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I have a couple of acquaintances who did the Ancestry DNA thing. I understand it costs about £70, think I'll swerve that.

This morning I suddenly remembered a beautiful piece of music that I first heard on forces radio in Germany, in the 70s. They used to play a male duet and it was years later that I discovered they were singing something unpronouncable from an opera called The Pearl Fishers. I googled it and when...

. . . . and did you ever notice that the Baddie always wore a black hat and had a pencil moustache ?

One or two more that allways bring a lump to my throat.... "Una Furtiva Lagrima", "E Lucevan Le Stelle".Pavarotti recorded them. There's a couple from Les Mis that have the same effect.

No need to delete, our kid, bin there done that.

Ditto "Nimrod", "Finlandia", "Time to Say Goodbye", (Sarah Brightman + Andrea Boccelli), "Pomp and Circumstance", almost anything by The Everleys. There's lots more too !

Wow ! What terrible crime did you commit to attract all that attention ? Boots, I bet it was your boots, it was allways boots !

I joined up in sep '57, (not the Guards I hasten to add !). Like you, my mate's number began 2347, I was 2351.

I was quite surprised when I heard Sam say that. "Cowbag" was frowned on when I was a kid. When playing cowboys and indians we used to call it cowbags and onions.

Back in the 50s another place, famed for its ice cream, was Portway, not far from Henley. My kid brother & I went there once, with our parents for an ice cream and we thought it was great. Next day all four of us were struck with diarrhoea & vomiting. Four of us sharing one toilet - we cursed...

I was in Germany when all that was going on too. We were a missile regiment, equipped with Honest John nuclear rockets. We thought we were going to get busy for a while but fortunately Krushchev wasn't as barmy as we thought !

Off the top of my head, (I've got more info somewhere), the antelope on the warwick's cap badge originated from a colour captured from a Spanish regiment at some time.

When I was young, William's brother, Arthur , lived across the road from us in Sladepool Farm Rd. B14.

I've only just noticed this photo, (May 6th). I love how natural everyone looks, so much better than the stiffly - posed ones that were the norm in those days. I'm surprised Angela Merkel managed to get in on the act though !

Born the same year as you, I lived in Sladepool farm Rd. When we were kids we called the site you mention "The balloon field".

As a smartarse teenager, I once leapt for the (moving) platform of a 48. My foot slipped and my shin scraped all the way down the edge, finishing up under my kneecap. I can still feel the pain.

Yes, that reminds me of my mother telling me that when I was a toddler she had me in a seat on the back of her bike. Going through Kings Heath, on a wet day, she got her front wheel on a tram track and could'nt get off. She ended up falling off her bike but luckily we were both unscathed...

That's an excellent "bit of digging" Janice, I'd never heard of the Royal Defence Corps (and I can't find an actual picture of their cap badge either). Sadly, on reading your attachment, I notice that the RDC consisted of a number of companys though, and grandad was attached to the "1st...

No, the Birmingham Pals became battalions of the Warwicks. If someone did enter your grandad's unit wrongly then you could be sent on a wild goose chase. My great uncle was in the DCLI, (Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry). Someone wrote DLI, which was the initials of the Durham Light Infantry...

I didn't know which battalion of the Warwicks my granddad was in, untiI I found him on the Absent Voters List. (10th Bn.). You might have luck there. This PCRR might simply be a mistake, made by the person who wrote the entry. Certainly, when looking for my great uncles war memorial, I was put...