ONE DOES NOT LIKE IT UP ONE! Queen
Yelled Cpl Jones battle cry
THE Queen vowed to take on the Germans during World War Two with a Dad’s Armystyle battle cry.
Her Majesty was just like the classic sitcom’s madcap Lance Corporal Jones and warned that the Nazis “don’t like it up ’em!”
When news came that Hitler was advancing through France, princesses Elizabeth and Margaret gave voice to their feelings.
And Elizabeth would recall the cry of a Local Defence Volunteer they once walked past
A book based on the memoirs of her former teacher Marion Crawford said: “She grinned her trademark broad grin and assumed a familiar cockney accent. “‘What we want is not to shoot the Boche but bayonet ’im! That’s what the Germans don’t like, cold steel. They don’t like it up ’em! I know where to stick it, too.’ She beamed at her sister as they chorused, ‘In the throat, in the lungs or in the stomach! Giving it a twist as you pull it out!’”
The catchphrase “They don’t like it up ’em!” would later be made famous by Jones, played by Clive Dunn. The book also reveals the Queen was so fascinated by the war effort as a teenager that she would study military maps. In The Governess, author Wendy Holden says Her Majesty – known as Lilibet as a child – and Margaret took to wartime “with surprising ease”.
She wrote: “They seemed to part with their past, pampered life with never a backward glance and certain aspects of the new one they positively enjoyed.
“The official recommendations, in Lilibet’s case. They satisfied her strong desire for order.
“Poring over maps, she quickly established the positions of all the firstaid posts, fire stations, telephone boxes and police stations in the surrounding areas. ‘If you know where they are, you may be able to save someone a few precious moments in an air raid,’ she would solemnly inform Marion.”
The book says the Queen was also a stickler for “consulting her ration book” to make sure resources were not being wasted, and she and her sister were keen plane spotters – Elizabeth’s favourite was the Lancaster bomber. The Queen, now 94, joined the Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service when she turned 18. She is the only living head of state to have served in World War Two.