Messenger Dogs in the Field 107 



' Vulcan ' and ' Sharp.' The latter is the dog which I 

 brought out with me. He has done one mile in i minute 

 50 seconds." 



Keeper Bevington in the following report speaks with 

 pride of the rapidity with which his dogs returned to him, 

 and the trouble to which he went to verify the timing. 

 The fact may also be observed that the dogs had to start 

 their work after being only two hours in their new quarters : 



" I was sent up to No. 3 Section at Amiens and all 

 three dogs were sent up with the troops in that big attack 

 on July 4th — you will remember that as the Americans 

 were in it for the first time, two of the dogs were taken 

 over the top in the attack with the Australians and No. 106 

 did a good run also. 104 he did a very good run for the 

 Artillery Officer, the forward observation post he ran from, 

 and 105 was lost for a time, but in my opinion he was 

 stolen as I found him with some artillerymen on a different 

 part of the front. 



" The next important front where they were working 

 was on the Vimy Ridge sector, and they did some very 

 good runs there. In one small attack there, my dogs were 

 sent up in the attack, and it was running on duck-boards 

 that time, not on open country, and they brought back 

 all these messages in very good time, as anyone can see by 

 looking at their records, that should be at the 8th Army 

 Corps. 



" They also ran some very good runs at Maroc from 

 Hart's Crater, and Harrison's Crater. Then we began to 

 advance, and our kennels were in Hythe Tunnel. This 

 will show that my dogs were very fair dogs — they were sent 

 out of the tunnel to the forward post Batt. Hdqtrs., a 



