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priscilla 1Animals in War
December 29th 2010 01:38
The Animals in War Memorial is located at Brook Gate, Park Lane, on the edge of London’s Hyde Park and was designed by leading English sculptor, David Backhouse. Unveiled on 24 November 2004 by the Princess Royal, it exists as a memorial to the countless animals that have served and died under British military command throughout history.
Beneath the main header, "Animals in War", the memorial has two separate inscriptions, the first and larger reading:
"This monument is dedicated to all the animals
that served and died alongside British and allied forces
in wars and campaigns throughout time"
The second, smaller inscription simply reads:
"They had no choice"
The Denver Post recently put together an article on animals in war. Below is an extract and you can read the full article here.
Beneath the main header, "Animals in War", the memorial has two separate inscriptions, the first and larger reading:
"This monument is dedicated to all the animals
that served and died alongside British and allied forces
in wars and campaigns throughout time"
The second, smaller inscription simply reads:
"They had no choice"
The Denver Post recently put together an article on animals in war. Below is an extract and you can read the full article here.
Oglala war party. Several Oglala men, many wearing war bonnets, on horseback riding down hill. Photo by Edward S. Curtis, 1907.
An American advised patrol plods through the Vietnamese jungle on June 27, 1964. Supplies and some of its personnel aboard the powerful, plodding elephants which are a form of native transport dating back centuries to Hannibal during the First Punic War.
In this photo release by the National Archives via National World War II Museum, Butch, a sentry dog, stands guard over Pfc. Rez P. Hester of the Marine Corps’ 7th War Dog Platoon on Iwo Jima in this undated photograph from the National Archives. The photo will be part of an exhibit, titled "Loyal Force: Animals at War
One of the nine African rats, sniffing out a landmine in Chimoio, Mozambique. Twelve years after the end of a brutal civil war, Mozambique is still dealing with a 'critical situation' from landmines in areas where more than one million people live. Apopo, a Belgian de-mining research group train rats and there handlers, saying that the animals have a highly developed sense of smell, are easy to tame and train and cheap and easy to maintain.
Treo, an eight-year-old black Labrador from the Military Working Dogs, who was presented Wednesday with Britain's Dickin medal, awarded for bravery and commitment in wartime, the highest military honour an animal can expect, poses with the medal at the Imperial War Museum in London.
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