DOG KNIGHTED
NOW CALLED "SI|R WILLIAM." Thex*e was a bluff old ,sea dog called "Bill" on II.M.S. Nelson until recently. Now he is called "Bill" no longex*. Whexx the King recently visited the Home Fleet, he stood on the quarter decli of the Nelson, which is the flagiship, while the ship's eompany march•ed past. With' the smiart sailors waddled "Bill" the bulldog, the ship's mascot. When "Bill" saw the King and Admiral Sir John Kelly, he bi*oke away fx*om the man who was leading hixn and ran straight to ,hds Majesty, grinning as only bulldogs ca,n grin, and wagging his ugly old hindquarters in the friendliest fashion. The King stooped to pat "Bill," and a seaman murxnured "Oo! 'Bill's' been knighted." Now the Home Fleet talks about "Sir William."
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Rotorua Morning Post, 1 March 1933, Page 6
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129DOG KNIGHTED Rotorua Morning Post, 1 March 1933, Page 6
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