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martinfinbardunne Private
Number of posts : 1 Registration date : 2011-02-28
| Subject: Photo(s)sought... 28/2/2011, 19:18 | |
| Anyone have photos: 3rd Queens 1966, Chaucher Barracks, Canterbry, U.K. of PASSING OUT PARADE IN APRIL OR MAY 1966?
Also, anyone have photo(s) of SUPPORT WEAPONS B COMPANY, Stornaway Barracks, LEMGO, GERMANY from 1968 - 1970?
Like to hear from anyone that knew me;'PADDY' (Dunne); 1966- 1970.
Regards, 'Paddy' Dunne | |
| | | 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: Photo(s)sought... 28/2/2011, 22:33 | |
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Greetings Paddy.
We don't get many Infanteers on here !
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| | | Dolmetscher WOI
Number of posts : 130 Age : 89 Localisation : Bedfordshire Cap Badge : RAPC Places Served : Devizes, HMS Ariel, Winchester, Mönchen-gladbach, Osnabrück, N. Ireland, Ashton-u-Lyne Registration date : 2010-11-07
| Subject: Re: Photo(s)sought... 2/3/2011, 11:27 | |
| Welcome aboard, Paddy. You'll find this a great site. | |
| | | Shelldrake FM
Number of posts : 3048 Localisation : Camberley Cap Badge : Royal Artillery Places Served : Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh Registration date : 2010-10-26
| | | | Dolmetscher WOI
Number of posts : 130 Age : 89 Localisation : Bedfordshire Cap Badge : RAPC Places Served : Devizes, HMS Ariel, Winchester, Mönchen-gladbach, Osnabrück, N. Ireland, Ashton-u-Lyne Registration date : 2010-11-07
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| Subject: Re: Photo(s)sought... 2/3/2011, 11:53 | |
| To the tower Shelldrake...certa cito |
| | | Shelldrake FM
Number of posts : 3048 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: Photo(s)sought... 2/3/2011, 19:02 | |
| [quote="Dolmetscher"] - Shelldrake wrote:
- Hi Paddy and welcome, not many "Proper" soldiers on here, mainly Scalies!!
Enlighten me, Shelldrake. Just what is a scaly?[/quote Dolmetscher, Scaley (short for Scaleyback), is the name given to Royal Signals personnel. It goes back to WW2 when the Radio Ops carried their batteries in their backpacks and the acid was known to leak. | |
| | | Dolmetscher WOI
Number of posts : 130 Age : 89 Localisation : Bedfordshire Cap Badge : RAPC Places Served : Devizes, HMS Ariel, Winchester, Mönchen-gladbach, Osnabrück, N. Ireland, Ashton-u-Lyne Registration date : 2010-11-07
| Subject: Re: Photo(s)sought... 2/3/2011, 20:50 | |
| Thanks for that, Shelldrake. I used to be the proud owner of a No. 18 set. Cost me about fifteen bob in 1952. I also had the hand-held set, but can't recall the number, now. Might have been 38 set. | |
| | | Teabag Maj Gen
Number of posts : 960 Age : 73 Localisation : Merseyside Cap Badge : Royal Signals Places Served : Wildenrath Detmold Registration date : 2008-10-30
| Subject: Re: Photo(s)sought... 2/3/2011, 20:55 | |
| - Shelldrake wrote:
- Hi Paddy and welcome, not many "Proper" soldiers on here, mainly Scalies!!
