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Jungle, Jungle, Little Chindit

Chapter 3 - Friendly Troops

Dr Robert Lyman
Aug 29, 2023
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The third chapter of Hollis and Carter’s hilarious record of 1944 Operation Thursday - ‘Friendly Troops’ - is now here, with some superb drawings, uploaded for your amusement.

That of the bearded, monocled creature on page 13 can only be that of Brigadier Bernard Fergusson, below.

Fergusson, pre-war

The description of Gurkhas as ‘Lilliputian men with a capacity for winning V.C.s in all theatres of war’ is fabulous.

Enjoy!

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" Slightly coarse, cattle farming, brain baffling"- now whatever might that be?!

Arthur Askey meets George Formby in military parlance- this is truly hilarious.

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