Re: Humourous annecdotes, was Re: We Were Soldiers

From: "Katie Lauren Lucas" <katie@fysh.org>

> My uncle was telling us that my grandfather (royal engineers for most
of
WWII)
> started this story with "I was on bomb disposal.."
>
> "I didn't know you'd ever done bomb disposal?"
>
> "Well, we called it that. You sneak up to the bomb, scrape the sand
out
from
> around it best you can without moving it, then you go dig yourself a
slit
> trench. About as far back as you can throw a good sized stone..."

I have a decorated plate from the time of the Great War. One bloke is
sitting
on a HUGE shell, with a hammer and chisel, totally engrossed in
attempting
to
take off the fuse.
Another bloke is standing nonchalantly nearby, fag in mouth, with the
caption:

"Give it a good 'ard un Bert. You can genully ear em fizzin afore they
go