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A letter in the Daily Telegraph (April 26 2003) which may be of passing
interest -

"SIR - As a former platoon commander in an infantry regiment and pilot
in the Fleet Air Arm, I empathise with Lt Pinkstone (letter, April 25)
and would offer him the philosophical comfort of this parody of
Kipling's Law of the Jungle, which was displayed on the gunroom bulkhead
of HMS Indefatigable.

If ye win through some African jungle;
Unmentioned at home in the Press;
Heed it not: no man see'th the prison;
But it driveth the ship none the less;

Michael Jefferson. Hayling Island, Hampshire."



Best regards,

Dom Stocqueler