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Armoured Farmer - A Tankie's Tales
by Malcolm Cleverley
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Amusing recollections of a tankie with 3rd Royal Tank Regiment (3RTR) during the Cold War years
Armoured Farmer - A Tankie's Tales
ISBN 1-84683-029-X
by Malcolm Cleverley
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Amusing recollections of a tankie with 3rd Royal Tank Regiment (3RTR) during the Cold War years
This book contains the humorous tales and memories of a ‘Tankie’ in the Third Royal Tank Regiment, whose service to Queen and Country happened in the days of the so-called ‘Cold War’.
Most books contain plenty of fact but little oomph! This book flies in the face of convention by giving plenty of fact but with loads of ooomph! and plenty of laughs. The language is not for the faint-hearted, but a soldier’s language never was. This is a book about soldiers by a soldier, and provides the answers to many questions such as...
What was it like driving one of those tank thingys? What was basic training like at the age of 16? What was it like working daily on a steel monster? What if that monster sailed into the side of a house? What did you do in Cyprus? What happens when a shipload of tanks breaks down in the middle of the North Sea? What’s the Rickety-Rackety road? How did ‘Little Willie’ get it’s name?
All this and more is revealed in this good humoured account.
Sadly, the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment ceased to exist in 1992, although it lives on in the cherished memories of those who proudly wore its black uniform and Brunswick Green shoulder flash.
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Malcolm Cleverley was raised in a small hamlet on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon. In 1975 he fulfilled his childhood ambition and joined the Army. Having completed his first 12 months as a ‘boy soldier’ at the Royal Armoured Corps Junior Leaders’ Regiment at Bovington in Dorset, in 1976 he went into adult service with the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment (known as ‘The Westcountry’s Own’ or ‘The Armoured Farmers’) to serve on tanks, eventually as a commander, until 1990, when he left to pursue a civilian life working in logistics. He now lives (comparatively quietly) with his family on Merseyside and still does bespoke artwork for military chums.
Armoured Farmer - A Tankie's Tales
by Malcolm Cleverley
woodfieldpublishing.co.uk/index1.html
click onlinebooks then go to out latest books on line
will then find order section
Amusing recollections of a tankie with 3rd Royal Tank Regiment (3RTR) during the Cold War years
Armoured Farmer - A Tankie's Tales
ISBN 1-84683-029-X
by Malcolm Cleverley
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Amusing recollections of a tankie with 3rd Royal Tank Regiment (3RTR) during the Cold War years
This book contains the humorous tales and memories of a ‘Tankie’ in the Third Royal Tank Regiment, whose service to Queen and Country happened in the days of the so-called ‘Cold War’.
Most books contain plenty of fact but little oomph! This book flies in the face of convention by giving plenty of fact but with loads of ooomph! and plenty of laughs. The language is not for the faint-hearted, but a soldier’s language never was. This is a book about soldiers by a soldier, and provides the answers to many questions such as...
What was it like driving one of those tank thingys? What was basic training like at the age of 16? What was it like working daily on a steel monster? What if that monster sailed into the side of a house? What did you do in Cyprus? What happens when a shipload of tanks breaks down in the middle of the North Sea? What’s the Rickety-Rackety road? How did ‘Little Willie’ get it’s name?
All this and more is revealed in this good humoured account.
Sadly, the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment ceased to exist in 1992, although it lives on in the cherished memories of those who proudly wore its black uniform and Brunswick Green shoulder flash.
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Malcolm Cleverley was raised in a small hamlet on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon. In 1975 he fulfilled his childhood ambition and joined the Army. Having completed his first 12 months as a ‘boy soldier’ at the Royal Armoured Corps Junior Leaders’ Regiment at Bovington in Dorset, in 1976 he went into adult service with the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment (known as ‘The Westcountry’s Own’ or ‘The Armoured Farmers’) to serve on tanks, eventually as a commander, until 1990, when he left to pursue a civilian life working in logistics. He now lives (comparatively quietly) with his family on Merseyside and still does bespoke artwork for military chums.