Well I never joined the army to fight. Exotic hot places, skiing in the winter, big boobed women, nice sergeant majors tucking you in and bringing tea in the morning. It was all in the recruitment advertisments. LIARS! | |
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| Subject: Re: Photo(s)sought... 2/3/2011, 22:28 | |
| All true Teabag except for " nice sergeant majors" |
| | | Shelldrake FM
Number of posts : 3048 Localisation : Camberley Cap Badge : Royal Artillery Places Served : Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh Registration date : 2010-10-26
| | | | jim Let Gen
Number of posts : 1291 Localisation : Sutton Coldfield Cap Badge : RAOC Places Served : Dad, Hamburg, Bad Oeynhausen, Iserlohn, Bury, Osnabruck, Worcester. Me Detmold, Bielefeld, NI, HK Registration date : 2008-01-03
| Subject: Re: Photo(s)sought... 3/3/2011, 10:46 | |
| [quote="Shelldrake"] - Dolmetscher wrote:
- Shelldrake wrote:
- Hi Paddy and welcome, not many "Proper" soldiers on here, mainly Scalies!!
Enlighten me, Shelldrake. Just what is a scaly?[/quote
Dolmetscher, Scaley (short for Scaleyback), is the name given to Royal Signals personnel. It goes back to WW2 when the Radio Ops carried their batteries in their backpacks and the acid was known to leak. Well you learn something new every day, whilst I always called them scaleybacks I never knew where the term originsted. Thanks Shelldrake | |
| | | 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
| | | | Dolmetscher WOI
Number of posts : 130 Age : 89 Localisation : Bedfordshire Cap Badge : RAPC Places Served : Devizes, HMS Ariel, Winchester, Mönchen-gladbach, Osnabrück, N. Ireland, Ashton-u-Lyne Registration date : 2010-11-07
| Subject: Re: Photo(s)sought... 3/3/2011, 11:08 | |
| To paraphrase Spike Milligan: Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people................ and kill them! | |
| | | 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: Photo(s)sought... 3/3/2011, 17:21 | |
| - Dolmetscher wrote:
- To paraphrase Spike Milligan: Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people................ and kill them!
His epitaph read-"I told you I was ill !" Good old Spike ! | |
| | | Teabag Maj Gen
Number of posts : 960 Age : 73 Localisation : Merseyside Cap Badge : Royal Signals Places Served : Wildenrath Detmold Registration date : 2008-10-30
| Subject: Re: Photo(s)sought... 3/3/2011, 17:46 | |
| - brum wrote:
- Dolmetscher wrote:
- To paraphrase Spike Milligan: Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people................ and kill them!
His epitaph read-"I told you I was ill !"
Good old Spike ! Yeh but it is not in English. It's Irish or whatever it is they call it. Never did understand what was Gaelic and what was the other fingy? | |
| | | Stephen Lock Maj Gen
Number of posts : 937 Age : 70 Localisation : Calgary Cap Badge : Pads Brat Places Served : Father -- Canadian Army. Served Hemer, Soest, and Wetter Registration date : 2007-12-28
| Subject: Re: Photo(s)sought... 3/3/2011, 18:04 | |
| - Teabag wrote:
- Shelldrake wrote:
- Hi Paddy and welcome, not many "Proper" soldiers on here, mainly Scalies!!
Well I never joined the army to fight. Exotic hot places, skiing in the winter, big boobed women, nice sergeant majors tucking you in and bringing tea in the morning.
It was all in the recruitment advertisments. LIARS! Well....not totally some of you got posted to "exotic hot places" (Cyprus, AF, etc), big boobed women (I never met a squaddie who hadn't hooked up with at least one buxom fraulein....even if she rented by the hour!). As for the nice Sergeant Major tucking you in....didn't at least a couple of them, somewhere, sometime, uhm....well....never mind!! | |
| | | Stephen Lock Maj Gen
Number of posts : 937 Age : 70 Localisation : Calgary Cap Badge : Pads Brat Places Served : Father -- Canadian Army. Served Hemer, Soest, and Wetter Registration date : 2007-12-28
| Subject: Re: Photo(s)sought... 3/3/2011, 18:07 | |
| - Teabag wrote:
- brum wrote:
- Dolmetscher wrote:
- To paraphrase Spike Milligan: Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people................ and kill them!
His epitaph read-"I told you I was ill !"
