It is said that dogs are angels who have fallen into the world. Wagging their tails, they bring far more friendship and companionship to mankind than humans give them... Today, Pet-Sir shares the story of a dog named Judy, who she is. Her life was full of adventures, difficulties and miracles, countless people regarded her as family, and countless lives were saved because of her.
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February 1936, Shanghai, China.
A couple in Sussex, England, sent their dog, Kelly, to a kennel foster. Not long after, Kelly gave birth to seven furry cubs, one of which Judy was a brown-white-flowered English Boeingda (English instruction hound).
At that time, Shanghai was known as the first city in the Far East, and its prosperity exceeded that of Tokyo at that time. Perhaps full of curiosity about the city that never sleeps in the East and the adventurous genes that come with it, Judy successfully escaped from the kennel when she was only three months old, hoping to enjoy the scenery of the beach. Unexpectedly, her front foot had just escaped from the cage, and she was quickly captured by a grocery store owner and locked up in the back alley of the grocery store to become a veritable "watchdog".
After another three months, after a well-meaning person quarreled with sailors on a Japanese Navy gunboat at the grocery store, he accidentally found Judy in the back alley and went to great lengths to send her back to the kennel, but Judy's family was gone, and Judy had to stay alone in the kennel to wait for the next owner.
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In the autumn of 1936, before the British Navy's Insect-class shallow-water gunboat Mosquito took a patrol mission in the Yangtze River Basin, the entire crew voted to add a "mascot" dog to her ship. This was because at that time, the other insect-class shallow water gunboats of the British Navy, Ladybug, Bee, Zhiyi, and Cricket, already had their own mascots.
This glorious and arduous task fell on Lieutenant Colonel Waldgrave and Sergeant Jeffrey, who, after some selection in the kennel, eventually brought Judy back to the ship. Since Judy's mother Kelly's owner is from Sussex, her register name is "Judy of Sussex" on the Royal Navy's roster.
Although everyone hopes to raise Judy into a good hound, when the crew meets Judy, they have long forgotten the idea of training and treated it as a cute pet. The captain designated Cooper, the ship's cook, as the "Judy Breeder". The clever and capable Cooper immediately built a nest for Judy out of cardboard boxes and blankets, and began training Judy where she could go on the ship and what she couldn't.
After mingling on the ship, Judy's restless heart began to stir again. In November 1936, Judy accidentally fell into the Yangtze River from the bow of the Mosquito, just in time to be discovered by Charles Jeffrey. So the captain immediately issued an order to stop the ship and sent a search and rescue boat to search and rescue. When Judy returned to the Mosquito in a search and rescue boat, the crew boiled over, and the sailors on duty excitedly played the banner "Judy's baptism is complete". The rescue was also recorded in the Mosquito's logbook, dubbed the "Crew Fall into the Water Search and Rescue Exercise."
As they spend a long time with Judy, the crew gradually discovers her "special" skills. For example, when a ship sails on a river, Judy always discovers the hidden risks before the crew and reminds them to close the hatch and stop the ship to avoid the enemy ship by barking. For example, when a Japanese plane arrived, Judy always found the trail before the crew and barked for warning until the Japanese fighter jet left the sky over the Mosquito.
What the crew talked about most was Judy's warning to help the Mosquito escape a pirate raid. It was an early morning, when the crew was still immersed in a dream, Judy suddenly barked at the dark river, and the crew who were awakened by the cry did not know what Judy's warning meant, or subconsciously put themselves on full alert, which made the pirate ship that intended to sneak up on the Mosquito in the black to no avail.
Time came to November 1937, mosquito and the American gunboat "Panai" met on the Yangtze River, the Americans invited the British to hold a party on their gunboats, Judy as a "group favorite" naturally also participated, the crew of the mixed, drunk back to the Mosquito, until late at night to find that Judy is gone, they quickly contacted the Panai through the signal lights, but the Americans firmly replied that they had not seen Judy.
