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10-31-07, 09:10 AM
'Victoria Cross' cat honoured by Navy
The only cat ever to be awarded the 'animal’s Victoria Cross’ is to be remembered at a ceremony on Thursday.
Royal Navy officers are paying tribute to Simon the cat, a rat-catcher on the HMS Amethyst who continued his duties despite being hit by shrapnel and singed during shelling raids by Chinese communists on the Yangtze River in 1949.
Simon stuck to his task despite injury during the 101-day summer siege that followed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/31/ncat131.xml (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/31/ncat131.xml)
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The only cat ever to be awarded the 'animal’s Victoria Cross’ is to be remembered at a ceremony on Thursday.
Royal Navy officers are paying tribute to Simon the cat, a rat-catcher on the HMS Amethyst who continued his duties despite being hit by shrapnel and singed during shelling raids by Chinese communists on the Yangtze River in 1949.
Simon stuck to his task despite injury during the 101-day summer siege that followed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/31/ncat131.xml (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/31/ncat131.xml)
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