large offensive commencing Sept. 28th, 

 1919, at Ypres. They came back in splendid time." 



Keeper Young had in his charge a very good cross-bred 

 dog called " Dane." He was a powerful dog and did his 

 work faithfully and well : 



" ' Dane,' No. 29, he did good work all the time but I did 

 not know what the messages contained, but during the 

 German offensive on Kemmel in April, 1918, he fetched 

 the situation reports every morning for 10 days, sometimes 

 when all other communications were broken and very heavy 

 shelling going on." 



Keeper Brown had two good dogs, but unfortunately 

 there is a tragedy in his report following the dog's good 

 work at Kemmel Hill : 



" My dogs have done very good work in the field. I 

 was on the Hazebrouck Sector part of last summer and my 

 dogs, ' Trusty,' No. 79 and ' Peter,' No. 78 were doing good 

 work there taking messages and then I went to Kemmel 

 Hill where they were taking in messages day and night. 

 The Officer i/c Signals there was highly pleased with the 

 work the dogs had done taking in messages day and night, 

 and I went from Kemmel Hill to the Ypres Sector where 



