Show me yours and I will show you mine

OK, slow day here on the West Coast of Canada, so I though I would show you a Scaley's work station.

Len (Ciphers)

Nice walls..

Ahhh !! .... you noticed

Len (Ciphers)

Where's your Warrant? What was your capbadge, Ciphers?

The only Royal Corps in the British Army ... The Royal Corps of Signals

Originally this one - Kings Crown



Then Queens Crown




Len (Ciphers)

I didn`t get a pretty coloured one like that..and there seems to be a bit missing.

Hmmm, and the Royal Logistic Corps. LOL

Len, where did you get the HQ 20 Bde Gauntlet plaque?

I have had it for some 40 years, the Ex Serviceman's club I belonged to in Vancouver had Regimental, and Divisional plaques all around the walls of the canteen as well as RAF and RN.
I was president at the time and found a store in Edinburgh named by coincidence Scott's who sold them.
But me old mucker, that ain't 20 Brigade, I believe the background is blue, this one is 6 Armoured Division of which 20 Armd Bde was a unit.
I served with W Troop, 4 Squadron (20 Armd Bde Sig Sqn), 6 Armoured Div from 1952 -54 at York Barracks (Gremmendorf Kaserne) Munster.

(by the way Gauntlet, nay lad, tis the Mailed Fist, the Brothel Knocker's or Wanking Spanner's as we were known as in those bygone halcyon days of my youth)

Len (Ciphers)

jim wrote:

Hmmm, and the Royal Logistic Corps. LOL

Len, where did you get the HQ 20 Bde Gauntlet plaque?

Ah Jim lad, there be a subtle difference, its the Royal Corps of Signals and the Royal Logistic Corps .. get my drift

Len (Ciphers)

ciphers wrote:

jim wrote:

Hmmm, and the Royal Logistic Corps. LOL

Len, where did you get the HQ 20 Bde Gauntlet plaque?

Ah Jim lad, there be a subtle difference, its the Royal Corps of Signals and the Royal Logistic Corps .. get my drift

Len (Ciphers)

Jim, take a look at this site

Len (Ciphers)

http://www.tradeplaques.co.uk/

All my clobber reference RC Sigs (Which incidentally is the oldest Sigs Corp in the British Commonwealth) ended up at the Sigs Museum in Kingston Ontario. Got a nice little tax write off. So it wasn't all wasted time. Though I still have my web belt with Corp buckle. a lanyard, collar dogs old and new, hat badge old and new and shoulder flashes.

A little off subject but a book I just started and a darn good read.

Londoners by Craig Taylor

All about those who live there and their out look on London.

ciphers wrote:

jim wrote:

Hmmm, and the Royal Logistic Corps. LOL

Len, where did you get the HQ 20 Bde Gauntlet plaque?

Ah Jim lad, there be a subtle difference, its the Royal Corps of Signals and the Royal Logistic Corps .. get my drift

Len (Ciphers)

Got a feeling there's a Royal Corps of Military Police in there too.

brum wrote:

ciphers wrote:

jim wrote:

Hmmm, and the Royal Logistic Corps. LOL

Len, where did you get the HQ 20 Bde Gauntlet plaque?

Ah Jim lad, there be a subtle difference, its the Royal Corps of Signals and the Royal Logistic Corps .. get my drift

Len (Ciphers)

Got a feeling there's a Royal Corps of Military Police in there too.

Not to be pedantic, I think you will find it is the Corps of Royal Military Police aka the Monkey's

Len (Ciphers)

The shame of it, not a morse key in sight. I've got the mailed fist plaque as well. Asked for it when I left instead of the silly tankard.

Four photo's showing 6 Div sign, one on Brig Timmis Staff Car (Humber Super Snipe)
one of 20 Bde Sig Sign
one of wireless wagon
one of HQ and W Troops, 4 sqn 6ADSR (20 Bde Sigs Sqn) I'm the mean looking sob seated front row right.











Len (Ciphers)

Len, I have that plaque somewhere, I'll have to dig it out and take a photo.

I just noticed that my web site has somehow disappeared into the great iCloud unknown .. Mac users will understand, so I have replaced it with my old Certa Cito one if anyone is interested

Len (Ciphers)

Len.You have 2 sites up and running.Len`s page has disappeared.Is it likely to come back or shall delete the link on my site?

No Gordon I'm afraid its gone .. when Mac moved to iCloud it somehow deleted all the work I had done on 'The Life of Len', I could have spit blood. So the one now running on this site is the one that somehow survived the transition.

Len (Ciphers)

Oh well..deleted