dai i noticed your in flint...do you see anything of dennis hough or ciryl abdy..???
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dai i noticed your in flint...do you see anything of dennis hough or ciryl abdy..???
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Originally Posted by alpoole1
Wetproofs - particularly useful worn under Combat Jackets :frown_xmas:
Arrh yeeesssssssss, an ideal tactic for silent nightime patrolling. I never could understand why I kept going down with hypothermia in the Ambush FRV:no_xmas:Quote:
Originally Posted by ceedoubleu
Wetproofs wasnt it Des that made us wear a greenbelt & Buckle with them and pull them round the back so tight that they looked like miniskirts:confused_xmas:
yes Tom everybody knows dennis in flint played football for the army ill see him tonight .
You had to have your combat jacket tapered in to a ducks tail at the back .. even if you were wearing your wet proof jacket
Do the lads that trained in crickhowell remember the cockroaches that came out at night in the cook house and would cover the floor...going for a run up the pig track and white lady..and being made very fit in the( torch er chamber) gym.
yes Rob
I can remember the cockroaches most were in Glyndwr platoon,
and the suger loaf run every satuday morning,i always won it ha ha
We had Army issue 'T' bag undercrackers and vests:arghh_xmas: . Also we had to BULL our black Army trainers (daps):mad_xmas:
Oh and those itchy KF shirts:realmad_xmas:
Dai i think the black dap is back in fashion seen them in Burton's last week had to have them , they look great been bulling them all week... not
used my army issue under pants to filter water from down stream of the dead sheep that was always in the water in brecon better than earl gray any day ......
hoody only got to the top of sugar loaf first cos someone told there were lame sheep for the picking
Bob Bacon lived up stairs, Two's up on everything, go & paint the last post, go to the QM and ask for some Skyhooks, a guy called Spanner was a bully, marching to meals. Good times at Welsh Brigade Depot.
just looking at some of the names on here ,, perky , remember him when he first joined the regt as a lt ,,crocker was only a cpl when i knew him ,,as for mighty mouse the last time i saw him he was a high court sheriffe working from mold ??(good job for him )..where have the years gone lol getting old
a ps to my last ,,,,,,,,, remember harry (dog) hughes then c,s,m saying to me stand closer to the razor or take the ***** paper off the blade
I do remember visiting a Club in Caernarvon the Marconi Club I think owned by an ex Maj. I believe, now that was quite interesting but it was 1972 I think? I was 3rd Bn then up to bolster the honour guard for the Colours I was on the Slate Key.
Oh the days of Company Clubs in Tidworth, Inter Coy Darts playing against Delta Company Cap Comforters, or a Night in Alpha Company’s Pigs Bar now that took some doing.
Or Lemgo when we had the Ladies of the Night from Hamburg entertaining us in Cpls Mess and a Certain Cpl Ally was left with his socks Army socks at that! Oh yes Happy Days?
After that it was thought unprofessional of the army to have such events on the base, so it was stopped, and instead it was seen more expectable for the wives to attend Chippendale events and a such, what went wrong!!!
My time at the Depot was April 1968 - way before the time of some of the authors of items on this forum. No matter, the names all mean something and, having just spent a pleasurable few minutes (15!!) reading through from pages 1 to 6, I implore the management (BB and AP1) to make sure that this particular thread is NEVER closed!
Agreed:yes:
them were the days
any one remember the rats in the cookhouse that use to run up the gutering on the floor
that was in lucknow tidworth
When i joined a centurion was a rank in the roman army not a tank
I wonder if Gwyn N. remembers this night in Tidworth.
