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Wilf Lt Col
Number of posts : 314 Cap Badge : RAOC Places Served : Bicester-Soltau-Canada-Kineton-Paderborn-Osnabruck (Inc Gulf 1) Donnington-Civy Strasse. Registration date : 2008-10-22
| Subject: Summer Camp. 23/10/2008, 07:25 | |
| I was never a great fan of the annual summer camp, I would have preferred to wait until winter and go skiing however. We once packed the company onto busses & 4 tonners and travelled from Soltau to the Mosel Valley where we pitched tents and had a fortnight hill walking & canoeing, and more than a bit of drinking if memory serves. As summer camps went that one was OK. | |
| | | AlienFTM SSgt/CSgt
Number of posts : 61 Age : 68 Localisation : Hampshire Cap Badge : 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars Places Served : NI, Tidworth, UNFICYP, BAOR, Worthy Down Registration date : 2007-12-07
| Subject: Re: Summer Camp. 19/2/2010, 13:30 | |
| About 1980 we went as a troop to Cochem for some windsurfing R&R.
Two problems:
1. The Mosel at Cochem was not at all suitable for windsurfing. 2. We didn't take any boards.
I remember one day we went for a long walk (anathema to cavalry) and one day we went round the old Nurburgring in a mate's Peugeot 504. Otherwise it was all about "wine tasting" and socialising with the girls on the camp-site.
Come to think of it, I don't think the remainder of the camp-site in their posh tents took kindly to a troop of Geordie cavalry in a couple of 9 by 9s. | |
| | | alan8376 Brig
Number of posts : 734 Age : 76 Localisation : Norfolk, UK Cap Badge : REME Places Served : Carlisle AAS, Aden, Hildesheim, Bordon, Fallingbostel, Dover, NI Tours, Osnabruck, Herford, Muenster, UN Nicosia, SBA Dhekellia Cyprus x2, Waterbeach, Civi Street 1988. Retired from VOSA 2007. Registration date : 2009-07-28
| Subject: Re: Summer Camp. 19/2/2010, 14:38 | |
| Ummmmmmmmmm! This was not my recollection of Summer Camp, although the RA did do similar things as well!
The camp I was refering to was the non- tactical ones, where Live Firing of the 175mm Gun took place without the tactical aspects etc. | |
| | | 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: Summer Camp. 20/2/2010, 02:29 | |
| Poor, set upon, squaddies...imagine the hardship of attending a summer camp in the Mosel Valley!!! The brain shudders at the pure inhumanity of it all!!! LOL | |
| | | KrisT Sgt
Number of posts : 37 Age : 86 Localisation : Meanwood, Leeds Cap Badge : Jimmy Places Served : Catterick;Newton Abbot;Bunde;Minden; Chester; Nicosia Registration date : 2017-09-17
| Subject: Re: Summer Camp. 20/9/2017, 14:50 | |
| - Stephen Lock wrote:
- Poor, set upon, squaddies...imagine the hardship of attending a summer camp in the Mosel Valley!!! The brain shudders at the pure inhumanity of it all!!! LOL
Indeed! I holiday twice a year in Burgen in the Mosel Valley at the cost of several hundred pounds. I wouldn't at all complain if it was free! | |
| | | KrisT Sgt
Number of posts : 37 Age : 86 Localisation : Meanwood, Leeds Cap Badge : Jimmy Places Served : Catterick;Newton Abbot;Bunde;Minden; Chester; Nicosia Registration date : 2017-09-17
| Subject: Re: Summer Camp. 21/9/2017, 22:28 | |
| What is that shoulder flash with the gold battle-axe? I feel I may have actually worn it but, as usual, I can't remember. | |
| | | JPW Let Gen
Number of posts : 1119 Age : 82 Localisation : Berkshire Cap Badge : REME Places Served : Rotenburg Ploen Lippstadt Hamm Wetter Minden Munster Bielefeldt Dusseldorf Registration date : 2008-11-09
| Subject: Re: Summer Camp. 4/10/2017, 09:35 | |
| Think the shoulder flash you refer to was that of the Minden based 11 Infantry Brigade of the 1960s. | |
| | | KrisT Sgt
Number of posts : 37 Age : 86 Localisation : Meanwood, Leeds Cap Badge : Jimmy Places Served : Catterick;Newton Abbot;Bunde;Minden; Chester; Nicosia Registration date : 2017-09-17
| Subject: Re: Summer Camp. 5/10/2017, 20:55 | |
| - JPW wrote:
- Think the shoulder flash you refer to was that of the Minden based 11 Infantry Brigade of the 1960s.
I wasn't there in the 60s. Left in '59. | |
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