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brrowe WOI
Number of posts : 119 Age : 86 Localisation : Leicester Cap Badge : REME Places Served : UK/BAOR Registration date : 2010-06-30
| Subject: Cap Comforter! 8/10/2012, 11:45 | |
| Hi Chaps, Like so many of us ageing BAORites I feel the cold a little more than I used to, so I paid a visit to my local ex-army clothing store and purchased a cap comforter. Imagine my embarrasment on attempting to show my wife how to fold it ready to wear, only to find that I had forgotten the way we used to do it ( it WAS more than fifty years ago, that's my excuse.) Help! | |
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| Subject: Re: Cap Comforter! 8/10/2012, 11:48 | |
| I`d forgotten about them..Only ever used it to protect my tonsils.. |
| | | brrowe WOI
Number of posts : 119 Age : 86 Localisation : Leicester Cap Badge : REME Places Served : UK/BAOR Registration date : 2010-06-30
| Subject: Cap Comforter! 8/10/2012, 12:04 | |
| Many thanks GORDON. It all comes back! | |
| | | brum FM
Number of posts : 2808 Age : 83 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: Cap Comforter! 8/10/2012, 17:34 | |
| Y'know, it's a sad old world when somebody has to be told how to operate a cap comforter !
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| | | brrowe WOI
Number of posts : 119 Age : 86 Localisation : Leicester Cap Badge : REME Places Served : UK/BAOR Registration date : 2010-06-30
| Subject: Re: Cap Comforter! 8/10/2012, 19:01 | |
| I know, brum. I'm so embarassed! I couldn't remember whether the end of the comforter stuck up, or whether it was supposed to be folded down into the rolled-up bit. Oh heck.I'm goin' back to me bunk! | |
| | | gingerjim Col
Number of posts : 487 Cap Badge : raoc Places Served : blackdown brackley , belgium . viersen Registration date : 2011-03-21
| Subject: Re: Cap Comforter! 8/10/2012, 20:03 | |
| we used to wear them under the old tin hat , made life a bit more comfortable , , on excersises our csm used to make us pack our tinhats with snow on top as we laid in our slit trenches , we were glad of our caps comforter for the use of , ginger | |
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| Subject: Re: Cap Comforter! 8/10/2012, 22:41 | |
| Did p eople actualy wear those tin hats???I thought they were just for carrying around attached to a respirator... |
| | | brrowe WOI
Number of posts : 119 Age : 86 Localisation : Leicester Cap Badge : REME Places Served : UK/BAOR Registration date : 2010-06-30
| Subject: Cap Comforter 9/10/2012, 10:10 | |
| Looking at the picture Gordon posted makes me wonder whether the bod modelling it had been on the falling-down juice the night before. The pallid look and blank stare reminds me of how I must have looked on many a muster parade the morning after a session in Mickies Bar (Osnabruck). | |
| | | rucjock21 Maj
Number of posts : 279 Localisation : Glesga Cap Badge : The Jocks Places Served : Everywhere. Registration date : 2012-09-25
| Subject: Re: Cap Comforter! 9/10/2012, 10:45 | |
| Cap un-comforter more like.Horrible things, always made me scratch when worn. | |
| | | gingerjim Col
Number of posts : 487 Cap Badge : raoc Places Served : blackdown brackley , belgium . viersen Registration date : 2011-03-21
| Subject: Re: Cap Comforter! 9/10/2012, 19:21 | |
| of course people wore tin hats , our bloody csm had us wearing the bloody things on excersise , range courses , route marches etc . but as i said the worst part was crouching in a bloody slit trench in a blizzard in germany in the middle of winter . the stupid sod actually made us pack the top of our tin hats with snow and ice to blend into the background , the same bloody csm fired an energa anti tank grenade from the shoulder he wanted to fly through the air , mind you the old bugger was not all bad , he would write late passes on the back of beer mats so the lads could sup a bit longer , when he came into the pub he was in the chair , ginger | |
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| | | | rucjock21 Maj
Number of posts : 279 Localisation : Glesga Cap Badge : The Jocks Places Served : Everywhere. Registration date : 2012-09-25
| | | | unclevanya Maj
Number of posts : 230 Age : 78 Localisation : Essex UK Cap Badge : R Sigs Places Served : 11 Sigs Vimy 'C' Catterick Nov 1963), 224 (Radio) Sig Squadron Garrats Hey, Quorn Leics( Jan-June 1964), 16 Sigs Bradbury Barracks Krefeld July-Oct 1964), 28 (BR) Sigs St Tonis & 4 Squadron, Tongeren (Cafe Maddy) (1964-1968), HQ UNFICYP Nicosia 6 month tour (1966), HMS Jufair & Hamala Camp Bahrien, 223 Sig Sqn (Radio) Winchester, Norn Ireland, HQ Northag Kolsas Olso Norway, 11 Sigs Helles Lines Catterick, Civvy Street 1977, Retired (Grumpy Victor Meldrew 2012) Registration date : 2012-07-15
| Subject: Caps Comforters & Uses...! 11/10/2012, 19:57 | |
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| | | brrowe WOI
Number of posts : 119 Age : 86 Localisation : Leicester Cap Badge : REME Places Served : UK/BAOR Registration date : 2010-06-30
| Subject: Re: Cap Comforter! 12/10/2012, 13:38 | |
| HAND BAG ??? How interesting, Pet!! | |
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