1 . Meet Charlie, he is a 6 year old black Labrador. His job in the army is to find unexploded bombs with his handler Henry. It is 1916 right now and Charlie and Henry are in the trenches in France. It is wet, cold, muddy and there are a lot of _________. Charlie spends part of his day chasing these annoying rats away from the soldiers, _________are all tired and need their precious rest.

Charlie loves his handler Henry very much and would do _________for him. They first met back in England in 1914, when Charlie first started his training. Charlie remembers how Henry smelt of _________, having just had his breakfast, and Charlie spent the first 10 minutes of meeting him licking the bacon grease off of his hands. They have not been apart since that first day and are now _________. They also still share a love of bacon, not that they get it very often.

Charlie and Henry spend their days with the other soldiers, trying to sleep in dug out shelters in the walls of the trench. They are _________and frightened and they don't know what could happen from one moment to the next. It's hard to _________in these conditions and there are always lots of loud noises from the bombs blasting near the _________but they have to grab it when they can as they spend their _________hunting for dangerous unexploded bombs and looking for wounded men.

Once it's dark, Charlie and Henry crawl out of their trench into no man’s land, staying __________so they don't disturb the tin cans hanging on the barbed wire, __________would alert the enemy soldiers in the German trench. Charlie is frightened but tries hard to be brave, he knows that he is __________people's lives. The two of them crawl from crater to crater, listening for sounds from the wounded, Charlie sniffing __________bombs.

Suddenly Charlie stopped and pricked up his __________, he heard something. Charlie bolts forward following the sound, searching this way and that way, trying to find where it came from. He lets out a low whine, Henry realized Charlie has __________him to a wounded British soldier. He has been shot in the leg and cannot __________. Henry throws him over his shoulder and they race back towards their lines. As they are getting closer to their trench suddenly the Germans start shooting __________them. One of the Germans throws a stick grenade that lands close to Henry, Charlie sees that his best friend is in so much danger! He picks up the stick grenade in his __________and sprints away, dropping it into a deep crater full of mud and water where it explodes, saving Henry and the wounded soldier.

They eventually make it __________to the British trench, where Henry tells all the soldiers of their adventure and they all cheer __________Charlie the Hero dog.