Memory Lane

"john boy" wrote:

brum wrote:

Call me a perv but Christine Keeler, straddling that chair, did it for me, no wonder Johnny Boy strayed !

Stayed me never... never... how dare thee suggest such a thing

there you go Brum .... ggggranville

Bless you, my son !

Hope it was disinfected before the user straddled it...................... har, har....

Oops, so sorry... I know hat, coat, gloves, meds...... Taxi....!!!

For some reason my comment on the above disappeared!

One for the Old (er) Soldiers.

Still used them for the white cotton collars for No1 Dress at RMAS in the mid 70's

Not comfy at all............

collar studs??ugh

The studs in the picture look a bit posh.
We were issued with the hinged one, that was designed to dig into your Adam's apple and a rigid plastic one that held the collar on at the back.
Bloody awful things !

Think those ones might be for Offrs, Brum!

They look exactly like my issue A/C2s for the use of.

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Anyone remember this?

Talking about collar studs. The only ones I knew about were the Studs who had to go into great detail in telling you what great studs they were on a 48 hr pass to Amsterdam.

Shelldrake.......No

Hor zu ? Ja

1982 ? Nein !

This a better vintage?

Shelldrake

That's my girl (vintage), more please

I remember the vist of Profumo to rheidalen and wrote a short piece about it. Unfortunately I am not yet allowed to post links so you will have to enter the following into google to find the piece.

Queens school rheindalen and the profumo affair

The link for a short piece about rheindalen and Profumo

http://broadsidesdotme.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/queens-school-rheindalen-and-the-profumo-affair/

dandc wrote:

:lol:Mostly urban myths folks,I (like most of you on this site ) have heard all the stories,but,how many of us have witnessed the event, How does it go? ahh yes,did you hear about so and so, someone told me and so it goes,All about soldiers trying to work their ticket to bizare accidents and much more.

You lot obviously never saw the inside of the Queens Own Highlanders or Royal Scots guardroom. There were some very genuine nutters in there including from time to time members of the "Blue Hackle club" who gathered at lunchtimes to steal and drink methanol alcohol. Joined by the long term "guest" who caught imaginary butterflies with his imaginary butterfly net. He must have been far beyond normal demob age but was being looked after by the regiment. I bet that wouldn't happen today.

When we shared Assaye Bks, Nienburg, with 45 Fd Park Sqn RE there used to be a bemedalled old Sapper, who had the nickname of "Pop". Pop used to haunt the NAAFI and always seemed to be drunk. He used to drive us young 'uns mad because he would put "A Summer Place" on the juke box, stand there while it played, then put it on again-and again ! We would often see Pop sitting alone, with two glasses of beer on the table, talking to himself,.The Sappers told us that he was talking to his mate, who he'd watched being tortured to death by the Japs.
Pop was way past demob age but the RE kept him in the army anyway. You're right, steve, you wouldn't see that happen nowadays.

A drive along Queens Avenue, JHQ Rheindahlen in 2013

I don't think I was ever in the camp but I remember all the songs

https://vimeo.com/227050970