Soldier Humour 1960
Soldier is an in-house monthly magazine produced and published by the MOD. It was founded in March 1945, in Brussels, a morale boosting idea of Field Marshal Montgomery. Until 1997, it was a fortnightly publication.
For the Second Gulf War, many soldiers were given a controversial cocktail of vaccinations which, many believe, was responsible for Gulf War Syndrome; governments have refused to accept any link.
The cartoon about the undone button reminds me of an RSM I knew. When we were in the field and on central catering instead of individual 24 hour ration packs, he would stand by the kitchen and inspect us as we came to queue for our breakfast. If you hadn't shaved, then reapplied cam cream, or hadn't polished your boots, you would be sent back to your two man trench to rectify issues he picked up. Another CSM, when we were in Belfast, insisted that all soldiers in his company bulled the toecaps of their DMS boots (the old ankle length directly moulded boots) for patrolling through the streets and bombed out buildings in the 1970s.
This book of cartoons from the magazine, was produced in 1960 when National Service was still in force.
Soldier Humour 1960
Soldier is an in-house monthly magazine produced and published by the MOD. It was founded in March 1945, in Brussels, a morale boosting idea of Field Marshal Montgomery. Until 1997, it was a fortnightly publication.
For the Second Gulf War, many soldiers were given a controversial cocktail of vaccinations which, many believe, was responsible for Gulf War Syndrome; governments have refused to accept any link.
The cartoon about the undone button reminds me of an RSM I knew. When we were in the field and on central catering instead of individual 24 hour ration packs, he would stand by the kitchen and inspect us as we came to queue for our breakfast. If you hadn't shaved, then reapplied cam cream, or hadn't polished your boots, you would be sent back to your two man trench to rectify issues he picked up. Another CSM, when we were in Belfast, insisted that all soldiers in his company bulled the toecaps of their DMS boots (the old ankle length directly moulded boots) for patrolling through the streets and bombed out buildings in the 1970s.
This book of cartoons from the magazine, was produced in 1960 when National Service was still in force.