FAMOUS CARRIER PIGEON
SERVICE DURING THE WAR. “ Old Bill,” last of the war-time carried pigeons, is dead. There was not a soldier in the front line who took more risks than “ Old Bill.” He carried messages across the battlefields and to all parts of France. “ Too intelligent to get hit,”* they said of him. Thousands of lives depended on the safe delivery of the messages he carried. Not one of the messages went astray. ’ He went to France with exSergeant 11. C. Dunk, who is now a London omnibus driver, and he was his companion up to his death. Thousands of miles he flew by aeroplane during the war. He was at Ypres and Arras. After the war he saw service in Germany. He was “ demobilised ”on March 7, 1920. 1 “ Old Bill ” is gone, hut he lias some strapping sons to carry on his name and fame.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21668, 11 June 1932, Page 12
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