While I was an A.B. aboard H.M.S. _Aboukir_ somewhere in the North Sea
we received a signal that seven German destroyers were heading for us
at full speed. We were ordered at the double to action stations.
My pal, a Cockney, weighing about 18 stone, found it hard to keep up
with the others, and the commander angrily asked him, "Where is your
station?"
[Illustration: "Where's your station?"
"Victoria--if I could only get there."]
To which the Cockney replied, "Victoria--if I could only get
there."--_J. Hearn, 24 Christchurch Street, S.W.3._