Peggy will live on in hearts

There are bonds in life that are forged more deeply and prove longer-lasting than most.

Among them, those between comrades in arms in a brutal war or between humans and dogs are among the strongest.

No wonder then that Peggy should have inspired such intense loyalty in the soldiers who rescued her and to whom she repaid that debt many times over

After the ordeal they had endured, refusing finally to go home without her gives a sense of just how important she had become.

Her story lives on at the museum – but how fitting that she should receive this award.