An officer of the 1st 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 men's foreign service kit, This mode of calculation has been in use for a long while.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 77, 23 December 1937, Page 15
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53An officer of the 1st 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 men's foreign service kit, This mode of calculation has been in use for a long while. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 77, 23 December 1937, Page 15
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