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Attached - in theory atleast, are pix of my granddaughter's Recruit Training Course Passing Out Parade.
She is the brunette in the front rank just behind the platoon commander.
Note the wrapping paper on the present in the last photo. Her dad and sister are RAN, and everyone in our family has an overly developed sense of humour!
Well that didn't bl**dy work did it????
So much for following instructions, I'll go to plan B, email the pix to Peter and ask him to post them for me.
Looking forward to seeing them.
That did remind me of a retirement parade for a RSM. He had formerly been in the hitler jugend as a boy and actualy was awarded the Iron cross in WW2.
The family moved to the U.K. and he joined the Army. As the troops passed the reviewing stand, they gave the old "stiff armed salute" just for fun.
Pre planned, so nobody got upset about it, though I bet he was surprised;)
Just a small add, folks think the goose step was german but they actualy got it from Wellingtons Army.
Can someone tell me how to resize the file size so the pix will load.
I'm not a computer geek by any stretch. User yes, but certainly nothing more than a user.
The promised pictures will soon be added to this post.
Thanks Ben.
Hi Paul. For future reference, you can go to...
http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm
...and download a free utility for resizing pics. It's a snap to use, and works well. I've been using a copy for years.
Thanks for that. I'll give it a shot.
5 pix resized - - - - maybe... I'll settle for 4!
Sure thing. Sorry that it took so long.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul S.
Great photos.
Edit: Sorry, I believe I uploaded the pictures to the wrong thread. Fixed it.
A couple of comments about the uniforms. Currently the Rising Sun badge is worn on the left side of the slouch hat and the Corps/regiment cap badge is worn on the front. Also, you can see unit/organization flashes on the right side of the inspecting officers' slouch hats. These are 'hand me downs' so to speak from the shoulder flashes 1AIF wore in France in WWI. The emu plum seen on the senior officer's hat are traditional, and hand me downs from the ALH. In my day, VN era, we only wore the Corps/regiment capbadge on the left side of the slouch hat - no flash and no Rising Sun badge and the Armour blokes didn't wear slouch hats - only black berets.
Paul, we wore the RAEME badge on the left, raised side of our hat and the pugaree had a grey (8-RAR) band with the rising sun only on our right arm. On the left we had a light and dark blue badge with a Crown or something similar on it (or vice verca....). The crunchies/nashos/Battalion blokes wore the RAR badge where we had RAEME. In about 1968 or so, we went over to black berets. Our RSM was RSM LEE,
I wore my RAEME badge until I finally retired a year or so ago and nobody ever noticed the little extra 'A'. We all wore pom REME stable belts in the LAD workshops and my mum used buy them as required and send them over to me. She must have sent about 30 over and I promised to repay her but never seemed to get around to it. Maybe she's forgotten now!
Regards, Pete the Pom
Yeah, they put in alot of uniform changes about - I think, 10 years ago about the same time as the Army's 100th Ann. They brought back the flashes, moved the Regt./Corps badges from the side - where we had them (Post-WWII-'the change') - and put the Rising Sun badge back.
We also only wore the 'Australian Military Forces' Rising Sun shoulder patch outside of Oz. Remember that? This generation now wears the Australian Army shoulder patch you can see in the photos. Stable belts disappeared - seems like early or mid-80s (???), and we infantry lost our 'different from the rest of the mob' belt buckles along the way.
great pics mate...you must be proud as..... :-)
Great photos and a STRAC looking Trooper! She needs to know though, no smiling in the ranks!