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It's gone quiet on this site! "Do you want to hear another story as the site wants a new input" Paul, Baz,Eric Chris, Nibby. Yes or No. Dave

Paul, Did the charge stick.. Dave

Eric, Talk about meeting people, I think it was on the 24th of June 1956, the Duke Of Edinburgh,being Colonel in Chief visited the camp at Devises, a month before that day it was bull, bull and more bull. My Armoury had thick dark Tan Lino on the floor which was being polished by Janker...

I will tell you a story about distraction, relating to inspection by the ADJ on saturdays inspection. I mentioned before about the C.O liked looking at pictures of film stars, well the ADJ liked photo's of country scenes. Before I went to billet up in the Keep I was in the main block with 20...

All this food being talked about, it strikes me you were spoilt. I must admit the food at Camp was good we hardly had any thrown away in the tubs outside the Cook house, not like the ones at Blandford, they were overflowing and we all ended up in the N,A.A.F.I with buns and tea. Dave

Hey Baz fruit and boiled egg, you must have Blue eyes, I thought we did o.k but we never had anything but the basics

I'm back,!! got a story to tell, you are all talking about army rations. This was about the tea that drained away and we all went thirsty. On a new intake at Devises we had 120 raw recruits to start training over a 8 week period, the only weapons they ever used were the Bren and the 303...

Lads wasn't Pay parade a load of Bull when you think of it just for a few quid a week. What do they do now put it direct into your bank or is it the same as it was 56years ago? I don't know. On one of the intakes at Devises we had a lad who was determined not to do N/S, on the first night he...

As I said the lads went on Pay Parade in their working clothes and during rifle inspection the R.S.M would call me out of the ranks to look at a weapon which might have some corrosion in the barrel which is impossible to remove with 4x2. You cannot turn round and drop your mates in it so I would...

I can see I will have to get the ball rolling again, no Navy lads responded, right lets get back to Devises!! On Thursdays in the Army it is Pay day as most of ex army lads know, also it is usually rifle inspection by the R.S.M,on Pay parade, I along with the other permanent staff took our...

You guys have left me behind as regards service travel. it was after the service I started travelling around Europe out East as far as Korea the middle East and the States. Not so good when you have a wife and daughter and you are away for a month at a time and longer some times, don't get me...

Eric, Can you remember when you were in the forces you did not see many Naval lads in bham, I did not. We had a few on the coach going to Gosport who would get on the ferry and go over to Portsmouth because there were a few naval barracks over there. As I said before, being new on the...

Brummie nick What a lovely place to spend your n/s in Nick, I was working near there back in 1997. the only thing was the train service passing you Hotel window at six in the morning and getting no sleep afterwards.Ref #388 Dave

Chris & Eric, I am sorry if I have said the wrong thing, I only joined the forum last December so I am not up to the history of some of its members. I still have quite a few stories to tell if anybody is interested or we will give the Navy lads a chance. Dave

The smallest part on the rifle is the tiny pin that passes through the end of the pivot pin for the back sight, if I remember it is about 0.28"long by 0.040" diameter. It is called Pin, Retaining Pin,Axis, Back sight. O.K. Dave

There are 5 words to the name of this part, sorry if I misled you into thinking it was one word. you know the army the definition of a part was always last, like "Plate, Butt" I will give you 30 mins. Dave

Sorry Baz, the Enfield .303, the` old faithful. Dave

Paul & Baz, You are dead right about protection,I am partly deaf from firing weapons and industrial noises. With single shot your ears had a time to recover between rounds but the Vickers could have 500 rounds continuous also in some cases the firing point was in a tin shed or...

I was on orders one night to report to the Guard room at 09-00 hrs the next morning , for what reason I did not know. I am sitting in there talking when a Police car pulls up outside the Guard room and a plain clothed Super introduced himself to me, "you have done nothing wrong and we have...

The Vickers was a most efficient weapon because it did not have to have a spare barrel like the Bren. The bren had two barrels for action the reason was over heating, they were never used to this extent when the lads were in training. The water cooled Vickers could fire many rounds and so long...