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THE LOWLANDER - JOCKS WITH SOCKS
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Did you know, from 1941 onwards, four pairs of socks were issued to each NCO, each week? But seriously ... it's Kleve, Goch, and on into the Rhineland this week in The Lowlander. Andy and Merryn catch up with 52nd Lowland Division...
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The 52nd Lowlander Division in WWII
00:00:05
Speaker
From 1944 to 1945, the 52nd Lowlander Division is fighting its way across Northwest Europe. The writing is on the wall, but it's also on the page. The Army Education Branch sends a newsletter out to thousands of men, all pulling together, pushing the enemy back. This newsletter is called The Lowlander.
The Lowlander Newsletter Highlights
00:00:41
Speaker
Hello, Andy. Hello, Mary. Hello, hello. We are back again with the Lowlander picking out our favourite articles and news updates from the regular service newsletter that was sent out to the men of the 52nd Lowlander Division between the 19th and 25th of February in 1945. Well, it's relatively quiet for the jocks this week, but we'll talk about that in a minute. There's lots of stuff going on in the Second World War this week. Could you run us through what's happening?
00:01:07
Speaker
Yes, there's all sorts.
Key WWII Battles and Movements
00:01:10
Speaker
The British have taken Ramri Island, which is just off Burma. The Canadian Third Division has occupied Moyland. We've got Operation Grenade, that's Simpson's 9th Army crossing the Ruhr. The Marines have raised the American flag on top of Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima. And of course, at the end of this week, Egypt and Syria declare war on Nazi Germany. More about that later. But shall we find out where the jocks are?
00:01:36
Speaker
It's actually fairly quiet, so last week we talked about the attack through the Brodabosh Woods, or Atherton Woods, and that came stuck really on the 18th of February. So this is from the 19th of February, they've dug in around Atherton Woods, that's two brigades, 155 and 157 brigade.
00:01:53
Speaker
and really it's about patrolling, trying to locate the enemy, trying to identify whereabouts the Germans are in front of them, but there's no real big attacks or anything like that. One action of note which everybody comments on is this castle that we talked about last week that sticks out in the German line, the Castelblasianbeck, that's being attacked repeatedly by titans and Spitfires firing rockets at it to try and knock the Germans out of there. The only other sort of other thing of note is 156 Brigade.
00:02:23
Speaker
They've moved over to Gock and they have relieved the 51st Highland Division which had actually captured the town earlier on in the week. But really it's quite quiet for the 52nd Lowland and they're just sitting there waiting for the Americans to push through on Operation Grenade which should make things a lot easier for them.
00:02:41
Speaker
OK, so we've got Highlanders and Lowlanders almost coming together. Just for anybody who's catching up, whereabouts is Atherdon, because we launch into it, but whereabouts in Germany is Atherdon. Well, Atherdon is a Dutch village. It's actually a tiny village. I mean, we say Atherdon like it's somewhere you should know about. It's on the east bank of the River Maas, and it's just literally a male or two from the German border.
00:03:07
Speaker
It is in the Netherlands, not German. It is in the Netherlands, but then if you drift too far to the east, you'll end up in Germany before you know it. And it's kind of southwest of the Reichswald Forest. And yeah, and it's about three or four miles from the city of Koch, which we're going to talk about later on.
Dutch Bravery and Hospitality
00:03:26
Speaker
Brilliant. Well, let's get going. Yeah.
00:03:32
Speaker
19th of February 1945. The Dutch before and after. After enjoying their hospitality for several months under trying conditions, there are few of us who have not learnt to respect our Dutch hosts. But because they are a quiet and reserved people, it's possible we don't fully appreciate what they have done for us in the past, nor what they're doing now. First, a story from the past.
00:03:58
Speaker
Earlier in the war, many an RAF crew crashed landed in southern Holland after a trip to Cologne or Berlin, found shelter in a Dutch farm and was eventually spirited away from under the very nose of the Bosch back to the UK. It was dangerous work. Discovery for the Dutch meant instant death. Apart from the dread of informers and the Gestapo, minor complications constantly cropped up, not the least of them being food.
