The Home Defence Column

Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 23, 4 October 1940, Page 3

The Home Defence Column

..... "i i' '. - . 1 ?r - -'7 .•_ ■ _ ' r “DIGS AT DIGGERS!” - A lively bi-weekly column of Soldiers’ Wit and Gossip, collected, compiled and contributed by “One-of-the-Boys.” , Thumbs up! *** - ♦ It won’t be long—- ***** ' Measles certainly put the men of the 4th Reinforcements on the spot. * * * ♦ The “Blues” are still raging at Buckle Street. ♦ * * * And yet another epidemic of the famed “Gunners’ Bot’ has broken out at Dorset. * * * . * The Winter Show, of course, is now out of season. * . * * * “Black Tracker Mats Slacker.” Tongue-twister, eh? Exceedingly hollow laugh from the A.S.C. ***** Somes Island soliloquy: “Stalwart guards and/or doughty prisoners.” ***** Miss me to-night, Sergeant-Major! * * * * J \ ' Anyone would imagine that the boys of the 22nd Anti-Ack hadn’t seen a ’plane before, the way they pick ’em up in the sky each night. REEL OUT THE BARREL! Our S/M’s Monicker rhymes with egg, He never stops ’till he’s drained the last dreg. The day he was “crowned,” They thought he was drowned — i. . . but at last he crawled out of the keg!