Balkans or Bust - the story told.

Bill in a more poetic moment. Bill was the intellectual in the group. I do not think we ever called him 'Prof' but he was the sort of guy you would have . He explained to us the causes of the First World War , he understood Wellington's tactics at Waterloo (we went there on the way home) - and he knew why (and probably how) Kaiser Bill was shot in the Balkans.

We felt his mother didn't expect him to return from this dreadful trip because she sent him off with a bottle of Biostrath herbal tonic, which was all the rage, to increase his chances of survival.