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The photo is taken with a tele lens and it has compressed the whole photo. I do not want to be a killjoy but it is just a bus turning at the most convenient turning and safe place. We have all seen this happen in our life.

John, it was a 15 and a 15b not 17a& 17b .The 16 and the 16b went to Whittington oval and back to Handsworth. You have got them mixed up you Nelly!!!

Phil, another incident at Gosport this time. Three of us Cpls had to take about 80 new intakes to have their photo's taken over at Portsmouth Hilsea bks one day so we had to march them through Gosport to the ferry then over to Pompy. Up through the town then on to Hilsea to the R.E.M.E bks, we...

Phil, when you think back the amount of times you were saluting an Officer in the Street. Portsmouth was the place to be because of all the navel people over there and we were in the town many time at Aggie Westons and there was Hillsea bks as well and they were in the town at the same time but...

Where have you all gone, don't tell me, broken fingers, they take a long time to heal. Another little story from Devises camp, Being attached out in the sticks it was a job getting home to Brum unless I caught the coach from the R.A.P.C camp up the road at 12 noon on a Saturday on a 36 hr...

I went to school with Donald Moseley in the years from 1944-1948 and his family lived in Church road the other side of the Meadway towards the railway bridge, he had two brothers and a sister, he moved to East bham airport to live many years ago. From school we had a trip to the factory in Bell...

I have just lost my brother last November who was in the royal signals and did the same trip as you only two years before when the problems were bad . One thing he did was take about 700 photo's over that time. He was at Nanuki ( not sure about spelling) he had it rough but did not say much...

Puul. it was the amount of hair under the beret that made it stand up or not,mind you some of them were terrible shapes and we used to shrink them in hot water or even get your parents to take a piece out of the rim, my two were nowhere the same as one another. As regards the wearing of same the...

, Paul you asked me about any photo's from the forces. this one is from Gosport No 10 armourer training camp, I don't suppose many are alive now although I am still here a the moment. It was taken about March 1955, the camp is still there but has been made into accommodation. I forgot to mention...

Hughes, I was working in Korea at Pusan( now Busan) you would not know the place now and that was in 1993-4. If you go onto Google earth all along the coast it is nothing but hotels, looking at a photo I took back then it does not look like the same place. Dave

Another little story about the C.S.M at Devises who I did not get on with. One Saturday I had to go up to our local ranges to be on duty as there was a contest of ex officers taking place in a shoot and I was required, so bang went my week end pass or a game of football. It was not a very warm...

Roy Blackey's post #799, R.S.M I went to Warminster to do a A ! trade test for a couple of weeks way back in 1955 but prior to me going there the Sgts and Cpls had set up a trip to the White City from Devises to see Nino Valdez and Don Cockell fight and I wanted a couple of hours off to get...

I did not get the letter but it finished 5 months after I went in, 54 years later we are still together but I do not know how. Dave

Oldmohawk. The first time I had scrumpy was in Devises right at the end of my service, I had to do Town patrol in devises with a Sgt from the R.A.P.C and it was a hot week end, Saturday to be exact and opposite the pool is a pub, we were due a break so we went in and I had half...

Roy, What the army did was take the rough and smooth them out, when I went in it was "The Teddy Boys" who were not Teddy Boys after six or eight weeks training. They would take the p--- out of the next intake and they were proud to wear the uniform of the Reg. We had some lads who came from...

Did not some transport have a weighted gas envelope on top of the roof of the vehicle which forced the gas into the carb. I had a work mate at B.S.A who had a nylon ballon trapped between the front and rear of his 1950s Ford which he used to start the engine in the Winter months. Dave

rosie ,I have a wife who does that and then I wonder where all my socks have gone. I was lucky in the forces as I was not heavy on socks, I think it was all do with the fit of your boots, if they were easy on the feet they rubbed and put holes in the socks and I did not do much walking while...

Another thing we did not have any wardrobes to put our kit in, it all had to go into the kitbag, wet and all, terrible conditions!!!. Dave

I wish our billet was like that at Barton Stacey.I have stated before what it was like and believe me it was very bad. The biggest problem was the wood splinters in the floor along with the holes. Is there anybody out who was at Barton Stacey and verify what it was like. We were told that they...

You are making me feel hungry ,Paul. When I went on excercise on Salisbury Plains we were eating mostly tinned meat for all meals, thank goodness it was for 48 hrs, I do remember having porridge for Breakfast though. Dave