One Last Push for Our Four-Legged Heroes ; (1)Review (2)Almost Pounds 1m has Been Raised to Build a Monument to Animals Who Went to War for Us ... But Still More Is Needed

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For days the southern Iraqi town of Safwan was bombarded by bomb and rocket attacks. Yet when British troops came to search the houses for the weapons they knew the Iraqis were hiding, they found nothing. They needed a breakthrough - and it came in the bustling brown and white shape of Buster, a six-year-old springer spaniel sniffer dog.

'Within minutes, I knew he'd discovered something,' said Buster's handler, Sergeant Danny Morgan of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps. 'Buster found the arms even though they'd hidden them in a wall cavity, covered it with a sheet of tin then pushed a wardrobe in front of it.' Buster's haul included assault rifles, grenades, ammunition and drugs. Following this discovery last year, all attacks ceased. Buster was considered responsible for saving the lives of countless citizens and servicemen, and won the Dickin Medal for outstanding bravery, the animals' VC.

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One Last Push for Our Four-Legged Heroes ; (1)Review (2)Almost Pounds 1m has Been Raised to Build a Monument to Animals Who Went to War for Us ... But Still More Is Needed

But Buster's extraordinary courage is far from unique, as I found when the Imperial War Museum asked me to write a book about the role animals have played in war.

Until then I had no idea of the millions that served and died alongside our armies, and was shattered to discover the enormity of their suffering. I was also bitterly ashamed to hear the animal- loving British were one ...

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