I wrote a previous blog about a dog called Judy in Asia during WW2 in The Canine POW, but this Judy’s story is from Israel, during the British occupation post war. Judy and her brother Punch belonged to two British officers who shared a house in a Jerusalem suburb within a protected compound. On one evening in August 1946, the two men were relaxing at home with the dogs with the front door open. Suddenly the dogs became aware of movement outside and raced out into the darkness barking furiously. They were met with a burst of sub-machine gun fire from terrorists who had penetrated the barbed wire perimeter of the compound. The barking and the charge of the dogs toward the danger scared off the assailants and probably saved the officers’ lives. But when the soldiers went outside, they found a trail of blood, leading to the seriously wounded Punch. He had been hit four times and lay in a pool of blood, apparently dying. His sister, Judy, also covered in blood, stood protectively over him. Next in part 2: The award of the Dickin Medal.
