Then the long climb up the gang plank ended and the even more difficult one, climbing the ladders downward to their racks while outfitted in field transport packs into the bowels, of the Billy Weigel.

[He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair.

Officer Captain Paul Waggett was preoccupied with the little problems of organization and equipment and correspondence that during the Second World War kept company commanders of the Home Guard in a condition of patriotic deediness […]

He was confronted with a mapful of Irish place names and a population the majority of which could speak nothing else.