Thom's Irish Who's Who/Richardson, Lieut.-Col. Edwin Hautonville

RICHARDSON, Lieut.-Col. Edwin Hautonville, F.Z.S. Educ.: Cheltenham; Sandhurst; joined 45th Regt. (Sherwood Foresters), 1882; West York Militia, 1895; took up study of dogs for military and police purposes, 1898; was attached with ambulance dogs to R.A.M.C. Volunteers: supplied Russian Army with ambulance dogs In Russo-Japanese War; took out an ambulance dog to Spanish Army in Morocco Campaign; introduced dogs for duty with police into England, and supplied all leading towns and also inaugurated a service of dogs for the Admiralty; supplied the sentry dogs to the Abor Expedition in Northern India, 1911; and was present with the Italian Field Force in Tripoli same year; Balkan War, 1912-13; supplied sentry dog in Naga Hill Expedition, India, 1913; also dogs for Gibraltar; took out ambulance dogs to Belgium at commencement of war, and subsequently supplied a large number of sentry dogs to the Army in France and the Dardanelles: Commandant War Dog Training School for the British Army, which he established at request of War Office in 1917. Pubns.: War, Police, and Watch Dogs, 1910; British War Dogs, 1920; son of late J.P. Richardson, of Old Forge House, Co. Antrim; b. 1863; m. Blanche, dau. of late T. Riley Bannon, and has issue two sons. Res.: Wormley Hill, Broxbourne, Herts.