4th Battery Torch Bearers

Observation Post, Volume 1, Issue 30, 11 December 1942, Page 5

4th Battery Torch Bearers

A stands for Arkinstall, a young N.C.O. Also for Ayling a complaint 'we all know. A Of B’s we have two who rank very high, Blewett, a leader, and Balston so sly; Balston the boys love, he hands out the feed, But beware of K.D. 's for them he wi bleed. C is the letter most noticed round here, One in particular stands out very clear. Clapp is our expert when dancing wit girls; Campbell, the Sergeant, the flag he. unfurls; Carmichael bowls out his orders so clear; Cotton just sits and laps up the beer; Man Mountain Chamber towers over us Petting the boys and making a fuss; But Crozier’s the lad who falls down the drains, Trying his hardest to bash out his brains. D stands for Dentice with hard looking face, ' That’s all to be said to strengthen his case. In G we have Grey, a man of repute, For L we have Lockie you cannot dispute. McManus so bold is leader of all, You can rise under him or go for a fall; Bombardier Moore bears his namesake, And under this man naught can you fake. • The O’s have two stalwarts in such men as these, O’Brien and Osmond with guns spread a breeze, ' And they are the ones who send the

shells fast < \ As one by one the twenty-fives blast. Bombardier Rose keeps our trucks spick and span, Sheldrake stands over him waving a fan. Townsend reminds'us of the camp on' of town As he walks on his rounds, with women and frown. . Wilkinson, Wilson, and Winks in the rear,'. Are not the least on the ship that we steer, For Winks an old soldier help to us brings That one day will save us from Death ‘with its stings. So we passed judgment on this band of men Who gather together in 4th Battery den; < But we will' not trade them for others of fame, We would rather keep them “Thanks all the same.”