Wally by Name

Wally by Name

Wally by Name

Wally Payne

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Editorial:
iUniverse
Año de edición:
2005
Materia
Memorias
ISBN:
9780595346509
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Having been required to resign from the Leicester City Constabulary for the heinous crime of ’gross impertinence to a member of the public’, the author crossed the road to the Army Recruiting Office and enlisted into the Royal Military Police. It was a decision that, despite the odd knock back, he was never to regret.The volumes recount the adventures, mishaps, misdeeds and observations of a character of some notoriety, charting his journey from the NAAFI canteen to the Officer’s Mess via Germany, the UK, Malta, Cyprus, Northern Ireland and the Far East. The tongue in cheek tales are told in a ribald, sometimes bawdy, occasionally cruel and unfailingly irreverent fashion that befit a person with a chip on both shoulders. Described by one officer as ’arrogant, selfish, self-centred and pig headed’, he never discovered any reason to change.

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