Warrant Officer

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Quote :: See if this works. Failed

What are you trying to do Bob??

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 17/1/2012, 21:30

Are you trying to send a picture Bob ?

Jimsigs1

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 18/1/2012, 08:27

Gordon. wrote:: Oh dear,i wish you haddn`t said that Jim...Shelldrake will be like a dug with two tails now.

(Nearest emoticon to a dog!)

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 18/1/2012, 09:31

Yes I was trying to send a picture of a Warrant without success.

Bob

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 18/1/2012, 09:39

Shelldrake wrote:

Gordon. wrote:: Oh dear,i wish you haddn`t said that Jim...Shelldrake will be like a dug with two tails now.

(Nearest emoticon to a dog!)

woof woof "Your barkin' you are" lol!

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 18/1/2012, 10:02

John Boy, don't suppose you've got one of Barnes Wallis doing "Kneeling Gun Drill"?

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 18/1/2012, 11:14

This new avatar of yours, Shellers old son.

An alarmingly scruffy looking bit of kit, if I may say so.

Clearly NOT 76 Bty !

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 18/1/2012, 11:22

Course it's not 76 Bty, old bean, theirs never left Barracks. Yours bears an uncanny resemblance to old Barney Wallis when he was DoM of the RA (Mounted) Band. king

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Found a bit more on Barnes Wallis

Quote :: In April 1913 as chief assistant to H B Pratt of Vickers, Wallis turned his mind from the restless sea to the almost unconquered mysteries of the air. He designed Britain's second rigid airship, the R.9, for the Navy.

BNW: "Churchill stopped the building of the R.9 at the beginning of the war because everybody thought the war would be over in three or four months. Pratt and I rushed off and enlisted in the Artists' Rifles".

They served for nine months.

This is from his memorial trust....

Rifle= small cannon = bigger gun = Shelldrake`s fantasy....Yep there is an RA connection bom

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 18/1/2012, 12:37

I see Wikapedia has a blackout for 24 hours finish tomorrow due to some protest.. Damn nuisance. There's always some folk or organisation protesting over something. What a world !!!

Jimsigs1

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 18/1/2012, 12:51

Gordon. wrote:

Found a bit more on Barnes Wallis

Quote :: In April 1913 as chief assistant to H B Pratt of Vickers, Wallis turned his mind from the restless sea to the almost unconquered mysteries of the air. He designed Britain's second rigid airship, the R.9, for the Navy.

BNW: "Churchill stopped the building of the R.9 at the beginning of the war because everybody thought the war would be over in three or four months. Pratt and I rushed off and enlisted in the Royal Regiment of Artillery.

They served for nine months.

This is from his memorial trust....

Yep there is an RA connection bom

Thank you Gordon for your painstaking research, I knew I was correct! Laughing

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 18/1/2012, 16:26

Warrant Officer - Page 2 Machine-guns-and-launchers-28-c%5Bekm%5D522x350%5Bekm%5D

There you go Shell's me old muker lol!

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 18/1/2012, 17:57

Not sure why I'm perpetuating this but I found this during a "google". (They can't touch you for it !).

"With the outbreak of the First World War, Barnes found himself unemployed when the Admiralty decided that they did not want to spend any more money on airships during the war. Wallis took the opportunity to join the Services but unfortunately failed the eye test to allow him to get in. Wallis overcame this by recruiting in another section of the Services and when the men were stripping just before their medical, was careful to do so near the sight-testing card and memorised it. However, soon after he had joined up, the airship designing team were recalled and the War Office was persuaded to release Wallis, and Pratt who had joined too, from the Army."

If his first attempt to join up failed then this would seem to knacker Gordon's offer!

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 18/1/2012, 18:00

Shelldrake wrote:: Yours bears an uncanny resemblance to old Barney Wallis when he was DoM of the RA (Mounted) Band.

Wot, with a cavalry stripe on his strides ? I don't chuffing think so ! Shocked

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 18/1/2012, 18:32

Funny where this post has led us too - Barnes Wallis, Churchill, Beer mats, Wikipedia, Dogs, The Royal Artillery, Guns, Bouncing Bombs, electric drills etc, etc. Whooo ! that's enough to be going on with. I don't care as I now have my picture of a Warrant Officer's Warrant.

Carry on that man

jimsigs1

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 18/1/2012, 23:14

jimsigs1 wrote:: Funny where this post has led us too - Barnes Wallis, Churchill, Beer mats, Wikipedia, Dogs, The Royal Artillery, Guns, Bouncing Bombs, electric drills etc, etc. Whooo ! that's enough to be going on with. I don't care as I now have my picture of a Warrant Officer's Warrant.

Carry on that man

jimsigs1

Well thaty what thy called con-tin -uitity me finks scratch

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 18/1/2012, 23:21

Well said John Boy, and I like the variety - you certainly learn a lot on this site. Wished it had been going when I was in the rmy.

Jimsigs1

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 18/1/2012, 23:33

I just wish computers had been around when I was in Jimsigs1 it would have made life so much easier in lots of ways, hours and hours of typing on the Telex just to get the tape, hoping for no mistakes then waiting for it to send pale

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Quote :: when I was in Jimsigs1

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Quote :: I don't care as I now have my picture of a Warrant Officer's Warrant.

Well Jim. After all the kerfuffel,don`t we get to see it???

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 18/1/2012, 23:53

Gordon,

You will have to ask Shelldrake - it might even be copyright !!

Jimsigs1

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 19/1/2012, 08:19

Gordon. wrote:

Quote :: I don't care as I now have my picture of a Warrant Officer's Warrant.

Well Jim. After all the kerfuffel,don`t we get to see it???

You could but, in spite of approximately 500 years of service in just about every Theatre between us, no bugger knows how to upload it!! Rolling Eyes

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 19/1/2012, 08:20

"john boy" wrote:: There you go Shell's me old muker

Well done, John Boy but that's not exactly what I meant. lol!

Subject: Re: Warrant Officer 19/1/2012, 09:42

OK folks, with Sheldrakes permission, here is a Warrant Officer's Warrant :

Jimsigs1

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Quote :: You could but, in spite of approximately 500 years of service in just about every Theatre between us, no bugger knows how to upload it!!

You should have asked a siggy lol!

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