Of Combat Cats and Owens
Happy National Kitten Day, July 10.
Smiling Owen gun-equipped Signalman H.G. Gladstone, B Company, 2/5th Australian Infantry Battalion, with his Combat Cat “Tiger,” in Ulupu, during the New Guinea Campaign. 10 July 1945.
“He found the kitten in a deserted village at Malba and it is content to ride on his shoulder.” Via the Australian War Memorial https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C21530