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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:

Wikipedia -63rd (Royal_Naval) Division (which includes said immortal lines).

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.biggrin

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Terrific ditty . . . I'm sure it was well appreciated by the NRD!

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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.

But I digress.

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