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Ah, yes Cinders........ You have put up a photo of my colleagues in A Company. A couple of those, Mepham, Purdom and Landeth were Armourers but I was in C Company and not on that photo!

Back to the head of hair on the 63A Armourrers photo........ Quite a change from the same, now grey haired REME Captain, feeding the belts into the Vickers MMG in the Jeremy Clarkson The Gun' you...

Funny that you should notice that Gil. As apprentices, we wore old SD's or BD's (Battle Dress) until our 8th school term. I took mine home, to the tailoress at the old RMCS at Shrivenham, a lady...

Yes............. 63A Armourers, there I am, front row, right hand man!

60 years ago today, 8th January, 1963, 50x 15/16 year olds entered Hadrians Camp in Carlisle to start our 3 year apprenticeships. It was the worst winter on record. For the first 18 months it was...