A "message" from Message - C Coy Sgt. Major John Clee
C COY SGT MAJOR JOHN CLEE
By Billy Willbond
I went away to Florida to swim and work the muscles around each knee
And I came back to the news we had lost oue AIRBORNE's John Clee
John was an English Commando he stood tall and apart
Clee was a great soldier with a tough soldier's heart
He went to the Sergeant's Mess, in his slippers and housecoat
CFB Greisbach's SWO entered and in his book wrote a note
Clee was barred for thirty days for his improper dress
You can't wear your slippers in the Greisbach AIRBORNE Sgt's mess?
The mess was his living room, he argued his case
He didn't think being barred was really a disgrace
He had us young Sergeant's take him huge jugs of beer
To his quarters next store, upstairs to the rear
There will be great discussions in that Mess in the sky
That old band of jumpers will greet this great guy
He had a wry sense of humour - A real deadpan grin
In that heavenly mess, in his housecoat again !!
RIP Sir John ``Oh Wright lads let's all adjust our plastic frogs!``
After a canteen fight between the 1Cdo and 2Cdo lads in the Jr ranks club those with black eyes and scarred faces stood on the square and John's voice rolled across the square as he stood in front of C Coy. His lads had done well in the fracas and frey - all of us signed CDV's for the damage to the mess and hey it never even made the newspapers or TV of course that back before cam corders and telephone cameras and the English French activities of soldiers was competitive rather than hateful - these same troops patrolled the streets of Quebec during the War Measures Act. Bless them all!
Billy Willbond Canadian Soldier Poet http://iwvpa.net/willbondwha
Sat Feb 28 Saanichton BC 1102 hrs
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