OLD BILL—EDUCATOR
A quotation from General Sir Archibald Waveil's Cambridge lectures on generalship, reprinted after his victories in Libya:— "That unhumorous race, the Germans, held an investigation after the late war into the causes of morale, and attributed much of the British soldier's staying power to his sense of humour. They therefore deckled to instil this sense of humour into their soldiers, and included in their manuals an order to cultivate it. "They gave as an illustration in the manual one of Bairnsfathers pictures of Old Bill sitting in a building with an enormous shell-hole in the wall. A new chum asks, 'What made that hole?' -Mice,' replies Old Bill. "In the German manual a solemn note of explanation is added. 'It was not mice. It was a shell'."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 229, 27 September 1941, Page 16
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129OLD BILL—EDUCATOR Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 229, 27 September 1941, Page 16
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