Bill Corney
Bluey
Company Sergeant Major Simpson,
D Company’s Warrant Officer,
was not much of a stickler
for discipline. ‘Very nice person’
was usually the reaction when
first meeting him, and why
he had the nickname ‘Bluey’
was a source of curiosity. Then,
one rainy morning he was found
in the arms cote with his head blown
off. Bone and flesh were strewn
all over and his mouth was around
the muzzle of a three-o-three.
The Army’s official verdict
was death by accident,
But everyone in D Company
knew Bluey had been a chronic
depressive. The battalion janker-wallahs
were elected as arms cote cleaners,
a poor idea, for they began a traffic
in strands of Bluey’s matted hair
and bits of bone at three fags a go,
doing a brisk trade; which goes to show
that Bluey must have been quite popular.
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