An invaluable comrade: Cork soldier's dog followed his owner overseas to the Western Front

Loyal pet made an incredible and hazardous journey to First World War trenches and became the regiment mascot

Prince, a collie/terrier, belonging to a Cork soldier in the British Army at the outbreak of the First World War, followed his owner to the trenches in France.

There are incredible stories about pets travelling huge distances to be reunited with their owners, one of the most incredible, is detailed in a new book by a renowned academic, which recounts the story of an Irish soldier’s dog who pined so much for his master, he made an unprecedented journey across land and sea to find him in the trenches during the First World War.

Prince, a half collie/Irish terrier, belonged to Cork soldier James Brown, and military archives detail that, as a puppy, he "romped" alongside Brown's regiment on manoeuvres in Buttevant in 1913.