Derek Law's Bibliography

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Entry Text: VARLEY, Edwin. The Judy Story: The Dog with Six Lives [by] E. Varley, edited by Wendy James. 163p., illus. London: Souvenir, 1973. ISBN: 0745103723.

The story of a dog called Judy. She was a pet on the RN river gunboats on the China Station and was sunk with Grasshopper during an attempted escape from Singapore. The bulk of the book is concerned with her prisoner of war experiences, which led to the award of the Dickin Medal, the animal VC.