MEDAL FOR BAOR TROOPS

Thanks fellas for all the input on West Point & Gettysberg. Shan't have a whole lot of time but will scratch the service as an appetiser for perhaps another visit.



Jimsigs1

BEEN NO POSTS SINCE 10 -04 HR IS IT BROKE I'VE HAD NOTHING TO READ,

John Mcmillan,

Not a problem - I'll keep you company. We van crack open a bottle of good wine and reminice.

Jimsigs1

I'M A BIT WEIRDED I DRINK " SKOL " 3 ABV I REMEMBER GOING TO BED AND GET UP INTHE MORNING WITHOUT AN HEADACHE AFTER 4 LITRES

PS HAVE BEEN BUYING IT AT £ 1-01P A LITRE IN MAKRO ,, VALHALLA

4 litres of Skol - wow ! you could recommend that on the national health.


Jimsigs1

Skol?????I thought that stuff was for washing your feet..Isn`t that what the AD implied?

No Gordon, that was the puple stuff the MO used for foot rot at Harrogate.

Jimsigs1

Aha!! Gentian Violet!! Couldn`t drink that either

Gordon,
Often wondered what it was called. Managed to escape the treatment.

Jimsigs1

Good evening gentlemen, permission to rejoin your mess ?

The FM thinks I've been with Corps but there's this little popsy in Amiens . . .

Not a word to the Memsahib mind !

Haarumph !

Welcome back Sir, you have been missed

As a member of the General Staff and senior Gunner (Master Gunner?) there is no need to ask permission to enter but you should note the PMC did charge a round of drinks to your account in your absence. You have bought our collective silence

Elsewhere on the site your opinion as to whether Barnes Wallis, the inventor of the WW2 Bouncing Bomb, was ever a Gunner is awaited

Hi Brum,

Nice to see you again. Now that the guns are on the right of line, we can sleep safe in our beds.

Jimsigs1

We can sleep safely Jim,but what about the young ladies???

Gordon,
they are beside us, keeping us warm.

Jimsigs1

brum wrote:

Good evening gentlemen, permission to rejoin your mess ?

The FM thinks I've been with Corps but there's this little popsy in Amiens . . .

Not a word to the Memsahib mind !

Haarumph !

Yeah right!! Don't suppose the Reeperbahn has changed much since the 60's. Welcome back, Badge! Do you still have your copy of The Gunner with the article about Barnes Wallis, I'm sure he was your OP Offr?

Is the Reeperbahn still a going concern I wonder. I did my B2 Radio Op course in Hamburg 1953 and that area of Hamburg was a Military policeman's delight. He could earn many brownie points in one weekend to help him up the ladder of promotion.

Jimsigs1

And how many points did they make out of you young sir?

Certainly was still going strong late 60s early 70s as I used to stop off there on a regular journey from Dusseldorf to the Baltic, never ceased to amaze me especially when you compared it to somewhere like the hole in the wall at Dortmund

Gordon,

None as I was S**T scarred of catching the dreaded lurgie - call me a coward but at least I managed to get this far (77) without any major mishaps.


Jimsigs1

I never did actually visit!!! it was just totally new to me the way the Germans seemed to just accept it and you would often see the men even taking their Girlfriends for a walk round, just like a sight seeing tour lol

Shelldrake wrote:

We lived in Dortmund from 1972 - 1976 and I can honestly say it was the worst Posting that we had, I don't think the place had changed that much from when you lived there in '59, Les. Did you live in Camp 7? Best Posting we had was Lippstadt, lovely little town with very friendly inhabitants, I still go back every few years for a trip down Memory Lane, Churchill Barracks has now become Social Housing so it has gone down a bit since the British Army kept it clean!

I think the worst accomodation I had (As a single soldier)was probably Bournemouth Barracks Soltau, I was posted there from 1980 to 1982, we didn't think it was bad at the time but looking back it was pretty grim. The singlies accomodation was not designed as living quarters, all the rooms were different shapes & sizes from single rooms to five & six man rooms. Most had no curtains and none had carpets, the ceilings were very high and the rooms were lit by bare strip lights. The lower half of the walls were painted a sort of cream colour with the upper half light blue. This is probably the reason we spent all our free time in the corner bar, which was two minutes from the camp gates.

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Ah, The Hole in the Wall, The Blaue Taverne and The Nordpol!! Lovely little hostelries where one could enjoy Pre Dinner drinks , the odd aperitif or cocktails of an evening, Les.

jimsigs1 wrote:

Is the Reeperbahn still a going concern I wonder. I did my B2 Radio Op course in Hamburg 1953 and that area of Hamburg was a Military policeman's delight. He could earn many brownie points in one weekend to help him up the ladder of promotion.

Jimsigs1

I'll never forget our first foray to the Reeperbahn, four of us drove up from Soltau. We were all fresh faced 19 or 20 year olds and were equally clueless, lambs to the slaughter lol. We found this place (Below) The Zillertal, what a place. It's a beer hall with a Bavarian theme. The waitresses would slide huge frothing steins of beer down the wooden tables as we sang along to the ever present 'oompah' band. Those were great days, I have some very fond memories of that place.



This is the inside, great place for a feww beers and a sing song...

Remember it well, Wilf. They also encouraged the "Damenwahl", as you say Lambs to the slaughter.