The Complete McAuslan (75 page)

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Authors: George Macdonald Fraser

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Which is long and complex, and may be found in
McAuslan in the Rough.

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The tea-urn is presumably still lying somewhere near the summit of Scafell Pike. The man who went missing from my section, on a night exercise in Norfolk, turned up the following day, drunk. The guardroom was an enormous bell-tent which was removed from over my sleeping head by Royal Scots Fusiliers and Cameronians celebrating Hogmanay at Deolali, India.

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A famous department store on the Port Said waterfront, correctly spelled Simon Arzt but known to servicemen as ‘Simon Arts’.

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