FUNNY STORIES from the GREAT WAR - Trench humour, Pranks and Jokes during WWI E-Book

Anon E. Mouse

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Even in the midst of the death and destruction of war there are strange and funny occurrences. Occurrences made hilarious and farcical because of the circumstance in which they occur. These hilarious occasions are more often than not recalled with greater ease and much mirth long after the war has ended and everyone has gone home. Their recall is made easier  if only because soldiers would prefer not to recall the painful memories that come with the experience of having been in battle. Herein are over 300 short stories, anecdotes, pranks, jokes and laughable affairs recalled by servicemen after the Great War patiently collated and published with care by Carleton B. Case in 1919.

Leseprobe

FUNNY STORIES

from the

GREAT WAR

As Told By The Soldiers

PRANKS, JOKES AND LAUGHABLE AFFAIRSOF OUR BOYS AND THEIR ALLIESDURING THE GREAT WAR

The Victors in Their Cheerful Moments

Collated By

CARLETON B. CASE

SHREWESBURY PUBLISHING CO.Chicago

[1919]

Resurrected by

ABELA PUBLISHING,

London

[2017]

FUNNY STORIES of the GREAT WAR

AS TOLD BY THE SOLDIERS

Typographical arrangement of this edition

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2017

ISBN-13: 978-8-826479-96-5

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Acknowledgements

Abela Publishing acknowledges the work that

Carleton B. Case

did in compiling, translating and retelling

FUNNY STORIES OF THE GREAT WAR

in a time well before any electronic media was in use.

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Abela Publishing,

Republishing

YESTERDAY’S BOOKS for TODAY’S CHARITIES

Preface

Now that the dread of awful war has passed with the coming of welcome peace, we can turn our minds with renewed cheerfulness to the merry side of the great world’s conflict and enjoy with our boys the funny things they saw and did and said while “over there.”

The comedy side of the war has been quickly seen and readily interpreted by the world’s great writers, as well as by the very officers and men, in all departments of the service, who themselves participated in both the serious and the frivolous affairs of warfare as developed day by day.

It is the humorous experiences of which these warriors and writers have told us in speech and print that we have sought to gather into one volume for the edification and delectation of a humor-loving public. Enough and too much has been told of the horrors of war. To hear the pleasanter side, the merry doings of our soldiers and their allies, the victorious hosts of freedom, is a welcome relief to war-weary hearts, freed now, and forever, from the dire dread of the awfulness of modern slaughter.

So this collection of funny stories has come into being; its mission to cheer us all with the merry tales told by and about our conquering soldiers.

FUNNY STORIES

of the

GREAT WAR

As Told by the Soldiers

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SECRETARY BAKER TELLS A GOOD ONE

“The neat and even elegant appearance of the American soldier isn’t maintained,” said War Secretary Baker in an address, “without hard work. Yes, the work is hard, but doesn’t the result more than justify it?

“On the train the other day a private sat with his tunic unbuttoned, for the temperature was high. A sergeant strode up to him and said:

“‘Button up that tunic! Did you never hear of by-law 217, subsection D? I’m Sergeant Jabez Winterbottom!’

“A gentleman in the seat behind tapped the sergeant sternly on the shoulder.

“‘How dare you issue orders with a pipe in your mouth?’ he asked. ‘Go home and read paragraph 174, section M, part IX. I am Major Eustace Carroll.’

“Here a gentleman with a drooping white mustache interposed from the other side of the aisle:

“‘If Major Carroll,’ he said coldly, ‘will consult by-law 31 of section K, he will learn that to reprimand