"OLD BILL" PROTESTS
MEDALS GIVEN UP
COUNTRY'S DUTY UNFULFILLED
LONDON, Nov. 13 " Old Bill," who in private life is Mr. William Busby, and whom the artist, 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 to-day Mr. Busby says ho feels that the country has not fulfilled its duty to the exservicemen. He therefore registered "this humble protest." He served in South Africa and France.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21346, 22 November 1932, Page 9
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