Posts Tagged ‘kissing the gunners daughter’
She kissed the gunner’s daughter
Seen recently on UK TV was the comedy Carry On Jack. If you are not familiar with the 20 or so Carry On films, then suffice to say they are unlikely bawdy tales that are invariably set in historic situations. The line from Carry On Cleo, a spoof on the Anthony and Cleopatra legend, ‘infamy, […]
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Kissing the gunners daughter
Here is a taster for a couple of anecdotes about the corporal punishment of women in the Royal Navy due to be published on this blog in the near future. In February 2006 Alex Birch posted a series of letters on his blog that had been published in January and February of that year in […]
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Tags: caning, corporal punishment, kissing the gunners daughter, WRNS