Bonzo's War

by Clare Campbell

  p. 6 ‘Ensure the safety …’ Kennel, Farm and Aviary, The Times, 3 October 1938 (p. 3).

  p. 7 ‘Send your dogs …’ ibid., 29 September 1938 (p. 3).

  p. 7 ‘to inform owners …’ ibid., 30 September 1938 (p. 1).

  p. 7 ‘In the event of war …’ ibid., 29 September 1939 (p. 9).

  p. 7 ‘Black Cat No. 10 …’ The New York Times, 5 November 1938 (p. 3).

  p. 8 ‘The experience of Spain …’ Manchester Guardian, 21 May 1938 (p. 14).

  p. 8 ‘to secure and shoot a cat …’ RSPCA Animals and Air Raids (p. 3), TNA MEPO 2/6478).

  p. 8 ‘po-faced rightwing bureaucrat …’ Calder, The Myth of the Blitz (p. 47).

  p. 9 ‘When the good news …’ The Animal World, November 1938 (p. 1).

  p. 9 ‘During the 48 hours …’ The Times, 22 May 1939 (p. 20).

  p. 9 ‘In the animal …’ Luftschutz der Tiere und Verpflegungsmittel Prof Dr C. E. Richters, 1938 (http://www.bunker-dortmund.de/index.php?page=363).

  p. 10 ‘The last few days of September …’ The Dogs Bulletin, October–November 1938 (p. 6).

  p. 10 ‘During the war-crisis of September …’ Lind-af-Hageby, Bombed Animals, 1941 (p. 13).

  p. 11 ‘Mrs Freeman sent six cats …’ Douglas, Chronicles of Ferne, 1948 (p. 62).

  p. 11 ‘week of throbbing tension …’ The Dogs Bulletin, Oct–Nov 1938 (p. 6).

  p. 11 ‘Another inquirer …’ The Animal World, December 1940 (p. 100).

  p. 11 ‘We have had numerous …’ Cat World, 1 October 1938 (p. 1).

  p. 12 ‘One of our members …’ ‘Notes of the Month’, The Cat, June 1938 (p. 1).

  p. 12 ‘Until we know for certain …’ The Cat, October 1938 (p. 75).

  p. 12 ‘Those of us who …’ ibid. (p. 76).

  p. 12 ‘One feature of the crisis …’ The Dogs Bulletin, October–November 1938 (p. 6).

  p. 13 ‘The League felt …’ Smith, Blue Cross at War (p. 46).

  p. 13 ‘As one penniless …’ The Dogs Bulletin, February–March 1939 (p. 4).

  p. 13 ‘refugee dogs …’ LAPAVS News-sheet, August 1940 (p. 4).

  Chapter 2: It Really is Kindest …

  p. 14 ‘commandeered healthy horses …’ RSPCA Report for 1939 (p. 46).

  p. 14 ‘animals in a …’ 27 January 1939 (MEPO 2/6478).

  p. 15 ‘rabbits, guinea-pigs …’, ibid.

  p. 15 ‘dogs dressed in Angora …’ The Daily Mail, 9 February 1939 (p. 8).

  p. 16 ‘We two children …’ Our Dumb Friends’ League Report for 1939 (p. 21).

  p. 16 ‘Many of these refugee dogs …’ The Dogs Bulletin, June–July 1939 (p. 2).

  p. 17 ‘a really lovely striped tabby …’ The Cat, June 1941 (p. 89).

  p. 17 ‘His morning bird walk …’ Animal and Zoo News, December 1939 (p. 22).

  p. 17 ‘Neville Chamberlain Moth Hunter …’ Animal and Zoo News, April 1940 (p. 8).

  p. 18 ‘Cattle and sheep …’ 14 April 1939 (TNA HO 186/1417).

  p. 18 ‘the compulsory slaughter …’ (TNA MEPO 2/6478).

  p. 18 ‘because in an air raid …’ Bee Craft, April 1939 (p. 101).

  p. 18 ‘Besides the 40,000 …’ The Times, 22 May 1939 (p. 20).

  p. 19 ‘The RSPCA …’ April 1939 (TNA MEPO 2/6478).

  p. 19 ‘One is well aware …’ ibid.

  p. 20 ‘people with cars …’ ibid.

  p. 20 ‘strays in ‘good condition …’ ibid.

  p. 21 ‘Dogs and cats …’ (TNA HO 45/18150).

