NigG (your #286),
...That was the setting for the arrival of the AOC to deliver to the squadron a pep talk...
"
Came there a certain Lord, neat and trimly dres't" - (Harry Hotspur, just come from battle "
all smarting, my wounds being cold", required by this "Staff Officer" to hand over his prisoners) - "
answered him roundly, I know not what."
But
we know, don't we !
[Shakespeare, "Henry IV, Part 1"] Harry, of course, is the future Henry V of Agincourt (and I think Harry - or his spirit - may be alive today, even if his future must be different).
Danny.