00:04:25
Speaker
One farmer, who at the time had managed to shelter a score of RAF fugitives, found he could provide everything but milk. His entire supply down to the last drop had been commandeered by the Germans. To have held any back would have a rare suspicion. So he consulted the local veterinary surgeon. The vet was a shrewd man and his eye twinkled as he remarked.
00:04:49
Speaker
But surely you told me one of your cows was sick and giving milk unfit for human consumption. I'll send a certificate to the German authorities telling them after all it would never do for the pure orions to drink impure milk. And so this is what he did.
00:05:07
Speaker
For several days, the German garrison went on a short milk ration while the RAF sucked royally and prepared their escape. Until, meeting the farmer, the vet was informed, the sick carriou certified is now fully recovered. Isn't that great?
00:05:24
Speaker
That's a fantastic story. I have to say, the Lowlander are big fans of the Netherlands. We've been a few times and we always have a great time. When you read the accounts of the Battle of North-West Europe, everybody mentions about how great the Dutch are when they go there. They're thankful. In fact, when you go now,
00:05:45
Speaker
you get the sense that they haven't forgotten at all in fact you know street corners they have signs they've got information boards they've got loads of stuff they really do respect what the Allies did and I think I'd like to think the respect is is both ways isn't it? Very much so and I know this was quite a long article to start with it does actually go on for another paragraph I will just just quickly go through it for the present the relationships with the Dutch
00:06:12
Speaker
Recently, the rearrangements made by the mobile bath unit for mending your socks caused quite a stir in a tiny dutch village. Every family was hard at it during the night, darning.
00:06:25
Speaker
Several turned out 30 pairs of socks in an evening and the whole village averaged 2000 pairs a week. But some households weren't satisfied and they weren't satisfied because they didn't get enough to do. They felt they were being deprived of a chance of helping the Allies. However, do not take this as an invitation to wear two holes in your socks where there was only one before.
00:06:49
Speaker
Is it really sad to say I know exactly where that mobile bath unit was set up? Yes! Okay, moving on. 19th February 1945. Good listening. Home services. Monday night at 8. Forces radio. Sandy Macpherson. AEF. The Comedy Caravan. Featuring schnottleduranti.
00:07:30
Speaker
20th January 1945. Goch taken by the Scots.
00:07:36
Speaker
The small German town of Gock, midway between the Rhine and the Mass, was entered by Scottish troops of the 1st Canadian Army on Sunday night. Gock is a town with a peacetime population of 12,000. It had been built into the secret line defences and was a formidable strong point.
00:07:51
Speaker
One force of our men, forcing strong anti-tank ditch, entered the town from the north-east at the same time as others entered from the south-west, having there found a relatively weakly defended sector. The town is divided into two by the Little River nears and latest reports indicate that our forces have yet to make contact but street fighting is taking place.
00:08:12
Speaker
On the east of the front, more gains have been made across the Gog Kalkar Road, but resistance is very heavy. On the right, near the mass, our men are temporarily held up by deep, flooded anti-tank ditches. That anti-tank ditch is where the fourth battalion is. So you're going to ask me questions about that. Yes. So I think we should talk about the anti-tank ditches because on this page there is a map
00:08:34
Speaker
Isn't that? Oh yeah. And it takes up half the page. Let's just describe it. It takes up half the page and it's at the kind of scale where somebody's tried to draw in individual trees and yet we've got a distance of probably about 25 miles going across the page. We've got Nijmegen top left. We've got Bocksmere bottom left. On the right hand side we've got Marion Bowne and we've got the Rhine running from top left to bottom right and at the top right we've got Isselberg.
00:09:05
Speaker
Okay, so we are talking about goth.
00:09:09
Speaker
anti-tank ditches. Now whereabouts on this map will we find anti-tank ditches? Well there is a large anti-tank ditch around Gough because it's part of the Siegfried Line but the one that jumps off the page is on the last paragraph that I read out where it says that our men just next to the mass have been held up by flooded anti-tank ditches. That is of course what we mentioned last week, the fourth battalion of the King's Unscottish Borders. They launched their attack on the 18th so a couple of days before this report
00:09:36
Speaker
and as they broke out of Aford and Woods, into the open ground they had to cross a couple of anti-tank ditches but were met with an extremely heavy hail of fire from the Germans who were across the other side of the anti-tank ditches in the woods to the south and basically stopped the 52nd in their tracks and they couldn't progress and so the 52nd actually just dug in on that and in those woods. And those woods, they're called the Brodebosch aren't they?
