RBSir Rupert Barrington
The Australian Army, no future there. Probably will be used for garrison duties behind the lines.
S1 E15Unfinished Business
DBDick Baker
Where are you headed?
Martin Barrington: Queensland
Dick Baker: Well, I'm headed to France.
Martin Barrington: That is what I mean. I'm heading to Queensland the long way, via France.
As your Member of Parliament, most of you know me.
Pat Cleary: For those of you who don't, keep your hands on your wallets.
As one whose duty is on the home front. I want you boys to know that Cyril Henshaw is right behind you.
Pat Cleary: Yeah! 12,000 miles behind you.
(to Pat) If you had one speck of shame, you’d join up.
Pat Cleary: I am going to join up. In fact, I’m joining your outfit.
Cyril Henshaw: My outfit?
Pat Cleary: “B” Company. “B” here when they go and “B” here when they get back.
LHLt. Harold Armstrong
(seeing the reluctance for volunteers for Corporal) Come come lads. The job pays an extra shilling a day.
PPPvt. Pat Cleary
(seeing the Australia tabs for his uniform) Australia? I'm a Queenslander.
Cpl. Martin Barrington: You're officially Australia now, Pat.
Pvt. Pat Cleary: Well it could have been worse, you could have made me a Victorian.
Pvt. (later Acting Cpl.) Dick Baker: And what is wrong with Victorians, you banana bender?
Pvt. Pat Cleary: You've got a couple of hours?
(meeting the Johansen brothers) Well what do we have here? Two and a half Dutchmen.
Pvt. Erik Johansen: Not Dutch, Sargeant. Danish.
You might think it is the high-and-mighty officers who run this army. Well, you are dead wrong. It's the sargeants.
Pvt. Pat Cleary: (mumbling) I thought Bligh was a captain, not a sargeant.
Sgt. Tom McArthur: What did you say?
Pvt. Pat Cleary: I said they should've made you a captain, sargeant.
PFPvt. Flanagan
(to a cross Baker) What's the problem, mate? Somebody pinched your bag of lollies or something?
Acting Cpl. Dick Baker: You could be handy if you don't get your block knocked off.
(seeing her brother's surprise) Mum sent me to keep an eye on you.
PPPvt. Pat Cleary
(asked by Sgt. McArthur to introduce himself) Cleary. Middleweight champion of North Queensland. Champion horsebreaker of the Outer BarQ. And breaker of women's hearts everywhere.
Sgt. Tom McArthur: Anything else?
Pvt. Pat Cleary: Well, sometimes I tell lies.
Sgt. Tom McArthur: Shut up, Cleary.
(when Marty says he was a student) A bit old to be in short pants, Barrington? What happened? They kept you back a couple of grades?
Cpl. Martin Barrington: University student, sargeant.
You're a Pommie, Harris.
Pvt. Bill Harris: English, Sargeant.
Sgt. Tom McArthur: I've been watching you, Harris. You look like you've been in the Army before.
Pvt. Bill Harris: I was in the Boy Scouts, wouldn't it?
Sgt. Tom McArthur: Is that so?
PBPvt. Bill Harris
Blimey! It takes a bleeding war in Europe to make you lots realize you're from the same country.
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