famous people

John Le Mesurier (RTR)

Arthur Lowe (Duke of Lancasters)

Karl Denver (A&SH)

Gordon (RPC)

no brum ,that was cpl jones of dads army wot falt the fuzzie wuzzies , ginger

Did he like it up him?

Looks about right

gingerjim (ACC)

Hee, Hee, bloody marvellous Gordon - I see the RASC is out of step.

Len (Ciphers)

The sixties band Hedgehoppers Anonymous of "It's Good News Week" fame . I'm sure they were all RAF lads

Shelldrake wrote:

Robin Peter Smith (Crispian St Peters) (RAOC)

Ronnie Biggs (RAF)

Josef Locke (IG)

Cliff Richard (Black Watch)

Cliff Richard? Black Watch? In a kilt? OOOHHH YES:bounce: 

Pat Halcox- Jazz trumpet with the Chris Barber Band. National Service in the RAF where he played the trombone.

Gordon. wrote:

Looks about right

Bit harsh on the old HOLDFAST.
Gordon, you've got FAR too much time on your hands !

TimSherlock wrote:

The sixties band Hedgehoppers Anonymous of "It's Good News Week" fame . I'm sure they were all RAF lads

I agree, I remember them.
Trying hard to remember the aircraft their squadron had. (TSR2 ?).

brum wrote:

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Trying hard to remember the aircraft their squadron had. (TSR2 ?).

Not TSR2 Brum ( pedant strikes again!) that hardly got past the prototype stage before the plug was pulled....... Might be have been Buccaneer after the RAF recycled old FAA stuff to do the same job.

Chemist wrote:

Pat Halcox- Jazz trumpet with the Chris Barber Band. National Service in the RAF where he played the trombone.

Sounds like the usual military logic giving a sliphorn to a bugler !
Lucky they didn't recycle him as an instrument mechanic.


And one more, an ex-donkey walloper mate assures me............

Les Dawson  of the Queen's  Bays.

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_titles_and_honours_of_Queen_Elizabeth_II#Military_ranks:lol!: 

Sir Jimmy Young (R Sigs?)

Sir Bruce Forsythe (RAF)

Hardy Kruger (Waffen SS)

Denis Thatcher (RA)

Kenneth Williams (RE)

Edward Heath (HAC) (Hello sailor !).

Tim/Brum

Hedgehoppers Anonymous were based at RAF Wittering outside Peterborough

Add Dennis Healey Wartime Sapper served in North Africa, Sicily. Italy (involved in Anzio Landings)

Airey Neave RA (TA)

Francis Pym MC 9th lancers:lol!: 

The brilliant Enoch Powell enlisted into Royal Warwickshire Regiment and then commissioned into the Intelligence Corps  

annieP wrote:

The brilliant Enoch Powell enlisted into Royal Warwickshire Regiment and then commissioned into the Intelligence Corps  

Yeah but they didn't heed his warning did they ....SHOULD HAVE LISTENED I was in the east end of London recently well you aint seen nothing like it I thought I was in the Sudan Or Middle East the only thing that told me different was there was a Sainsbury's  

that must be the biggest insult ever . me acc , a good catholic boy i wos , i took the collection plate round , that kept me in woodbines . acc god elp us . and the middle ones got a button undone , take his name sgt wilson . ginger

john boy wrote:

annieP wrote:

The brilliant Enoch Powell enlisted into Royal Warwickshire Regiment and then commissioned into the Intelligence Corps  

Yeah but they didn't heed his warning did they ....SHOULD HAVE LISTENED I was in the east end of London recently well you aint seen nothing like it I thought I was in the Sudan Or Middle East the only thing that told me different was there was a Sainsbury's  

I wish I hadn't, but a couple of weeks ago we stayed two nights in HOUNSLOW, a district of London. Hounslow is an example of what will happen to our country if immigration is not subjected to some sort of control.
Apart from the fact that the place was swarming with Somalis, Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, Asians and God knows what else that populated the place, I fear that to complain about it would brand me a racist, which I am not.
I am a patriot, I don't like what's happening to our country.
I don't like the fact that anyone who expresses unease about immigration is lined up with Adolf Hitler.
I do like the fact that where I live, in leafy Cheshire, we have acceptable levels of immigration.
So far.

annieP wrote:

The brilliant Enoch Powell enlisted into Royal Warwickshire Regiment and then commissioned into the Intelligence Corps  

Without googling I know little about the great Enoch Powell.
To have been in in the Royal Warwicks puts him in the same bracket as Montgomery.
I like the fact that he kept his Brummie accent.
I believe that he was a Brigadier at the age of 29.
Enoch won prizes at the National Eisteddfod for poetry.
Like johnboy, I think that a lot of what he said was prophetic.
I'm not sure that any of it was BAOR related.

Berry Davies, football commentator, RASC
Nicholas Soames, later Minister of Defense, 11th Hussars

Jimmy Hill - RASC

Richard Burton - RAF

Terry Dene - KRRC