SOLDIERING'S LIGHTER SIDE
The lighter side of soldiering finds place in Colonel Montague' Cooke's book "Clouds That Flee." For part of the Great War the author was in Palestine. One day General Allenby, who had issued on order prohibiting the wearing of "shorts" when mounted, saw a huge Anzac strinped to. the waist, and in "shorts," riding his horse to water. At the chief's order the trooper was promptly stopped by one of his own officers, a little perky fellow. ... He was roundly told off, with the Cony mander-in-Chief in his car nearby, for having "shorts" on when mounted. The big Anzac, however, was completely unmoved by his "telling-off," ' and, stripping his only garment before the astonished officers, politely handed His "shorts" to the little officer, saying: "Very well, then, take the things." Then, naked as he was born, except for a pair of shoes, he leapt on to his horse and rode on.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 24
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154SOLDIERING'S LIGHTER SIDE Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 24
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