Like i have just done,(well not really,cos nobody reads em) im going to have mt eyes tested with top class bloke on 22 dec any way, when i was in the army learning how to charge at a straw man i was told you charge and scream as you go in there were 30 of us doing this when suddenly all was quiet except for Laughter from the edge of the of the area we were training i stopped and looked they were all watching me doing this charging and yelling Barsteward at this straw dummy on another occasion,we were zeroning our rifles we went to the area where there were a dozen targets about a hundre yards in lenght and seperated 6 foot apart i was waiting my turn the chap in fron of me went for his target when he came back it had no holes in it Sureleyt he was not that bad a shot NO he was not the lad next to him came with his target with 12 holes in it I should not have laughed my turn was next i aimed fired 6 rounds Perfect i thought BUT,when i went to my target, i had done the same thing shoy at the next mans target So to make sure we did it right we had to wait till every one had done and let me and him shoot on our own oh yes we hit 6 times each but they did not let us forget it for Quite some time
RE: then there was the time,with a full decker, Yes i had not been long at the tracky,s i was on the Gawber run,it was just before Nine am the bus was full with the Tech people i went the worng way,instead of Hudds road i went up Regents stree suddenly there was a banging and a shouting have you ever tried turning a full decker on regents street when it was busy i did not get away with it i was reported i was on the Carpet at the Depot next day then of course there was the time at the Coal face, my first Stint at the Coal face when the timber lads put Stemming(CLAY) for the shot firer to put in the shot holes when the chap next to me shouted stemming on BOB i saw this big lump of yellow Clay i grabbed it it was a monday morning it was a lump os real SH** he had been out on the P the night before at top hose down the Dale once again i was never allowed to forget it and if ever come to town and there happens to be any left from that day even in Tarn they shout STEMMING ON BOB
RE: then there was the tim i called the SGT Major a lovely person Yes that was playing at Footy at Aldershot 1949 on the team sheet they do not put your Rank i was the only Sapper in the team NCO,s Officers,and of course the Seargant Major during the game we were atticking i had passed the ball to this chap i had made my i waited for his return pass i shouted PART WEE IT C T he did i scored BUT later in the week I saw the chap with his big Stick he had been waiting for me(OH YES) he found something wrong with me and put me behind the Biggest stack of spids youve ever seen