The next morning, the crew heard from a Chinese merchant that Judy must be aboard the Panai, and at once blew up, immediately dispatching a small group of elite soldiers to board the Panai and steal the bells of the American ship. Next, the crew contacted the Panai and told them that if they wanted to return the bell, they must return Judy. So, in less than an hour, Judy was sent back to mosquitoes unharmed.
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As the pet of the crew, Judy not only received careful care from everyone in all aspects of life, but also attracted the attention of the mascot of the friendly ship Ladybug, Bunzo, who was a boxer dog and a string of terriers, and it was precisely because of seeing Bonzo that the crew decided to choose a dog as their ship's mascot.
Whenever the Mosquito and the Ladybird encountered each other, Bonzo saw Judy like crazy and hated not being able to put on his wings and fly to her side, but the arrogant Judy obviously did not call the stupid boy, and every time he saw Bonzo, he would let out an angry roar. The crew of the Mosquito also felt that Bonzo was not worthy of her own girl, so whenever the two ships met, they would hide Judy so that Bonzo's crazy love would not scare her.
Unexpectedly, I prevented the isolation of lao wang, but did not prevent the old Li on the door. The final winner of Judy's heart was a Boeingda Hound on a French gunboat. In early 1938, the Mosquito docked side by side with a French gunboat in Hankou, Wuhan, where Judy and Boniface, newly assigned to take care of her, stayed in the cabin, writing letters to a sweetheart she knew in Shanghai.
Suddenly, Judy behaved strangely, and she kept pulling on Boniface's leg and dragging it toward the stairs. Boniface had to take Judy to the deck. Then Judy raised her head, extended her tail, and paced back and forth in front of the deck, completely ignoring the crew who called him and wanted to play with her. After careful observation, the crew understood. It turned out that there was also a thoroughbred Boeingda Hound on the deck of the French gunboat next door, but it was a boy named Paul.
Although Paul was on a French ship, he was not a true master of love. His quest was to fall to the ground as soon as he saw Judy, with his legs spread wide and his chin slammed into the deck. He ran around diligently, eager to show manhood in front of the who fell in love at first sight. Judy remained shy, sometimes ignoring the passionate suitor and sometimes biting it with her sharp teeth.
One day, two gunboats were about to hold a tactical meeting, and they tied the two boats together with cables. Paul used the opportunity to show Judy his athletic talent. He sprinted back and forth on the boat, running breathlessly, his tongue hunched over to the corner of one corner of his mouth. Unfortunately, the guardrail of the French gunboats was not long enough, and Paul ran too hard to stop in time, and rushed out of the side of the boat and fell into the muddy water. Fortunately, he was close to the shore, and a group of villagers whizzed into the water to save him.
Judy no longer pretended to be high, no longer had any reservations. The moment Paul fell into the water, Judy cried out loudly, eager to jump into the water with Paul. When Paul was rescued and came back to the Mosquito, Judy licked Paul's face and pressed her head against him. For the rest of the day, Judy was on a tour of french gunboats, a special "itinerary" Paul had arranged for her.
The next day after lunch, the men of the two gunboats, dressed in official uniforms, held a grand wedding ceremony for Judy and Paul on the deck of the Mosquito. Paul then spent three days aboard the Mosquito, and he and Judy nestled comfortably in the "Little Love Nest" that the sailors had specially arranged for them in the front cabin, and they were barely seen. After seventy-two inseparable hours, Paul was taken back to his boat, where he screamed in protest all the way.
Soon, Judy became pregnant. Nine weeks later, she gave birth to 13 cubs, three of which were too thin to survive the day, and the remaining 10 grew up happily, and were sent to other gunboats such as France and the United States.
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Judy's comfortable and happy life as a group of pets came to an end with the advent of World War II.
In June 1939, Judy moved to grasshopper with most of the Crew of the Mosquito, and three months later received orders to deploy to the British base in Singapore.
