HI DE HI!
STRANGE SALUTING ORDER
LONDON, March 18. A strange story was told in the House of Commons to-day by _Mi' McGhee (Lab.) about a commanding officer who ordered the men of his battalion to spring to attention when they met officers and shout “Hi de hi.” The officers had to reply by shouting “ Ho de ho.” The battalion became known in the district as the “Flanagan and Allen” battalion. Children who met soldiers shouted “Hi de hi,” whereupon the soldiers did not know whether to spring to attention or not. Sometimes when the commanding officer saw men approaching him he would shout “Hi de hi” first. If they did not spring to attention they were confined to barracks.
Major Hendeijson, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for War, told Mr McGhee that the officer had been suspended from his command.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19430410.2.45
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 10 April 1943, Page 6
Word Count
138HI DE HI! Greymouth Evening Star, 10 April 1943, Page 6
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in