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Old 07-06-19, 05:18 PM
Hawthorn Hawthorn is offline
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Originally Posted by grumpy View Post
Not that the Guards had vulgar tradesmen .......
Remember one day when I was the Picquet Sergeant at Caterham Barracks and I visited the Regimental Butcher in his stores with the Picquet Officer to inspect the meat for the day and I can assure you he was vulgar when the young Officer started prodding the meat with a cane! By the way he used to wear a blue cloth cap with a blue red blue square with a cloth Coldstream Star sewn on it.

Simon.
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