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To: longnshort who wrote (296111)	3/11/2009 6:53:32 PM
From: LindyBill	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793962

I think this man could have taken either of you. Lance Corporal Jones Portrayed by Clive Dunn 'After the Charge of the Light Brigade, when a handful of the tattered survivors had staggered back to the British lines, and as Lord Cardigan and Lord Raglan were arguing as to whose fault it was, a ragged scarecrow of a Private soldier stepped forward and saluted. His once brave uniform was covered in the grime of battle. "Permission to speak"he said. "Shall we go again sir ?" These few words sum up the bravery of the British N.C.O.'s and private soldiers who over the centuries have survived blunders and disasters, and have somehow always come out on top. Such a man is Lance Corporal Jack Jones, born in 1870. At the age of fifteen he signed on as a drummer boy, and a few months later he was in the sudan with Sir Garnet Woseley's relief force, to save General Gordon from being besieged in Khartoum. Alas, they arrived two days too late. "Permission to speak, sir,"said Jones. "We should have come a bit quicker." "Nonsense my man,"replied the officer. "We had to stop to water the horses. Besides better late than never."' 'Thirteen years later, Jones was again serving in the Sudan, this time with General Sir Herbert Kitchener,where at the Battle of Omdurman the Dervishes were finally beaten. "Permission to speak, sir,"said Jones "We gave 'em the old cold steel, they don't like it up'em."' "That's the sort of fighting talk I like to hear,"said General Kitchener. "Stick with me and you won't go wrong." So Jones served with the General in India on the North West Frontier, and in France in 1914. When the war was finally over Jones hung up his uniform, and opened a small butcher's shop in Walmington-on-Sea. He thought his soldiering days were over, but when in 1940 England was once again threatened he didn't hesitate . At the age of seventy, he joined the Home Guard. "Permission to speak, sir,"said Jones. "I may be old but I can still give them the old cold steel, and they don't like it up'em, you know, they do not like it." home.btconnect.com