The Foreign Legion has always boasted that it could supply from its ranks exports to meet any emergency. Doctors, for instance, have always been forthcoming, and when a new barracks was to be erected some years ago no fewer than fivo highly qualified architects were found among the rankers to undertake tho work. On one occasion, when a clergyman was in requisition, a man stepped out of the ranks and quietly gave evidence to prove that ho had formerly been a bishop.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3275, 20 December 1916, Page 52
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