THANK GOD I WASN'T A GUARDSMAN

[Peter Laidler]

Just as per GeeRam...... never seen anything like it in my life. I mean...., whatever were they thinking about even allowing anyone to film such self serving knob heads...... The black cat on the arm flash was 17 Brigade on the East coast of Malaya but they were based over in Borneo for a lot of the time. I would imagine that this was filmed in the mid 60's or so and they were the next to last poms out there, replaced by the KSLI for a couple of years. And then they were gone too. As for wearing those dopey peaked hats in a search and cordon operation. Whatever were they thinking about.

Words fail me. Incidentally, back o the first programme, those rooms that the crunchies were in were called SPIDERS. Made of double skinned wood and quite warm, even in the cold Carlisle winter of 1962/63.

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[Gil Boyd]

.....................................with the one coal fire in the centre of the room, surrounded by kit drying after a day on the Brecons, sight seeing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GeeRam]

Just as per GeeRam...... never seen anything like it in my life. I mean...., whatever were they thinking about even allowing anyone to film such self serving knob heads...... The black cat on the arm flash was 17 Brigade on the East coast of Malaya but they were based over in Borneo for a lot of the time. I would imagine that this was filmed in the mid 60's or so and they were the next to last poms out there, replaced by the KSLI for a couple of years. And then they were gone too.

Given my quip as a nod to RSM Britten's oft quoted phrase in the the film They Were Not Divided, a brief cameo in that film was made by the legendary Mick's CSM/RSM Des Lynch MBE, DCM, who was later commissioned in 1961 and then served 3 years in the Commonwealth Brigade at Taiping and Malacca in Malaya between 61-64.

20 years ago, I used to play snooker down the Legion with my father and a friend of his, who was an ex-Irish Guardsman who served at the end of the war with 30 Corps and for some years post WW2, and he didn't think much of the 'legendary' RSM Britten, but reckoned Des Lynch was one of the two best RSM's he ever knew, the other being the legendary RSM John Lord.