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I've hit a brick wall on this. There was no Pioneer Corps in 1916, (or Labour Corps). Pete, do you have your granddad's medals ?

Well, I've had a good "dig around" in this one! I went for Canadian units, hoping PCRR would be one of their provincial regiments, to no avail. The fact that granddad was attached to a battalion indicates that the initials could be of a regiment but nothing comes up. Until I find an alternative...

This is a difficult one ! I can't find a British regiment with those initials. "att." of course, means attached and my first thought is that he was attached to some kind of Pioneer Corps unit. I'll also try and look up WW1 Canadian units and get back to you.

Good old spike !

I googled Talfryn, he'd worked with actors such as Richard Burton. Looks like Laurie didn't have much to be sniffy about.

Yes ! You've reminded me of a wartime Shakespearian film I watched once, (Richard III ?), John Laurie was in it and he looked just the same as he did in Dad's Army.

Here in Cheshire we have our fair share of weird pronounciations, (Cholmondeley = "Chumley" for example). But growing up in the Maypole, Alcester and the Alcester road was pronounced "Alster" yet , for some reason, Alcester Lanes End was pronounced as it's spelt. Unless you call it "The Nob", of...

Herr Flick tickles me, you can see he's having trouble keeping his face straight, with some of the daft things he has to say.

I loved the Welsh character, played by Talfryn Thomas, He wasn't in the show long, it turns out that the Scottish bloke, (somebody Laurie ?), had him taken off.

SHAATAAAAAP ! (You is all a bunch of poofs !).

Do you mean that the original Archers intro music has been changed ? That'll upset Billy Connolly, he once suggested that we adopt it as our national anthem !

I remember them too, in my case during the 50s. What a miserable job that must've been.

"'Allo, allo", "Dad's army ", "It ain't 'arf 'ot Mum", I think shows like that were so popular because they were just DAFT ! What could be dafter than a rubber dinghy full of Luftwaffe types floating on a duck pond ? (Capt Mainwaring) "Come out of there!".( Luftwaffe chappie), "No !". Only the...

I'd completely forgotten about Sons of Rest. I'm reminded that there was a wooden building that they occupied in Daisy Farm park when I was young.

In the early 60s the army replaced Battledress with a new uniform called No 2 Dress. I remember how bemused we were when we were issued with detached collars and collar studs.

That girl on the right looks a bit of a rebel. (There's allways one !)

I'm pretty sure my number was 381776, (I was an employee). We had a TASCOS No. too but there's no chance I can rmember that.

As I remember it, the team that were "receiving" had to hold up to a chant of "Polly on the mopstick, one two three". The tactics were for the attacking team to wait till the end then send in the fattest kid to cause a collapse. As for British Bulldog, one lonely bloke had to stand facing a...

He sounds a cheerfull soul, certainly seems to get on with bradcasters like Ken Bruce.

At various times in my life I found that Polly on the Mopstick was unheard of outside of Brum. Weirdly, I recently stumbled across a video clip, on youtube, of a bunch of kids in a school somewhere in South America playing exactly the same that we did. I'd love to know how THAT came about !