SKYE TERRIER IN ARMY

Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 156, 8 January 1943, Page 4

SKYE TERRIER IN ARMY

About five weeks have elapsed since Corporal Jock McAlister was transferred i rom -Wellington to New Plymouth, and his , military career is • progressing satisfactorily, Ills main interests lie. in the Home Guard,' but due to the extreme shortness of his legs he finds it rather difficult keeping .step . with /the other reemits. He is perfectly contented with Army life, and but for :his dtermination to be absent without leave on every, possible occasion would no doubt have risen :to the ' rank ; of; at least brigadier by now? For his: failing he has to Le confined to barracks in the Home Guard ' headquartors' almost /continually.A He has . been brought up in the Army tradition, for his father was also a corporal. His name and particulars are filed like those of any other soldier,' for.a short time ago he met with a slight accident and had to’be sent o medical headquarters to be X-rayed, lie wears his identity disc around his n ek, according-to regulations,' but it is a collar, - for Corporal Jock is 1 a small .Skye terrier, who. faithful to his ancestry, • >ine<i the Scots Regiment when he was -even weeks old, and asks only that he .night have a chance to attack the Fuehrer’s legs in unarmed combat.