Evening roll call in English?
Kjetil Rå Hauge
k.r.hauge at ILOS.UIO.NO
Thu Oct 6 22:09:34 UTC 2011
I wonder if there are any SEELANGERs who have done military service in an English-speaking country and remember the exact wording of an ordinary roll call? I am doing a description of the “zarja-proverka”, ritual evening roll call of honour, performed during the official celebration of the Bulgarian national holiday, 3 March. At this ritual, a number of units of soldiers are accounted for as if they also count in their ranks fallen soldiers from a given period of Bulgarian history. An example:
Господин бригаден генерал! Трета рота - вечерната проверка е проведена. Личният състав е налице, с изключение на геройски загиналите български опълченци за освобождението на България от османско владичество. Командир на ротата - старши лейтенант N.N.
“Brigadier general! Company three: evening roll call completed. All hands present and accounted for, except those Bulgarian volunteers who died a hero’s death in the struggle for Bulgaria’s liberation from Ottoman rule. Company commander: First Lieutenant N.N”
For comparison, I need an example of the usual run-of-the-mill morning and/or evening roll call in English. To show what I am looking for, I'll give the Norwegian equivalent here, as I have heard it a sufficient number of times during my military service: "Kaptein - kompani 3 stiller med 26 mann, 2 mann permittert, 2 mann sykmeldt - 30 mann, alle"; roughly and literally translated: "Captain - company three is present with 26 men/soldiers, two men on leave, two men hospitalised, 30 men - all."
I would be happy to hear first-hand accounts of the Bulgarian equivalent too - my sources so far differ somewhat in what they remember.
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Kjetil Rå Hauge, U. of Oslo, PO Box 1003 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway
Tel. +47/22856710, fax +1/5084372444
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