A Sort Of History of BMH Iserlohn

No mate,

Ted Williams-Smith was a S/Sgt or Sgt in the RAMC, on the strength of BMH Iserlohn.

Clearly his name doesn't ring a bell with you.

My Cods still get sore after 50 years ! I related that story to you, in BAOR as an Army brat, circa 1959, give or take a year, got hit in the groin playing football and the nursies at BMH Iserlohn looked after me.

That must have been nice for you Les

The burning question is, DID THEY KISS IT BETTER?

Silky

Just re-read all the entries for this thread (not all of which related to BMH)...very interesting and quite entertaining!

Beachley Boy wrote:

My Cods still get sore after 50 years ! I related that story to you, in BAOR as an Army brat, circa 1959, give or take a year, got hit in the groin playing football and the nursies at BMH Iserlohn looked after me.

My cods are inclined to cringe a little when BMH Iserlohn is mentioned too.

On our return from the Emerald Isle, in '73 a whole crowd of us chose to rush, lemming-like to BMH for a vasectomy.

We weren't hard to spot, crawling around camp, bow legged. We looked like extras in a Spaghetti Western. (Nobody offered to kiss us better either !).

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On our return from the Emerald Isle, in '73 a whole crowd of us chose to rush, lemming-like to BMH for a vasectomy.

Before or after the welcome home celebrations???

brum wrote:

On our return from the Emerald Isle, in '73 a whole crowd of us chose to rush, lemming-like to BMH for a vasectomy.

We weren't hard to spot, crawling around camp, bow legged. We looked like extras in a Spaghetti Western. (Nobody offered to kiss us better either !).

Perhaps I am missing something here but why on earth did a whole bunch of you rush off for vasectomies? I don't quite get the connection between a tour in NI and this procedure....unless of course the 'welcome home' involved sex with the wife (which I have no doubt it did!!) and the concern such a welcome would result in another sort of welcome nine months later. But surely the welcome home bit had already happened by the time you all high-tailed it in for vasectomies? Talk about closing the barn door after the horse ran out! Wouldn't a pack of rubbers or a birth control pill prescription have been easier?

Stephen, you are missing something here. The vasectomies were FREE!!! plus we weren't shelling out unnecessarily for birth control prescriptions - ergo, more Beer Tokens!

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The vasectomies were FREE!!! plus we weren't shelling out unnecessarily for birth control prescriptions

I thought all birth control was free

Ohhhhh...well....if they were FREE.....!!!

Just glad they were handing out free castrations!

Maybe it was the "kiss it better" bit that was the attraction

It’s amazing how three little words "kiss it better." can get the forum going again.

Silky

Gordon, free condoms (in my day) were only handed out to single guys, it was supposed to keep the STD cases to a minimum! Married pads were STD free!!