Biggles Recieves A Memo

To: Squadron Leader James Bigglesworth, 266 Squadron, RAF Biggin Hill, Thropshire Z28
From: Air Vice-Marshal Dowding
Date: 25th April 1945

Captain Bigglesworth,

It has come to the attention of GHQ that the officers in your squadron routinely utilise several belligerent and derisive sobriquets when talking of our recent enemy. However with the recent cessation of hostilities in the European Theatre and the forthcoming period of reconstruction that awaits us, these nom-de-plumes are no longer considered appropriate in His Magesty's Royal Air Force. Henceforth, the following names and phrases are not to be used by RAF personnel:

Hun
Harry Hun
Jerry
Bosche
Square-head
Kraut
Baron von Strudel
Herman Gelmet
Sausage-sucker

Further, the singing of any non-standard version of 'Colonel Bogey On Parade' is strictly prohibited.

That is all.