18 January 1946: An amnesty for court martialed soldiers may be a gracious thing but will early announcement spark a military crime spree?The brisk bugle call of “defaulters” is to be heard in all military establishments at frequent intervals. Soldiers have fitted words to the music as they have to most other bugle calls of the day,and these airs for male voice and bugle, together with a few robust ballads, or represent the authentic folk-songs of the Army. The words for “defaulters” have little lyric quality but are at least printable:
You can stay on defaulters the rest of your life
As long as you acknowledge your name.
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Source: theguardian.com