A Banff lad at the front sends an amusing episode of the groat war. The padre of a famous regiment wished to hold a service and had secured the willin'* help of the men in erecting a rostrum. The usual set of miscellaneous erticles, mostly ration boxes, went to its construction. On the opening hymn, ''The Church’s One Foundation, ’ being given out, a broad grin in the front row of the congregation rapidly communicated itself to the rear. The bewildered chaplain descended to inquire, when a sympathetic Scot pointed to the inscription on the leading box of the platform—" Johnnie Walter Whisky, born 1820, still going strong.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9827, 26 November 1917, Page 6
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