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27th August 14, 07:13 PM
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Gordon Highlanders WWI
During WWI it was common for soldiers and sailors to keep cats as mascots. I imagine it helped with the mouse problem. This photograph of soldiers of 9th Battalion Gordon Highlanders with their cat was taken at Pas-de-Calais, France on 25 August 1916.
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