  p. 21 ‘when an owner …’ ARP Handbook No. 12 – ‘Air Raid Precautions for Animals’ (p. 24) (TNA HO 186/2489).

  p. 21 fn ‘I attended a meeting …’ (TNA MEPO 2/6478).

  p. 22 ‘an extension of …’ ibid.

  p. 22 ‘evacuation would …’ 22 June 1939 (pp. 1–6) (TNA HO 186/1418).

  p. 22 ‘carcasses, once collected …’ ibid.

  p. 22 ‘thought the outbreak …’ ibid.

  p. 22 ‘cat and dog lethalling …’ (TNA MEPO 2/6478).

  p. 23 ‘two kinds of identity …’ ibid.

  p. 23 ‘Temple Cox …’ 17 March 1939 (TNA MEPO 2/4413).

  p. 23 ‘primary task …’ (TNA HO 186/1418).

  p. 24 fn. ‘the least an owner …’ 27 June 1939 (TNA MEPO 2/6478).

  p. 24 ‘There must be no suggestion …’ 4 August 1939 (TNA MEPO 2/6478).

  p. 25 ‘Mr Badger …’ 1 June 1940 (TNA HO 186/1418).

  Chapter 3: Killed by Order

  p. 25 ‘Gas proof kennels for dogs …’ Tail-Wagger Magazine November 1939 (p. 364).

  p. 25 ‘contaminated hair on cats …’ ARP News October 1939 (p. 23).

  p. 25 ‘goldfish mildly off colour …’ ibid.

  p. 26 ‘Hang caged birds …’ The Times 8 September 1939 (p. 10).

  p. 26 ‘In the first place …’ The Veterinary Record 5 July 1941 (p. 390).

  p. 26 ‘It is obviously impossible … brochure for The Frank-Heaton Protective Enclosure against Gas, Splinters & Blast For Small Animals Sussex University M-O Archive Topic Collection 79 Dogs in War Time 1939-42.

  p. 26 ‘As a last general hint …’ The Veterinary Record 5 July 1941 (p. 390).

  p. 27 ‘I enclose two snaps …’ M-OA T C 79.

  p. 27 ‘YOUR FOOD IN WAR-TIME …’ Public Information Leaflet No. 4 July 1939 http://squirrelintheattic.blogspot.co.uk/2006/12/your-food-in-wartime-public-information.html (p. 2).

  p. 28 ‘I have had the joy …’ The Dogs Bulletin June-July 1939 (p. 2).

  p. 28 ‘Twice a week …’ Keeling, They All Came into the Ark (p. 130).

  p. 29 ‘Only prosperous classes …’ The Animal World October 1939 (p. 189).

  p. 29 ‘Cats are not …’ ibid.

  p. 29 ‘In view of the present emergency …’ (TNA MEPO 2/6478).

  p. 30 ‘Measures to Meet an Immediate Emergency …’(TNA HO 186/1417).

  p. 30 ‘exactly conforming …’ ibid.

  p. 31 ‘Official Advice …’ Care of Pets The Times 26 August 1939 (p. 15).

  p. 32 ‘the Animal Defence …’ Lind-af-Hageby op. cit. (p. 17).

  p. 32 ‘Homes in the country …’ The Times, 29 August 1939 (p. 1).

  p. 32 ‘The result of the broadcast …’ Douglas, op. cit. (p. 14).

  p. 33 ‘go out in its name …’ (TNA HO 186/1418).

  p. 33 ‘Is there a pet in the house?’ Daily Mirror, 28 August 1939 (p. 12).

  p. 34 ‘A passer-by gave him …’ Daily Express, 26 August 1939 (p. 7).

  p. 34 ‘mystery black cat …’ Daily Express, 28 August 1939 (p. 1).

  p. 35 ‘I seem to see such …’ Mrs G. H. Langford (M-O Diarist D5350).

  p. 35 ‘In case they ran amok …’ Longmate, How We Lived Then (p. 30).

  p. 35 ‘Whatever happens …’ The Dog World, 1 September 1939 (p. 1).

  p. 36 ‘What this will mean …’ The Kennel Gazette, 1 September 1939 (p. 1).

  p. 36 ‘Overseer MacDonald’, Evening Standard, 3 September 1939 (ZSL Newscuttings Vol. 36).

  p. 37 ‘The Border Terrier Bitch’, The Dog World, 27 December 1940 (p. 1126).

  p. 37 ‘Smout’, 2 September 1939, Brinton Lee (M-O diarist D5262).