Good old Spike ! Yeh but it is not in English. It's Irish or whatever it is they call it. Never did understand what was Gaelic and what was the other fingy? Isn't there different "types" of Gaelic? Welsh vs Irish vs Scots vs Brittany. Perhaps that's it.... | |
| | | 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: Photo(s)sought... 4/3/2011, 10:25 | |
| [His epitaph read-"I told you I was ill !" Good old Spike ![/quote] Yeh but it is not in English. It's Irish or whatever it is they call it. Never did understand what was Gaelic and what was the other fingy?[/quote] It saddened me to see how nasty Spike became in old age, Altzheimers I suppose. I looked up his gravestone on the web, I suppose that bit of Gaelic must be the epitaph. Irish father, English mother, born in India grew up in Lewisham. Funny how he suddenly decided he was Irish. Bit like Londoners Jim Davidson & Rod Stewart, Scottish when it suits them. | |
| | | BobG Lt Col
Number of posts : 330 Age : 85 Localisation : Northumberland Cap Badge : REME Places Served : Rotenburg, Verden, Liebenau, Hohne, Hamm, Duisburg, Minden, Hannover, Fallingbostal, Kuwait, UK, HK, USA/Can. Registration date : 2008-02-27
| Subject: Re: Photo(s)sought... 4/3/2011, 17:17 | |
| Stephen You are correct there are different versions of Gaelic, the Irish one is called Erse. Bob | |
| | | mjm34 Maj
Number of posts : 262 Age : 73 Localisation : Gtr Manchester Cap Badge : R.Signals Places Served : BAOR, UK, Mid East, Far East, Cent America Registration date : 2009-02-21
| Subject: Re: Photo(s)sought... 4/3/2011, 19:40 | |
| - BobG wrote:
- Stephen
You are correct there are different versions of Gaelic, the Irish one is called Erse. Bob I guess you have to be careful how you pronounce that? | |
| | | 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: Photo(s)sought... 4/3/2011, 20:03 | |
| - BobG wrote:
- Stephen
You are correct there are different versions of Gaelic, the Irish one is called Erse. Bob Don't forget Cornish, and Manx. (and God knows what they're saying in Liverpool !) | |
| | | Teabag Maj Gen
Number of posts : 960 Age : 73 Localisation : Merseyside Cap Badge : Royal Signals Places Served : Wildenrath Detmold Registration date : 2008-10-30
| Subject: Re: Photo(s)sought... 4/3/2011, 20:45 | |
| - brum wrote:
- [His epitaph read-"I told you I was ill !"
Good old Spike ! Yeh but it is not in English. It's Irish or whatever it is they call it. Never did understand what was Gaelic and what was the other fingy?[/quote] It saddened me to see how nasty Spike became in old age, Altzheimers I suppose. I looked up his gravestone on the web, I suppose that bit of Gaelic must be the epitaph. Irish father, English mother, born in India grew up in Lewisham. Funny how he suddenly decided he was Irish.Bit like Londoners Jim Davidson & Rod Stewart, Scottish when it suits them. [/quote] Perhaps he was annoyed that he served his country in the war, was badly mentally scarred because of it and they refused to accept that he was a British citizen or something. I may be wrong but he decided on being Irish after that? Davidson (spit) is just the same as Cilla Black and Tarbuck. Good old scousers when it suits them but wouldn't be caught within a mile of Liverpool these days. Fancy someone from Birmingham criticising the way Scousers speak! | |
| | | Shelldrake FM
Number of posts : 3048 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: Photo(s)sought... 4/3/2011, 21:23 | |
| Wasn't Davidson the Patron Saint of the British Army at one time? | |
| | | Teabag Maj Gen
Number of posts : 960 Age : 73 Localisation : Merseyside Cap Badge : Royal Signals Places Served : Wildenrath Detmold Registration date : 2008-10-30
| Subject: Re: Photo(s)sought... 4/3/2011, 22:07 | |
| - Shelldrake wrote:
- Wasn't Davidson the Patron Saint of the British Army at one time?
Thought he was, the facist t**t. Darling of the Sun, enough said! | |
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