Well Done that Cat

STEED · 10-31-07, 09:10 AM

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'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

Jimbuna · 10-31-07, 12:21 PM

Purrrrrrfect

Sailor Steve · 10-31-07, 03:06 PM

Agree; it left me feline very good about life.

bookworm_020 · 10-31-07, 07:29 PM

Nice to see the cat is still being honoured!

Reaves · 10-31-07, 07:41 PM

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The honour has also been granted to 62 animals including 32 Second World War messenger pigeons, three horses and 26 dogs — but Simon is the first cat to receive it.

Proof that dogs are better than cats! :hmm: Well done to the kitty though, helped keep people alive and that's something to praise.

10-31-07, 12:21 PM	#2
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Purrrrrrfect __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

10-31-07, 03:06 PM	#3
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Agree; it left me feline very good about life. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

10-31-07, 07:29 PM	#4
bookworm_020 Navy Seal Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast Posts: 5,966 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Nice to see the cat is still being honoured! __________________ "There is always one person in any organization who knows whats going on, That person must be fired"