  p. 37 ‘the principal routes …’ Mollie Panter-Downes, The New Yorker Magazine, 9 September 1939.

  p. 38 ‘Germany invades Poland …’ ZSL Occurrences Book, 1 September 1939.

  p. 38 ‘When the news …’ Huxley, Memoirs (p. 249).

  p. 39 ‘The poisonous snakes …’ Daily Telegraph, 2 September 1939.

  p. 39 ‘her dog got out of its basket’ Longmate op. cit. (p. 26).

  p. 39 ‘Gardens closed at 11.00 …’ ZSL Occurrences Book, 3 September 1939.

  p. 40 ‘practically valueless …’ Keeling, op. cit. (p. 134).

  p. 40 ‘bored and disgusted …’ The Sunday Times, 10 September 1939.

  p. 40 ‘Koringa’ ZSL Occurrences Book, 9 November 1939.

  p. 41 ‘The people left in London …’ A
nimal and Zoo News, February 1941 (p. 13).

  p. 41 ‘had paid sixpence …’ The Animals’ Defender, June 1940 (p. 13).

  p. 41 ‘It is not as the proprietor …’ Animal and Zoo News, February 1941 (p. 13).

  Chapter 4: Killed by Kindness

  p. 42 ‘large number of household …’ Anon t/s in RSPCA archives.

  p. 43 ‘On Sunday 3 …’ ibid.

  p. 44 ‘the best thing for animals …’ The Ilford Recorder 7 September 1939 (p. 4).

  p. 44 ‘PDSA performed …’ PDSA press office statement 22 April 2013.

  p. 45 ‘over two and a half million …’ 11 September 1939 (TNA HO 186/1418).

  p. 45 ‘The committee urge owners …’ ibid.

  p. 45 ‘When the embassy closed …’ Daily Express, 6 September 1939 (p. 7).

  p. 45 ‘ham sandwich …’ ibid.

  p. 45 ‘now recovering …’ ‘How Now Brown Chow’, Daily Express, 8 September 1939 (p. 6).

  p. 46 fn ‘I can hardly conceive …’ Sir Nevile Henderson, Hippy, 1943.

  p. 46 fn ‘which bore out stories …’ Montague op. cit. (p. 88).

  p. 46 ‘By the dog that Ribbentrop …’ Daily Mirror, 7 September 1939 (p. 10).

  p. 46 ‘insulting remarks …’ The Animal World, October 1939 (p. 187).

  p. 46 ‘A widespread and persistent …’ The Times, 7 September 1939 (p. 3).

  p. 46 ‘huge destruction of cats …’ ibid.

  p. 46 ‘All estimates were …’ (TNA HO 186/1418).

  p. 47 ‘80,000 in one night …’ Sunday Express, 7 April 1940 (p. 11).

  p. 47 ‘With the advent of war’ (TNA HO 186/1418).

  p. 47 ‘¾ of a million’ ibid.

  p. 47 ‘The stories I am hearing …’ The Dog World, 15 September 1939 (p. 570).

  p. 47 fn ‘It was the greatest single …’ Sunday Express, 7 April 1940 (p. 11).

  p. 48 ‘Enemy Alien’, Woman, 18 November 1939 (p. 12).

  p. 48 ‘Long queues …’ Montague op. cit. (p. 90).

  p. 48 ‘September Holocaust’ The Dogs Bulletin, November 1939 (p. 2).

  p. 48 ‘War came on a Sunday’ Smith, Blue Cross at War (p. 44).

  p. 48 ‘kitten that had been …’ Miss Audrey Neck, 10 October 1939 (M-O Diarist D5383).

  p. 49 ‘the most dreadful …’ Dog World, 3 November 1939 (p. 734).

  p. 49 ‘a queue nearly half …’ The Animals’ Defender, November 1939 (p. 57).

  p. 50 ‘Staff pleaded …’ Smith op. cit. (p. 44).

  p. 50 ‘imprisoned cats …’ ‘Cats Left in Empty Houses’, The Times, 25 October 1939 (p. 2).

  p. 50 ‘You know what they’re doing’ Charman, Outbreak 1939 (p. 355).

  p. 50 ‘Over 500 school animals …’ The Animal World, October 1939 (p. 1).

  p. 51 ‘experimental animals …’ Our Dumb Friends’ League Report for 1939 (p. 18).

  p. 51 ‘The sound of gunfire …’ The Veterinary Record, 16 September 1939 (p. 115).

  p. 51 ‘Animal Defence House’ Lind-af-Hageby op. cit. (p. 14).

  p. 51 ‘collect the dogs …’ The Dog World, 6 October 1939 (p. 640).

  p. 52 ‘It took a great deal …’ The Dog World, ibid.

  p. 53 ‘I would like you to know’ Douglas, Chronicles of Ferne (p. 19).

