SIR CONAN DOYLE AND ARMOUR.
"As an advocate of armouv in modern warfare for the last twenty-five years, I am interested to see a column of The Times devoted to the subject. When Ned Kelly, the bushranger, walked unhurt before the rifles of the police clad in his own hand-made armour he was an object-lesson to the world If the outlaw could do it, why not the soldier? "It has always seemed to me extraordinary that the innumerable cases where a Bible, a cigarette case, a watch, or some other chance article has sayed a man's life have not set us scheming so as to do systematically what has so often been the result of a happy chance. "Vital body-plates, however, should be used in the every-day equipment of a fighting soldier." — Sir Conan Doyle.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 92, 16 October 1915, Page 16
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135SIR CONAN DOYLE AND ARMOUR. Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 92, 16 October 1915, Page 16
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