AT BARDIA.

War Wit, Volume 1, Issue 6, 1 July 1941, Page 9

AT BARDIA.

A few minutes after the hoisting of . the white flag when we took Bardia, stretcher-bearers were hard at working doing dressings, etc., in an outlying post. We were all too busy to indulge in humour of any sort. Then word came through that another post a few hundred yards away contained some wounded “Iti’s.” . No one seemed to know if they were armed, or looking for trouble, so one of the bearers, whose squad had been detailed to go over and see what was doing, asked the Sgt., who is a deaf sort of a cove at times, for an “ armed guard.- His answer broke the tension ' completely. Sorry, boys, I left it back in my overcoat pocket.” He thought the request was for his S.B.’s arm-band. * ' * ; * • Military leader states than “Australian factories can’t produce munitions like rabbits out of a hat.” But they can produce a hat out of rabbits. * * * ■ News heading: “Father and Four Sons Enlist.” The daddy of them all.