Show Friends Make Tommy a Sot Sir Alfred Pearce Gould Gould speaking at nt Kilburn recently and referring to the effect of drink on soldiers said that the British Tommy was S not a drunken sot it was the civilian population that was at nt fault H Hospitals should be a 0 sacred retreat for soldiers he 1 said yet they would hardly believe i how difficult If it t was even there to protect the men from the Introduction of drink from outside He knew of one paralyzed and helpless man who was found hopelessly drunk after his friends had visited him London him London Times |