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Having been required to resign from the Leicester City Constabulary for the heinous crime of 'gross impertinence to a member of the public', the author crossed the road to the Army Recruiting Office and enlisted into the Royal Military Police. It was a decision that, despite the odd knock back, he was never to regret.
The volumes recount the adventures, mishaps, misdeeds and observations of a character of some notoriety, charting his journey from the NAAFI canteen to the Officer's Mess via Germany, the UK, Malta, Cyprus, Northern Ireland and the Far East. The tongue in cheek tales are told in a ribald, sometimes bawdy, occasionally cruel and unfailingly irreverent fashion that befit a person with a chip on both shoulders. Described by one officer as 'arrogant, selfish, self-centred and pig headed', he never discovered any reason to change.
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A defrocked police constable, Wally Payne joined the Royal Military Police in 1964 and, following an often bumpy ride on the promotion roller coaster, rose to the dizzy heights of captain before retiring from the service in 1991.Now resident beneath a mango tree in the Philippines, he continues to undertake security work in various far flung outposts. Recent contracts have seen him plying his trade in Algeria, China, Hong Kong, Leicester, Mali, Mozambique and Thailand.
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Wally completed 27 years, I am currently running at 18 years so I can comment with some basis of experience. I picked the book up in the afternoon and with a few brews thrown in I put it down after 188 pages. I was banned to the spare room that night as my laughter was keeping the house awake. The book has honesty in abundance, the RMP hasnt changed in 40 years as has the rest of the Army. We are as fiercely proud of our appointment today as our predecesors where all those years ago. We still drink to eccess and the Cpl's Mess only differs in its music. A Monkey's Tale is a bloody good read with laughs a plenty. From reading the book I am of the opinion that Wally was Dogmatic, Proud, Frustrated, violent at times, caring the rest, honest, loyal to his mates and finally no different to those of us who still serve today. *****
Brilliant,once i started reading it I did not want to put it down. Finished it in two days. Im in the middle of doing the same to volume two.
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