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title: "Animals That Went To War"  
description: "Animals were not only used for work. Dogs, cats, monkeys, bears and lions, were kept as pets and mascots to raise to use in war"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-11-27  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1681/animals-that-went-to-war  
category: "history"  
tags: ["War", "history", "animals", "war animals", "animals in war", "historical facts", "animal facts"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# Animals That Went To War

![Animals That Went To War](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/b6b1d1db-a74a-4d21-82c1-21e765cbb954/images/3616feef-a4fb-46af-a612-649a387f8d8f.jpeg) ![Animals That Went To War](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/b6b1d1db-a74a-4d21-82c1-21e765cbb954/images/0c8e1c81-9dea-4cf1-8f9c-dbb0b4889334.jpeg) Naval Mascot Togo was the cat mascot of the battleship HMS Dreadnought. ![Animals That Went To War](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/b6b1d1db-a74a-4d21-82c1-21e765cbb954/images/90b0d9e1-b7f2-4c4e-b83a-a97895fb7c20.jpeg) No. 32 Squadron's fox cub mascot This fox cub was the mascot of No.32 Squadron. ![Animals That Went To War](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/b6b1d1db-a74a-4d21-82c1-21e765cbb954/images/4763382e-9029-4fc1-8f20-776e691b780d.jpeg) Carrying the wounded Camels carry wounded men to safety on the North West Frontier of India in 1917. ![Animals That Went To War](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/b6b1d1db-a74a-4d21-82c1-21e765cbb954/images/496a646d-99aa-4e3c-aacd-17bb5bc482a1.jpeg) Lining up for inspection French Red Cross dogs line up for inspection on the Western Front, 1914. ![Animals That Went To War](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/b6b1d1db-a74a-4d21-82c1-21e765cbb954/images/e8e6811c-cba4-45c2-9542-d6605150e689.jpeg) Horses wearing gas masks on the Western Front German transport driver and horses wearing gas masks on the Western Front, 1917. ![Animals That Went To War](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/b6b1d1db-a74a-4d21-82c1-21e765cbb954/images/1a19a368-e344-4f58-a69d-09f58fe19539.jpeg) Mascot on a captured German trench mortar.The monkey mascot of the Third Army Trench Mortar School sits on a captured German trench mortar,20 May 1916 ![Animals That Went To War](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/b6b1d1db-a74a-4d21-82c1-21e765cbb954/images/77501222-18fe-425c-9f9e-7c8e8fb5a76a.jpeg) Landing mules at Salonika Italians landing mules at Salonika in October, 1916. ![Animals That Went To War](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/b6b1d1db-a74a-4d21-82c1-21e765cbb954/images/185fe034-5bbd-4a53-a5dc-f4cd1e459183.jpeg) A gunner of the York and Lancaster Regiment with the regimental cat in a trench near Cambrin, France, 6 February 1918. ![Animals That Went To War](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/b6b1d1db-a74a-4d21-82c1-21e765cbb954/images/f1499a54-64eb-47ba-957a-334c02e94aff.jpeg) Carrier pigeons in their travelling basket French troops with two carrier pigeons strapped in their travelling basket.

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