MICK’S REGIMENT - Graham Fredriksen

[manfredvijars]

MICK’S REGIMENT
(c) Graham Fredriksen 1956 - 2010

[Maureen K Clifford]

love it...Queensland Mounted Bushrangers, the Major probably thought he was fair dinkum as well. The irreverence and so typical.. Graham has captured it well and the arrogance with which the British viewed (as I have read often) the colonial cannon fodder.

Really enjoying these poems of Graham's that you are posting Mannie...thank you

Cheers

Maureen

[warooa]

Having heard the stories of the Aussie digger's 'indifference' to pompus English command and that larrikan streak, I don't doubt Graham's poem is a true story.

Thanks Manfred. Thanks Graham . . . good one, mate.

Cheers, Marty

[Mal McLean]

I remember a cartoon in one of my old mans ww2 magazines (published after the war).

The monocled British Major with swagger stick says to the digger : Havn't you been taught to salute a superior officer?!!!

Digger: Yaas, an I'll be sure to do that if I see one


Mal

[Dave Smith]

And of course the British Colonel who ask the diggers “Did you chaps come here to Die?”
“No mate we came Yestadie”

TTFN

[Neville Briggs]

It's a well written ballad in the irreverent bush ballad mode Manfred.

I can't help but believe that it is a myth, that undisciplined and disrespectful soldiers are examples of resourcefulness and admirable bravado.
This was the myth that Alan Alda et al tried to preach in M*A*S*H.

I suspect that our soldiers were better than that, I rather believe that they created these myths just for a joke in the tradition of the bush yarns and tall tales.