when Air Cheif marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill, CBE, KCE, CMG, DSC, opened an exhibition of portraits of animal war heroes at 32 Cork Street, London headquarters of the People's dispensary for sick animals, this afternoon he presented Dickin Medals to 2 dog heroes, Ricky, a veteran of mine clearing in Holland, and Brian, patrol dog of an Airborne Division Parachute Battalion, who "baled out" into the Normandy invasion with his men. 26 April 1947