Pen Farthing brought our son’s dog home to us after he was killed by Taliban’
September 2, 2021
Pen Farthing decided to do everything in his power to reunite Tony Lewis and wife Sandi with the dog Peg, who had been their brave son Conrad’s companion after receiving a heartbreaking phone call.
n February 2011, Pen Farthing picked up the phone at his Nowzad animal shelter in Kabul to the father of an Army hero in England asking for his help.
“I understand you bring soldiers’ dogs home,” said the man, wanting to know if he could repatriate the homeless mongrel that had kept his son company while he served in Helmand.
Pen said the region was one of the most dangerous on earth, and asked if his son could help get the animal to the Afghan capital.
But the man replied: “No, he died there two weeks ago.”
The former Royal Marine, who won a special recognition award at the Daily Mirror’s Animal Heroes Awards in 2015, would later remember how, at that moment, he decided to do everything in his power to reunite Tony Lewis and wife Sandi with the dog who had been their brave son Conrad’s companion.
Within days he had mounted a complex operation to have the pet, called Peg, flown out of the battle zone in a Chinook helicopter to Camp Bastion, then put in a Humvee and driven to Kabul
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pen-farthing-brought-sons-dog-24889646
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