Page 16 - Animals Go to War: From Dogs to Dolphins

One of the only gOod things about war
was the love that grew between the soldiers and their animals. For
a man far from home, frightened, alone, facing death, [an animal]
who could return affection was an immeasurable comfort.”

—author Jilly Cooper

I wOuld gO tO the hOrse lInes each nIght

to feed the horses, and I would talk to my horse, and I’d talk about my
mother, and I’d talk about my sweetheart and about home. And about
being frightened. That was all that kept me surviving.”

—unnamed British WW1 soldier to writer Michael Morpurgo

If it became necessary tO dIscard

every line and method of communications used on the front
except one, I should unhesitatingly choose the pigeons.”

—General John Fowler, British Expeditionary Force Communications, 1935

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