I hope that Tis doe's not mind me using some photo's from the 105 site.
Monday 29 June 2009
Tony Boon
Tony, Welcome to the BB pleased to see that you have joined us again from Aus, any probs we are here to help.
John A
Sunday 28 June 2009
Quiery posted by John Sullivan
Hi John, thanks for your message. No problem in the delay....you are clearly very busy indeed with planning for next years reunion, which I am hoping to get my dad to attend ( along with me if permitted? ). Sort of getting on with the site a bit better now but I will certainly ask for help as and when I get stuck.
Changing the subject, who would know about what happened to all the items that were on display at what was the Household Cavalry Museum at Combemere Barracks? Took my dad there a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. I went to the new museum at Horseguards recently and have to confess to being somewhat disappointed. Where have all the displays gone and can the items still be viewed somewhere?
Hope you can help. All the best for now,
John Sullivan
Changing the subject, who would know about what happened to all the items that were on display at what was the Household Cavalry Museum at Combemere Barracks? Took my dad there a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. I went to the new museum at Horseguards recently and have to confess to being somewhat disappointed. Where have all the displays gone and can the items still be viewed somewhere?
Hope you can help. All the best for now,
John Sullivan
Stan Whitworth
On behalf of the members I would like to thank Stan for coming to the Aboretum to carry the British Legion Standard at the service for old comrades on the HC site.
John A
John A
Bryn Furber
May I on behalf of the members that were at the Reunion service at the Arboretum thank Bryn for coming from Wiltshire and playing the trumpet for us, Once again many thanks Bryn it was I am sure very much appreciated by all that were in attendance.
John A
John A
Saturday 27 June 2009
JOHN SULLIVAN
Welcome to JOHN SULLIVAN the son of FRANK who served from 1964/70 later years 68/70 in Bsqdn any of the sqdn remember him
Friday 26 June 2009
2010 REUNION
| Start: | Jun 19, '10 2:00p |
| End: | Jun 20, '10 |
Premier Inn
Fine Lane
Fradley
lichfield
Staffordshire
WR13 8RD
Tele: 0870 990 6438
please book early as rooms are going quick.
Can members please Email john.richard67@blueyonder.co.uk when they have booked a room so that they can be put on our list.
Thursday 25 June 2009
Welcome to Irene1000
Welcome Irene to the BB you are member 105 which is as all Royal Dragoons know is on the Eagle badge. hope you can find your way around the site ok. Irene is Ted Worts daughter.
Wednesday 24 June 2009
Monday 22 June 2009
Reunion
Ladies and Gentlemen,
May I please as the Webmaster sincerely apologise to John Matthew during my presentation to Derek for not thanking him for all the work that he put in setting up the reunion, I am sure you will all like to join me in saying thank you to John at this late stage. May I now say that I hope that everyone there enjoyed the evening and met up with old friends, it was nice to see that we were joined also by friends from overseas that were able to attend, I will sometime soon put for a proposal for maybe doing the same next year.
John A
May I please as the Webmaster sincerely apologise to John Matthew during my presentation to Derek for not thanking him for all the work that he put in setting up the reunion, I am sure you will all like to join me in saying thank you to John at this late stage. May I now say that I hope that everyone there enjoyed the evening and met up with old friends, it was nice to see that we were joined also by friends from overseas that were able to attend, I will sometime soon put for a proposal for maybe doing the same next year.
John A
Sunday 21 June 2009
Friday 19 June 2009
Guard of Honour Sgt. Titmarsh's Wedding. Ely, Cambs. Circa 1959?
Front left, Stan. Right, Pat Burgess with Gerodie Nixon behind
Note: The Band always wore white plumes! This dates back to at least 1890 in the picture below. Only in the mid 1960's did it change to black.
Thursday 18 June 2009
'C' Squadron Night - Herford - Christmas 1958
Names Please - and don't be shy!!!!!
TWO MORE PHOTOS ADDED - PETE & SGT PLUMB!
Wednesday 17 June 2009
Tuesday 16 June 2009
Photo's problem.
Gentlemen there now seems to be a problem with loading photo's onto the site as it is putting them up in as Draft form, it also says that there is an error on the page, I have sent a message to multiply asking what the problem is and I will let you know when they get back to me.