  Chapter 5: Keep Calm …

  p. 54 ‘In ever-loving memory …’ Tail-Wagger Magazine, October 1939 (p. 339).

  p. 54 ‘they could not allow …’ (TNA MEPO 2/6748).

  p. 54 ‘on the spot directions …’ ibid.

  p. 55 ‘had in a short space …’ 19 September 1939 (TNA HO 144/21418).

  p. 55 ‘It is something …’ TNA MEPO 2/6748

  p. 55 ‘It would be advantageous …’ ibid.

  p. 55 ‘we can only use our funds …’ 18 January 1940 (TNA HO 186/1418).

  p. 56 ‘Do nothing in a panic!’ Fur and Feather, 8 September 1939 (p. 149).

  p. 56 ‘Every breeder in the country …’ ibid.

  p. 57 ‘To keep rabbits …’ The Smallholder, 23 September 1939 (p. 1).

  p. 57 ‘This is not just a nod to those fanciers …’ Fur and Feather, 8 September 1939 (p. 149).

  p. 57 ‘We MUST strive to keep the Cat’ Fur and Feather, 15 September 1939.

  p. 57 ‘There must be no truce …’ The Cat, October 1939 (p. 1).

  p. 57 ‘indifferent, bad and nervy …’ The Cat, September 1939 (p. 1).

  p. 58 ‘If the plebeian city puss …’ The Cat, September 1940 (p. 140).

  p. 58 ‘Those who accompanied …’ ibid. (p. 141).

  p. 58 ‘There is a list of animal lovers …’ ARP Journal, December 1939 (p. 15).

  p. 59 ‘world-renowned authority …’ The Dog World, 8 September 1939 (p. 598).

  p. 59 ‘Dogdom and the War’ The Dog World, 22 September 1939 (p. 616).

  p. 59 ‘I suppose I shall carry on …’ ibid.

  p. 59 ‘England breeds …’ ibid.

  p. 59 ‘I am determined …’ ibid.

  p. 60 ‘It is early days …’ ibid.

  p. 60 ‘luckily a very nice lot …’ Our Dogs, 29 September 1939 (p. 753).

  Chapter 6: … and Carry a White Pekingese

  p. 61 ‘A couple of hundred dogs …’ Mary Golightly, The Dog World, 6 October 1939 (p. 640).

  p. 61 ‘two hundred cats …’ Noney Fleming, The Dog World, 27 December 1940 (p. 1226).

  p. 61 ‘The secretary at Ferne …’ The Dog World, 6 October 1939 (p. 640).

  p. 62 ‘in batches of 10 to 20 …’ Douglas, op. cit. (p. 25).

  p. 63 ‘The evacuated cats …’ ibid. (p. 62).

  p. 63 ‘the dedication of Miss Dukie’ Hageby, op. cit. (p. 29).

  p. 63 ‘200 evacuee dogs’ Daily Mail, 1 December 1939 (p. 7).

  p. 63 ‘white dogs …’ The Dog World, 29 September 1939 (p. 614).

  p. 63 ‘Carry a white Pekingese …’ Turner, The Phoney War (p. 70).

  p. 64 ‘Lady Hannon …’ Smith, op. cit. (p. 46).

  p. 64 ‘a white coat for your dog …’ Daily Mail, 29 September 1939 (p. 7).

  p. 64 ‘Lustre Lead …’ (M-OA T C 79).

  p. 64 ‘walk in the dark …’ The Cat, October 1939 (p. 3).

  p. 64 ‘We should all know …’ ibid.

  p. 65 ‘Feeding Dogs in Wartime’ Bob Martin Company brochure in M-OA T C 79.

  p. 65 ‘In practice you will find ’ ‘Feeding Dogs’, NCDL pamphlet in ibid.

  p. 65 ‘Mother Hubbard …’ ‘One Woman and Her Dog’, Daily Mirror, 15 February 1940 (p. 17).

  p. 65 ‘a good solid pudding’ ‘War-Time Menus for Cats’, The Cat, October 1939 (p. 17).

