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| | Subject: Re: new here 15/7/2011, 22:59 | |
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| | | | Shelldrake
FM
Number of posts : 3009
Localisation : Camberley
Cap Badge : Royal Artillery
Places Served : Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh
Registration date : 2010-10-26
| | Subject: Re: new here 16/7/2011, 08:09 | |
| Hi Dee Z, I thought that I could smell the distinct aroma of boiled cabbage!  Welcome, you'll be a Sgt in no time. |
| | | | brum
FM
Number of posts : 2808
Age : 77
Localisation : Sandbach Cheshire
Cap Badge : RA/QOH
Places Served : JLRRA (Hereford) Nienburg Paderborn Colchester Munster Maresfield (Cyprus) Hohne Hemer Op Banner x4 Woolwich
Registration date : 2010-03-02
| | Subject: Re: new here 16/7/2011, 17:18 | |
| - Shelldrake wrote:
- Hi Dee Z, I thought that I could smell the distinct aroma of boiled cabbage! Welcome, you'll be a Sgt in no time.
Come on Sheldrake old chap. "same unit as Sheldrake" ? "Cabbage heads" ? Fill us in mate ! |
| | | | Shelldrake
FM
Number of posts : 3009
Localisation : Camberley
Cap Badge : Royal Artillery
Places Served : Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh
Registration date : 2010-10-26
| | Subject: Re: new here 17/7/2011, 11:21 | |
| No mystery, Brum. Dee Z and I both served in 42 Med Regt Lippstadt, around that time, if you remember, 29 Cdo had recently formed and were looking for volunteers, Dee Z did just that, won his Green Beret and became a "Cabbage Head" as opposed to a "Crap Hat".  |
| | | | brum
FM
Number of posts : 2808
Age : 77
Localisation : Sandbach Cheshire
Cap Badge : RA/QOH
Places Served : JLRRA (Hereford) Nienburg Paderborn Colchester Munster Maresfield (Cyprus) Hohne Hemer Op Banner x4 Woolwich
Registration date : 2010-03-02
| | Subject: Re: new here 17/7/2011, 12:14 | |
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Thanks for that mate.
I'd never heard the expression "Cabbage Head" before.
This site really is a mine of information !
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| | | | Roy Phillips
Private
Number of posts : 3
Age : 73
Localisation : Portsmouth
Cap Badge : REME
Places Served : AAS Carlisle; Bielefeld; Hilden; Dortmund(2); Bramley; Lippstadt; Kirkcudbright; Paderborn; Larkhill; Bordon.
Registration date : 2010-11-10
| | Subject: Re: new here 17/7/2011, 13:19 | |
| [About St. Davids Barracks, i remember a welsh guy. he was originally from cardiff and after serving with the army, he stayed in Hilden, got married here and he ran his own garage for years and years and he was very popular here - he saddly passed away some years ago, i think, due to cancer. I think, he is burried here, as he settled down in Hilden and that was his hometown then.)
Hi Ulli,
I served in Hilden in 1967/8, loved the place and was sad when the regiment (34 Lt.AD regt RA) moved to Dortmund,
I think the welsh guy was Vernon (taff) Renny, he was a vehicle mechanic in our workshop, and he married a lovely German girl called Rosie and when he first left the army and settled in Hilden he worked for a garage that was run by a chap who used to race Auto union cars in the 1930's who I think may have been quite well known in Hilden.
The last time I saw him (1971) he was still working there but was looking to start his own business, very sad to hear of his passing.
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| | | | john mcmillan
WOI
Number of posts : 125
Age : 72
Localisation : HUYTON, MERSEYSIDE
Cap Badge : RASC/RCT
Places Served : JOINED JTR RHYL JAN 63-64l Mulhiem/Hilden 64-65/ RAF Seleta 65/RAF Kuching 66 000000000000000000 JTR RHYL JAN-DEC 1963 , YEOVL JAN-MARCH 64, 17 COY MULHIEM / 17 SQN. HILDEN , RAF SELETA NOV 65 ,, RAF KUCHING JAN - APRIL 66 ( GSM BORNEO RAAF Butterworth 66-68/RAF Changi 68 RAF Colerne/RAF Lyneham 68-70
Registration date : 2008-03-19
| | Subject: Re: new here 18/7/2011, 16:00 | |
| was in st. davids barracks 1965 , used to drink in a place called I think the students bar ,
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