War Snippets

This is one of the more unusual newspaper articles of world war one that I've come across:

The Abergavenny Chronicle of 18th February 1916 describes the sentencing of Horace Dennis Kingley at Folkestone Police court for supplying cocaine to soldiers. Horace was convicted on the evidence of Corporal Price of the 8th Canadian Battalion, and Captain Murray of the Canadian Army Medical Corps; Captain Murray asserted that the drug led to insanity, and that he knew of at least forty soldiers with an addiction.

Horace Dennis Kingley's defence was that he gave the cocaine away instead of selling it, and that 'He had taken it five or six years, and it made one most keen on what he was doing.'