The Singapore Police were all real shortarses and am sure that they'd have had short butts although they were all wood while we had them there.

We used to have their stuff through the big Base Workshop. Their stuff was generally very good. They had Webley revolvers while we had Enfields and Mr Amto the exeminer gave them all of our remaining Webley spares We got to know the man responsible for their weapons quite well. His name was Mr Richard Soliano. As we all came from 'up-country' for these big repair programmes he would meet us singlies (the single blokes) in Singapore City and take us out for a posh meal. Saw my first 'shortie' flash eliminator there.