Funnies - Issue 100 Jun 03

REMINISCING ABOUT BOSNIA - HAIL CAESAR
‘In Bosnia the boys referred to me as Caesar - as I must have joined the army when Roman numerals were in use!’
Maj Colin Allder RA TD, the Norfolk Editor’s successor as SO2 TA/Res and custodian of the white stick and Guide Dog as ‘Oldest Brit in Theatre’.
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THE OLD ONES ARE THE BEST!
Some General Comments:
YOU HAVE DONE WELL !
At annual TA camp a General was visiting, his first since appointment as Director Volunteers, Territorials and Cadets.
He asked a LCpl from the 6 RANGLIAN, Norwich (Apache) Platoon, then commanded by Lt Col Miles Green, for how long he had been in the TA.
'Two years sir.'
'You have done well', responded the great man.
'And how long have you been in the TA ?' enquired the curious LCpl.
The General thought about this and replied, 'About two weeks.'
'You have done bloody well, sir!'

DARTS
The late General Sir David Thorne was back from the Falklands and enjoying a quiet pint of Watneys in the 'Lord Napier' in Camberwell with Pat 'Flaps Down' Darley. Challenged to a game of darts by 2 local lads they agreed
Conversation revealed that Sir David had just returned from the Falklands after army service.
With dart in mid flight, an opponent queried: 'I suppose you were a ****** officer ?'
'Something like that,' was the reply.
The pair from the 9th won handsomely!

BELIEF
The late General Sir Ian Freland was visiting A (Royal Norfolk) Coy at Annual Camp at Otterburn in 1976.
Speaking to Pte Chieseman of the Norwich (Apache) Platoon, the General enquired what he did when not with the TA.
'You are not going to believe this sir, but I am a lightship keeper.'
'I'll believe anything about the TA!' responded the General.
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POTATOES HAVE JACKETS

For some years Norfolk The Rotary Club of Watton and District and the Suffolk Rotary Club of Brandon have conducted an evening exchange visit.

In April 2003, one of our Rotarians headed a Rotundity of Watton Rotarians to Brandon where he chaired the meeting. Passports were checked before departure!

Brandon President David Stewart brought a team and presided at Watton.

Thankfully, our man in Brandon followed Watton Custom and Practice and permitted Brandon and Watton Rotarians to remove their jackets while President David Stewart reciprocated in Watton!

A visiting District Rotary Club President, known in his own Club as 'The Commissionaire', a chappie who had spent far too long jumping out of perfectly good aeroplanes while wearing a red beret, came to Watton and chaired our meeting one hot evening.
He was addressed by this Webmaster, then Club Secretary and a lowly Major Disaster, so knowing his place:
'Colonel, may we have permission to remove jackets?'
The pompous response was: 'Potatoes have jackets. Gentlemen have coats. No!'
That went down a bundle at Watton!

Click the spud!

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GO TO CHURCH OR SCRUB
14825636 LCpl Alexander G Hackwill, Newbury, Berks sent:
After the war I was appointed B Coy Clerk. One task was typing Coy Orders, the CSM advising me what to include. The 13 Oct 1946 Newhaus detail had:

Parades.

Church Parades. C of E. There will be a voluntary Church Parade in the information room at 0915 hrs Sun 13 Oct.

RC. There will be a RC Service for RC personnel in the Chapel opposite Dempsey Barracks at 1000 hrs Sun 13 Oct.

0900 hrs. (All personnel not attending Church Services). Scrubbing out of rooms and cleaning of windows and window-sills, in and out.’

The contents upset a soldier and resulted in that extract of my typing appearing in the Daily Mirror of 19 Oct 1946 under the headline:
"‘Go to church or scrub’ he alleges"
Soldiers of a BAOR unit who do not attend ‘voluntary’ church parades are ordered to scrub floors and clean windows ‘as a punishment’ alleges a member of the unit. Giving his address as 1st Bn Royal Norfolks, BAOR, the soldier writes: ‘I am enclosing a copy of daily detail for last Sunday. I ask you, is it fair to punish men for not going to church?’
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