A number of soldiers at Ormskirk came into camp drunk on Christmas night. A request for quiet led to a fight, and one of the men was struck two blows and was dead the next morning.

A Liverpool soldier, drinking continuously, had overstayed his leave, and in a quarrel about this he stabbed his brother dead.

A soldier invalided from France, having recovered from his wounds, gave way to drink, assaulted an officer, and hanged himself in his prison cell.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A young soldier arriving from India on Christmas morning was arrested three days later, after a drunken fight in which a man was killed.

A soldier spent a day’s leave in Manchester, ate and drank very heavily, and was found dead the next morning from choking.

A soldier home on leave was found drunk with his wife. They had been throwing pots at one another, and on Christmas morning the woman was found dead with a wound in her head.

Three gunners had four drinks each of rum, and at midnight lay down to sleep in a garden at Lee, where one was found dying from alcohol.

A soldier died from alcohol in a house where drink was unlawfully sold.

A private in the Welsh Fusiliers died from alcohol, cold and exposure. He left a publichouse with a 4s. bottle of whisky, and was found dead on the roadside next morning, with the bottle almost empty.

An old man who was said to be in a drunken condition was wounded in a fall with a soldier from Gallipoli, and died a few days after.

An elderly man, seeing a drunken soldier lying in the street, went to his assistance, and was killed in a disturbance that followed.

A soldier was found drowned in the Trent. He was described as a good man at his work, but not steady, and had been drinking.

A terrible disturbance occurred in a camp at Portland Reservoir after the closing of the canteen one Sunday night. A large number of men who had been drinking created a disturbance, in which bricks and stones were used, a tent collapsed, and the officers were called to quell the riot. The captain, drawing his revolver, rushed with two lieutenants into a hut where men were shouting and struggling, but appeals had no effect—the men “did not appear to hear or recognize their officers,” and one man raised his rifle and took aim at them. At least fifty shots were fired, and a young corporal fired many shots through the window into the darkness. In the morning a soldier was found dead. Nobody knew who shot him, but the corporal thought he must have done.