catering corps

teabag
ever come across a guy called EDDIE BELL he was provo sgt at jnr regt r sigs albermarle bks i was there 81-82 (acc)of course

Gordon. wrote:

Aye,,The RAF were a cut above when it came to food.

You're not wrong there pal. (Pull up a sandbag !).

In '66 we came out of the desert to RAF El Adem hoping to catch our plane back to Germany. Only to be told it was broken down and we'd have to spend another night in Libya.

There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth 'til we were told the Brylcreem would accommodate us for the night.

Next morning we arrived at the cookhouse clutching our stinking, compo- encrusted mess tins and mouldy KFS to be confronted by rows of shiny china mugs, gleaming KFS, FOUR kinds of egg, kippers, bacon, kedgeree. A choice of tea coffee or juice. Holy Shit !

The only downside was that they had Arabs handling the scoff, (now we all know about THEIR toilet habits, don't we ?)

Here you boys and girls .... get yer laughing gear around this .. I always understood that Egg Banjo's originated in India

Len (Ciphers)

yes, always an egg banjo, even when I was little so it goes way back, bacon was always a bacon sarnie.

Not a cook house but the best food I've eaten was in the SGT's mess in COD Hong Kong.

just had egg banjo
ended up looking like the banjo scene from Deliverance!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a mess but it was really nice

jonathon wrote:

teabag
ever come across a guy called EDDIE BELL he was provo sgt at jnr regt r sigs albermarle bks i was there 81-82 (acc)of course

Sorry mate didn't have anything to do with children and was well out by that time. Did know a Bell though and we called him dinger. He was scouse but married a native and went native.

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cant beat the Andy Cap Commandos

Often wanted to though

Did know a Bell though and we called him dinger.

Ah, the old nicknames eh?

White had to be "Chalky" or "Snowy"

Miller "Dusty"

Marsh "Boggy"

Wood "Chippy"

Smith "Smudge"

We had a bloke called Waterfall, so he got called "Splash"

There must be dozens of 'em !

Brum,
Do you remember 'Trunky' in the QOH?

Bob

Off topic again, but lets see where it takes us!


In Dortmund we had:-


Gunner Christmas - he became "Weihnachten".


Gunner Rea - He became "Dose".

BobG wrote:

Brum,
Do you remember 'Trunky' in the QOH?

Bob

RSM "Trunky" Howard ? Oh yes.

I seem to remember his daughter married a trooper in "B" Sqn called Rowbottom.

beware of the PC brigade you they will spoil your fun with these nicknames....spoilsports

I was on the rifle range one day at Sennelager , zeroing my telescope, when a bunch of Staffords turned up.

One of them was of West Indian extraction.

They called him "Hovis ".

Brum,
Another one I heard about 'Trunky' was that he jailed his own brother. His brother I believe became the Provo Sgt.
Bob

I'd never heard that one Bob, I didn't know he had a brother either.

Just had a look in the journal and there he is, "Pro. Troop, Sgt Howard, C."

You learn something new every day !

Shelldrake wrote:

Off topic again, but lets see where it takes us!


In Dortmund we had:-


Gunner Christmas - he became "Weihnachten".


Gunner Rea - He became "Dose".

poor guy! Bet he could hardly wait to get a promotion!! Gunner Rea....oh lord! I almost don't believe you on this and suspect, just a smidge, you're having us all on!!

In Soest we had a real SOB Provost named Sgt. Christmas whose mission in life, it seemed to all us teenagers, was to spoil our fun. The signal for his arrival in his trusty jeep was the whistling of "Here Comes Santa Claus" or even better "Christmas is Coming....(how happy I will be...something something under the old fir tree...)". He hated us, I am sure!!

Actually, as it turns out, he was not really so bad. He nabbed a bunch of us letting the air out of the MPs tires and took us back to our parents ( be very very ) and rather than being a miserable rotten screaming ogre made a point of telling us what if there was an emergency and the MPs couldn't get to an accident or whatever because their tires were flat? That made more of an impression on me than any ripping me a new one would have!

One of the first things I learned in the army was to make friends with the ACC.

Like the RAPC, they served in a wide spread of different types of units. Unfortunately, unlike us, they hardly ever saw the light of day, head always stuck over a kitchen stove. It was the one army job I could never do. Great work lads.

Ed

Talking about the ACC, I remember my old man having a drinking mate in his Battalion, who was the Cook Sgt - Olly. He often came to our married quarter and cooked us a great feed.

Now in an infantry battalion would the Cook Sgt have been the senior ACC man in the Bn and would all his staff be ACC JNCOs's, Ptes ? OR were 'foot sloggers' also used in the Battalion kitchens, apart from spud peeling on 'jankers of course.

brum wrote:

I was on the rifle range one day at Sennelager , zeroing my telescope, when a bunch of Staffords turned up.

One of them was of West Indian extraction.

They called him "Hovis ".

That made me rack my aged brain..HOVIS..yeah, yeah..Brown Bread.

(No Hovis in OZ, but plenty of borwn bread.)

Crikey if you called anyone 'Hovis' these days, you would be charged with racial discrimination. Hovis would now be an English National of 'Caribbean extraction' Right?

