“OLD BILL” PROTESTS.
MEDALS GIVEN UP. “Old Bill,” who in private life is Mr William Busby, and whom the artist, Mr Bruce Bairnsfather, used as his model after the war owing to his resemblance to his war-time creation, laid his five medals on the South African war memorial at Leicester recently. Mr Busby says he feels that the country has not fulfilled its duty to the ex-servicemen. He therefore registered “this humble protest.” lie served in South .Africa and France.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 307, 25 November 1932, Page 7
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80“OLD BILL” PROTESTS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 307, 25 November 1932, Page 7
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