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April 1918: Members of the Women's Land Army feed lambs while on a march through London

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c1925: Animal film star Rin Tin Tin (1918–32), who was rescued from a German trench during the First World War by an American soldier and went on to star in numerous silent films

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c1944: A veterinary surgeon attends to a dog in the street after damage from a wartime bomb forced him to close his premises

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15 August 2011: A US army specialist rests with Dasty, a Belgian Malinois who has the rank of sergeant, at an airfield in Afghanistan following a mission

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c1918: A soldier with Nancy, the springbok mascot of the 4th South African Regiment during the First World War

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c1944: An unidentified man reads and smokes a cigarette on the deck of a submarine, while the ship's mascot – a dog – lies next to him

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c1945: Captain Caiger of the British Army Pigeon Service holds a carrier pigeon equipped with a message capsule

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c1943: Soldiers enjoy a baseball match at Wembley Stadium in London between the United States Army and Canadian Forces. With them sits Bobby, the mascot of the Canadian Highland Scottish regiment

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c1940: British soldiers on horseback charge through a smoke screen in North Africa during the Second World War

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March 2012: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, presents a 'shamrock' to a Regimental mascot at a St Patrick's Day parade in Aldershot, England

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This article was first published on History Extra in February 2019

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