Donkey Walloper: A Coppers Tale Part II

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Scimitar An Armoured Reconnaissance vehicle (sometimes classed as a light tank) used by the British Army. Made by Alvis in Coventry, it mounts a high velocity 30 mm RARDEN cannon. Gardner Gun (machine gun) – A one- to five-barreled machine gun used by the British Army from 1880. Operated by turning a crank which loaded and fired each barrel in sequence. shrapnel – Anti-personnel shell that exploded in the air and scattered small lead balls. Also, later on, any piece of metal from any type shell. (After the inventor, Henry Shrapnel [1806]) Ichabod – an exclamation equivalent to “By God!,”“How terrible!,” or “What a shame!” Usage is derived from the biblical name in 1 Samuel, meaning no glory or the glory is gone. munge – to chew or chop into a mixture; to get into or cause a bad situation, to make a mess of things

Jo presents I Secretly Recorded My Boyfriend with fellow broadcasters and close friends Katy White and Mark ‘Sparky’ Colerangle. Nebuchadnezzar phase – a drunken episode, a drinking bout. Derived from the name given the largest container of champagne–a Nebuchadnezzar–which held 20 quarts or 15 litersclemming – consumptive, emaciated; necessitous, in want, pinched; in shoemaking, the binding together of soles So, what was a going to do with the donkey’s breakfast. Put simply, I was going to put on my straw hat. Mind the grease, was simply my 19th century way of asking you to let me pass, whilst my threat to prod you with my rain-napper, meant that if you didn’t move out of the way I would prod you with my umbrella, since it caught the rain. CALL THE POLICE! Short Guard When The Sovereign is not resident in London, the Life Guard at Horse Guards is reduced to 2 Non-Commissioned Officers and 10 Troopers.

blue devils – to feel sad or depressed, to be in low spirits. e.g., I had the blue devils after losing the game. He listens to the radio a lot and loves doing an impression of Jeremy Vine which is an ongoing joke in the podcast because he does it so often.” General Services Enlistment Act – One of the causes of the Indian Mutiny. It required Indian troops in British service to to go overseas, if required. Hindus would break caste if they did so.

furze – also known as gorse or whin. A shrub, Ulex europeaeus, which grows 4 feet in height and bears yellow flowers Imperial Yeomanry – British volunteer cavalry force recruited from locals for the Boer war. Little or no training, but they had much enthusiasm.

brevet – A temporary higher rank, for example, a captain being a brevet colonel. It was not unusual for British colonial officers on loan to another regiment to be temporarily classed as a higher rank in that regiment but to paid for the lesser rank of their actual regiment. (Old French, diminutive of brief letter) Anyway, you have there enough to get you started on your wander into the Victorian underworld of the East End of London. The Earl of Wessex KG GCVO ADC is the Royal Honorary Colonel of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry. [5] Uniform [ edit ] Mess dress of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry Jo said: “It was so easy. I’ve always got my phone in my hand. So, for 4 months before I started the podcast, I started recording him to see whether it was something we could actually do.”Adjutant A military rank, usually a Captain, appointed as the Staff Officer for the Commanding Officer. hoarding – a display case or area to place advertisements or advertised products; a wooden fence or barrier wrangler – a debater; at the University of Cambridge, one of those who have attained the first grade in the second (until 1909 in the first) part of the examination for honors in mathematics. Until 1909, the student attaining the highest marks was called the senior wrangler. grangerised – adding material (especially pictures) collected from other sources to an existing book; extra-illustrated

Household Division This is formed by the seven Guards regiments. These are the British Army’s most senior regiments: The Household Cavalry – The Life Guards and The Blues & Royals – and the five regiments of Foot Guards: Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh. Since 2013, the regiment has been the United Kingdom's only Armoured Reinforcement Regiment, providing armoured (Main Battle Tank) resilience to the three remaining regular Army Armoured Regiments: the Queen's Royal Hussars (QRH), the King's Royal Hussars (KRH) and the Royal Tank Regiment (RTR). All five squadrons train Challenger 2 crewmen. The RWxY has conducted Challenger 2 (CR2) driver training in Bovington, Sennelager Germany, Salisbury Plain Training Area and live firing at Lulworth and Castlemartin Ranges. [4]ague – Any fever, such as malaria, that recurs at regular intervals (from Medieval Latin febris acuta, literally, sharp fever) Allied Regiments & Affiliations". The King's Royal Hussars Association. Archived from the original on 20 April 2012 . Retrieved 9 February 2012. to fire into the brown – Originally referred to hunters firing into a covey of game birds without aiming at any particular bird, but was later used for soldiers firing into a charging mass of natives. tumbled – to get to the bottom of, discover the truth of, concluded the facts of a mystery or situtation. e.g., He tumbled to the truth of the matter. The Royal Wessex Yeomanry dons a new cap badge for a bigger role". Wessex Reserve Forces and Cadets Association . Retrieved 22 October 2017.