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Smith's Weekly
30/5/36
Boots for Cash
Was staying at the Regent Palace in 1917 with eleven other officers of the R.F.C. and A.F.C. - all A.W.L. for the night - when our beautiful long boots were stolen from the corridors. Imagine the clamour in the morning as a dozen stockinged subalterns paraded up and down, calling waiters, clerks, and managers all sorts of names. There was not enough money among us to send out to buy more than two pairs, but we got a message to a firm of outfitters - and, after giving them our signatures for seven guineas each, got new boots, and reached the aerodrome at noon, to be confined to camp for the remainder of our term in Blighty.
Only recently was I the guest at one of the finest homes in Sydney, and related this story. The old host winked at his son, who is now his manager, and asked him to bring his diary. Judge my astonishment when I read the entry of the actual date of the boots incident: "Stony broke last night: flush today, Jim and self souvenired 12 pairs of officers' boots - beauties - from the Regent and sold them in Horseferry Road at £1 a pair". "Blanc"
Bill's Lingo
Although Bill was three years on the Western Front with the 13th, he could never "compree" French. So that the inhabitants should not waste their breath and time on him he always got in first with: "Bon jour, Mer-darm, you needn't say anything, because that's all I know."
BLANC.
Aussie 15/7/22
A USEFUL PRESENT.
During the advance in August, 1918, units were instructed to chalk their names on captured guns, tanks, waggons etc., so that credit could be given where credit was due. On the outskirts of Peronne, in the municipal depot, the sanitary wagon was, the day after the advance, emblazoned boldly: "CAPTURED BY 47th Bn. PRESENTED TO FOOTSCRAY COUNCIL."
"PURALKO."
Not a young Bull