MICK’S REGIMENT - Graham Fredriksen

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MICK’S REGIMENT - Graham Fredriksen

Post by manfredvijars » Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:29 am

MICK’S REGIMENT
(c) Graham Fredriksen 1956 - 2010
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Re: MICK’S REGIMENT - Graham Fredriksen

Post by Maureen K Clifford » Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:09 am

:lol: :lol: :lol: love it...Queensland Mounted Bushrangers, the Major probably thought he was fair dinkum as well. :lol: :lol: The irreverence and so typical.. Graham has captured it well and the arrogance with which the British viewed (as I have read often) the colonial cannon fodder.

Really enjoying these poems of Graham's that you are posting Mannie...thank you

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Re: MICK’S REGIMENT - Graham Fredriksen

Post by warooa » Thu Mar 31, 2011 6:05 am

Having heard the stories of the Aussie digger's 'indifference' to pompus English command and that larrikan streak, I don't doubt Graham's poem is a true story.

Thanks Manfred. Thanks Graham . . . good one, mate.

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Post by Mal McLean » Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:02 am

I remember a cartoon in one of my old mans ww2 magazines (published after the war).

The monocled British Major with swagger stick says to the digger : Havn't you been taught to salute a superior officer?!!!

Digger: Yaas, an I'll be sure to do that if I see one


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Post by Dave Smith » Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:33 pm

And of course the British Colonel who ask the diggers “Did you chaps come here to Die?”
“No mate we came Yestadie” :lol: :lol:

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Re: MICK’S REGIMENT - Graham Fredriksen

Post by Neville Briggs » Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:54 pm

It's a well written ballad in the irreverent bush ballad mode Manfred.

I can't help but believe that it is a myth, that undisciplined and disrespectful soldiers are examples of resourcefulness and admirable bravado.
This was the myth that Alan Alda et al tried to preach in M*A*S*H.

I suspect that our soldiers were better than that, I rather believe that they created these myths just for a joke in the tradition of the bush yarns and tall tales.
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