Sir I called him a Big Fat Bastard
I was a Company Sergeant major in Palace barracks Hollywood mid 1974. We didn't have many discipline problems so it surprised me that one of my soldiers was in the Nick! It transpired that he had discovered that if he blacked his face at about 9pm, then he could go along to the cookhouse tag onto the patrols coming in at night and bag a free supper, which was the late patrols entitlement. After about seven nights of constant suppers the cook (a big fat cpl) challenged him and and an 'incident' ensued whereby Pte Wigmore was Charged with insubordination for calling the Cpl 'a fat bastard'.
The case got as far as CO's and Wigmore was in big trouble. Wigmore denied for about fifeen minutes in front of the CO that he had used the expression' Fat bastard' after twenty minutes of wrangling and now with the fat cpl back in the office to substantiate his case the CO turned to wigmore and Said, "If you did not call him a 'Fat bastard' then what did you call him?" Wigmore looked at the Cpl and said slowly "Sir I called him a Big Fat Bastard" Wigmore lost seven days pay.
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