Went the Day Well? Page #9

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Listen, here are your orders.

You'll go to the manor house,

open the French windows.

- Yes. Yes.

- Drawing room, nine o'clock.

I'll have the French windows

in the drawing room open at nine o'clock.

The lorries can drive

right up to the house.

- Okay. Get moving.

- Very good, sir.

Now then, what are we going to put on top?

- I know. Grandfather.

- Yes.

I wonder why people keep these things

when they've stopped going.

TOM:
All in now, sir.

We're barricading all the downstairs

windows, sir, is that okay?

Sure.

We've got enough weapons to command

all the approaches from upstairs.

Better concentrate our fire.

The back's the danger point.

No need to worry

about the drawing room side.

Not a scrap of cover.

Jerries never risk an attack

from that direction.

That's right enough.

At any rate,

I'll be keeping a watch on that side.

We've done the dining room.

Can I help you now?

No, it's all right, I can manage.

You get on with the drawing room.

- Okay, admiral.

- All right.

I'll give them a hand, as far as I can.

All out! Side of the road!

Take four men. Corporal, four men.

Make for the lawn facing

the French windows.

- Four men!

- Wilsford will open them in 10 minutes.

Right, sir. Follow me.

- Here you are.

- Thank you.

Well, that's about all we can do there.

If there's any firing this side,

see they get down behind here.

- What about the downstairs windows?

- We barricaded the lot.

Mr Wilsford's going round to make sure.

- He's downstairs?

- Yes. Now, listen, you kids,

whatever happens, you stay put.

If one of you so much as budges an inch,

I'll take you out to sea with me

and make you walk the plank.

Silly! Who does he think

he is, Captain Bligh?

Now, one Tommy gun with Charlie.

One, two more here, one spare magazine.

One pistol, and one,

two, three, four rifles.

Ha! Woolwich Arsenal!

- Ever fired a rifle, either of you?

- Only a shotgun.

- I once won a bottle of scent at Blackpool.

- Well, I'll have to show you as best as I can.

Peg, keep watch out of

that window, will you?

Ivy, I'll show you first.

- Is this loaded?

- Yes, think you can handle it?

Well enough.

- That's right. Now you, Peggy.

- Okay. Ivy, watch the window.

Now, watch this carefully.

When you wanna load,

you push the safety catch forward,

open the bolt, push in your clip,

- and close the bolt and it's ready to fire.

- I see.

If you're not going to fire,

put the safety catch on again.

- Hello, Nora.

- What are you doing?

- Barricading the window.

- It was barricaded already.

- The latch was undone, I was bolting it.

- Unbolting it.

Nora!

- The fun's starting all right.

- Lie still.

I've got a good part of the lawn

covered from here.

- Ought to be farther back, Charlie.

- All right, I've finished with that.

Give me the lamp.

Get Bridget to make him some tea.

Tom! Tom, they're coming.

Look! Over there by the tree.

Peggy, we'd better see if there are any

coming round the other side of the house.

Duck, madam, duck!

All right, Sims, I am ducking.

Come on.

- How you doing, Peg?

- Fine.

- What's up?

- I shot one.

Good girl.

You know, we ought to keep a score.

That's one to you.

Half a minute, now I'll have a go.

Missed him. Can't even hit a sitting Jerry.

Oh, thank goodness they're here.

- Harry!

- Oh, Mr Drew!

We've done a bit of scouting,

they've packed up in a lorry

and driven off towards the manor.

- Can't we join you?

- No, you stop here.

And carry on with the phones.

This is the last one.

Oh, that's what he needs.

You stay with him. I must go to

the children. Go on all fours.

- Duck!

- Not again!

- All safe and sound?

- CHILDREN:
Yes, thank you, Mrs Fraser.

Well, George got to Upton all right.

- Good. Good old George.

- When are the soldiers coming?

- They'll be here any moment now.

- I wish they were here now.

Oh, she's yellow.

- I've run out of ammunition.

- Here, I've got some.

- Ivy, give me your rifle.

- I've only two rounds left.

Get down!

Yes, that's the only bit

of England they got.

On Monday night, Hitler tried his invasion.

You know how that went up in smoke.

We're proud of ourselves here,

proud we had the chance to do our bit,

but proudest of all for those who died,

died in the battle for Bramley End.

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