Goldberg the War Dog

[The Rooster]

Here is the story behind a little stuffed dog that I used to see during drill weekends in a glass

case in the lobby of the old Chicago Avenue armory. I never knew what that little dog was about as there was no plaque on the case to explain what he was doing there. Here is a link to the story of Goldberg and some images.

 

Goldberg.

 

http://shifting-grounds.net/armory/goldberg.html

[The Rooster]

The last time I was there in 1990, Goldberg was still in his glass case to the left of the post of the stairs leading to the second floor.

The lobby and the spot by the stairs are pictured below from the 1920's.

Inside was the same as this picture until it was torn down in 1993. Then Goldberg was lost./....

He was later found in storage and given a new home in the WWI trench/bunker exhibit of the Illinois State Military Museum in Springfield.

 

But he was in need of repair so they fixed him up..... story here....

 

https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/wwi-dog-goldberg-taxidermy/

 

 

 

"Before the newly created 122nd Field Artillery was deployed to France in May 1918, a soldier named Jake O’Connor of Battery B came into possession of a two-week old Irish Terrier. The men adopted the dog and named him Goldberg after a Chicago shoe store called O’Connor & Goldberg. They fashioned a khaki service cape for him complete with chevrons, and smuggled him off to war. While accompanying the men on the battlefront, Goldberg was gassed in the fierce Meuse-Argonne Offensive and took shrapnel. Goldberg was even lost for a month, having ran ahead of the 122nd. While returning home, papers reported that Goldberg fell down a hatch on the ship and broke a leg."

 

 

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Beautiful story,  thanks for posting.   I'm sure St. Francis and Goldberg are getting along well.