"Ambulance Dogs" in the German Army, circa 1900

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According to the book, Fords to Farmcarts, a history of military ambulances 1790-1925, by John S.Haller, (1992, Southern Illinois University Press, ISBN  0-8093-1817-2) pages 105-106,  the Germans used medical dogs in the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900. 

Not only do I like dogs and have a thing for ambulances but I wargame the Boxer Rebellion in miniature. Someday, I expect to do Germans for that conflict (none yet. I only have five allied armies and a unit of Bersaglieri, --alas!) and when i do they must have medical rescue dogs!!!!

Fortunately I've now found a contemporary source of information on them from the period. From Strand Magagzine, Volume 20, 1900. available at Archive.org