WWII Hero Dog to be Remembered Forever

Scandinavian war hero is to be remembered through the medium of print.

The St Bernard named Banse saved the lives of a two sailors during the second world war.

As well as his life saving exploits, he did many other heroic deeds throughout the conflict, such as minesweeping.

He performed his work in Dundee and Montrose and will be commemorated in print and via a book.

He passed away in 1944 and was buried in Montrose with his body facing Norway. His statue has been erected in Montrose.

Angus Whitson, who co-wrote the book Sea Dog Bamse, said: “My favourite story is him taking the sailors out of the pub and making sure they got back to their ship on time.

“From what I have read he physically pushed the sailors out of the pubs, there are stories of him nudging them along the road and anyone who tried to escape was herded into the crew again until they got back to the Thorrod.

“It’s better than a Lassie film. In many ways it’s an extraordinary story – the average dog in my experience has a loyalty for his master and the family he lives with, but Bamse was a dog that appeared to have a loyalty for a wider family.

“He had a sphere of concern for those people that he loved and he looked after them very well.”

His co-author Andrew Orr: “I was in a fortunate position, being a GP in this town, that many of my patients remembered the dog and were very keen to talk to me about it.

“I started scribbling their stories furiously, but then research took me to Norway, to Canada, South Africa, and other people who had something to say and I was compelled to write this down and it became apparent that there was a story just bursting to be told and a book had to be written.”

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