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Picture No 11076989
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Description Morty the dog, mascot of WW1.
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‘Morty’, the property of Lieut.-Colonel W.A. Murray, R.F.A. He went to France in August ’14, and remained there the whole war, being continuously in the front line. Wounded once, and badly gassed, he wears two wounded stripes on his collar. He killed 300 rats at Passchendaele, and finally marched into Cologne, tail up, at the head of his brigade. Now living, full of scars and honours, at Bembridge, Isle of Wight.
Source Unattributed photograph in The Tatler 1st December 1920, page 272.
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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