of the Scots
at War Project. There's a personal account of this action in Charlie
Company by Peter Cochrane.]
When at last we emerged from that unhealthy zone
We got on the trucks and we headed for home.
You can say what you like, you have plenty of scope,
Do you think we enjoyed it? My Christ! What a hope!
Chorus:
What the hell
'S all the fuss?
O wouldn't you, wouldn't you like to be us?
"The Ballad of Wadi Maktilla," Anon.; Ballads of World War II,
"Collected for the Lili Marleen Club of Glasgow" by Seumas Mor
Maceanruig (Hamish Henderson), Glasgow, Caledonian Press, c1952.
The fort was later taken - on 9th December 1940 - as part of a wider
action under Brigadier Selby.
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