@monasiddiqui7 Holidayed in Norway pre mobile phones travelling by ferry to 0slo from Germany but forgot to pack camera. Went into camera shop to buy a disposable one. Shop keeper said borrow one from me. Asked about deposit - no need he replied - just bring it back on your way home. Trust.
@Posted_to_BAOR On ‘Border Patrol’ sounded very ‘active service’. In practice a pleasant week listening to anecdotes from the BFS guide. Great fun with DDR Grenztruppen on one patrol when the cap badge of a Fijian soldier on attachment got DDR officers to come right up to him to take photos!
@monasiddiqui7 Thank you so much for your TFTD this morning. It’s such a pity that the @BBCr4today presenters show such disdain for TFTD presenters when the thought is one that at other times would be a separate item on the programme. Good to have the reference to the Qur’an
@monasiddiqui7@BBCRadio4 And a most well thought out #tftd it was. Thank you. I have recommended my church friends to listen. You always find most appropriate and encouraging Koranic quotes. I just wish the Today presenters would acknowledge your wisdom.
@Kirky_Kirkwood It will be 60 years this year and only underofficers carried swords (I was a JUO) it still seems like yesterday that I was in Marne Coy with CSM Delgarno SG, Sgt Mel Thompson IG (later RSM), SSgt Beale RA and Sgt Holbrook York & Lancs. Best memory - Coy photo with HM The Queen
@UKDefJournal I was the @Proud_Sappers troop commander on BATUS 2 in 1972 with QOH and Green Howards (Richard Dannatt was a platoon commander). In 1981 as OC 29 Fd Sqn I visited one of my troops on BATUS 6. For BAOR units it was often the best time for Cold War soldiers
@paulbiddle401@Posted_to_BAOR With the year of registration of that number shouldn’t the Corps badge be of the old Jam Stealers (Run Away Someone’s Coming)?
@Posted_to_BAOR One thing’s for sure the Volksarmee conscripts didn’t enjoy BFPO 45 as much the boys who spent Saturday night in the guardrooms of the Wavell, Spandow Montgomery and the other British barracks!
@CliveWardauthor Do you acknowledge the 80 or so service personnel killed or seriously injured each year - mostly through RTAs on the weekend dash to and from the channel ferries but also on training? Check to see if the @PoppyLegion recognises them during the Annual Festival of Remembrance