Apologies if this topic has been raised before (a search found nothing) but a recent moaning session with a comrade on the vagaries of "the brass" reminded me of AP Herbert's immortal lines and this unusual formation used as infantry:
It seems they initially fought in their "navy blues" but no doubt subsequent re-kitting changed that. Apparently they never abandoned their independent 'attitude' and their dislike of the army 'high command'. They would have fitted in well with the ANZACs.
alfisherjr wrote:...I'm sure it was well appreciated by the NRD!
Navy Recruiting District? I'm not sure the instigator of the division - he who was, until shortly before the penning of that verse, the First Lord of the Admiralty Winston S. Churchill - would have approved but he would have to applaud Herbert's way with words, being a bit of a wordsmith himself.
AP Herbert wrote the Uncommon Law series for Punch after the war - mock Court judgements that explored actual (and imaginary) legal conundrums with the driest of humour mixed with whimsy. No doubt kept them all in stitches, in the Inns of Court.