An officer of the Ist. Battalion. Royal Durham Light Infantry, which recently left England for service in China, using a packet of cigarettes to measure the extent of the turn-down on the stockings forming part of the mens foreign service kit. This mode, of calculation hat been in use for a long while.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 306, 27 December 1937, Page 5
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53An officer of the Ist. Battalion. Royal Durham Light Infantry, which recently left England for service in China, using a packet of cigarettes to measure the extent of the turn-down on the stockings forming part of the mens foreign service kit. This mode, of calculation hat been in use for a long while. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 306, 27 December 1937, Page 5
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