Template:Did you know nominations/Mercy dog
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 00:23, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
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Mercy dog
A Red Cross dog carrying a soldier's helmet (1918)
- ... that mercy dogs (example illustrated) were trained during World War I to comfort mortally wounded soldiers as they died in no man's land? Source: Those who were more gravely wounded could call the dogs over so they could embrace them and have their company while they died.
Created by Eddie891 (talk). Self-nominated at 19:19, 21 December 2020 (UTC).
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New enough, long enough and within policy. (The lead could be expanded a bit with a few words about post-WWI dogs, but for DYK purposes the article is more than fine as it is right now.) The hook is excellent (though very melancholic) and supported by an inline citation (not the same supplied in the nomination above, though, and not accessible for me but AGF. The one above furthermore supports the hook, so no problem here.) No image, QPQ has been done. This should be good to go. It was a fascinating read, though very sad. Yakikaki (talk) 15:40, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