Several of us were on our way back to camp after a few beers in town and stopped for a hot dog at the van by the bus stop and toilets. As we got there we noticed two guys waiting in their car for the queue to go down. As it happened we got the very last hot dogs so when the guys stepped out of their car to buy some they were really P****d off. Of course we laughed which made them really mad. They jumped in their car and decided to mount the pavement to run us down. I had a plastic pop bottle in my hand and threw it at their windshield. The driver must have thought it was a glass bottle as he put his arm up and swerved into the wall of the toilet which then collaped on his bonnet. He then wound his window down (bad move) to say something to us and got bobbed in the mouth, as did his mate. Anyway, they had a rough night because they smashed up their car, got a thumping, were taken away by the police and still did not get their hot dogs. It's a tough life. I blame it all on Nick as he had two hot dogs.
Yes I remember the Rats running up and down the Bacon " No pun meant Bob" as it had been left out prior to cooking our breakfast, by the night cook.
We gave it a miss that morning, stuck to cereal & Mouse droppings?
Happy Days!
In Tidworth I was eating a portion of battered fish when I found a cockroach in it, it put me off fish for several years, the 1st one I ate after was in Bills Bar in Lemgo. :shocked:
Yer Richie you had to get there early to get the Big Ones???
Happy days!
Not so much when I joined but very soon after that. Does anybody who was in Hong Kong 1969 -1972 remember the sheer ingenuity of the cookhouse staff who were able to produce SPAM in such a huge variety of disguises during our border tours in Fanling Camp?
What happens these days, I can't believe they still use SPAM?
just been reading this thread i spoke to rsm coopers boy in tidworth a couple of years ago and he told me of a muster parade [lemgo i think]
when his old man asked him who ironed his kit as he looked like a bag a **** , coops replied ''the same person that did yours sir''.
I hope this is true .
for the less than bright people its a mother joke
I can’t believe that Led, Brian Cooper would not let anyone near his kit he was Immaculate even on exercise!
How ever during the NCO Cadre whilst we where being drilled by RSM Cooper, some ladies crossed the Square and a certain person shouted who are those scrubbers on my square, realising they where wife's of soldiers and not locals, and plus one of the lads on parade was the husband of one.
He did one hell of a back pedal, claiming well they are cleaners they scrub things. Too late you’re in up to your neck mate, but who would tell him? Not I I’m not Charles Broson I have no Death Wish!
But needless to say drill was short that day, no pun intended, But Mouse Cooper was the smartest soldier I have ever know.
:cool:
I did my training in Wrexham in 1958.When we had the inter platoon boxing comp. my Pln. Sgt. Roy Blewitt, was my second. I had a worst hammering in the corner with Roy showing me what todo than i got in the ring. I was glad when the bell rang so i could get out of the corner and have a rest.
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Originally Posted by Barry69
+Yes Barry:arghh: sorry John)
OK my error but if we relied on correct spelling would not life be boring, and am I bothered?
If there was an award for the worst speller on the net, well I would not be lonely would I?
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I am not sure if he was but hey :rolleyes:
But it is so much more refreshing to imagine a platoon sergeant of the 'old school', especially one who went on to have an illustrious career, saying 'emasculate' when he meant to say 'immaculate'! When I was Chief Clerk of 1 D and D we had an RSM who often made mistakes like that - but we ALWAYS knew what he meant.
I bet that evary massage Berry sinds nowe,
will bee viah ther spil chequer,er.think yar.
Is he bovvered,eh is he,eh,is he bovvered,eh,is he,eh, IS HE BO V VERED:notworthy:
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Cut and past it to word if you don’t believe me.
Did he make up a sentence?:no:
Just a bit of harmless ribbing, Barry and I go back some way.
When I joined the Army . well the sigs pl. well, sometime after but annnnnnnnyway, Barry made a quote I'll never forget.
Taking a lesson in Ternhill on a sigs cadre, one of the students gawping out of the window.
"Oy, you, what you gawpiing out the window for? Pay attention or the next window you look out of will have BARS ON!"
I know John,I go back a bit further than you,and even then we took the p//s out of everyone,its good that the lads take a ribbing, without getting annoyed .HELLO who is that at the door!
Stu.B.:laugh: