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22-03-11, 04:04 AM
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Well, What Did You Think It Was About?
i have just purchased a small amount of ephemera, mainly for the identity card that I noticed.
When I looked in detail I found that the card was for a little girl, born in May 1942. However, there was also an unexpected find, her fathers March 1940 dated "Identity Card for Mechanical Transport Drivers". This item aka "Army Form A 2038" was a new one on me. Along with his identity card this RASC driver seems to have been carrying around a typed poem. It is folded, and the back is dirty enough to have been carried in a pocket or wallet for 5 years. An interesting "period piece" of "Brylcreem Boy" origin. Well, What did you think it was about? PS On request, I can send the scan to anybody who is not able to read the writing.
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22-03-11, 04:37 AM
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David
I had a try, but can't figure out how to do it. Can you PM me your email address? Either that, or explain how to send attachments via the forum. Cheers
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22-03-11, 04:44 AM
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22-03-11, 11:28 AM
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That was a very good poem. I was thinking along the lines of a steam tram or motor car though.
Is there anything known about the author??
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22-03-11, 01:45 PM
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I had heard a similar verse used as a marching song with the final line being, "She's an F-86 in the fighter Command."
Yours is obviously an earlier version. Interesting how innuendo never goes out of style. Phil
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22-03-11, 03:03 PM
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I tried googling to find an author, but with no luck.
However I did find a couple of variants of the poem. No longer is the final line: "That Twin-engined Bomber of Coastal Command". One was carried by an RAF man during the war, and until his death in 1995, and ends: "That Lancaster Bomber of Bomber Command". http://www.ebygum.org.uk/What%20Did%...World_War.html The other variant is included in a collection of poems collected by a POW who was in: "Stalag Lufts IV and VI, and Stalag 357". It ends: "That four engined "Stirling" of Bomber Command". http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/PoemWartimeLog.htm So, it looks as if the poem was typed out and the final line changed to whatever was being flown by the typists unit.
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Orationem pulchram non habens, scribo ista linea in lingua Latina Last edited by BWEF; 22-03-11 at 03:10 PM.
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