That’s the yarn. If you know the 16th, sir,
You’ll know how our Colonel can smile.
He said to me: “Corporal Wilson,
You’ve dished up the beggars in style.”
Promotion! Some say I deserve it,
But that’s really nothing to me;
I don’t want no honour or glory,
But—that’s how I won the V.C.
“Crosscut,” 16th Battalion, A.I.F.