Judy was born in Shanghai, became a Royal Navy ship dog, warned crews of aircraft, found freshwater after shipwreck, endured Japanese POW camps, and received the Dickin Medal after the war.

Shanghai / Yangtze / Singapore / Sumatra / United Kingdom

Story

Judy began as a ship dog on Yangtze gunboats and became valued for warning crews of aircraft and danger.

After shipwreck and imprisonment, she was registered as a POW and remained a source of courage for sailors in Japanese camps.

Judy is archived because her story links warning, survival, companionship and the moral weight of animals caught in war.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Judy (dog)
• Wikimedia Commons: Judy image