Beauty (dog)

Beauty was born on 4 January 1939, and was owned by PDSA Superintendent Bill Barnet, who led one of the rescue squads in London for animals during the Blitz.

Within minutes a cat was discovered, becoming the first of 63 animals Beauty found during her war service.

[2] Beauty died on 17 October 1950, and was buried in the Ilford Animal Cemetery, founded and operated by the PDSA.

[3] For her service, Beauty was awarded the PDSA Pioneer Medal, an award normally given to people, and a silver medal inscribed "For Services Rendered" by the Deputy Mayor of Hendon, and was given the Freedom of Holland Park.

[4] The inscription "For being the pioneer dog in locating buried air-raid victims while serving with a PDSA Rescue Squad."