Hello Bully Beef

Overheard in a French Village.
The Boy: "Hello Bully Beef!"

Nicknames were not the sole province of other soldiers. The colour patch identifies the soldier as from 3rd Division Supply Column - between November 1916 and March1918.

From the Western Front

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apricot again

Fair commentary on the repetitveness of tinned rations at Anzac.

Repetition in diet was a scourge all of its own, and of course the expression 'jam stealer' came from a judgement on quartermaster staff who appropriated the limited better varieties to their own use. The Brighton label on the hat places the complainant at Gallipoli, where hard rations were unfortunately preponderant.

watercolour over pencil with pen and ink
25.3 cm x 16.9 cm

Australian War Memorial (25.01)

 

The Divipan Question Club

"who shifted my pannikin?"
"Who pinched my toast?"
"Who's is the kidney dixie?"
"Any room on the fire?"
"Who's on after you?"
"How long to go?"
"Do you think you own the bloody stove?"
"Who's pushin?"

Self-cooking by AASC prisoners of war in Japan.

This drawing by an unidentified cartoonist is one of a series, mainly on Osaka prisoner of war camp life, in a collection of family papers of R.V. Glasgow.

Reproduced by permission R. Laffin