# Scotch Lass

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**Scotch Lass** (pigeon **NPS.42.21610**) was a [carrier pigeon](/source/Carrier_pigeon) who received the [Dickin Medal](/source/Dickin_Medal) in June 1945 from the [People's Dispensary for Sick Animals](/source/People's_Dispensary_for_Sick_Animals) for bravery in service during the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War).[1] She accompanied a British agent on a mission into [The Netherlands](/source/The_Netherlands).[2] Immediately after she was released, in September 1944,[1] and still in view of the agent that had released her, she hit [telegraph](/source/Telegraph) wires. However, she carried on and delivered her message and photographs.[3]

## See also

- [List of individual birds](/source/List_of_individual_birds)

## References

1. ["Dickin medal pigeons"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100213211708/http://www.pdsa.org.uk/about-us/animal-bravery-awards/dickin-medal-pigeons). PDSA. Archived from [the original](http://www.pdsa.org.uk/about-us/animal-bravery-awards/dickin-medal-pigeons) on 13 February 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2011.

1. Harlow, Joan Hiatt (2003). [*Shadows on the Sea*](https://books.google.com/books?id=PAhemXdzkgEC&pg=PT159). New York, NY, US: Margaret K. McElderry Books. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-689-84926-8.

1. Cleaver, Hylton (June 1951). "They've earned their corn". *Men Only*

## External links

- [PDSA Dickin Medal](https://web.archive.org/web/20140924092934/http://www.pdsa.org.uk/about-us/animal-bravery-awards/pdsa-dickin-medal)

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