Tag: WW2
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Silence in the Pheelip Hame
Sandy refuses to divulge to his wife what went on at the Home Guard meeting and they don’t speak to each other for several days. When Sandy arrives at the next meeting, everyone else is hiding in case he has brought along another gun like Auld Betsy.
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Aul Betsy Misbehaves
Sandy shows Aul Betsy to the Major, explaining that it was last fired during the Boer War. The gun then blows up unexpectedly, causing quite a commotion.
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Sandy Cocks His Gun
Sandy is requested to attend an LDV training session and to bring his gun, so he looks out “Auld Betsy”, a relic from the days of stagecoaches.
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Introducin Sandy Pheelip LDV
Sandy Pheelip is in the garden digging potatoes when the local LDV recruiter stopped for a chat. Note: The Home Guard (initially Local Defence Volunteers or “LDV”) was an unpaid armed citizen militia supporting the ‘Home Forces’ of the British Army during the Second World War. Operational from 1940 to 1944, the Home Guard comprised…
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Mair Depth Chairges
Jeck and Peter finish making the oil barrel depth charge but matters get out of hand on the way to the loch, where a submarine has apparently been sighted.
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Jek Maks Munitions
Peter Birley calls in on Jeck to see what he is up to. Jeck is constructing a depth charge to be used on Pitbirley Loch, to counter the submarine menace. Peter offers to help with Jeck’s calculations on how much dynamite he needs, but Jeck isn’t very impressed with Peter’s maths when it comes to…
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Serjint Peter Parrysheeter Pairt 2
On his way home from bayonet practice, Peter Birley has a fright and thinks he has come across a German paratrooper. Thrusting his wooden bayonet into him, it turns out not to be a paratrooper after all.
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Serjint Peter Parrysheeter
Peter Birley’s musket was out of action so Jeck the joiner made him one out of wood, so he could practice his bayonet drills with it. As Peter lunged at him, Jeck fell to the ground and Peter thought he had killed him but the only casualty was Jeck’s medicinal bottle of Glentakit whisky.
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Military Drill at the Mains
Barrowsgate deals with more fallout from his column accusing some people of lacking faith in the British war effort. Barrowsgate thinks that his neighbours seem to have got the message, and patriotism has resurged in the local defence force, particularly “Mains”, its sergeant instructor. Barrowsgate observes one of their parade drills.