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Post by scouser on Mar 18, 2009 21:42:00 GMT
Name - Graham Redfern Enlisted February 1966 Joined the regiment in Fallingbostel in July 1966 (just before we won the world cup) Trade - Clerk Served in HQ Squadron working initially in QM Tech, don't remember too many names but Bertie Ward was QM Techat the time and Steve De St Croix and Dinger Bell were among the rest of the stores staff. Moved to the Orderly Room under Chief Clerk Geoff Binns, Orderly Room Sergeant Dave Davis and worked as Courses Clerk. Moved with the regiment at the start of 1968 to Tidworth and left on ERE posting to 3 Div Regt AAC in September that year. After 3 years with the air corps I transferred to the RAPC, served a further 6 years making sergeant before leaving in 1978. Other names I recall are :
CO Lt Col Sanders 2IC Major Sinnott Adjt Capt Duncan QM Capt Tosh Ham Clerks - Dave Rickarby (A Sqn), Keith Massey (Orderly Room), Bob Harrod (Orderly Room).
Watching an episode of This Is Your Life a few years back learned that Keith Floyd served with the regiment in Fallingbostel - anyone remember him from then?
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Post by tanky on Mar 19, 2009 21:10:19 GMT
hi scouser,i never did meet you but may i welcome you back into the rtr familly its good tosee we are getting new members still.sadly dinger bell (rip)passed to thr green fields last year what a character he was.
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Post by texas on Mar 20, 2009 12:04:56 GMT
It was 12 troop that taught Keith Floyd how to cook , some of us will say he has not moved on very far, also it might have been our bad influence that turned him to the falling down water
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Post by greentanky on Mar 21, 2009 14:07:24 GMT
I was in 12 troop C Sqdn but what year are we talking about? I can't remember Keith Floyd.
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Post by texas on Mar 21, 2009 23:33:16 GMT
1965/1966 He was only a short service commission , the Troop Sgt was Bill Reed (RIP), Troop Cpl Jack Burgin (RIP) , L/Cpls Danny Kewell & myself , Troopers Tony Peirce , Dave Vine , Ken Ede , Dave ? Rushmore and couple more that I cannot remember their names . You have to remember it was 40 years ago
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Post by scouser on Mar 27, 2009 12:24:47 GMT
12 Troop? That would be A Squadron, right? Dave Rickarby (also a scouser) was the squadron clerk from 67 and went to Sharjah in 68. I lost touch with him when I went on ERE to the Army Air Corps - anyone know his whereabouts? Other names I remember from my short time with the Third :- QM Tech Dept Capt A.T. Ward (and his good looking daughter Janice) Lcpl Wiilliams - used to cut our hair - a barber before he joined up (or so he would have you believe) Lofty - over six foot (was a grave digger before he joined up) Steve de St Croix - ex-clerk (married an East German) last heard of in the AIr Troop - observer in Skeeters? Cpl Reynolds and a Lcpl (Mancunian - name forgotten).
QM - already mentioned Tosh Ham (also had a good looking daughter Erica - was Chief Clerk's typist)
RSM - Gerry Burnham
A Squadron Apart from Dave Rickarby I remember 1 character from A Squadron - at a Sqn Smoker her would consume several glasses of falling down juice then take his next glass and drink it on the roof (never fell off though) - memory fades but always remember him completing every sentence of a conversation with 2...3.
Never have seen Keith Floyd dishing up creamed compo mash. 12 Troop obviously didn't teach him everything they knew then!
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Post by greentanky on Mar 27, 2009 14:12:56 GMT
You got it slightly wrong.A Sqdn was 1,2,3 and 4troop,B was 5,6,7 and 8 Troop and C was 9,10,11 and 12 Troop.
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Post by scouser on Apr 17, 2009 10:33:45 GMT
Sorry Greentanky, confusing Troop numbers with callsigns. You'll have to excuse me I was only a clerk but the best times I spent with the 3rd were on exercise, notably one Eternal Triangle (September/October 67?) in the gunners seat being chased by the Scots Greys.
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