| Show TURTLES AS TOMMIES PETS british soldiers on the tigris amuse amusa themselves with captured tortoises london during lulls in the fighting on the tigris british soldiers off duty found it very hard to amuse themselves according to edmund candler the british press representative in mesopotamia at one time when the british force In trenched near el hannah because the turkish position was too strong to be taken by a direct frontal attack the soldiers found themselves on a narrow strip of ground with the tigris on one side and a salt marsh on the other the soldiers enjoyed bathing in the salt marshes and a favorite sport was waa catching tortoises A tommy atkins would tie a string around the leg of his pet aud and put him up on the parapet of the trenches to graze while he fought the enemy the pet of one of the soldiers a scotsman found too little food on the parapet and died the body of the victim was gravely buried by the sol eol adlers with an identification disk about its neck |
