Английская Википедия:Ilford Animal Cemetery
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Ilford Animal Cemetery is an animal cemetery in Ilford in London, England, United Kingdom that contains over three thousand burials.[1] It was founded in the 1920s and is operated by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals.[2] The cemetery was closed to new burials in the 1960s and gradually became neglected and overgrown before a £50,000 grant from the National Lottery led to its reopening.
Activities
The burials are a mixture of family pets and military animals,[3] including thirteen recipients of the Dickin Medal for bravery (a fifth of all Dickin Medal recipients are buried at Ilford).[1] The first Dickin Medal recipient to be buried at Ilford was Rip, a Second World War search and rescue dog. Information boards recounting the stories of several of the animals were constructed during the recent restoration.[3]
The cemetery has an area specifically dedicated to bird burials.[4] It also has a Pet Tribute Garden designed by celebrity gardener Bob Flowerdew.[2] The inspiration for the design was the Dickin Medal, which has stripes of brown, blue and green representing sea, land and air forces.[5]
British pet massacre
At the beginning of World War II over 750,000 pets were killed in Britain due to fears of food shortages. As many as 500,000 were buried in a meadow that became part of the animal cemetery.[6]
Reopening
In the early twenty-first century it was restored with the assistance of a £50,000 grant from the National Lottery.[1] Headstones were repaired[3] or replaced,[2] the entrance gate was repaired, the graves were numbered and a visitor's map was created.[3] The cemetery re-opened in 2007 with a ceremony that included a performance of the Last Post by a bugler from the King's Royal Rifle Corps[7] and a pigeon fly-past (although the birds actually took fright at the assembled crowd and flew in the opposite direction).[1] It was attended by two holders of the PDSA Gold Medal, Jake (an explosives detection dog)[1][8] and Endal (an assistance dog). Also present was Commander Stuart Hett, who had been an officer aboard Шаблон:HMS and had been tasked with responding to the many letters received by the ship's heroic cat, Simon, who is buried at Ilford.[1]
Endal
The garden includes a pet tribute tag dedicated to Endal, the assistance dog which was present at the re-opening ceremony but which died in 2009.[9] The cemetery is behind the PDSA on Woodford Bridge Road, Redbridge, Ilford, Essex.
Dickin Medal interments
Dickin Medal recipients buried at Ilford include:
- Antis
- Endal
- Beauty
- Crumstone Irma
- Mary of Exeter[1]
- Peter
- Rex[10]
- Ricky[11]
- Rip
- Able Seacat Simon[1][10]
- Tich
- Tyke
References
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6 1,7 Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ Ilford Animal Cemetery Ilford, England [1]
- ↑ Gold medals for 7/7 sniffer dogs
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ 10,0 10,1 Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ The Dickin Medal awarded to Ricky is kept in the Museum van de Kanselarij der Nederlandse Orden, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
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