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Ch Phidgity Marquita Of Petrozanne Pug B 1949
Ch Ducray Phidgity Phenella Pug B 1950
Ch Phidgity Farmford Phyllida Pug B 1954
Ch Phidgity Fuss Of Willingford Pug B 1956
Ch Phidgity Phlyhigh Pug D 1958
Ch Phidgity Phiesta Of Rosecoppice Pug B 1971

From the Kennel Club my mother as her second
records accessible on-line in command, under the
there are 312 Phidgity dogs aegis of SOE then took
of which 149 were Bull charge of a large team
Terriers, 80 Dalmatians, of communicators that
71 Pugs, 12 English Toy was shipped out to India
Terriers and 3 each Toy and and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) to
Standard Poodles. These organise communications
appear to date back no links. It was then in the
further than the Second 1948 New Year’s Honours
World War, though that is that Busty was awarded
not clear as a proportion of the MBE “for services in
the records show no date South East Asia prior to
of birth; the earliest date September 1945”.
was 1946. Thus, tracing
involvement in English Toy Following the war, Sue
Terriers before the war resumed breeding Pugs,
is going to involve some living, initially near
trawling through paper Ringwood in partnership
records. with two others who bred
Keeshonds. Busty went
During the war years, the into partnership with Mrs B
Phidgity Kennels were D Mankin (Mudge) and Miss
kept ticking over by Sue, E L Scovell, with the Lenster
Busty and Phidgity Bull Terrier Peanuts
alongside involvement in the affix, and then with Dot Vick
Land Army. Busty joined the (Harpers). Mudge initially
Women’s Transport Service (First Aid Nursing had the greatest involvement in English Toy
Yeomanry), which involved driving ambulances Terriers, producing many Lenster champions
around the country, to start with. This was not and Busty joined her, breeding a number of
as straightforward as it might sound as the road ETTs under the Lenster and Leospride affixes
signs had all been removed, making navigation and then under the Phidgity affix: possibly the
very interesting. The ambulances in that era first being Phidgity Brickabrack in January
were also rather less reliable than today, with 1978.
maintenance facilities being considerably less
plentiful so they had to be very resourceful When the English Toy Terrier Club held its first
when the inevitable breakdowns occurred. Championship show in 1963 it was judged by
A peculiarity of the command structure of Vernon Hurst; Busty was given the honour of
the organisation that Busty had joined was judging the second in 1964. She later donated
that it included the SOE (Special Operations the Phidgity Trophy, awarded for Best in Show
Executive). Promoted to Captain, Busty, with at one of the annual Open shows.

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