RECORDS OFFICE
If you chaps will only listen, To you I will relate, The every day procedure, Of records up to date. Now every man who enters camp, Requires marching in, We ask his name, his age and trade, And who’s his next-of-kin. In fact, we ask him everything, In the correct official way, We then complete his 347, And send him into pay. He’s posted to a regiment, And shown where he’s to mess, But should he be a man for staff We post his as T.S. Of course our work entails much more, We’re very busy men, Sometimes we march a soldier in, Then march him out again. He may be for the Medical Board, Or maybe he’s transferred, But it’s all the same, we dot it down, When we know what has occurred. No matter what a soldier does, Be he sick, or A.W.L., By looking up his history sheet, We straight away can tell. The power behind our pen and ink, You really can’t conceive, We fix his pay, and his S.A. When he marches out on leave. The O.C. and the Adjutant, Of rank there is no doubt, But when they want to go on leave, Records march them out. —J.P., Ngaruawahia Mob. Camp. (J.P. —Thanks. Nice piece of work. Let’s hear from you again.—Editor.)
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Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 87, 29 August 1941, Page 5
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