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The PDSA Dickin Medal was instituted in 1943 in the United Kingdom by Maria Dickin to honour the work of animals in World War II. It is a bronze medallion , bearing the words "For Gallantry" and "We Also Serve" within a laurel wreath , carried on a ribbon of striped green, dark brown, and pale blue. [ 1 ]
The Animals in War & Peace Medal of Bravery was instituted in 2019 in the United States by Robin Hutton and Mari Lou Livingood to honor the work of American animals in war and peace. The medal was created to be the American equivalent of the Dickin Medal , awarded in the UK for any animal displaying conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty ...
Simon (c. 1947 – 28 November 1949) was a ship's cat who served on the Royal Navy sloop-of-war HMS Amethyst.In 1949, during the Yangtze Incident, he received the PDSA's Dickin Medal after surviving injuries from an artillery shell, raising morale, and killing off a rat infestation during his service.
For these three missions that Commando conducted, he received the PDSA Dickin Medal, which is considered to be the animals' medal equivalent to the Victoria Cross, the highest military award for bravery in the UK. [2] He received the award along with Royal Blue, the King's pigeon from the Royal Lofts at Sandringham.
Warrior was honoured on 2 September 2014, [9] a posthumous honorary award to commemorate the contributions of all animals during the First World War. The medal, the 66th awarded, was presented to Seely's grandson, Brough Scott, a horse racing broadcaster. [9] Warrior survived the war, dying in 1941 at the age of 33.
Juliana (died 1946) was a medal-winning Great Dane. She was awarded two Blue Cross medals, the first for extinguishing an incendiary bomb and the second for alerting her masters to a fire that had started in their shop. In September 2013 the second of these medals, along with a portrait of Juliana, sold at auction for £1,100.
The Dickin Medal, the highest possible decoration for valor given to animals, was awarded to 32 pigeons, including the United States Army Pigeon Service's G.I. Joe and the Irish pigeon Paddy. The UK maintained the Air Ministry Pigeon Section during World War II and for a while thereafter. A Pigeon Policy Committee made decisions about the uses ...
The award is also known as the equivalent of the Victoria Cross or the Medal of Honor for animals. [2] G.I. Joe was the 29th and the first non-British recipient of the medal. [6] In 2019 he was also posthumously awarded the Animals in War & Peace Medal of Bravery. [7] [8]