In February 1942, the Battle of Singapore broke out. The Japanese captured Singapore in just seven days, using Dragonfly and Dragonfly to evacuate, and the destination of the two gunboats was Batavia in the Dutch East Indies. In order to avoid the Japanese blockade, they deliberately chose to cross the Linga Islands, hoping to hide from the island group there, but unfortunately, just when they were only two miles away from safe hiding on the island, the Japanese fighters roared in, and although Judy gave the crew an early warning, the Grasshopper was hit by two bombs, and the crew had to abandon the ship and escape.
When they arrived at a desert island in a lifeboat, they found that Judy had not followed. The terrified crew quickly set up a makeshift camp on the desert island and sent White, Judy's current breeder, back to the gunboat to collect supplies.
White returns to the Grasshopper in search of useful supplies and for Judy's figure, and finally finds Judy trapped between the locker and the gap in the bed in the cabin below deck, where he makes a raft out of the fragmented deck and returns to the island with Judy.
The surviving crew spent two days on the island without water or food, and many began to despair. At this time, Judy was threatened, and she relied on her strong sense of smell to find a hidden underground water source at low tide, which can be said that Judy saved everyone's lives.
Five days after grasshoppers were bombed, a passing Chinese cargo ship, the Tongkang, rescued Judy and the survivors and transported them to the Linga Islands. Two days later, Judy and the surviving crew boarded an old-fashioned sailing ship to Sumatra, where British gunboats and troops could move them to safer Sri Lanka.
The journey to Sumatra was not destined to be smooth sailing, and with boats unable to pass through the narrow river channel, Judy and the survivors had no choice but to land and then trekked through the 320-kilometer jungle in an attempt to reach Padang. During her journey through the jungle, Judy repeatedly alerted the crew to avoid wildlife injuries, but she herself was attacked by a crocodile and injured in the shoulder.
When Judy and the survivors arrived in Padang, Sumatra, after much painstaking effort, they found that the last British evacuation ship had left, and it was also occupied by the Japanese.
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On 18 March 1942, the survivors aboard the Grasshopper became prisoners of war. Even so, they did not think of abandoning Judy, they quietly hid her in a rice bag to avoid inspection, and then were transferred with her to a prisoner of war camp in Medan. Here, Judy welcomed the most important and final owner of the dog's life, Frank Williams, an aviation officer of the RAF who had become a prisoner of war.
The camp was short of food, and Williams, observing Judy wandering around, already very thin, struck him in the heart, and he later said, "I remember wondering why a beautiful Boeing Hound like this would stay here, and no one could take care of her." I realized that even though she looked thin, she was also a survivor. ”
So one afternoon, he sprinkled his rice on the floor for Judy to eat. She devoured it and lay down at Williams' feet. From then on, she became Williams' most loyal companion, and the rest of the prisoners of war soon saw Judy as Williams' dog.
However, Judy's presence in the prisoner-of-war camp was dangerous. Whenever the Japanese gendarmes began to beat up the prisoners of war, she always stepped forward and barked at the Japanese soldiers, which would undoubtedly make the gendarmes sooner or later turn their anger into actions against Judy.
Needless to say, Williams and the other prisoners of war feared Judy's safety, so Williams came up with a plan. Williams knew that the commander of the camp would often get drunk and would become very friendly when drunk, so he waited for such an opportunity to approach him and persuaded the commander to give Judy official prisoner status, while Williams promised to offer the commander a cub born of Judy as a gift from the commander's local mistress.
The plan worked. Judy became the only official dog prisoner of war during World War II, the 81A. Although her status as a prisoner of war did save her from being executed by the gendarmes, Judy was never out of danger for a long time. During her more than three years at the Medan POW camp, she not only alerted the camp's people with her powerful danger warnings, as always, but also went out in search of food and brought rats and snakes back to Williams. Because of this, she did not stop fighting with the wild animals in the jungle around the camp.
In June 1944, Japan decided to transfer the prisoners to Singapore, but did not allow dogs. Williams then spent a few days training Judy to hide in a rice bag and not make the slightest sound. In this way, Judy followed Williams onto the ship and huddled with more than 700 prisoners of war on the hot deck for hours without making a sound.
