Drawing - artist unknown
R M Leslie (Spr)

Poem

      SAPPER - from 1942 Aquitatler, newsletter of Eighth Reinforcements, WW2 (Second Prize Verse).

      The Dental and the Engineers
      At thieving and adept,
      They stole a pup in Trentham
      The night before they left.

      Taken aboard the transport

      Wrapped in overcoats,
      He was hidden up on "A" deck
      Behind a stack of floats.

      When we left the seas were rough,

      The boys all looked like ghosts,
      The pup was busy hunting round
      Trying to find some posts.

      Though he's only a little mascot,

      When we reach the land of "Wog"
      We all feel sure he'll behave
      Like a real New Zealand dog.

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