Monday Morning Muster - Memories

[BennytheBall]

Here is when for the Bn "God Squad" the Bn 1st fifteen playing in a BAOR rugby cup final an the Battalion Had to clean the snow off the pitch( I remember it well because iwas 1 of them)
BTB

[beefy22]

in the winter in berlin, hoosing the square on a sunday night so it would be to icy monday morning for a muster, or finding someones pants or bike up the flag pole.

[rob jones 60]

when the Queen came to visit the BN in warminster, B and D coy supplied the honer guard , but before the QUEEN turned up we had to do areas .. can never figure out why we had to do areas around the dump at the wash down point in battles bury bowl

[davidrmac]

Same thing Boys ,
Monday morning muster in Lemgo . I am the right marker in 4 Pl . Right at the front of the company . You could tell that Mouse was ****** off , everybody could . We were stood there about 15 paces from him . All of a sudden he came bouncing towards us at 100 miles an hour and skidded to a halt , right in front of , I think it was Luker , he said , "if you do not stand still I will put this pace stick up your F%^$£g nostril and with a quick flick of the wrist you will be in the LAD car park " Well I was rocking , which started a few off , then the inevitable , Cpl Mccarthy lock this man up , Yes Sir , belt and beret off Luker , quick march , "while your there lock yourself up" yes sir .
He locked me up a second time which I am sure that many of you will remember . It was during the inter company boxing in Lemgo , Irv was in the ring with Derek Adams , I think , Mouse called everyone to silence so he could announce the contenders . But I always had a bit of a gob and continued my verbal support for Irv one nano second too long . He called a halt to everything and locked me up in front of everyone .
Good days , lessons learned , great memories of great blokes who made and shaped us .

[jeffdj]

Here is when for the Bn "God Squad" the Bn 1st fifteen playing in a BAOR rugby cup final an the Battalion Had to clean the snow off the pitch( I remember it well because iwas 1 of them)
BTB

bennytheball we would like to thank you for the fine job you done however you did miss a little bit in the corner but thankyou any way

[Lofty-25]

I remember when they were re-furbishing our block (Delta's) in Lemgo we had to stay in Detmold and every Monday morning Wally 15 had us formed up outside and inspected us before we had to get on the 4 tons back to Lemgo for Bn Muster, everyone so careful getting on the 4 tons (not to get their kit messed up or boots scuffed), the 4 tons would drop us off at the guard room in Lemgo, Wally screraming "GET FELL IN", then he would disappear into the guard room and come out with a couple of RP staff , then Wally would point his pace stick at a couple of lads and shout "belts and berets off", Cpl Squires lock them up, the thing that got me was he only inspected them 15 minutes earlier in Detmold, i think i heard Sgt George Cole say to one of the Cpl's that Wally had not had enough cups of tea that morning

[peelow]

to go off at a slightly different tangent it was in the depot crickhowell 1977 junior soldiers
we were having drill practice, we were formed up in a square by our platoon sgt ,a sgt jeffries, devon and dorsets.once we formed up i was opposite a lad from the rrw who had a very funny face a cross between ken dodd and bill oddie and every time i looked at it brought a smirk to my face
jeffries comes over to me ,says you smirk once more and ill knock you out i thought to myself dont look at him and your,ll be ok ,but a voice at the back of my head said go on have one more peep ,idid and the next thing i knew iwas getting dragged to the drill shed he,d kept his promise and knocked me out
i think he felt a bit guilty as he gave me his hankey [soiled]said clean all that blood away and get back on parade

id love to meet him now, and thank him for making me the man i am today

dai hood no1 padded cell
broadmoor

Di i can recall the said day.

[Barry69]

Some great stories JT you deserve an Oscar "The Berlin Bee" Well from the days of fear in Lemgo especially if were a marker as i was a Fusilier in the Lemgo early days then thank god, but got made up later and on occasion had the magic words echoing around my face "Ill stuff this pacestick up your F...ng Nose"

On one occasion a new draft strolled past the mouse, and the well out of Character He remained calm and decided to call the COS HQ Coy ie me over to give an example of how it should be done oh my god I felt every step and creek in the ground ensuring that I don't blow this as I finish at 6 and I am going out tonight !!!! Thank god all went well and he continued to educate the new draft?

In Berlin we would march on with our Platoons having been inspected prior then the LAD would arrive with 6 guys and someone would say you may aswell join the Sig's oh no some were in Rag order god you prayed that the CO did not choose HQ Coy as Nick(RSM) will murder the Platoon Sgt that allowed Scruffy on parade!

Much later when I was standing in for the CSM C Coy in Brawdy on a Monday morning hoping not to drop a clanger as being a CSGT at the time it would be quite easy to pick up a few extras, but luckily all went well but I always had time to chat with the markers it looked professional apparently chating to Cammy about the weekend activities as there is only so much you can say about drill is there!

Best Musters had to be Lemgo & Berlin

JT Best Story!!!!

[Scouse75]

Beefy, I remember the hose pipes on the square in Berlin. Delta's hosing down one side, while we in Bravo's did our end. And if that wasnt enough to get Muster cancelled, at least we could watch the Officer's slipping over outside B Coy block!! I remember one morning that the Juniour Officer's drill was that bad, that Nick Ravenhill made them parade at NAAFI break for drill lessons. Brilliant.

Nick Ravenhill's favourite muster comments...

1. "RIGHT, WHEN YOU STEP OFF, MAKE SURE YOU COME FORWARD WITH A BLOODY SENSE OF PURPOSE!!"

2. "SGT (WHOEVER), MIDDLE RANK, THIRD MAN IN, HE'S LAUGHING ON PARADE. GET HIM AWAY, AND MAKE SURE HE LAUGHS ALL THE WAY TO THE BLOODY JAIL!!"

Happy days. Well, they are now!!

[nasher546]

Btn Muster, Tidworth first time around. RSM Roy Blewitt screamed at the CSM of A Coy, "that Fus in the front rank of 3 Plt is moving on parade". CSM went over and pointed to a Fus and screamed back to RSM Blweitt, "this one Sir". RSM Blewitt screamed back "No, but he will f***kin do".

Good old days!