WEARY Dunlop was lucky he didn’t experience the same fate as a tired soldier who got three weeks in the slammer for yawning during a ceremony.

The Israeli soldier’s mother said her son yawned “without covering his mouth” while the commander of his air force base in the north of the country was speaking during the memorial event Israel held this week.

Breitbart reports that when the commander spotted the soldier, he stopped his speech and later ordered the soldier to spend 21 days in jail for what the commander called his “disrespectful act,” the mother told public radio.

The service was held to commemorate the assasination of national hero Yitzhak Rabin – former Israeli prime minister – in 1995 by a Jewish extremist who opposed the peace process with the Palestinians.

*Sir Edward Weary Dunlop was a surgeon in the Australian Army during World War Two.

He is legendary for his care of soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese.

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