Today’s war dogs follow in a long tradition, with the story of canines in the British military dating back more than a century. In 1917, the British War Dog School was set up in Shoeburyness ...

Mo, alongside Ara, was taken in by Charlie Cridland, a retired dog handler in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps The British military has nearly 1,000 working dogs. Each one has a name, service ...

Dan Snow explains that at the start of WW1, Germany had around 6000 trained military dogs and the British Army had just one - an Airedale terrier. The situation changed thanks to the intervention ...

The handler said he had wanted to work with dogs since he was a child. PA Media British Army dog handler Pte Freya Brown was joined by her military working dog Zac Since Russia's invasion ...

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British Army dogs are to get goggles and combat vests as part of a £3 million kit upgrade to their working wardrobe. The new ...