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Originally posted by Gerry Chester@Aug 30 2004, 11:36 AM
The Two Types blasted their way into the affections of all readers of British Army newsXpapers in North Africa, Italy, Sicily, Southern France and Greece. The Two Types, for all their deceptively fatuous appearance, are characters of violence and action. They do not coax. They do not wheedle. Their attitude to the world and everyone in it is "Hit or miss". Either vou like us or you hate us. We don't worry a damn either way. They came overseas as Army officers, battered into an appreciation of the niceties of dress and deportment by ferocious 0. C.T.U. ComXmandants and unbending Commanding Officers. It took the Western Desert to transform them into the 'Two Types'.
Perhaps members of the Forum would care to see more of these characters whose antics helped to raise the morale of those of us who served with 8th Army.
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Please post some Gerry. I have the book you scanned plus one other and a modern book about "Jon" and "Two Types". Are there any other books about these two officers?
My favourite cartoons are: the one where a member of the "Irish Brigade" is cutting shamrock formation signs out of their billiard table and the one which has their jeep festooned with the names of assault landings etc made in Italy and North Africa, and one of the "types" is saying something like: "
Which D Day do they mean, old man?"
"Viva Il Demon Vino"!
I also like the American cartoon answer to "Two Types", "Willie and Joe" drawn by Bill Mauldin (sp?) who died in the past year or two.