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Marklew is a name you don't come across very often. In Alsager, Cheshire, there is a headstone for a Marklew, Connaught Rangers, died 1918.

Blimey, that's the one ! Mine was much battered though.

I had a brass lighter, early 60s, I seem to remember it was called a Tommy Lighter. Anyway it pulled apart so that fuel could be poured onto the cotton wool inside. The army used a leaded petrol in those days, MT74, which gave off a black smoke. Of course we refuelled our lighters with it, god...

I heard the same thing. In fact I heard that it was the Royal Welsh Fusilieers.

I've never heard of that expression but it sounds like something the Indian Army would have said and later would've been used in WW1.

Regiments often wore their own lanyards, they were a variety of colours and sometimes worn on the left shoulder and sometimes on the right, depending on tradition. This picture is of an actor wearing the uniform of the RAF, in a comedy show called "Get Some In !"

That confirms what I thought. (See post 18).

I've got to say, it looks Germanic to me.

The only badge I can find, (a winged dragon, no scroll), is for the 2nd & 3rd Battalions, The Monmouthshire Regiment, The South Wales Borderers. The Monmothshire Regiment became part of the South Wales Borderers in 1929. The 1st Battalion transferred as a Searchlight Regt., (I bet that went down...

Just noticed this, what is that medal ?

Yep, that's the one mate. Thanks.

Recently in need of a lift, I picked up a "last night" from a couple of years ago on youtube. The conductor that night was Finnish and "Finlandia" was being played. I believe a hymn called "Be still my soul" was taken from this piece. Lovely bit of music.

In the late 70s, flying to Calgary from Germany, in a RAF VC10, we landed in Gander, Newfoundland. People were going about their business there and they didn't sound any different to any other Canadians that we met. (My favourite people, in the whole world, by the way, are Canadians).

After years in the army I was pretty confident I could understand any accent, until we were sent to Belfast. The accent there was just incomprehensible. We had a bloke in our troop who was from Carrickfergus and we used him as an interpreter !

The teachers that we, of my generation (I was born in 1941), were exposed to, should have been employed somwhere else. Two of them that I remember, were ex - RAF aircrew, one of them had a metal plate in his head and when the weather was affecting him, he would be extremely violent. The...

My Dad called cheese "toyt". I've never heard anyone else use the word but I doubt he would've made it up.

I used to feed my Westies on pig's hearts, (cooked). All muscle meat, it did them good. Old Hamish lived to be 17.

The only time I tried a whelk, (from one of those blokes that came around the pubs, selling shellfish), I was bravely chewing it, when something in my mouth went "pop". Memories of the Sheep's Eye myth came to me !

Aha !