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A popular song from the Second World War had the lyric:

Bless ’em all, bless ’em all!

Bless the long and the short and the tall!

Bless all the sergeants and double-you o-ones,

Bless all the corporals and their blinkin’ sons.

The phrase was also used as the title of a stage play (filmed in 1960) by Willis Hall, describing the plight and fate of a squad of British soldiers in Burma.

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