  p. 65 ‘What Is He Going …’ Daily Mail, 20 October 1939 (p. 7).

  p. 66 ‘animal wardens on every street …’ (TNA HO 45/18150).

  p. 67 ‘Guard No. 1’, Manchester Guardian, 13 January 1941 (p. 3).

  p. 67 ‘Animal Guards are Needed Now!’ Animal and Zoo News, Dec 1939 (p. 3).

  p. 67 ‘Do not have your pet destroyed …’ (TNA HO 186/1417).

  p. 67 ‘A great army of National …’ NARPAC Bulletin No. 2, December 1939 M-OA T C 79.

  p. 68 ‘Offers of help poured in …’ Stone, Salute to the National Animal Guard, 1945 (p. 14).

  p. 68 ‘For the duration of the war …’ NARPAC Bulletin No. 2.

  p. 69 ‘The PDSA has placed …’ ibid.

  p. 69 ‘Who will help …’ (TNA HO 186/1418).

  p. 69 ‘This country has gone to war …’ ibid.

  p. 69 ‘I assure you …’ ibid.

  p. 69 ‘The officers and men at a wireless …’ The Dog World, 6 October 1939 (p. 640).

  p. 70 ‘Detached posts such as RDF …’ (TNA WO 199/416).

  p. 70 ‘I could get a lot of material …’ ibid.

  p. 70 ‘so fierce it was a danger …’ ibid.

  p. 70 ‘it could not be relied upon …’ ibid.

  Chapter 7: Hunting Must Continue!

  p. 71 ‘Governesses’ carts …’ Graves, Great
Days, Hutchinson, London, 1944 (p. 52).

  p. 72 ‘The King has permitted …’ (TNA HO 186/1418).

  p. 72 ‘cubbing should take place …’ (TNA MAF 79/8).

  p. 72 ‘Hunting must continue!’ Horse & Hound, 22 September 1939 (p. 1339).

  p. 73 ‘War or no war …’ Turner, op. cit. (p. 162).

  p. 73 ‘war is upon us …’ The Field, 23 September 1939 (p. 682).

  p. 73 ‘No brave scarlet …’ The Field, 14 December 1939 (p. 974).

  p. 73 ‘colonial or dominion troops …’ (TNA MAF 35/494).

  p. 74 ‘Soldiers and airmen …’ ibid.

  p. 74 ‘Major Montacute …’ Holloway, Hounds, Hares and Foxes of Larkhill, Larkhill, Royal Artillery Hunt, 1992.

  p. 74 ‘managed to smuggle …’ Obituary of Lt-Col Frederick Edmeades, Daily Telegraph, 1 May 2001.

  p. 74 ‘should take advantage …’ Hansard, 2 October 1939.

  p. 74 ‘Where would the eighteen …’ (TNA MAF 79/8).

  p. 75 ‘What I hear from …’ (TNA MAF 79/8).

  p. 75 ‘If he had his way …’ Lord Claud Hamilton, The Times, 13 March 1918 (p. 3).

  p. 75 ‘It is too early yet …’ Hansard, 19 October 1939.

  p. 76 ‘Those clamouring for …’ Lind-af-Hageby op. cit. (p. 115).

  p. 77 ‘Shooting men can get …’ The Field, 10 February 1940 (p. 204).

  p. 77 ‘We appeal to every …’ Eggs, 6 September 1939 (p. 281).

  p. 77 ‘Rabbits are not …’ Orwell diaries, 28 September 1939 (http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/28-9-39/).

  p. 78 ‘Each and every goat …’ The Goat, No. 1, 1 November 1939.

  p. 78 ‘Bees as messengers …’ PDSA News, June 1943 (p. 10).

  Chapter 8: Wolves Not Welcome

  p. 80 ‘Submerged in their wallows …’ Ackerman, The Zookeeper’s Wife (p. 62).

  p. 81 ‘frightened elephant …’ Heck, Animals – My Adventure (p. 91).

  p. 83 ‘When ordinary Germans …’ Animal and Zoo Magazine, November 1939 (p. 6).

  p. 83 ‘Orders were given for all beasts …’ Heck, op. cit. (p. 91).

  p. 84 ‘a few of the bigger chimpanzees …’ Animal and Zoo Magazine, November 1939 (p. 7).

  p. 84 ‘the animals will enjoy …’ Animal and Zoo Magazine, November 1939 (p. 2).