However, the ship carrying the prisoners of war did not reach Singapore, and on 26 June 1944 at 12:42 p.m., it was torpedoed by the Royal Navy submarine HMS Militant. After the torpedo attack, there was chaos between the prisoners of war and the crew. Williams said: "The only thing that could keep him awake was Judy, who was very calm and waited motionless for me to move. ”
Williams thought quickly, grabbed Judy, and pushed her out of a small porthole in the fast-sinking boat. Williams said: "Before falling into the water about 4.5 meters underwater, Judy looked down at me with a sad expression on her face. I understood immediately, she thought I was crazy! She then sprained herself from the porthole with her curled hind paws. The hole was just big enough, and with the last push, she was gone. ”
Williams couldn't escape through the porthole, but he managed to find another escape route and then swam around in the middle of the sea in search of Judy. He later recalled that as far as I could see, there were wreckage swept away by the rapids everywhere. Judy may be struggling desperately somewhere. After a failed search for Judy, he eventually returned to land and was soon placed in a new prisoner-of-war camp.
Although there was no exact word of Judy's survival, Williams always heard stories of dogs saving people at sea, and he knew that it must have been Judy's doing. Soon, Williams was transferred again to a new prisoner-of-war camp, and just when he was discouraged from the search for Judy, a skinny dog suddenly burst out of the camp and pounced on Williams.
Yes, Judy is back and reunited with Williams.
After spending four weeks here, Judy and Williams were once again transported to a prisoner-of-war camp in Sumatra, where conditions were more difficult and remote, and they spent a whole year living together, an experience that changed Judy, using her wisdom to hunt food from the complex jungle and guard her master. Williams later recalled: "She saved my life in many ways, and the most important thing was to give me a reason to live." Looking at her tired look and bloodied eyes, I would ask myself, what would she do if I died? I had to try to live, even if that meant waiting for a miracle. ”
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In 1945, World War II ended.
Judy and Williams also finally emerged from the POW camp alive. Williams, who wanted to bring Judy back to England, encountered another problem, the British warship responsible for transporting prisoners of war did not allow animals to board, williams and several prisoners of war repeated the trick, and quietly took Judy to the ship again.
Three days before the ship's arrival in Liverpool, Judy was spotted. The captain was angry at first, but after hearing Williams tell Judy's story, he actively contacted barristers to persuade the authorities to allow Judy to come ashore.
Even though Judy was approved to go ashore, the Uk's Department of Agriculture required her to undergo a six-month quarantine. During those years of isolation, Williams and many British admirals who had served in the military in Asia visited her, and Judy's legend was widely circulated.
In February 1946, Judy and Williams, who had ended their quarantine, came to London together and in May received the "Dickin Medal", the highest honor in the animal kingdom, equivalent to the Victoria Cross of humanity, awarded to animals who "demonstrated apparent heroism or loyalty during their service or when associated with any branch of the Armed Forces or civil defence forces". Judy's medal reads: "Because of her extraordinary courage and endurance in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps, this helped to keep the morale of the prisoners of war and saved many lives through her wit and vigilance." British newspapers also wrote about Judy's legend and titled it "Gunboat Judy".
After living in England for two years, Judy and Williams came to Tanzania in East Africa in 1948, and two years later, Judy was diagnosed with a breast tumor, although the tumor was surgically removed, she was unable to escape the infection caused by tetanus, and on February 17, 1950, Judy was euthanized at the age of 13.
Williams draped Judy in a RAF uniform and buried her in Tanzania, as well as a granite and marble monument to her, including a plaque documenting Judy's story. The plaque reads:
She is an extraordinary dog... A brave and fearless girl.
Wagging its tail brings far more friendship and companionship to mankind than humans give it...
In her short life, she inspired people with courage, hope and tenacious will to survive.
If it weren't for her exemplary strength and tenacity, many people might have given up in tough times.
Thank you, Judy.
Source:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_(dog)
2. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/5/140518-dogs-war-canines-soldiers-troops-military-japanese-prisoner/
3. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32657659