This VANITY FAIR MAGAZINE article was published during the bloodiest year of the First World War and it lists a number of various services that dogs were trained to perform on behalf of their belligerent masters.
“The French war dogs are divided into five classes, each of which performs a special type of work. There are sentinel dogs, patrol dogs, ambulance dogs, dispatch dogs and drought dogs. In all these departments of military activity they have proved their worth.”
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