“Not that lance-jack [lance-corporal] is any great eminence; it is an appointment, not a rank, and is the worst dogs-body's job in the Army, as Hitler and I could tell you.”

—  George MacDonald Fraser, book Quartered Safe Out Here

Source: Quartered Safe Out Here (1992), p. 135.

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