Sunday 14 June 2009
Welcome page
Gentlemen we seem to have a problem with the welcome page, you will notice that you have to scroll nearly all the way up, I have contacted Multiply to find out what the problem is and to see if they can rectify it so I ask you all to bear with me until I get a reply, I hope that this will not inconvenience you all too much.
John A
John A
Monday 8 June 2009
Sunday 7 June 2009
BOWLER HAT BRIGADE
Come on now you guys get your BOWLERS dusted i hope to see some of you all dressed to kill im GOING TO WEAR MINE on the service parade at the NMA
Saturday 6 June 2009
Friday 5 June 2009
LES HARTY
Les welcome to the BB hope you can find your way around it.please put ur service dates on here and im sure there will be members that remember you.regards DEREK
Thursday 4 June 2009
Wednesday 3 June 2009
Tuesday 2 June 2009
Emails
Brian, Can you get your Emails sorted as we have been trying to get you but your yahoo keeps bouncing back.
Johnie 68
train guard 2
January 1, 2002
by Michael Crossling
Every month when I visit my local pharmacist to pick up a supply of prescription drugs I am obliged to either sit or stand next to the dispensing counter that features a large display of condoms. The display is usually stocked with 27 varieties of what used to come in one package only. The present-day packages of these Protection For The Use Ofs defy imagination and bear no resemblance to the plain packages that were made available to members of the British armed forces in Germany during the 1950s.
In the latter part of that decade, my unit, 1st The Royal Dragoons, was stationed approximately 100 kilometres southeast of Hamburg at a place called Wesendorf. I was a young lance-corporal at the time and whenever any of us in the unit wanted to leave camp or barracks on a pass–whether in uniform or civvies–we had to visit the guardroom for inspection and registration. At all times there was a large box of Protection For The Use Ofs located within easy and free reach. Those of a bragging and macho nature would take a double handful and wave them in the air for all to see. The shrinking violet types would take just one or two and then discreetly shove them into their pocket.
However, it needs to be stated that our use of the condom went well beyond the manufacturer’s intended use, and this partly explains why some guys walked away from the guardroom with pockets loaded.
One such practical use was tied to our use of armoured vehicles for training schemes and border patrols. Many of the vehicles were manned by inexperienced drivers who would get into some pretty bad accidents. For that and other reasons we kept an abundant supply of morphine tubes for use as painkillers.
The tubes–complete with needle and cap–were scattered in all kinds of places, especially in tool boxes, ammunition storage fittings and map cases. The problem was they got dirty fast and had to be thrown out because even an inexperienced young soldier knew it was not a good idea to jab a dirty needle into a buddy needing medical help. The answer was to drop the morphine tube into a Protection For The Use Of and then tie up the end. This was a simple step that kept the tube clean and greatly reduced the number of resupply requests to the medics.
The Protection For The Use Ofs were also used to protect our weapons from rain and dirt. Indeed, one pulled tightly over and down the muzzle of a rifle would reduce the time you’d normally spend cleaning the weapon. And if fitted correctly, a Protection For The Use Of would be hard to see at night by the ever-patrolling orderly officer. You could also use a condom to cover the muzzle and just about all the chambers of a revolver. This again would cut down on the cleaning time. If put on to a revolver after evening guard inspection, a Protection For The Use Of would remain unnoticed in your holster for the rest of guard duty.
It wasn’t until I did train guard duty from Helmstedt to Berlin that I got caught misusing a Protection For The Use Of. I remember it was a cold wintery night and the train was being stopped frequently by the Russians. This was really annoying because the Russians kept demanding to see everybody’s identification papers.
My job during these long delays was to stand at an open door and allow no one to pass. In my best bulled-up battledress, I stood at ease with a rifle, face to face with my Russian counterpart who would be standing outside the train on the station platform armed with a fully belt-loaded machine-gun. I was not to move a muscle or crack a smile on pain of court martial.
What the young Russian didn’t know was that my .303 rifle wasn’t loaded, and that the bandolier of ammunition across my shoulders was sealed and couldn’t be opened without direct orders from the train major who was many cars away.
As the long winter night grew stormier, snow blew in through the open door at every stop. Not wanting to get snow down my rifle barrel, I quietly slipped a Protection For The Use Of over the muzzle.
