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Hi Karl,Quote:
Originally Posted by bennyball2
sure there was more than 4 of us RWF, williams 40 i think was from Ruthin, Nick Roberts 00 also from Ruthin and Jones 24 also Ruthin passed out with us ,there was also another lad from wrexham Jones 62 or 82, Von - Beck cracking Section Commander
hey led ,seen the photos mate,its a real shame that the camp is going to the dogs,had some great times there,even going over the assault coarse at 2 am in shorts,because we were making to much noise.ha.great times never the less..
Led,
great stuff putting the pics up. Is that two storey building where they did education??? I seem to remember also a two storey office bit near the arms kote???
Are the main old blocks still there?? I guess the huts have gone.
It is quite amazing just how doing areas and square bashing keeps the weeds down.
I am on another forum with the 16th/5th lancers and the camp we were in 79 and 80 is a right mess even tho some civvies are using it for something.
I think Lucknow barracks Tidworth has disappeared as well.
griff 029
Lucknow Bks in Tidworth has been modernised and is now the home for the 2nd Battalion.Quote:
Originally Posted by griff029
hi griff
went to see Lucknow barracks in 2005 as i was in that part of the world the officers mess is still as it was but the rest had totally changed the chippy is still there
regards 20
http://baor-locations.com/Home.aspx
The above site is fantastic for any stuff to do with BAOR barracks. There are a few links that are pretty good as well.
There was a ten year conversion plan whereby the old barracks that were closing were converted into housing or other uses. Stornoway at Lemgo was turned into housing. It still retains much of the shape as it did when we were there but there will be a few RSMs that will be unhappy about the square disappearing.
Where in BAOR did the regt go when they returned to BAOR. When we were doing our personal weapons traing before going to Iraq in 1990, RWF were helping us out at Sennelager. Where was the regt based then?
wasshael
We were based at Montgomery Barracks in Berlin at that time.
Hi Ken hows things mate, how could I forget those names. how are you mateQuote:
Originally Posted by Pegleg
I seem to think that the RRW corporal's name was Bolger or similar.
I joined in 74 with eglan, misfit, beano,chris 23, john hussey(glos), scottie blair, paul butt,ken lloyd, and others, our NCOs were nick ravanhill, breslin, Sgt pen morgan, Lt Bob Lloyd,.. weeks of utter madness and brutality, mental and physical lol .. but you needed to man up quick and weeed out the mummies boys ready for the tours of NI that would happen in the very near future , have a look who joined with me .great blokes all of them.I remember the horrible PTis Snowey, kelly both RRW. and our own sweet and kind Austin davies lol
Snowy Richards was a star. I remember the day he rejoined the Bn in Osnabruck. We were both skint, so I borrowed DM50 off a certain WO2 who was my Boss at the time. We goes into the Cpls Mess and I orders 2 pints of Double Diamond, 25 pfenigs a pint. i PUTS A 1dm Coin in the Bandit and Drops DM200. Well Snowy and myself were off down Geordies Bar like a pair of racing snakes. Brian Kelly was a Good Egg too. Theres a few of the lads on the other site still reckon Johny Breslin was a bit of a bully. Must say I always found him to be ok. Must say them names brought back some memories. Cheers for that. Braz
The Provost Sgt at the time you are talking about was Frank Watkins. He was the Guy that pinched the Table Tennis Bats from the NAAFI and was using them to guide choppers in. (what a laugh). The only RRW NCO I can think of with the sort of letters your using is Jim Botwood. Is that who your thinking of?
I can remember Frank Watkins taking an RRW L/C from the Depot Band on HQ Coy Orders. I had just passed out and was "Duty Bitch". Frank had caught the guy nicking a catering sized bag of cornflakes from the cookhouse(it was in the boot of the car). Frank looked really smart marching into the OC's Office(Johnny Wiseman) clutching said bag of evidence....Even in the 1970's he appeared to be from a bygone era. A character, he played the part to a tee.
I went to sutton coldfield recruit selection centre 3 days then down to crickcowel to start training, I went down with a lad from Aberdair name of jenkins (jinx) had a younger brother tony, When we arrived told that everybody was on leave for 2 weeks so come back then, How do I get back to liverpool I asked, Walk you limey ******* the guard commander told me ? no money or travel docs I was ****ed, But jinx asked me to come and stay at his house for the 2 weeks so I did and his parents looked after me for the 2 weeks they where great people. 2 weeks later back to the depot and from day 1 every nco tried bullying me plt corp was worst williams was his name (sep 72 korea plt) some great lads though Bob powell, Gareth Barlow (merthyr) Roger howells 01, older guy name of Les in tidworth became reg sign writer,Tallis, and many more, Weapons instucter was tonto davies john davies 34 brother what a great bloke. When I passed out a few nco,s came up to me and told me they tried to break me because they did not want no scouse limey ******* in the rgt,But well done for surviving well I did not thank them for it but got my own back over the yrs in a few bars and in the ring These men where just evil *******s who took great pleasure in making my young life hell But I was stonger than them. This was not character building in was bullying and racist ie everyday called limey scouse *******, Anyway I did have great times with the lads and those evil *******s never ground me down.
