SAS Build Shrine In Dogs Honour

Two German Shepherd Dogs who lost their lives in Iraq have had a memorial built in their honour.

Thor and Scotty both died in 2008, during the Special Air Service’s attempt to destroy an al-Qaeda bombing network. The dogs were sent into suspect buildings to subdue fleeing insurgents.

Scotty was shot at and killed on a night-time raid and 6 months later Thor refused to let go of an insurgent’s leg despite being shot three times and hacked at with a machete. He had to be put down due to his injuries.

An SAS source said: “Thor and Scotty were with us through thick and thin in Iraq and never let us down. They won’t be forgotten.”

They have a stone memorial in a garden at the elite regiment’s HQ Stirling Lines, near Hereford.