Always a cornucopia of articles both historical & contemporary in this issue to 1949
One article of particular interest was the story of Percy a chimpanzee who was on the roll of an Engineer Company of the Gold Coast Regiment in 1911-16. His exploits & jocular escapades cannot be repeated here as in this post-Colonial world would be seen as unacceptable. Although attitudes in the opposite direction can be reported:
Percy, it seems, delighted & at times alarmed all ranks. For an animal to wear a uniform & partake in the full range of mess activities would be regarded by many as unacceptable. But Percy was rescued at the point of starvation clinging to his dead mother who had been shot by a native hunter.
In 1916 he was brought to London Zoo where he found the lack of privileges depressing & in 1918 died of pneumonia shortly after an air-raid. He was buried behind the Ape House.
I have not yet found it, but apparently there is only one photograph of Percy. It shows him wearing a fez & chewing the tassel whilst holding his pipe between his toes.