He had just left tlid army and was asked if .he had seen any active service.
"Well, now," lie- replied, "I liavo often puzzled over my discharge ever since receiving it. Although I was never ordered abroad, on the paper they five me credit of bavin? l>een at the Nile." Curiosity boiny expressed to examine- this blunder of the War Office, the discharge was handed round, when if was discovered that the column headed "Foreign Service" had been filled in with the short but telling term, "Nil."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2181, 20 June 1914, Page 6
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87Untitled Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2181, 20 June 1914, Page 6
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