Brigade Signal Squadrons

Hi again Barbara ,you have just answered my question on the other thread.
That picture is part of a group pic and was taken during the Nijmegen marches in the early 60s.

Ron Knight,Another blast from the past.Last saw him in Singapore when he was on R&R from Gan 67/68

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This was obviously taken in the days before the Iron was invented.

That`s an SQMS and an SSM.The dug is quite smart tho.

Ron Knight,Another blast from the past.Last saw him in Singapore when he was on R&R from Gan 67/68



Ron Knight (Lt Col Retd) lives in the Harrogate area.

anyone remember willy richardson who was at osnabruck quebec barracks with 212 sig sqn in mid 70's
or willy campbell. terry thoms, paul williams??

Welcome Mick.Nice to have another Scaley on board.

Certa Cito and all that jazz

[quote="Gordon."]Welcome Mick.Nice to have another Scaley on board.

Yeah, like you're getting a bit thin on the ground !

Not more!!! I've invited our esteemed PM to join the site, perhaps with his defence cuts he can demob a few Scaleys from here?

Afraid not Shelldrake...As you well know The R.Sigs are first in and last out since 1960's.

Correction...1920

Just a young Corps, then?

Creme de la creme.

As opposed to the rest of the Clots ....

Len (Ciphers)

HO HO HO and a barrell of rum.

Dulaigh wrote:

HO HO HO and a barrell of rum.

Just a small bottle for me, nowadays!

Down the hatch.

298HALL wrote:

The there was a "Brigadiers Hard Rover"

Not so hard in 1982 when a new gung-ho Brigadier arrived that year. He wanted to swap his large plodding Land Rover for a small versatile soft-top fast machine - similar to the air-friendly one's we had at 216 in Aldershot. I was appointed his driver and radio operator and kitted out his flying machine. Together, we would really fly around the Grunewald forest at break-neck speed, him betting that I couldn't make it up some of the steep sandy tracks. If my memory serves, we only had to take a second run once at one particularly deep-sand hill. Fair-play to him, he got out and pushed on the second run as we hammered the thing to the top. Unfortunately, I have more memories of polishing the Land Rover to the nth-degree in preparation for one of the big parades that came around in the summer months. You could eat your breakfast off the axle it was so clean and shiny!

Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:44 pm.
Jim, just saw your posting re my Kure stint. Somehow I missed it. Well coming up to 6 years later I'm finally replying to it. Spent '51 in training 52/53/54 at 20 Arms Bde (6 ADSR) in Munster.
54/55 I was actually at Britcom Z Signal Sqn in Seoul but things were a bit slow due to the wind down of operations in Korea so I was packed off on temporary attachment to the Australian Signals in Kure, Japan where I was used as a DI to try to get their left foot to pass their right foot in an orderly manner. Spent about six months with them on rotating shifts in the cipher office and sigcen. Great food, good accommodation after Seoul. Used to draw a good crowd of other UN personnel at guard mounting. It looked a bit strange with a diminutive (me) 5'7" guard commander in a beret and the rest of the guard generally all over 6' wearing their bush hats going through the guard mounting ceremony, .303 SMLE's and the old style WW1 bayonet, you had to be an acrobat to fix bayonets. But all good things come to an end and I returned back to Seoul for another six months before I was due for rotation back to Blighty. On the way home we got as far as Suez where I was taken off the ship and reassigned to 3 GHQ Signals Regt, Kykko Camp, Nicosia. I was reposted to CSO (Ciphers) Main GHQ MELF until I was finally released, or so I thought in May 56. Then came Suez and I was recalled and spent my time with 2 btn Scot's Guards, 3 Inf Div.

Kieron

Welcome, you will a welcome reinforcement to the Scaley contributors to this site. A very amusing anecdote, did you ever have a similar experience in Long Valley with 216?

JPW wrote:

Did you ever have a similar experience in Long Valley with 216?

My memories of Long Valley are of carrying a telegraph pole whilst running in a group during the parachute selection course. The sand just made it harder to run. Oh, how fit we were!