“OLD SCHOOL TIE.”
COLONEL’S NEW JOB. • LONDON, October 2. Colonel Ralph Bingham, of old school tie fame, has become a munition worker. For the last few months this Old Etonian has been earning £3 a week in a boiler suit at a Government training centre in London. Colonel Bingham raised a storm in England last January when, in a letter to the “Times,” he declared that Army commissions should be reserved for the “aristocratic, almost feudal, classes.’ He deplored the fact that they were being granted to the “middle, lower-middle and working classes ”,
The War Office relieved him of his command in an officers’ training unit on the ground that his letter to the “Times” constituted a breach of the King’s Regulations. Colonel Bingham told an interviewer that he was thoroughly enjoying his new job. “Every Saturday I bring the whole of my wages home to my wife and pour the money into her lap,” he said. “I am not called Colonel any more. Not even Mister, just plain Bingham. And why not? “This last week I have been getting up at 5 a.m. and working until 2 p.m.” Bingham admitted that his wages were not his entire income. When he has finished his shift he still goes home, boiler-suited, to his big house in Kensington.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 5, 17 October 1941, Page 5
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