Facts in “Liverpool Courier,” April 20, 1917
A soldier invalided from France, having recovered from his wounds, gave way to drink, assaulted an officer, and hanged himself in his prison cell.
Facts in “Daily News,” April 11, 1916
A young lieutenant shot himself in an hotel near Trafalgar Square, and among the documents read at the inquest was a letter striking him off his battalion for drinking and gross carelessness.
Facts in “Daily Chronicle,” October 27, 1916
A captain in the Army ruined by drink, with a fine record of military service, started drinking on his way to a shooting range in London, and in a struggle he shot a detective dead.
Facts in “Daily News,” September 20, 1915
In the Scottish Express, between Doncaster and Selby, a drunken corporal of the Coldstream Guards was showing his rifle to a friend when it went off, the bullet killing a munitions works director in the next compartment, and narrowly escaping a lady in the compartment beyond. The corporal had in his pocket a bottle of whisky, which was freely handed round.
Facts in “Daily News,” December 3, 1915
A soldier who had been drinking heavily was placed in the guard room, and died after a night of groaning, evidently as the result of a fall.