Best Postings & Worst Postings

the best posting was 55/57 in herford,at harwood bks of the 12th l.a.a. regt ra,great bks and great set of lads,plus a great bier bar whullie shultzs,he catered for the lads of the 12th,his daughter even married one of the lads,happy days there

I enjoyed them all, sometimes wonder why I came out when I did. I spent all of my time in various LADs which helped as I was doing that which I had joined up to do, work on the vehicles.

my best posting in germany was the old raoc depot in viersen , an old coffee factory taken over during the war , the office block was used as the mens billets and admin offices , fully centrally heated , and double glazed even in those days , we had to climb a marble spiral staircase to the cookhouse and naafi, two or three men to a room , we had a nice posh pub and restaurant virtually oposite the main door , a wonderfull pub halfway down the hill into town , ten minute walk and we were in thr centre of town , mind you in those days viersen was a little town, i hear today viersen is now a city with a big population , the best thing about the old factoryas it fronted onto a bust road , at night instead of booking out at the guardroom most of the lads would open the billet window and shin down one of the lamposts outside the window , ginger

Hi all,

BAOR was the best posting because of the barracks, Roberts in Osnabruck was a great place
Central heating and double glazing, nobody had that in UK in 1951
If you liked kippers, Saturday tea was always kippers and cheese on toast
Of course you had to be in a unit with good mates and officers
UK postings living in spiders or those old places in Aldershot, not the best; and in Germany you could not get home at weekends, and all those train trips in UK trying to get back to camp in time on a Sunday
Most of us had a good time, and never regret the experience
A great pity none of my old unit [40 Field Sqn, Royal Engineers] are on this site
Cheers Tony

i never ever saw kippers in any cookhouse when i was in the kate , lots of maggots , catapillars , cockroaches the odd rat or mouse but never kippers , you wos lucky , ginger

So, with limited scope for posting abroad and within the UK after current round of cuts, and the closing down of BAOR in Germany; she UKs military have closer ties with the EU (aka EU-SSR Land)? The EU plans to create its own Army, Navy and Air Force using the military of its member states. Should the UK military be more integrated with command possibly being handed over to Brussels bureaucrats?

I know many of the EU member states are also members of NATO, however NATO is usually dominated by the US Military, and politically. Should we give over command to others?

There was one German General, cannot remember who stated that if "He had British Tommys, French SNCos and German Officers" he could beat any army in the world.

dont remember the french nco bit ginger

unclevanya wrote:

I know many of the EU member states are also members of NATO, however NATO is usually dominated by the US Military, and politically. Should we give over command to others?

WW1 Dominated by the French
WW2 Dominated by the Americans.

There was one German General, cannot remember who stated that if "He had British Tommys, French SNCos and German Officers" he could beat any army in the world.

No offence old chap but to use a well used British expression, bollocks!

Unclevana wrote :

There was one German General, cannot remember who stated that if "He had British Tommys, French SNCO's and German Officers" he could beat any army in the world


Don't know about that one but Alexandra the Great said he would rather fight a 100 lions led by sheep than a 100 sheep led by lions. This was updated for WW1 to 'Lions led by Donkeys' as to how the British tommies were viewed by some observers.

jimsigs1 wrote:

... but Alexandra the Great said ...

I knew her.  Big lass.  Used to service two at a time at the old Rose & Crown.

Cheers,
Dan.

Frightening Dan !!!

The version I heard was:

Canadian Soldiers
British Discipline
German Tactics
American Equipment.

Had to edit that, I knew there was something German mentioned in it. Been donkey years since I thought of that one.

How about Gurkha Soldiers, British Officers, best equipment money can buy.

Hardrations,
The only German tactic which comes to mind and successful was 'britzkreig' but only at the beginning when the allies were caught out.

Getting back to best/worst postings.
Best : Singapore
Worse : Catterick

jimsigs

worst postins,oswesrty,woolwich the best postings kimmel park,rhyl,harwood bks,herford

Detmold was the best for me followed by Korbecke.

Ronnie,
I see you were at Harewood Bks, Herford.
Which block & which year

Jimsigs

jimsigs1 wrote:

Hardrations,
The only German tactic which comes to mind and successful was 'britzkreig' but only at the beginning when the allies were caught out.

You have to admit, that the buggers even in defeat made the Allies work for victory

Also Hardrations, I hate to admit it but without the Yanks, we might not have wrapped it up.

PS   Did you like my deliberate mistake 'britzkreig' (blizkreig) a play on how swift the Brits responded via carpet bombing.

jimsigs

jimsigs1 wrote:

Also Hardrations, I hate to admit it but without the Yanks, we might not have wrapped it up.

PS   Did you like my deliberate mistake 'britzkreig' (blizkreig) a play on how swift the Brits responded via carpet bombing.

jimsigs

Yup gotta agree jimsigs, with out the Yanks it would have been a hard slog. And yes a good way to slip in the carpet bombing.

PS: I guess we should go back to Good Postings / Bad Postings.

I agree Hardrations. Getting back to best/worst postings. Best posting out the two locations for me in BAOR was definitely Herford over Munster.

Best for me in Germany was Fort Prince of Wales, Deilinghofen, BAOR over Lahr down south with the Yanks and FFA ( Forces Francaises Allemagne /FFA =  F**ken French Army)

Worst posting BRITCOM, Seoul 54/55 .. hated the joint.
Best 20 Armd Bde, Munster (York) 52/54 closely followed by attachment to Australian Signal Regt, Kure, Japan 54/55.
My job in Cyprus was great ... camp life Kykko East was the pits.

Len (Ciphers)

My best posting in my career. Was 6 months in CFS Alert 500 miles from the North Pole. I had the bake shop for my whole time there. (Bakers don't get frost bite).