Tom Marshall, who lives near Regiment Defensive Animal Training Base near Milton Mowbray, has converted black-and-white photos of pets from World War I and II into color via a coloring page, according to a report in the newspaper. Britain’s Daily Mail.
Marshall decided to recolor the images of pets who sacrificed their lives in human wars to honor them, and urged people to wear purple poppies to commemorate animal sacrifices on Sunday this week.
Among the photographs Marshall purchased and recolored was a July 1944 photograph showing Jasper, a mine-excavating dog, with a Royal Army sergeant in Bayeux, France, bandaging his ear.
Another photograph he recolored is of a Royal Navy cat named Simon, the only cat to have received the Deakin Medal as of 2021.
Simon was adept at catching and killing rats in basements, and soon earned his reputation, leaving dead rats in the sailors’ beds.
In 1949, during the Yangtze River Incident, Simon was awarded the Decking Medal PDSA After surviving injuries from an artillery shell that penetrated the captain’s cabin injuring Simon and killing the captain.
The seriously injured cat crawled to the deck of the ship, and was quickly transferred to the medical bay, where the ship’s surviving medical staff cleaned his burns, removed four shrapnel from him, so that they would preserve his life, and indeed managed to survive, and after a period of his recovery, he returned to his duties Prior to catching mice, Marshall wanted to honor him and the other animals.
Jasper is a dog that specializes in detecting mines in France, and an army sergeant treats him
Simon the cat
British soldier taking a picture with his cat in 1917
Rip was awarded the Deakin Medal for Courage in 1945 and the first search-and-rescue dog
A dog and a horse in the Royal Canadian Army in 1916
Aircrew . cat
