Time For Some Scran & A Wet--two British paratrooper figures from the Falklands War
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Item Number: TF017
"Time For Some Scran & A Wet"
Royal Marines 'Slang' is made up of particular words and phrases that 'Bootnecks' (Royal Marines) have used throughout the Corps' 350 year history and are still in common usage today.
Here, two of our K&C 'Booties' (Marines) are taking a brief break from 'yomping' (a long forced march with a heavy load) across the Falklands to Port Stanley. This sitting 'bootneck' heats up his 'Scran' (food of any description) on his little portable stove. Also check out the L4A1 'Bren' Gun resting on the ground next to the sitting 'chef's left side.
His standing mate is enjoying a 'Wet', (a drink, hot or cold of any description) while cradling his SLR in his left hand.
SIDENOTE: The venerable Bren Gun included a series of Light Machine Guns based on an earlier Czech design, adapted and improved by the Royal Small Arms Co., at Enfield in the U.K..
This gun provided excellent service throughout WWII, primarily for British and Commonwealth armies serving well into the 1950s. It was then rebarrelled and adapted to fire the new Nato 7.62mm round as opposed to its original .303 British ammunition.
During the Falklands campaign, hundreds of these additional L4A1 ‘Brens’ were taken out of stores to provide additional much-needed firepower for the British marines and paras in particular.
"DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA!"
As well as being the memorable theme song of the highly popular film and stage musical ‘EVITA’, this particular song also formed part of the soundtrack to the 1982 Falklands War fought between Britain and Argentina.
When that war erupted in April 1982 with the Argentine invasion of this small group of rugged and remote British islands, few people suspected that a brief but bloody conflict would follow.
As is well known, a powerful naval task force was rapidly dispatched from Britain with the firm intention of retaking the islands, evicting the invaders and liberating the small British community who had lived and worked there for almost 150 years.
As the land force element of the Task Force was loaded aboard the ships sailing to the South Atlantic, they were serenaded up the gangplanks by a familiar sound…
“Don’t Cry For Me Argentina”, the memorable theme song from ‘EVITA’.
On these occasions, the song was often played somewhat sarcastically by several of the regimental bands of the Royal Marines and the Parachute Regiment much to the amusement of the boarding ‘Bootnecks’ and ‘Paras’.
Due to be released in JUNE 2025.
