Rank

Here is the RLC Conductor's badge. Slightly different to the Corps RSM Royal Signals

RLC Conductor's Badge. I meant to have said slightly different backing, not the actual badge.

brum wrote:

Shelldrake wrote:

If the Guards Divisions' badges of rank grow any more they will have to add an extra sleeve to their uniforms.

They could appoint a minion to carry the badge on a pole, y'know, like the Roman legions did.

The trouble then of course, would be title for the geezer carrying the pole !

The pole would be a lance would it not?

So L/Cpl acting/unpaid/unloved/underfoot.

Hi Hardrations,

This was me as a L/Cpl in 1953, but paid/loved & definately NOT underfoot.

jimsigs1 wrote:

Hi Hardrations,

This was me as a L/Cpl in 1953, but paid/loved & definately NOT underfoot.

And a fine turn out from the look of it.l

I seemed to remember there was a German photographer in the Kurpark at Bad Oeynhausen, so I posed so to speak and remember some Women's Royal Army Corps girls giggling. They would now with sagging jowels & grey hair 59 years later !!

jimsigs1 wrote:

I seemed to remember there was a German photographer in the Kurpark at Bad Oeynhausen, so I posed so to speak and remember some Women's Royal Army Corps girls giggling. They would now with sagging jowels & grey hair 59 years later !!

They must have had tatoo's to.

jimsigs1 wrote:

Hi Hardrations,

This was me as a L/Cpl in 1953, but paid/loved & definately NOT underfoot.

A face that only a Mother could love!

Happens to nearly all first borns Shelldrake.

Hardrations, Tattoos ! but where ?

jimsigs1 wrote:

Hardrations, Tattoos ! but where ?

You should have asked them Jim. Of course by now they'll be old and blotchy, hard to tell what they say or represent.

Bloody hell Hardrations, the very though has made me dizzy. I'll have to have a lie down in a dark room. Phew!!! wet towel & all.

jimsigs1 wrote:

Bloody hell Hardrations, the very though has made me dizzy. I'll have to have a lie down in a dark room. Phew!!! wet towel & all.

I hope you didn't have a mouthful of tea or coffee while reading that Jim. Now go lie down and get it all sorted out.

Hardrations,

I'm OK now - no tea or coffee, just a plug of my favourite baccy & now raring to go. Bring on those sisters !!!

Hi there,
Talking of rank when I joined my regt. in 1980 we called all staff sergeants 'sar't major' it was a cavalry thing I think, by the time I left in 2003 a staff sergeant was a 'staff sergeant'.......no idea what happened !!
Before anybody else says it the SSGT who was the SQMS was always.....Q.
Cheers
Pinky
HUSSAR

I'm glad you mentioned that Pinky.

It was the same in QOH.

Did you have to address your C.O as "Colonel" ?

Yes, we had to call the CO 'Colonel' when i was attached to the 7th Hussars, and our SQMS was called 'Sarj'major' by the officers.

When I was a Gnr I drove the RQMS on Exercise, 20 years later as a WO2 I was driving a Bedford - how times changed.

More people in the Army in those days so they could afford to have a driver for even a Cpl !

jimsigs1 wrote:

Yes, we had to call the CO 'Colonel' when i was attached to the 7th Hussars, and our SQMS was called 'Sarj'major' by the officers.

The old memory's fraying at the edges a bit here Jim.

Did not the QOH officers call WOs "Mister" ?

You may be right Brum. One other thing I remember from the 7th Hussar days, there was a silver/bronze statuette at the side of the square in Tidworth which everyone pasiing would salute. Can't think what it was, any clues Brum !

I see I have been promoted to Maj-Gen !! Drinks are on me and there is a day's holiday.

jimsigs1 wrote:

You may be right Brum. One other thing I remember from the 7th Hussar days, there was a silver/bronze statuette at the side of the square in Tidworth which everyone pasiing would salute. Can't think what it was, any clues Brum !

I remember a statuette Jim, there was also a gong (inscribed with the names of the fallen of 3H, I think), that you had to salute. Another tradition was having to stand at attention when the last post was played, no matter what you were doing. This took place in the afternoon on working days.

Trouble was, all this was only restarted when the regt was in Hohne, blokes like me who'd only been in "B" Sqn during the 3 yrs that the squadrons were scattered hither and yon, hadn't got a clue what was going on !

jimsigs1 wrote:

I see I have been promoted to Maj-Gen !! Drinks are on me and there is a day's holiday.

Well done Jim, I'll have 2 bottles of Glenmorangie and Sunday off to recover.

hi there,
Yes we did, I think most cavalry regt's did similar apart the Royal Hussars because when we amalgamated with them in '92 I think we adopted there more boring /typical ranks and name system !! BOOOO
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pinky
HUSSAR