An extraordinarily moving and fascinating story of bravery, mateship,
and the lengths people will go to to save a friend.
In the harsh Libyan desert in the middle of the second world war,
Private Jim Moody, a signaller with the First Australian Machine Gun
Battalion, found a starving puppy on a sand dune. Moody called the dog
Horrie.
Much more than a mascot, Horrie's exceptional hearing picked up the
whine of enemy aircraft two minutes before his human counterparts and
repeatedly saved the lives of the thousand-strong contingent. When the
war was finished and Horrie smuggled back home, quarantine officers
pounced and demanded that the dog be put down, prompting a huge public
outcry. Was Horrie, the gunner's hero, condemned to die or could Moody
devise a scheme to save him.
In the finest ANZAC tradition, Horrie the War Dog is a story of
intrigue and illusion, and of sacrifice, courage and loyalty.