00:10:04
Speaker
That's right, yes. The Dutch call it the Brode-Bosch, but the Geocs, they called it Aferdon Woods because it was a small village. In fact, on the map, it's got all the main towns of Operation Veritable, the Rhineland that you'd expect. So as you mentioned, Gough and Cleve and Rees and Zanton and all those places.
00:10:21
Speaker
It also mentions Atherton and of course they've mentioned Atherton because that's where the 52nd are but it really is only a few houses and it's not very big at all so they call it Atherton Woods and you often hear in fact Peter White who wrote with the jocks he refers to it as Atherton Woods and that's how they knew it but it's a large and it's a it's a young woodland as well so it's not it's not big fully grown trees like the rice fold which is a few miles to north when you see the map it's actually smaller trees which were bushier much harder to fight for them it really was quite a difficult place to operate
00:10:51
Speaker
And this comes back to, and when we're looking at maps for certainly this area, I guess, and anything to the east of it, and certainly around this period, you'll find the Germans have labeled those nursery forests and forest developments quite accurately. But there are differences in who's calling which bits of the landscape work on this sort of Dutch-German border.
00:11:14
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's it's actually a very, very accurate map. They've obviously traced off something because this is really the whole area of the Rheinland and Operation Veritable and Operation Blockbuster, which will be happening later on in the week. Very useful. All right. Well, let's see what else is happening.
Criminal Activities in Wartime UK
00:11:34
Speaker
21st of February, 1945, the appeal of Betty Jones and the American soldier, Holton,
00:11:41
Speaker
against the sentences of death passed upon them was rejected yesterday. I feel like I should know who Betty Jones is.
00:11:51
Speaker
Okay, Betty Jones, Carl Hulten, who was a Swedish born deserter from the US Army, he was stationed in the UK 1944. It's not a well known incident, but it probably should be better known because it was mentioned by George Orwell in an essay he wrote called the decline of English murder. He was analyzing the kinds of murders depicted in popular media, right? And why people like to read about them.
00:12:18
Speaker
So this was something known as the cleft chin murder because the final victim, George Edward Heath, who was a taxi driver, had a cleft chin. So let me tell you about Betty and Carl. So Carl was stationed in Britain and he had met Betty in a tea shop, as you might expect from a young American soldier.
00:12:40
Speaker
They were attracted to each other from the start, but Betty had told Halton that she fantasized about being a stripper and dreamed of doing something exciting. She was only a young girl. She was an 18-year-old waitress. So they kind of hit it off. In fact, they only knew each other for six days. But during that time, Halton set out to try and impress young Betty Jones.
00:13:07
Speaker
hitchhiked, they drove around together and in trying to impress her, she had said she wanted to do something exciting and he rose to the challenge. And they picked up a hitchhiker, robbed her, threw her into a river to drown, although she survived. They knocked over a nurse who was cycling along a country lane. This was just awful, you know, shits and giggles really. Horrible, horrible scene. And at the end of the six days, they were out together
00:13:34
Speaker
And to impress Betty Jones, what Houlton did was he murdered a taxi driver, George Heath, near Stains in Middlesex. They stopped him and robbed him of ยฃ8 to start with, which they then spent at the dogs the next day. And then after taking the taxi, Houlton also stole an army truck. Then they eventually abandoned the truck. They were sort of running around in it together.
00:14:01
Speaker
But what he didn't abandon was the ยฃ8 that he stole. Jones said that she wanted a fur coat. Hilton attacked a woman in the street and tried to snatch the coat, but the police saw what was happening and managed to apprehend Hilton and Betty Jones, and that was the end of that.
