page_title: Rip (dog)
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: Rip (dog) / Awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Rip (died 1946), a mixed-breed terrier, was a Second World War dog who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. He was the first Air Raid Patrol's search and rescue dog, and is credited with saving over 100 lives. Rip is buried in the PDSA Animal Cemetery, Ilford, England. Still from a video (2010-09-01) taken with Sony HDR-HC7E camcorder, cropped and processed in Photoshop CS2 (2015-03-13).
context_page_description: Rip, a mixed-breed terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. He was found in Poplar, London, in 1940 by an Air Raid warden, and became the service's first search and rescue dog. He is credited with saving the lives of over 100 people. He was the first of twelve Dickin Medal winners to be buried in the PDSA's cemetery in Ilford, Essex.
context_section_description: Rip was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, two years after it was introduced. The citation reads: "For locating many air-raid victims during the blitz of 1940".  He would go on to wear the medal on his collar until the day he died. His medal was sold at auction in Bloomsbury, London on 23 April 2009. Medal specialists Spink of London predicted that the medal would sell for £10,000, but at the auction it fetched £24,250, a record price for a Dickin Medal.  The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of the Victoria Cross.
  When he died in 1946, Rip became the first of a number of Dickin Medal winners to be buried in the PDSA Cemetery in Ilford, Essex. His headstone reads "Rip, D.M., "We also serve" - for the dog whose body lies here played his part in the Battle of Britain." Twelve recipients of the medal are now buried in the PDSA Cemetery.
caption: Rip's headstone at the Ilford Animal Cemetery
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