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Redditch Local History Society                       Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1


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               The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 1  February
               1919




















































               Soldiers’ Dogs from the Front – Official plans have been completed to help the men
               serving in the British Army on the various fronts to bring home the dogs who have shared
               with them the dangers and sufferings of the Great War.  This is of particular importance in
               view of the Order recently issued by the board of Agriculture and Fisheries with reference to
               the prevention of the smuggling of dogs into the country, and the consequent fear of
               introducing Rabies.
               In order to help soldiers who are not in a position to pay the fees which the official
               quarantine period of six months involve, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
               Animals has undertaken with the approval of the Army Council and the Board of Agriculture,
               to be responsible for the expense of quarantining these dogs.
               The dogs will be repatriated by the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, and the Society has made
               special arrangements with the Dogs’ Home at Battersea, and will erect new kennels at the
               Home’s Quarantine Station at Hackbridge, where the dogs will be kept during the necessary
               period of quarantine.





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