Commando

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Commando was a pigeon used in service with the British armed forces during the Second World War to carry crucial intelligence. The pigeon carried out more than ninety missions during the war, and received the Dickin Medal (the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross) for three particularly notable missions, in 1945. The medal was later sold at an auction for £9,200.

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Commando : N.U.R.P.38EGU.242 Distinguished winner of the PDSA Dickin Medal for successfully delivering messages from agents in occupied France under exceptional adverse conditions while serving with the NPS in 1942.

Magda's, The Broadway, Haywards Heath, United Kingdom where they was born