WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 324-1 [Main]

I. 'THE PIGEON AS POSTMAN. Taken up on motor cycle to the trenches the birds except for casualties, never fail to reach "home" behind the lines where the telegraphist sends on the message.' Pigeons are put in baskets for transport by motorcycles. In a training trench a RE Captain writes down a message which is put in capsule. The pigeon is released. Pigeons return to their roost and the messages a…