TOO LATE.
It happened in Flanders. A young officer, a stickler for discipline, was going his rounds of the front line trenches,' when he saw a soldier minus his gas helmet. It being a- strict order that: no officer, non-commissioned officer, or man ' should ever be without his gas helmet', our young officer was on the warpath until he found that he was without his own. Nothing dismayed, he borrowed one from a sentry near by. Thus armed with the lesson of example,. .he accosted the helmetless "Tommy,".and sternly demanded to know where his smoke helmet was. .
"See here," he added, "we can' carry ours; why can't you carry yours ?" ; With which he proceeded to open his gas helmet satchel and' pulled out— pair of dirty socks! '•'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16234, 20 May 1916, Page 5 (Supplement)
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127TOO LATE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16234, 20 May 1916, Page 5 (Supplement)
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