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A Few More Memories!
'Signed on' at Chatham, Kent (enlisted into General Service Corps, on 17th April 1963) ... attended AAS Harrogate (Intake 63B) under the initial helping guide of A/T Sgt Rod 'Bru' Dransfield in Recruit Coy. (Frightened me to death to hear of him going back as Sqn Cdr -- seriously, Good for him!) A/T Cpl Dave Waterhouse helped him in his task. Being ex-DYRMS it was dead easy for me to be Best Recruit of 'B' Platoon as well as Best Recruit of the Coy and won the ten shillings allotted for each ... which £1 was then swiftly borrowed by Dave Waterhouse, along with my 'push bike', for one of his regular evening soirees with the CI (Chief Instructor .. a Lt Col [retd.]) down at their 'local', "The Traveler's Rest" Inn on the Skipton Road!! If anyone knows the present whereabouts of Dave, I'd dearly love to meet him again!! (No, he doesn't owe me...!) Wandered happily through my 9 terms, 7 in Phillips Sqn & the last one, as we all did, in the Senior Term Block ... with Drum Major Grenville Hall, Pipe Maj Yule & BSM Geoff Evison in disciplined attendance!! I graduated (somehow) in 1966 as a Radio Tech (Light) after having also become the now 'College's first ever A/T Band Sgt!! There's so many other spurious things to remember from Pennypot .... such as the late Paul William 'Josh' Leech (61C) ending up as A/T RSM when it looked at one time as if he would be going on his Resettlement Course from there, he'd been "regulated" that often! ..... and perhaps the best cutting comment I recall and ever heard to date was from a CSM {in this `PC` day & age of 1999 I'm censoring his name here!} (Brigade of Guards) looking at a squad I was in at one stage, making the comment that "Hitler had the right idea; he just applied it wrongly"!!
This part of this resume written on 12Feb99.
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