Alkali Pete aka Pte Tetu (3rd CMG Co)

[Mike Cross]

This is a cartoon from a Nurse's Great War Album. Text reads:-

"REWARD 2000$,

Dead or Alive of

Alkali Pete

(alias)

No 26393 Pte E Tetu

3rd Canadian M.G.Coy

sgnd

Bartolumo Kiswisky

sheriff of

Calarique

County, Hoshilaga, P.Q."

Dated 23rd May 1917.

Alkali Pete was a character from the Saskatchewan Ruby Rush of 1914.

Thought this might interest forum members.

MC