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Squaddie Humour

Squaddie Humour me and I did not remember anything until next morning when

I woke up in my 'mick' with a big silver cup.
A brand new section celebrating the warped
I asked my second what had happened and he told me that
sense of humour of our British Armed Forces in the 3rd round we went into a clinch and I whispered I'm f----

-, but everyone heard and had a good laugh. So ended my
My pugilistic career
pugilistic career which started in 1939 with a win. Incidentally I
did get my 10 quid and the git went on to become one of the
I would like to tell you of an incident that concluded my
youngest Coxswains in the submarine service, thank
pugilistic career. I had a little run in with a snotty nosed goodness I never ran into him again.
Shotley ex-boy whilst serving on submarine Tradewind in
Portland in '53. I of course after tot time challenged him to
enter the heavyweight tournament in Weymouth for 10 quid
for the winner, so we saw the Clubswinger who entered our
names.

I started training by punching the heavy bag outside the
clubswingers office on the Maidstone for five minutes and
decided I was fit. I arrived in Weymouth the night of the
boxing show and found out that the git had withdrawn his
name.
Getting to the final my second, a 3 badge AB gunlayer
wearing a chewing gum grey submarine sweater decorated
with grease and oil stains decided we should have a couple
of pints of beer and a pint of milk. I do not know what the
significance of the milk was, anyway in the first round I jabbed
and ran, but at the end of the first round my arms felt like ton
weights and after I had all the training lifting pints at the Jolly
Sailor in Portland. So I had to try and knock him out as I did
not think I could last the distance. So out we went, I set him
up with a couple of jabs and hit him with a hook come
uppercut. I stepped back to watch him fall but instead he hit

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