Vale

Observation Post, Volume 1, Issue 26, 13 November 1942, Page 1

Vale

Again it is our task to .say farewell to another member of our unit who is well known to everyone. The doctor, Captain Giesen, left our company during the past week for some unknown destination. There are few indeed who have not received sympathy and excellent treatment at his hands when feeling under the weather. His prowess in the field of sport was well known to all of us as soon as we first heard of his name. His performances in the realm of sport amply justified and surpassed our hopes notwithstanding the fact that we have only seen him in action at tennis on one occasion. The whole Regiment desires to express through this paper the best of luck and good wishes. Everyone hopes that he will bd as happy with his new comrades as he was in our midst. We all wish we could go with him or he with us. Many thanks, Sir, for all you have done for us in various spheres, we will never forget you.

FALSE PRETENCE Natural inclination to stutter and an inability to carry the extra amount of rum pinched by the platoon “scrounger” brought an unexpected holiday to a member of an infantry battalion just before the capture of Tobruk, last January. The stuttering Digger, known to his mates as “Minnie-ha-ha, ” advanced under the barrage, and, as the rum took effect, stumbled into a newly made shell hole and went to sleep. He woke in an ambulance labelled as a shell-shock case, and when he attempted to get out and explain, his stutter only convinced the ambulance driver that he was a dinkum case. Or the principle that silence is golden he kept his mouth shut, and had a month’s holiday in a hospital near Cairo, before rejoining his unit. STONE CRAZY Some of these snappy blondes frou King’s .Cross seem —ta_suffer from e OT’WJMVIIBRART Li.'.G’O’’, NEW ZEALAND I