During World War I, a Colonel Patton was asked to establish a Light Tank Training School, he trained on French tanks and established a school in a small French village called Bourg. One day, in 1917, the village Mayor complained that he, a Mayor, was not kept informed about the death of a soldier in his village. Colonel Patton was not aware of any such incident, hence, when the Mayor insisted that they visit the ‘grave’, the curious Colonel couldn’t refuse. They walked through the village and came to a newly closed latrine pit, with the earth properly banked, a stick at one end to which was affixed a crosswise sign stating, “Abandoned Rear”. This; the army’s closed makeshift toilet, the poor French Mayor had mistaken for a cross affixed on the grave of a martyred soldier. But Colonel Patton didn’t have the heart to tell the Mayor the truth that day.