Sister Anna shall carry the banner. Apropo of what he calls a catch-phrase dialogue'--strictly, a chant--Anthony
Burgess, in his TLS review of the first ed. of this book, 26 Aug 1977 writes: Then there is Sister Anna shall carry the
Banner, a whole sad story when don in full'. I had never heard it, nor seen it in print, therefore I'm wildy guessing when I
add: 'C20, perhaps arising in a Salvation Army instruction concerning a public procession; and never widely used'. P.B.; E.P.
is half right: the dialogue does start with a parody of a Salvation Army instruction, but there can be few who served as Other
Ranks in the Armed Forces, certainly since c. 1945 and remained unaware of Sister Anna or Hannah:

'Sister Hannah, you'll carry the banner!'
'But I carried it last time.'
'You'll carry it every time.'
'But I'm in the family way.'
'You're in every bugger's way...'

And so on, becoming more and more obscene. But I have always felt the ref. to the 'Sally Army', though mocking, to be
affectionate and away of the Army's real worth, as in the line handed on to me by my late father, therefore to be dated earlier
C20: 'Right! One more verse of "'Oly, 'oly, 'oly", and then we'll bugger orf'.