Souvenir Album of the Great European War

Belgian War Dogs

Reading edition

One of the most interesting sidelights of the war is the use of dogs to draw the Belgian "mitrailleuses." All who have visited Belgium have been surprised at the amount of work, such as hauling market wagons, performed by these animals. The rubber-tired gun carriage is in strange contrast with the bizarre appearance of the "dogs of war"—tired out after a stiff march.

Illustration from Souvenir Album of the Great European War With Pictorial Maps of the Battlegrounds

BELGIAN WAR DOGS