- The platoon are at the cinema watching a Greta Garbo film but only Mainwaring stands to attention for the National Anthem and gets knocked over by the others rushing for the exit. On the bus home they encounter Hodges, who is rude to the bus conductress. Mainwaring defends her but again gets knocked down as the men hurry to get off for last orders. After getting the men to stand for the anthem on parade next day - though Wilson accidentally plays the German anthem - Mainwaring falls out with his wife and has a toasted cheese supper with Wilson and Jones. He falls asleep in his air raid shelter and dreams that he is Napoleon, Wilson is Wellington and the conductress is Josephine. As in the events of the previous night he gets knocked over. When he wakes up his wife has left him a note to tell him off for not coming home.—don @ minifie-1
- Meanwaring is deeply disappointed by his men's uncivilized behavior: running him over to the exit while he stands for the national anthem after the movie and again to leave the bus before the pub closes. After a patriotic respect drill, heavy stout, sausages and cheddar dinner concocted with Wilson and Jones as alternative to a hopeless peace-offering to his wife upsets his digestion. While sleeping under her in the shelter, he then dreams being Napoleon, the movie's hero, at Waterloo, facing adversity with dignity.—KGF Vissers
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