DEATH OF "OLD BILL"
(Rec. noon.) LONDON, October 10.
Claimed to be the original of Cap-^ tain Bruce Bairnsfather's "Old Bill," J. Merrigan died at Chelsea, aged 74. He was exactly like, the drawings of "Old Bill," and served in the Warwickshire Regiment at the same time as Bairnsfather.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 89, 11 October 1941, Page 11
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