These Attached Units

Observation Post, Volume 1, Issue 3, 5 June 1942, Page 2

These Attached Units

Oh yes! 1 was -a. gunner once —that • was before I got sense and joined the ■L.A.D. The only trouble is that I had Ito get detached . from the regiment i first and then attached again or something like that. I don’t really know. Perhaps the Army does, but it doesn’t 'matter anyhow and it’s about your other ■ ‘ attached ' that 1 want to talk. After ail we L.A.D. have been detached, and pinned on again for a very long while now and we thought you were satisfied. Just because a war broke out, though, you Artillery have gone, in for collecting more and more “attached” yes sir— then some. Did you just want to increase your ration strength or (now honestly!) DID YOU- WANT TO MAKE MORE WORK FOB US! ' But getting back to these extras: — first of all there were the Home Guardies whom,, you taught gunnery to —good chaps all, but that was long long ago—yes before we used to think of mud at Linton, and you know how long ago that was. Then some survey chappies attached themselves. You left them behind when you went on manoeuvres— them be-, hind to clean up the camp, didn’t you? — and did they-—or did they? Then they disappeared into the blue and returned for an hour or so last week and now they’re gone again. Oh! Very, very detached! ■' Then there’s the Padre. lie’s attached too. Isn’t he? Anyhow he’s attached himself to two tents in the best possie in camp and that’s not bad going in the 2nd Field Regiment. There there are the Dah-Dits. Somehow' or other even gunners get on well with the Sig. Section attached. Perhaps its because you think they nearly intelligent enough to be gunners

or perhaps (listen carefully) it’s because they are experienced . “at tachces’’ like us ■ L.A.D.-ites and have acquired that tolerance and foreboarance so necessary for successful■ attachI ment. You know—putting up with the ! likes of the gunner nosing round I their wireless sets who wanted to know ■ ■ how you could talk and speak-at the ' same time. Oh yes! We detached get very attached to your “attached.’ j I Then there’s the “Y.Y. ” Well! You know what he does to you when you try to get some of your own back on ' R.H.Q. at rugby. I’ll stop there though 1 know you wouldn’t like me to offend ' him. .He might-.’go and take his Y.M. ' hut with him. Then what would you do? . - ./ ■ >' i «'• Then there’s the M.O. He’s attached too. A very nice; chap to talk to—all ‘ that but I:, can’t make out the look in ’his eye when he dishes out that pill a very detached look there’s a twinkle 1 - there that 1 like to find. ’ . 1 Then there’s “Rex.’’ You know how , attached he gets to the C.O.s mat. Does ■ he give you an idea for another attached 2/?/?? Thon your latest collection is the Motor Merchants Section; What is the ' 'official army name? Ah. yes!Dental | Corps. Well!, ! I had a wonky tooth and did the attached get attached—that I was till it was all over and I fell out i through the side of the hut. They were , still attached to my tooth though. | Then there’s‘your C.O. Like Rex, I don’t know whether he should personally appear in this, but sometimes he seems to be attachd to us. Anyhow he’s the only Colonel I know, who can and does ride a motor bike. But why pinch our jolly old' bike when he goes for a ride? Oh yes! Gunners, you have offended us and gone in for collecting more and more “attached’’ but as they never seem to want to leave you, there must be something about you,. and I know we attached and attached again like your “attached” and I know you do too. P.S.Watch the queue outside our lines each morning-applying for the loan of something to tighten up nuts with. ■' Editor’s note: Yes Sir, your Editor is very attached to the Regiment .- too. Presume he is attached to the attached by the at--1 tached— heck that could go on ad infinitum. The following advertisement appeared ; fin a newspaper in India: “Mahomedsman, hair-cutler and clean shaver. ' Gentlemen’s » throats cut with very. . sharp' razors, with great care and ' skill. No irritating feeling afterwards.’’