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Ilford Animal Cemetery is an animal cemetery in Ilford in London, England, United Kingdom that contained 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. 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[4] or replaced,[2] the entrance gate was repaired, the graves were numbered and a visitor's map was created.[4] 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,[1] Jake (an explosives detection dog)[1] and Endal (an assistance dog).[1] Also present was Commander Stuart Hett, who had been an officer aboard {{HMS|Amethyst|F116|6}} and had been tasked with responding to the many letters received by the ship's heroic cat, Simon, who is buried at Ilford.[1]

The burials are a mixture of family pets and military animals,[2] including thirteen recipients of the Dickin Medal for bravery (a fifth of all Dickin Medal recipients are buried at Ilford).[3] The first Dickin Medal recipient to be buried at Ilford was Rip, a Second World War search and rescue dog.[4] Information boards recounting the stories of several of the animals were constructed during the recent restoration.[2] The cemetery has an area specifically dedicated to bird burials.[5] It also has a Pet Tribute Garden designed by celebrity gardener Bob Flowerdew.[6] The inspiration for the design was the Dickin Medal, which has stripes of brown, blue and green representing sea, land and air forces.[7] 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.[8] The cemetery is behind the PDSA on Woodford Bridge Road, Redbridge, Ilford, Essex.

Dickin Medal recipients buried at Ilford include:

  • Antis
  • Endal
  • Beauty
  • Crumstone Irma
  • Mary of Exeter[3]
  • Peter
  • Rex[9]
  • Ricky[10]
  • Rip[4]
  • Able Seacat Simon[3][9]
  • Tich
  • Tyke

References

1. ^1 2 {{cite news |title= Military honours for courageous animals |author= Beth Hale |url= http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-501915/Military-honours-courageous-animals.html |newspaper= Daily Mail |date= 13 December 2007 |accessdate=25 February 2011}}
2. ^1 2 3 {{cite web |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7137229.stm |title= Last resting place of 'hero pets' |author= |date= 13 December 2007 |work=BBC News |accessdate=25 February 2011}}
3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{cite news |title= Pet heroes honoured as cemetery reopens |author= Maev Kennedy |url= https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2007/dec/14/art |newspaper= The Guardian |date= 14 December 2007 |accessdate=25 February 2011}}
4. ^1 {{cite news |last=Harris|first=Paul|title=The Blitz hero with a nose for survivors, Rip the dog's bravery medal could fetch £10,000|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164889/The-Blitz-hero-nose-survivors-Rip-dogs-bravery-medal-fetch-10-000.html|accessdate=25 February 2011|newspaper=Daily Mail|date=25 March 2009}}
5. ^{{cite news |title= A death in the family |author= Justine Hankins |url= https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2004/oct/23/weekend.justinehankins |newspaper= The Guardian |date= 23 October 2004 |accessdate=25 February 2011}}
6. ^1 2 {{cite web |url= http://www.pdsa.org.uk/about-us/pdsa-history/ilford-animal-cemetery/ |title= Ilford Animal Cemetery |author= |date= |work= |publisher=PDSA |accessdate=25 February 2011}}
7. ^{{Cite web | url = http://www.pdsa.org.uk/about-us/media-pr-centre/news/celebrity-to-open-animal-garden-of-remembrance | title = Celebrity to open animal Garden of Remembrance | accessdate = 7 March 2011 | publisher = PDSA | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110718174301/http://www.pdsa.org.uk/about-us/media-pr-centre/news/celebrity-to-open-animal-garden-of-remembrance | archivedate = 18 July 2011 | df = }}
8. ^{{cite news |title= Heroic dog honoured |author= |url= http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/4575791.WOODFORD_BRIDGE__Heroic_dog_honoured/ |newspaper= Wanstead and Woodford Guardian |date= 2 September 2009 |accessdate=25 February 2011}}
9. ^1 {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58104185 |title=Burial of a dog hero. |newspaper=The Mail |location=Adelaide |date=17 July 1954 |accessdate=7 November 2012 |page=52 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
10. ^The Dickin Medal awarded to Ricky is kept in the Museum van de Kanselarij der Nederlandse Orden, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
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