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Updated: June 29, 2025
Gentlemen-rankers are better in their proper place Jail." ... To this small band of "rankers" the accession of the finest boxer, swordsman, and horseman in the corps, was invaluable, and helped them notably in their endeavour to show that there are exceptions to all rules, and that a gentleman can make a first-class trooper.
These eight men the "gentlemen-rankers" of the Queen's Greys, made it a point of honour to out-Tommy "Tommy" as troopers, and, when in his company, to show a heavier cavalry-swagger, a broader accent, a quiffier "quiff," a cuttier cutty-pipe, a smarter smartness; to groom a horse better, to muck out a stall better, to scrub a floor better, to spring more smartly to attention or to a disagreeable "fatigue," and to set an example of Tomminess from turning out on an Inspection Parade to waxing a moustache.
An ineffectual struggle to maintain his equilibrium and he, too, fell face downwards, with his head pillowed on Yorke's heaving chest. We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa aa aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!
He made as though to cast snow upon his head, "Ichabod! Ichabod! our glory has departed!" He lifted up his tenor voice, chanting the while he rocked "Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!" Redmond flinched and raised a weakly protesting hand. "Don't, old man!" he implored miserably, "don't! what's the "
Ever since the days of Aucassin, indeed, who praised hell as the place whither were bound the men of fashion and the good scholars and the courteous fair ladies, youth has taken a strange, heretical delight in hell and damnation. Mr. Kipling offered new meats to the old taste. Gentlemen-rankers, out on the spree, Damned from here to eternity, began to wear halos in the undergraduate imagination.
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