Yon won't find the English Tommy lighting three cigarettes with one match (notes a Daily Mail writer), and h« is more than pleased to get a sprig of white heather from home or a mascot from a, kindly French madam t, Before going in I was carrying a rough stick cut from a hedge, which I intended to throw away in exchange for the more serviceable weapon, the rifle; bat the company eergeant-major approached" mo with a sheepish smile. "Excuse me, sir," he said, "but the men feel that the company is going to come well through it as long as you hold on to your stick." So I have the stick yet. And I did seem to have extraordinary luck.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 139, 9 December 1918, Page 4
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