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"My end's diving number one! Whats your end doing?"
Reported intercom call between Captain and First Lieutenant of a K class submarine.

Probably my favorite

Zenbadger wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2020 10:52 pm "Peccavi" - Maj.Gen. Charles James Napier.

More astonishingly, it was in fact written in a letter to "Punch" magazine by English schoolgirl Catherine Winkworth, and subsequently published as Napier's own despatch by that magazine.

"Fortunatus sum" - by Brig Gen Sir Henry Lawrence, is an accurate one.

There is also a third pun, from the same place and era, that currently escapes me.

The Bible was very popular in the Royal Navy, as it permitted brevity in signalling between ships. This from a submarine commander - "Psalms 17, Verse 4". "I have kept me from the paths of the destroyers."

Zulus! Fahsends of ‘em. Colour Sergeant Bourne

"Smite your enemy. See them run before you. and hear the lamentations of their women. that is best." - Mother Theresa

Old Ma Theresa could be unforgiving if you tried to nick the plate.

"I tell you as officers, that you will neither eat, nor drink, nor smoke, nor sit down, nor lean against a tree until you have personally seen that your men have first had a chance to do these things. If you will do this for them, they will follow you to the ends of the earth. And if you do not, I will bust you in front of your regiments"

Bill Slim

Except, that I am sure he would have said break, not bust.

levied troop wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2020 8:41 am

DukeofWellington wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2020 10:14 pm There is nothing on earth as stupid as a gallant officer

Or was is it Hilaire Belloc ?

Marshal Tallard is in my coach.

John churchill.