THE SAILOR'S FAREWELL.
With full ceremonial honours usually accorded an officer when he leaves a warship, a horse retired from the British Navy, says a London paper. Bobbie has been for 20 years serving at the Royal Naval Barracks, and 500 ratings lined the pathway from his stable to the gate when he left. n<> was preceded by the sailors’ hand, playing ‘‘Boys of the Old Brigade.” and the guard, presented arms and boatswains’ pipes shrilled their farewell. He left in a horse-box for Dawllsh, where a local resident will rare for him. His successor. Betty, arrived Just. ■ before he departed, carrying two attache rases, significant, of the recent change in naval equipment-—the sub stitution of attache cases for ditty boxes.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20265, 6 August 1937, Page 2
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121THE SAILOR'S FAREWELL. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20265, 6 August 1937, Page 2
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