Remember it well - I think, as an officer-type (albeit a co) and in grand style remember saying (from my car window as I passed)
"Jolly good show, chaps, carry on" or words to that effect.
Well, it certainly worked on the daffs and IIRC the Staish at the time was not impressed - and he, a shiny type, who had an 'honorary E Cat' (for landing at wrong airfield in Istanbul!).