I have just got this L42 and am looking at the transit case and was thinking someone my be able to translate the markings on the outside as to the unit and it looks like the snipers name on the inside of the chest?
Paul
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I have just got this L42 and am looking at the transit case and was thinking someone my be able to translate the markings on the outside as to the unit and it looks like the snipers name on the inside of the chest?
Paul
Lance Sergeant, Some regiments, like the Brigade of Guards, have Lance Sergeants
London District. An organisation that runs the Army in and around London. It is always commanded by a Guardsman and is run by and mostly staffed by the Brigade of Guards.
Recce (Platoon) was part of Support Company of an infantry battalion. I assume that in the days of that box, the Sniper Section was part of Recce Platoon.
That was easier than I thought. I was expecting to have to wait for Peter.
Nope Beery, dead right! Probably from one of the resident Battalions. Maybe, knowing that, you could write to the Brigade of Guards Museum and ask them to pass on a letter to ex L/Sgt Coull. I don't know what L/Sgt Coull relates to but I think that it is a L/Cpl in the other Army
Isn't it a full screw Cpl that is the same as L/Sgt?
I was talking to one last year in Euston station whilst waiting for a train, He was carrying his "black bag" and on the way home after a 60 odd days in the glass house (Military Corrective Training Centre).
Said he was lucky to get only the glass house and busted down to Guardsman, as his mate was kicked out.....
I have taken the advice and dropped a line to the guards museum but a search on the internet found this could it be the same chap?
The Falklands: Tumbledown - Continued
Well, there you are. The Net doth provide yet again. Sounds like the "Tumbledown Veterans Association" might be your most direct route, or the Scots Guards Association.
Could be your rifle was there, and if the gentleman is still with us, he'll probably remember his rifle number.
Well that will be two of us then as I hold another one which was damaged on Tumbledown on the night of 13th/14th June 1982 and rebuilt before demob:)
What an exciting lead. Mossin please keep us updated to what you find!!Quote:
Originally Posted by mossin