World War I Canine Military Hero. Before the newly formed 122nd Field Artillery Regiment, of the 33rd Infantry Division, A.E.F., was deployed to France in May 1918, one of the soldiers of Battery "B," named Jake O'Connor, came into possession of a small two-week old Irish Terrier (the dog's parents were a Yorkshire and a Irish Terrier). The men of the company, 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 Corporal chevrons, and smuggled him off to war. While accompanying the men on the battlefront, Goldberg was gassed in the fierce fighting in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and also took some shrapnel. Goldberg was even lost for a month, having ran ahead of the 122nd. While returning home, newspapers reported that Goldberg had fell down a hatch on the ship and broke a leg. Upon his return home in 1919, the dog was hailed as "gallant" by newspapers, and he was given his wound stripe and an honorary discharge by the military. The July 11, 1919 edition of the Calumet Index (Chicago) reported that Goldberg entered the military on July 26, 1917, at Camp Grant (near Rockford, Illinois), as a NCO (non-commissioned officer), at three weeks of age, and was "the only dog to go from America to France through the war in a combat outfit and return to America in perfect condition." Goldberg was sold to a man named Joseph Bach, who bought the dog for his son. But a few months later, he began advertising Goldberg for sale or booking as "the famous dog-veteran." In 1929, the Associated Press reported that the then 13-year-old dog would immediately stand at attention when the Star Spangled Banner was played, and would cry when he heard war song on the radio. By 1932, Goldberg had been claimed by a former soldier named William McKleghan, also a veteran of Battery B. In August of that year, the village council of Wilmette. Illinois (where McKleghan lived), voted to grant Goldberg a lifetime dog license. Goldberg died in 1933 at the age of 16. He had attended his last unit reunion, just one day prior to his passing, when it was surmised that he was the last living war dog/mascot of WW1. Corporal Goldberg, had out lived Sergeant Stubby, by seven and a half years. Rather than be buried in the plot which had been previously set aside for him by the Illinois Pet Memorial Cemetery in Hinsdale, the veterans of Battery B decided to have him stuffed. So, Goldberg spent the next 60 years being honored on display in a glass case in the main lobby of the Illinois National Guard Armory on Chicago Avenue. Thus in that mode, Goldberg was further able remain in attendance at every veteran reunion of Battery B, until as late as 1967. Sadly in 1993, when the armory was closed for demolition, Goldberg had vanished. Fortunately, he was later discovered in storage and given a new home in the WWI trench exhibit of the Illinois State Military Museum in Springfield, Illinois. Since then, Goldberg has been lovingly restored by Illinois National Guardsman (and taxidermist), Justin Lutz, in 2016.