00:14:20
Speaker
He was caught and he tried to pass himself off as a Lieutenant Ricky Allen in the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment. That didn't work. Betty Jones and Hilton were charged with the murder of George Heath and that was only possible because of the Visiting Forces Act where actually anybody in Britain could be charged under UK law. They were both found guilty of murdering Heath and were sentenced to be hanged
00:14:50
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But while Hilton was, so that's what we get in the Lowlander, but while Hilton was executed at Pentonville Prison in March, Betty Jones got a reprieve and was released in May 1954. This should probably be better known because there was a film about it called Chicago Joe and the Showgirl that was made in 1990. It's got Kiefer Sutherland.
00:15:15
Speaker
Yeah, yeah as as Carl Halden and Patsy Kenseth I think played the role of Betty Jones But but it kind of should be better known because of George Orwell's essay Decline of the English murder. He was trying to trying to work out what it was about these incidents that attracted people to you know Be so fascinated by them. So we see it we see it reported in the Lowlander, but it's one we should probably know more about and
00:15:41
Speaker
I wonder what George Orwell would make of the Mania for True Crime podcast, because I think we've just turned into a True Crime podcast, by the way. I've never heard of that story at all. 22nd of February 1945, hitting a Nazi hideout.
Allied Air Assaults on Germany
00:16:04
Speaker
Nuremberg was once a showpiece of the Nazi party. It might well become the headquarters for the last Nazi stand in the mountains of southern Germany. It might if our air forces did not have other ideas. Yesterday 900 fortices with 700 fighters unloaded 11,000 high explosives and 300,000 in centuries on this monument to German culture. The previous night Lancaster's again took the synthetic oil plant near Leipzig for their principal target. Outstanding.
00:16:33
Speaker
I mean, I instantly associate Nuremberg with Nuremberg trials, which by the way makes fascinating reading. I've got to say that the trial documents make fascinating reading, but it's important to remember that there was more to Nuremberg than it being the seat of justice after the fact.
00:16:48
Speaker
Well, the funny thing is when they say culture in this, they've written it in German with quotation marks as a sort of nod to how important Nuremberg was. Of course, that's where Triumph of the Well was filmed. That's where the Nazis did all their big rallies and stuff like that. And of course, they had no concept of that being the place where the trials would take place. Absolutely. Absolutely.
00:17:19
Speaker
22 February 1945. A word about whiskers. Some hitherto undivulged facts were revealed yesterday about the means taken by officers and men of all three services to camouflage their appearance.
00:17:36
Speaker
The war has evidently popularized mustaches and beards, the former inspired by the Army, the latter by the Navy. The RAF, being the junior service, has naturally turned to the Army as an example and modelled its facial adornments on the military pattern. It boasts one legendary growth in gorgeous red, which, when fully extended, has a wing... I'm sorry!
00:18:04
Speaker
Hold on, hold on, I'm nearly there. It boasts one legendary growth in gorgeous red, which when finally extended has a wingspan of 16 inches. Even so, the most majestic of the army mustaches is reported to measure 18 inches. Possibly some members of the division can boast comparable growths. If you will send us a dimensions, we should be pleased to publish them.
00:18:35
Speaker
Now, I've got problems with this. I think somebody has far too much time in her hands and a loner. Well, you being a pursuit gentleman, do you want to talk about mustaches? Well, I mean, this is, it's a fight that still goes on in the British Army now, because the fashion at the minute, well, it's not a fashion, but there's facial hair, beards, people would like the opportunity to wear beards, and the argument is always that in a
00:18:58
Speaker
chemical warfare environment or nuclear biological, you won't be able to put on your respirator and all that kind of stuff. Which is sort of true, but then there's quite a long lengthy process to get to the point where you're going to be fighting somebody that's going to use chemical weapons. So it seems a bit daft to me. The army has a sort of a roller coaster sort of history with facial hair. I think we see the Victorians and they've always got a nice set of mutton chops and beards and stuff like that. And it was very fashionable.
