History of the Fourth Pigeon Platoon

 

 

This photo is a bit blurry but aren’t the colors great?

This document is used by permission of the Holt-Atherton Special Collections Department, University of the Pacific Library, Stockton, California

 

Thank you to Nicole Mountjoy for scanning these papers from the Gordon H. Hayes Collection.  Hayes served as a pigeoneer in North Africa and Italy.  He is the author of The Pigeons That Went To War.

Note:  You will notice that there isn't a page 10.  I checked with Nicole and after double checking the original document, she attributes this to the pages being misnumbered.

 

Pigeon Message: The Palomacy 2022 Bird-A-Day Desk and Wall Calendars Are Available

     To order your calendars please visit pigeonrescue.org.  You will see this picture in the top left hand corner.  

     

     No need to burrow around the site to find the calendars!  Click and you will immediately go to the ordering page. 

     When my 2021 Bird-A-Day Desk Calendar arrived, I happily read each day's page and then the next day’s and the next day’s, sometimes as many as five pages at one time.  This is not how to stay on schedule first thing in the morning!  Therefore, I decided to read the calendar like a book, during whatever reading time I had at the end of the day.

     Like any good book, as I neared the end, I felt sad and when I finished reading, I went right back and read the calendar a second time.  It was so crammed with great stories and information about pigeons and doves that the second read was just as fun and interesting as the first.

    Here are a couple of pages from the 2021 Palomacy Bird-A-Day Desk Calendar.

 

      I loved this page so much I taped it to a notebook I use frequently.  The artist’s name is Ashley Dietrich and the URL where you can view her work and learn about the sanctuary she founded is olivesplace.org.  It’s not just a few paintings.  You could spend quite a lot of time looking at the many beautiful paintings she has done. 

 

 

Pigeon Messages: “They are beaten and tortured to try to make them talk, but they invariably remain mute. They are brave people.”

 

(c) Crown copyright images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, Kew, UK

Catalog numbers:  

WO208/3555  #115, #116, #117, #119, #120, #121