SOLDIER'S QUAINT WILL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 136, 26 February 1918, Page 6

SOLDIER'S QUAINT WILL

Everyone knows that the law (says an oversea exchange) takes the broadest view of soldiers' wills, and goes out of its way to do what the dead fighter wanted in a manner which would ruin the legal profession if similar latitude were observed in dealing with the testaments of civilians. An Australian soldier boy in an English hospital tells me that the following metrical will has secured probate in London: — "If I'm knocked out by bullet or bomb When over the top we go, A gallon of beer I leave to Tom, Another to squint-eyed Joe. I've borne the worst of a soldier's thirst Through days and nights of woe, Give my dad the rest—but if Igo West, There's a drink for Tom and Joe." There were a number of Toms and Joes in the dead man's section, and tho Court didn't feel itself competent to nominate the legatees, so it turnedover tho whole estate to "dad" and loft him to carry out the two-gallon clause.