00:19:26
Speaker
and it kind of went out of fashion but the army in the late Victorian time had actually brought it in as a mandatory for any junior ranks to wear a moustache. Now the problem with that is when they got into the First World War first and foremost you did have a chemical environment so they used the gas and the trenches where it actually prevented a good seal around the face or it was actually more dangerous in a chemical environment but also 250,000
00:19:50
Speaker
boys under the age of 18 who joined up couldn't grow moustaches so it kind of really it meant actually the mandatory wearing moustache was a bit nonsense they were too young they were too young yeah that's it but so they rolled out in October
00:20:03
Speaker
1916, they amended King's regulations and they said, right, that's it, you don't no longer have to have a moustache. And the decree was signed by Major General Neville McCreary. He hated moustaches personally, so that might have been one of the reasons. And he made an example of marching down to the Leonist barbers on the day that the King's regs was approved and had his moustache ceremonially shaved off. Incidentally,
00:20:29
Speaker
Some people say that the retreat and surrender of Singapore was actually down to General Swarthar, Percival's poor moustache. He saw that that was a kind of a sign that he was actually a little bit weak-willed.
00:20:48
Speaker
Well you say you say that but the French wore their moustaches plural in the 18th century as a sign of strength and virility yes yes if he had a very weak moustache that tends to to lend to the theory doesn't it well of course and some people in the division the 52nd law in division second war had fantastic moustaches Major General Edmund Hickwell Smith of course is the general officer commanding the commander of the 52nd had a lovely moustache
00:21:15
Speaker
But there's an interesting note, and I wonder if this chap ever read the Lowlander. In Peter White's description of his battle across North West Europe with the Jocks, he describes his driver, which drives him all the way across the country for walrus whiskers, because he has this amazing sort of virtual warrior and moustache. So I wonder if he ever read the Lowlander and then submitted his own dimensions, because it was enough for Peter to make a note of him. A word about whiskers indeed.
00:21:58
Speaker
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00:23:17
Speaker
23rd of February 1945, greatest air assault of the war. Yesterday afternoon, over 6,000 allied aircraft were over Germany. This assault, the biggest coordinated attack on Germany so far, was carried out by no less than seven separate commands and planes based in Britain, below countries, France and Italy. The targets were all rail, road and water communications
00:23:46
Speaker
in an area stretching from Austria to Denmark and as far east as Lรผbeck Bay and Leipzig. Special attention was given to Germany's secondary rail system, a significant move after the virtual destruction of the main system during the past few months. The main weight of the attack was borne by the US 8th Air Force, which sent 1,400 fortresses and liberators with an escort of 800 fighters,
00:24:13
Speaker
These attacked 24 targets in central Germany, on which they dropped 14,500 pounds bombs. All of these mighty attacks followed up 1,100 RAF heavies, which on Wednesday night attacked Wurms and Duisburg. Berlin was twice visited and Kremen was also attacked.
00:24:36
Speaker
That's a hell of a lot coming to you isn't it? I know virtually nothing about the bomber campaign but that sounds like a lot of planes and a lot of bombs. Well this is why I wanted to read it because when you actually pick that to pieces again it goes six thousand aircraft and we're sort of quite
00:24:56
Speaker
used to say it's not just the aircrews, think about all the services and all the organisation that has to go, 6,000 aircraft, the scope of that rate is phenomenal, it's just phenomenal. And although there's, I say there's, you know, there's 1100 RAF heavy, so that's Lancaster's, they carry a significantly larger load than their fortresses and the Liberators as well. So even though there's less planes, the actual bomb loads are significantly bigger. So it's, I mean, it's just, it's,
00:25:24
Speaker
I mean, we've traveled in Germany quite a bit and you go to these German towns and they are all new towns. They're all buildings that were built in the 50s, 60s and 70s because there was nothing left. Yeah. So it's amazing. You can still see the evidence of that today. In all the articles we've picked out, I can't think of one that focuses on the RF quite so heavily in terms of just summing up what a hell of a campaign it was.
00:25:59
Speaker
24th February 1944 Death of Dario German radio has announced that Jacques Dario, the notorious French traitor and collaborator has been killed during an air raid in southern Germany.
Jacques Doriot: Traitor's End
00:26:12
Speaker
He raised the French Legion to fight the Russians.
