Pongo (well cavalry actually) 1369 equivalent:
"the troopers will follow this officer to the end of the earth - to watch him fall awf the end"!
T'was same wegiment where, at a dining out night, the RSM stood behind the Colonel - " Sir, who shall drink it?" - the "It" was a silver chamber pot captured from Napoleon and filled with champagne - after that it all became rather hazy !