Speech notes - "Some Untold Tales of the PBI" (Poor Bloody Infantry), March 11, 1987, given by H. P. Bell-Irving to the United Services Institute in Vancouver, possibly as an after dinner speech. The United Services Institute of Vancouver Island (RUSI of VI) was founded in 1927, and granted the honour of adding the prefix Royal by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, in 1972. The Honourable Judith Guichon, OBC, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, is the Institute’s Honorary Patron. Over 200 serving and retired officers from the Canadian and Commonwealth Forces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and allied nations, are currently members or associates of RUSI of VI. Members of every commissioned rank, who may be regular or reserve and serving or retired all pay the same dues and all share in the same rights and privileges. Younger members have the same freedom and opportunity as older members. Also, associate membership may be offered to distinguished citizens, who did not serve in the Armed Forces or, who did not hold a commissioned rank.