A Liverpool soldier, drinking continuously, had overstayed his leave, and in a quarrel about this he stabbed his brother dead. _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. _Records of Greenwich Coroner, January 1, 1915_ A young soldier arriving from India on Christmas morning was arrested three days later, after a drunken fight in which a man was killed. _Westminster Police Records, December 28, 1914_ A soldier spent a day’s leave in Manchester, ate and drank very heavily, and was found dead the next morning from choking. _Records of Manchester Coroner, December 28, 1914_ 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. _Records of Oldham Coroner, December 24, 1914_ 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. _Facts in Local Papers at Lee, June 1915_ A soldier died from alcohol in a house where drink was unlawfully sold. _Facts in “Manchester Guardian,” April 8, 1915_ A private in the Welsh Fusiliers died from alcohol, cold and exposure. He left a publichouse with a 4_s._ bottle of whisky, and was found dead on the roadside next morning, with the bottle almost empty. _Facts in “Daily News,” April 13, 1915_