Steve scouse Carey. Happy Days.
Les windsor was the fellas name I was not sure about and Billy Cartwright, Barry Griffiths 43 what a lvely lad he was a gentle giant.
Barry Griffiths 43 great man top draw
Steve,
That type of behaviour would not be tolerated in todays services.
Snowy always used to remind me of jimmy saville lol.. I think that in those days bullying by the NCOs was the norm, but it had a plus side when we joined i think something like 150 joined on the same day and within a fortnight that number had been whittled down to about half that.. we were all little boys really and in JS coy there were what seemed like men in the older intakes so there was bullying of the sprogs at all levels..John breslin proberbly was a good bloke but i dont think there was a PSI in that place who wouldnt give you a dig for the slightest reason. but we were all at it. One thing is though the likes of john jones 36, nick ravenhill , or johnny bress, wernt adverce to going in the room when it was full of lads and saying come on then youve got three mins get your own back.. and we bloody well did.. and there were no repecussions, A funny thing happend with johnny bresslin, he used to play rugby and then come to the block to shower user your towels and smellies ect. and then go to the Cpls mess ... I had this overwieght lad from the D&Ds in the next bespace to me called higbey.. now bare in mind bresslin was a lumb of a bloke too. anyway i came into the room and saw what i thought was the rather fat ugly higbey on my bed naked. so i got the fire bucket full of water and dogends ect and emptied it all over his back shouting get off my bed you fat c~#*, instead of jumping in the air as i was hoping the figure turned very slowly around ready to explode. you could have heared a pin drop in the room. it wasnt higbey it was bressiln. I made it to the greenfields and stayed there a few hours. but he caught me in the end.. anyway it made a better man of me id like to think lol.
Frank watkins was a comic book type Provo sgt a cross between blakey on the busses and winsor davies you couldnt make it up . he lived in the sgts mess i think he was single. his favorite thing was to hide on top of the roof of the hostal and catch you with a girl in the room. and accuse you of bringing an "intruder" (his words) into the block girls from aber are a lot of things but they are not intuders i used to think when he caught me.
DO anyone remember Big "H" harry rundal RRW in the depot. he even looked frightening.
Harry 'Gis u fag' Rundle. Harry finished up as a WO1 RSM. If you thought he was frightening then. You can't imagine how anyone New to the Bn must have felt when he was Provost Sgt. They must have been bricking it. Another Grat Rugby player though Big H was. Braz
I started training in CYG early Jan 1997, my Platoon Sgt was Jack Leahy (SWB) Platoon Comd was RWF but we saw little of him. Admin Cpl Bernie Gleed (SWB) my wpn trg NCO’s were Cpl Wally Jones 15 and Cpl Jones 99 ( both RWF) for some strange we believed that Wally and 99 were brothers. Cpl John Lemin (RWF) was our main PTI and I can honestly say I was s*** scared of him. Years later we were great friends as PSI’s with 3 (v) RRW.On one occasion when we were doing milling I was lined up with my best mate as my opponent, we were poncing about not really hurting each other when John Lemin grabbed us both by the neck and said “if you two don’t get stuck in I will take you both on”. We were so scared we battered each other to a bloody standstill. I returned to the Depot 72 – 75 as a Cpl on the SAA wing, my best mate was Ted Doutch and I was very friendly with many other RWF NCO’s Nick Ravenhill, Pete Coleman, Mac Gittins, Mike Salway, Dennis Goldsworthy, Des Williams (DCM) to name but a few. I also remember the QM with the large dogs but we had another name for him Dai S*** Halfway through my stint the Welsh Brigade depot became the POW Depot Crickhowell and we were joined by the Glos (Glooms) and D&D (Armoured Farmers).
Carlos stephens was there at the time so was mel blake, reg turk Glos, josh george, mike mason, joe mason, sgt webb, sgt baker was provo sgt before frank watkins.. will 38, jones 36, phill arnold. and who can forget Ginge hairdresser to millions but never quite got the hang of it.
Reading the latest threads is bringing back memories to me. I was MT Cpl at the Depot from Jul 69 to Jan 72, and MT Sgt from Jul 78 to Jul 80.
I have read a few posts naming Von Beck,I was in Bravos in Tidworth with Beck, Did you know as a young lad he ran away from home and joined the French foreign legion and his dad was an R.A.F officer who went and got him out as he was under age, Beck himself told me this story can anybody else throw any light on this.
It's a true story Steve. I met Bob's father a few years ago at a function in Shrewsbury. I'm still in contact with Bob, he lives in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. He is involved in the selling of agricultural feeds. He does pop onto the forum occasionally, his username is "Observer"
It was the lads who gave him the nickname Von Beck after he told us the story, He was telling us that it was full of facists who wore nazi insigna on the reverse of there lapels.