British War Dog School, Shoeburyness, 1917
Dogs and their keepers line up at the British War Dog School which was based at Shoeburyness on the Essex coast in 1917. The school was run by Colonel Edwin Richardson and trained dogs to act as sentries, guards, ambulance, but specifically messenger dogs during the First World War
Picture No
10910225
Media ID
46885023
Size
6200px x 3156px
(1.3MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Unattributed photograph in Fifty Years With Dogs by Colonel E. H. Richardson and Mrs Richardson
Date
1917
