The following was sent to me this evening by Capt John Fallon, 36th Combat Engineer

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WE all know that Rudyard Kipling wrote the Road to Mandalay, and Gunga Din and hundreds more but did you know that he wrote a poem about us.......well, not exactly but check this out.

SAPPERS

When the Waters were dried and the Earth did apear

(It's all one said the Sapper)

The Lord He created the Engineer

Her Majesty's Royal Engineer

With the Rank and Pay of a Sapper

When the Jews had a fight at the foot of a hill

Young Joshua ordered the sun to stand still

For he was a Captain of Engineers

Her Majesty's Royal Engineers

With the Rank and Pay of a Sapper

WE make 'em the bridges their wells and their huts

And the telegraph wire the enemy cuts

And it's blamed on Her Majesty's Royal Engineers

With the Rank and Pay of a Sapper

They send us up front with a fuse and a mine

To blow up the gates that are rushed by the line

Yes blown by Her Majesty's Royal Engineers

With the Rank and Pay of a Sapper

Well maybe it wasn't his best but it beats the heck out of anything we ever heard about us