00:26:15
Speaker
Tell me about Dario. Well, he's a Frenchman. He was a notorious collaborator. And in fact, if you go in the newspaper records at the time, they call him a Quizzling, of course, after the Norwegian leader, Quizzling.
00:26:30
Speaker
He started off, I mean he fought against the Germans in the First World War, he was captured, taken prisoner then, he was awarded a quadegaire, so you know, loyal Frenchman and all that. And then he sort of got interested in sort of extremist politics, he became a socialist and communist and then sort of
00:26:48
Speaker
And typically, French fell out with all of them and slowly drifted to the right and actually became a fascist. However, he was called up again at the start of the war in 1939 and fought in 1940, fought when the Germans invaded. But then once the Germans invaded, he realized that he quite liked what the Germans were doing and became a very, very popular French politician who was very pro-collaboration. I mean, he was really signed up.
00:27:16
Speaker
to the German cause. In fact, there's photos of him which will pop on Twitter. There's actual photos of him with German uniform. Now he raised, he loved him so much, he raised the French volunteers, the les gens de volitaire franรงais, and they attached themselves to the Wehrmacht and they fought on the Eastern Front.
00:27:35
Speaker
Okay, so this is the guy who did the Judean People's Front trick, didn't he? He founded the Parti Popular Francais, and then he changed and joined, or no, hang on a sec, he either joined or became an opponent of the Popular... No, it was... Right, can I say something? That actually works when you're talking about French politics, so you can leave that in.
00:28:04
Speaker
I think what you're trying to say is French politics is very confusing. I mean, yeah, I mean, he ended up fighting in the Eastern Front and then like a lot of French people, he came back to France and then after the Allied invasion in about August 44, he actually left France and took up an enclave in Germany and he maintained his political role. He did a lot of propaganda, radio broadcasts. He was also instrumental in supporting
00:28:32
Speaker
anti-allied sabotage in France and all the rest of it. Yeah, he was actually killed on the 22nd of February travelling in southern Germany and he was strafed by an allied fighter plane. So I think good riddance to bad rubbish, if you ask my... Oh, bless, bless. No, I'm starting to feel sorry for him now. Oh, dear, I can't say that now. No, you can't, can you? The Lowlander would like to apologise for Andy and Merrin's attempts at explaining French politics.
00:29:06
Speaker
24th of February 1945, Home News. One third of the entire city of London, an area of 464 acres, was destroyed by enemy action during the Blitz. A demonstration of television, the first since 1939, is to be given shortly to delegates attending the Commonwealth Conference on Broadcasting to be held in London.
00:29:31
Speaker
Despite the war going on, they've decided to have a Commonwealth Conference of Broadcasting. I'm assuming they're not having it in the 464 acres of London that weren't there. One would hope not. One would hope not. Late news. Two thirds of Gough have now been cleared. The enemy commander was captured while still in bed and the total number of prisoners so far taken by General Carrard's offensive exceeds 9,000. Now that's coming at the end of the day, hasn't it?
00:30:01
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Yes, the editor of the Lowlanders started typing on the first page and then by the end of the day they've had an update. And actually what's interesting is Gawk has been reported quite closely back home if you look at some of the newspapers so that in terms of security it's not so much of an issue.
00:30:20
Speaker
And of course, if he'd waited just a few more hours later to the 21st of February, he would have known that Gock had actually been captured finally by the 51st Highland, the 53rd Welsh and the 15th Scottish. Superb. And finally, we go to this week's thought for the day from the 19th of February, 1945. War is our business, Homer.
00:30:50
Speaker
And that's not Homer Simpson. Oh, that was my next question. So do you know your Iliad? I do. I am aware of Homer.
00:30:59
Speaker
and the Odyssey. I've read the Odyssey. So this is from book 22. This is Homer's account of Hector's last battle. And it comes from his soliloquy before the sea and gate as he weighs up the possibilities of parlay or combat with Achilles. Hector's running away towards the walls and he's doing that so that his friends can maybe help him, while Achilles is turning
00:31:29
Speaker
from the city towards the plain and as he turns he makes a sign to the Greek troops not to intervene because he wants to insist on single combat. Yeah and as always with these things the thought for the day makes a lot more sense when you when you actually put it into contact so it reads it reads.
