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15 October 2014
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What We Used to Laugh at

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RAYMOND JOHN PINCHIN
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NORTH AFRICA, SICILY, NORMANDY
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Army
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A4148138
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03 June 2005

Heard Up The Blue — Western Desert.

‘When in doubt brew up’

‘Incidentally old chap, the name is not George’

‘It’s only Gypo guts I expect’

‘Not bloody bully again’

‘When I get my ticket I shall spend all my gratuities on fly papers’

‘Sgt. I can taste petrol in the stew’

‘Don’t worry it’s one of ours. Aye up it’s a flipping Jerry’

‘Who are these Highway Decorators anyway, singing sand in my shoes’

Heard in Sicily

‘I saw a sign on Etna, it said ‘beware of crater’.

‘Some rotten blighter has pinched our fag ration’

‘These mossies have got teeth like lions, they are more trouble than the
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‘On rough vino, - It not only looks like red ink, it tastes like it’

‘I don’t think it’s worth the risk’

Heard in Normandy

‘If it wasn’t so noisy it would be like England’

‘You people have done more damage in four days than the Germans
did in four years’

‘Anyone for Calvados’

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