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OR were 'foot sloggers' also used in the Battalion kitchens,

I believe some units had regimental cooks Les

Gordon. wrote:

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OR were 'foot sloggers' also used in the Battalion kitchens,

I believe some units had regimental cooks Les

Good Morning General ! Gordon, you are up early sir ! hope it is a fine sunny day for you.

Thanks for the info, so Cook Sgt for an Inf Bn would have been ACC, but the cooks or the 'workers' might have been non ACC ?

What about the WO Caterers, Brigade level?

Beachley Boy wrote:

brum wrote:

I was on the rifle range one day at Sennelager , zeroing my telescope, when a bunch of Staffords turned up.

One of them was of West Indian extraction.

They called him "Hovis ".

That made me rack my aged brain..HOVIS..yeah, yeah..Brown Bread.

(No Hovis in OZ, but plenty of borwn bread.)

Crikey if you called anyone 'Hovis' these days, you would be charged with racial discrimination. Hovis would now be an English National of 'Caribbean extraction' Right?

There was an advertising jingle going the rounds at the time,

"Don't say brown . . . say Hovis !".

It's that Army sense of humour again !

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What about the WO Caterers, Brigade level?

7 Sig Regt had a WO 2,a couple of sergeants and a Captain

A cook in Prince Harry's Army regiment was racially bullied by fellow soldiers and left in permanent pain when Army medics refused to treat him, a tribunal has heard.

Jermaine Brooks suffered years of racial discrimination and bullying at the hands of his colleagues in the Household Cavalry, just because of the colour of his skin, it has been claimed.

Mr Brooks told the tribunal that the constant harrassment had left him feeling suicidal.

The Commonwealth soldier from Combermere barracks, Windsor, alleges Army medics failed to treat the debilitating trenchfoot he developed after being sent out on an exercise.

Reading Employment Tribunal heard how his pain had been ignored by staff at the barracks' medical centre, one of whom had told him he was "f***ing pretending."

The 23-year-old Jamaican-born chef is suing the Ministry Of Defence for racial discrimination alleging Army doctors failed properly to investigate his painful condition despite his repeated pleas - because he was black.

In papers submitted to the tribunal, Mr Brooks claimed that he was sent on an Army exercise in Dartmoor and developed non-freezing cold injury in both feet.

The condition - caused by prolonged exposure to cold and wet - results in nerve damage and leads to severe pain and loss of sensation.

It was first observed during World War One, where it was nicknamed trenchfoot.

Mr Brooks claimed that the senior medical officer on the exercise, a Major Lewin, knew the chef had developed trenchfoot, but didn't tell him because of his skin colour.

He also knew the condition would worsen if Mr Brooks was sent back out into the wet and cold, but had "no concern" for his welfare.

The tribunal heard how when Mr Brooks' feet deteriorated following the two-week exercise in November 2004, the chef went to see a Sergeant Jolly of the Royal Army Medical Corps at his barracks' medical centre for help with his severe pain.

However, Mr Brooks claimed Sgt Jolly accused him of "f***ing pretending" - despite his legs being swollen and discoloured.

"I can't see there's anything f***ing wrong with you," he is alleged to have said.

Mr Brooks claimed he eventually resorted to a civilian hospital in Windsor because he couldn't get Army medics to take him seriously.

During his time in the Royal regiment, Mr Brooks suffered physical threats as well as taunts and constant humiliation, it has been claimed.

Papers submitted to the hearing detailed one exchange between soldiers Lance Corporal Lee, Lance Sergeant Ashburner and Lance Sergeant

Tremayne, in which Mr Brooks claimed he heard one of them saying: "These f***ing foreigners are only here to get our benefits.

"They should be treated like Gurkhas and their wives shouldn't be allowed into the country." Mr Brooks' lawyer, John Mckenzie, said racism was an "endemic problem" suffered by Commonwealth soldiers in the British Army.

Speaking outside the pre-hearing review in Reading, Berks., he said: "It is widespread abuse."

"They come from other countries where they do not understand the processes and that makes them very vulnerable.

"Mr Brooks was never cut any slack like the white soldiers. There were always comments about him and nothing was ever done about it."

Finally cracking under the constant abuse, the black chef sent a text message to his wife in December 2005 saying: "If it wasn't for you and the baby I would kill myself."

Mr Brooks, who comes from Jamaica, has now filed a personal injury claim against the MoD in the High Court, and has brought three claims of racial discrimination in relation to a series of incidents between April 2004 and April 2006 to the employment tribunal.

The allegations involve more than 50 serving soldiers and MOD staff over a two-year period, including a doctor currently serving in Iraq.

"Mr Brooks is a man in his mid-twenties who has lost his livelihood and suffered greatly," said his lawyer.

"He has lost his entire career, potential earnings, pension, it is a huge amount.

"I want to know what the Army is up to - it thinks it can behave how it likes, but it can't."

At the end of the brief hearing in Reading, Berks., panel chairman Jessica Hill urged the two sides to settle the case privately.

"If ever a case needed to be settled it is this," she said.

"It is bad enough having everyone around the world. Preventing people from fighting and bringing them back here for a relatively small case does not seem to be the best use of taxpayers' money."

Ms Hill said the tribunal would not begin to investigate the allegations fully until the High Court had come to a decision about the personal injury claim.

The hearing was adjourned until July.

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Again I (the one finger typist), find myself compelled to ask, did you type all that in John Boy or have you got some magic way to cut 'n paste ?