UNIQUE ARMY DONKEY
The only donkey in the British —mentioned in the recent Army Estimates —-is Billy of Gibraltar, ne i» ;1 handsome grey donkey, with a peculiar black line rising from his forehead to the tip of his tail. He is five years old. Every . morning Billy starts work at 7 o’clock, carrying wet clothes from the military laundry to the drying-ground, and returning them to the laundry when they are dry. He finishes work at three, and every wet dayj of > course, is a holiday for him. ' ’'. . . . , Billy is of Moorish origin, and was bought in Spain on December 14, 1929, by Lieutenant E. J. J. Pearn, K.A.b.U, to replace an old donkey which had carried out similar duties for 15 years.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21977, 12 June 1933, Page 3
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124UNIQUE ARMY DONKEY Otago Daily Times, Issue 21977, 12 June 1933, Page 3
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