Many stops later–almost to Berlin–the train major arrived and while squeezing past me in the corridor, noticed the Protection For The Use Of over the muzzle. Without hesitation he gave me a good dressing down, and finished by saying every Allied soldier must do his part by showing the Russians that we were “smart, tough and prepared for them.”
The matter would have ended there if I hadn’t snapped back: “Yes sir, but I hear the Russians have women soldiers!” This, indeed, was a lesson in how not to influence an officer while winning extra guard duty.
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by Michael Crossling
Every month when I visit my local pharmacist to pick up a supply of prescription drugs I am obliged to either sit or stand next to the dispensing counter that features a large display of condoms. The display is usually stocked with 27 varieties of what used to come in one package only. The present-day packages of these Protection For The Use Ofs defy imagination and bear no resemblance to the plain packages that were made available to members of the British armed forces in Germany during the 1950s.
In the latter part of that decade, my unit, 1st The Royal Dragoons, was stationed approximately 100 kilometres southeast of Hamburg at a place called Wesendorf. I was a young lance-corporal at the time and whenever any of us in the unit wanted to leave camp or barracks on a pass–whether in uniform or civvies–we had to visit the guardroom for inspection and registration. At all times there was a large box of Protection For The Use Ofs located within easy and free reach. Those of a bragging and macho nature would take a double handful and wave them in the air for all to see. The shrinking violet types would take just one or two and then discreetly shove them into their pocket.
However, it needs to be stated that our use of the condom went well beyond the manufacturer’s intended use, and this partly explains why some guys walked away from the guardroom with pockets loaded.
One such practical use was tied to our use of armoured vehicles for training schemes and border patrols. Many of the vehicles were manned by inexperienced drivers who would get into some pretty bad accidents. For that and other reasons we kept an abundant supply of morphine tubes for use as painkillers.
The tubes–complete with needle and cap–were scattered in all kinds of places, especially in tool boxes, ammunition storage fittings and map cases. The problem was they got dirty fast and had to be thrown out because even an inexperienced young soldier knew it was not a good idea to jab a dirty needle into a buddy needing medical help. The answer was to drop the morphine tube into a Protection For The Use Of and then tie up the end. This was a simple step that kept the tube clean and greatly reduced the number of resupply requests to the medics.
The Protection For The Use Ofs were also used to protect our weapons from rain and dirt. Indeed, one pulled tightly over and down the muzzle of a rifle would reduce the time you’d normally spend cleaning the weapon. And if fitted correctly, a Protection For The Use Of would be hard to see at night by the ever-patrolling orderly officer. You could also use a condom to cover the muzzle and just about all the chambers of a revolver. This again would cut down on the cleaning time. If put on to a revolver after evening guard inspection, a Protection For The Use Of would remain unnoticed in your holster for the rest of guard duty.
It wasn’t until I did train guard duty from Helmstedt to Berlin that I got caught misusing a Protection For The Use Of. I remember it was a cold wintery night and the train was being stopped frequently by the Russians. This was really annoying because the Russians kept demanding to see everybody’s identification papers.
My job during these long delays was to stand at an open door and allow no one to pass. In my best bulled-up battledress, I stood at ease with a rifle, face to face with my Russian counterpart who would be standing outside the train on the station platform armed with a fully belt-loaded machine-gun. I was not to move a muscle or crack a smile on pain of court martial.
What the young Russian didn’t know was that my .303 rifle wasn’t loaded, and that the bandolier of ammunition across my shoulders was sealed and couldn’t be opened without direct orders from the train major who was many cars away.
As the long winter night grew stormier, snow blew in through the open door at every stop. Not wanting to get snow down my rifle barrel, I quietly slipped a Protection For The Use Of over the muzzle.
Many stops later–almost to Berlin–the train major arrived and while squeezing past me in the corridor, noticed the Protection For The Use Of over the muzzle. Without hesitation he gave me a good dressing down, and finished by saying every Allied soldier must do his part by showing the Russians that we were “smart, tough and prepared for them.”
The matter would have ended there if I hadn’t snapped back: “Yes sir, but I hear the Russians have women soldiers!” This, indeed, was a lesson in how not to influence an officer while winning extra guard duty.
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