Great guy. Signed up as a drummer boy in the 10th Hussars. This was I believe,filmed in the Green Room at the Dorchester, one of our State Trumpeters 5 pound jobs. We played from the balcony for the speeches after the diners had their grub and during the night Bunny Girls were selling raffle tickets with the first prize being a Rolls Royce. Looking down at a Bunny Girl from a balcony was a sight to be remembered. Whats this got to do with Norman Wisdom? Nothing, but the Video brought back memories of the Dorchester.Thanks for posting this clip Stan.
born 4 February 1915 Norman enlisted as a drummer boy in the 10th Royal Hussars in 1930 and posted to Lucknow, India as a bandsman. There he learnt to play the trumpet and clarinet. While performing a comedy boxing routine in an army gym, Wisdom discovered he had a talent for entertainment and began to develop his talents as a musician and stage entertainer. During World War II he was sent to work in a communications centre in a command bunker in London where he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the prime minister. He then joined the Royal Corps of Signals and performed a similar function with a military unit based in Cheltenham. After leaving the army in 1946, having improved his diction in the army he also took a job as a night telephone operator.
Norman was the flyweight boxing champion of the British Army in India.
Great guy. Signed up as a drummer boy in the 10th Hussars. This was I believe,filmed in the Green Room at the Dorchester, one of our State Trumpeters 5 pound jobs. We played from the balcony for the speeches after the diners had their grub and during the night Bunny Girls were selling raffle tickets with the first prize being a Rolls Royce. Looking down at a Bunny Girl from a balcony was a sight to be remembered. Whats this got to do with Norman Wisdom? Nothing, but the Video brought back memories of the Dorchester.Thanks for posting this clip Stan.
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ReplyDeleteNorman enlisted as a drummer boy in the 10th Royal Hussars in 1930 and posted to Lucknow, India as a bandsman. There he learnt to play the trumpet and clarinet. While performing a comedy boxing routine in an army gym, Wisdom discovered he had a talent for entertainment and began to develop his talents as a musician and stage entertainer. During World War II he was sent to work in a communications centre in a command bunker in London where he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the prime minister. He then joined the Royal Corps of Signals and performed a similar function with a military unit based in Cheltenham. After leaving the army in 1946, having improved his diction in the army he also took a job as a night telephone operator.
Norman was the flyweight boxing champion of the British Army in India.
What an actor,gave me a good laugh to see me through the weekend!
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