00:31:44
Speaker
We greet not here as man-conversing man met at an oak, or journeying o'er a plain. No season now for calm familiar talk, like youths and maidens in an evening walk. War is our business, but to whom is given to die or triumph, that determines heaven. Well. Damn no. What are they trying to say to the jocks of the Lowlander though? Tommy McGatkins, he said war is our business. I'm sure he's thinking all right mate, yeah, nice one.
00:32:13
Speaker
I think that is exactly what they're trying to communicate. War is our business. I don't think that the jocks need to worry about Hector and Hercules and home with order tall. I think a lot of them would rather it wasn't their business, but yeah, okay, I get it. I get it. I understood this one this week. The alternative was Linklater, who was a little bit more to the point. He said,
00:32:37
Speaker
pausing while I go and find it. There's always some who stay in bed too long thinking about their good intentions. And I do wonder if that was actually probably more pertinent for the jocks at this point. Yes, I think so. I think so. Well, I think we should probably call it a day now, shouldn't we? I think we should. I think that's more than enough for this week. It's been a long one. It has. It has. Well, I'll see you next week. Okay. Bye. Bye.
00:33:05
Speaker
Thank you for listening to this episode of The Lowlander. The Lowlander was written, produced and presented by Andy Richardson and Merrim Walters. This was a hellish good production.
00:33:38
Speaker
And now we go to the classified football results for the week commencing the 19th of February 1945. English league North Cup. Abrahamum 2, Swansea 8. Barnsley 5, Hull City, No. Bath City 1, Levels 3. Birmingham 1, West Bromwich, Albion 1. Blackburn 3, Accrington, No. Blackpool 4, Rochdale, No.
00:34:06
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Bradford City 3, York City 0. Bristol City 1, Cardiff 0. Barnley 1, Preston North End 1. Burry 5, Man United 1. Chesterfield 3, Mansfield 0. Coventry 3, Northampton 0. Crew 4, Chester 0. Darlington 2, Newcastle 3. Derby County 3, Leicester 0.
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Doncaster 3, Sheffield United 2, Gateshead 1, Middlesbrough 2, Hartley Pool 3, Sunderland 1, Leeds United 0, Bradford 2, Liverpool 1, Bolton 1, Man City 2, Huddersfield 0, Knox County 1, Nottingham Forest 2, Oldham 1, Halifax 2, Portville 2, Stoke City 6,
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Rotherham 3, Grimsby, Nell. Sheffield Wednesday 1, Lincoln 3. Southport 3, Everton 5. Tramirovers 4, Stockport, Nell. Walsall, Nell. Aston Villa 2. Rexton 1, Wolves 1. English League Cup, South. Arsenal 3, Reading, Nell. Brighton 2, Brentford 4.
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Chelsea 4, Luton 1 Crystal Palace 3, Southampton 3 Millwall 1, Fullham 0 Portsmouth 4, Platton Orient 1 Queens Park Rangers 1, Spurs 0 Watford 2, Charlton 6 West Ham 4, Aldershot 0 Other Matches Norwich City 4, Royal Navy 11 1
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Oxford University 3, Cambridge University 3, Western Command 2, Northern Command 0, Scottish League South, Aryanians 1, Hamilton 3, Clyde Knell, Celtic Knell, Falkirk 2, Partick 1, Hearts 2, St. Mary Knell, Martin Knell, Queen's Park 2, Motherwell 2, Dunbarton 1, Rangers 2,
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Albion 1. Third Larnach 2. Hidds 1. Scottish North East League. Arbro 5. Falkirk 0. Dundee 5. Hearts 1. Dunfermline 1. Aberdeen 4. East 5-2. Rangers 1. Wraith 5. Dundee United 2. Other Sports
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Cambridge University defeated Oxford by two lengths in the boat race. This concludes the classified football results for the week commencing 19th February 1945.
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went in there and they just saw the bloody Germans off. They were hellish goods.