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Corporal Jackie - the most unusual soldier of the First World War

In August 1915, a new recruit named Albert Marr arrived at the recruiting station of the 3rd Transvaal Regiment of the 1st South African Infantry Brigade. After passing a medical examination and other official procedures, now private number 4927 turned to the regiment command with an unusual request. He asked to be accompanied to the front by a comrade, a chacma baboon named Jackie. After some thought, the officers agreed to enlist an unusual fighter into the ranks of the regiment.

The baboon quickly got used to the army routine. Together with the rest of the military personnel, Jackie ate in the soldiers' canteen, skillfully using a knife and fork, and after eating he washed the dishes in a basin specially allocated for him. He participated in drill drills, marching with everyone else in the ranks in a uniform specially made for him with the required rank insignia and a hole for a tail. Jackie loved to entertain his colleagues during their holidays, lighting pipes and cigarettes for them, while not forgetting to dashingly greet passing officers. He learned to follow the commands “Attention!” and “At ease!” like a real British infantryman.

Albert and Jackie received their baptism of fire in Egypt during military operations against Sanusiya, a Sufi religious and political order (tariqa).

At the famous Battle of Agagia on February 26, 1916, Albert Marr was wounded in the shoulder. Until the orderlies arrived, Jackie, distraught with grief, covered his owner, who was lying on the ground, with himself and licked his wound. It was then that Jackie became for the rank and file of the regiment not just a talisman, but a comrade in arms.

For a long time, Albert and Jackie managed to fight without being injured, but in April 1918, luck changed for the brave baboon and his owner. The 1st Brigade came under heavy artillery fire during its retreat during the Battle of Passchendaele near the Belgian town of Reninghelst. Frightened, Jackie, having come under fire, desperately tried to build a wall of stones around himself to protect himself from the shrapnel. One of them wounded the monkey in the front paw, and the second almost cut off the back one: it was hanging on several tendons. Albert was also wounded, but fortunately only slightly.

When Jackie was taken to the field hospital, the doctors did not know what to do, having no experience in operations on animals. Finally, Jackie was euthanized with chloroform and her hind leg was amputated. No one knew whether the baboon would survive.

To the surprise of the doctors, the baboon recovered quickly. They said that when the regiment commander came to visit him, Jackie jumped up on the bed and saluted the amazed officer.

For Privates Albert Marr and Jackie, their service ended on November 11, 1918. They were sent to England, where Jackie immediately became a celebrity: all London newspapers wrote about him, he participated in the parade on Lord Mayor's Day of London.

In April 1919, Jackie returned to South Africa, where he was promoted to corporal, given official discharge papers and given a military pension. Now, like a real war veteran, on the sleeve of his uniform there was a gold stripe and three blue chevrons, signifying three years of service at the front. In May 1919 Jackie and Albert returned to Pretoria. On 31 July 1920, at the Peace Parade in Pretoria's Church Square, the baboon was awarded the Pretoria Citizen's Service Medal.

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