Corporal Rags

Rags was born a stray in the slums of the Montmartre

and was discovered by Private James Donovan

On Bastille Day, 1918.

A terrier of mixed breed, he became the 

1st Infantry Division’s mascot.

Earning his stripes carrying messages

across the front,

Rags was wounded with Private Donovan,

and they were both evacuated to Fort Sheridan, Chicago.

Donovan died of his wounds in 1919

and Rags was reunited with his beloved

18th Infantry Regiment at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn,

a year later.

Corporal Rags died in the spring of 1936 and was buried  

in Silver Springs, Maryland at the age of twenty.

– Burt Baldwin, Bayfield