Name names

Hornblower · Name names

OK - I was there (and am in the picture) but I can't remember a lot of the names.

So, come on you lot - name names!!

Before Botty gets back and spoils our fun.

admin

John Cockles, Geoff taylor, John Payne, Jock Adams?, Sooty Coombes, Paul LeClaire, Dave Wilson, Greg Barratt, Keith Price... can't remember the rest!

RAB

MrJpig

Who is picking the CHEFS`pocket..or is it light relief?? Looks like Paul Donovan to me!

Tubs waters at the back....is that Mr Webb next to him ...he who now sails a boat or something??

Simon Porter behind Jock Adams.

I`m in the pic as well .....the bush just behind Keith Price....

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

not really................thats my arm and ample diaphram next to Wilson I think

MrJpig

........or did I take the piccy??

eastney hooker

Is that Clive Hardy next to John Payne???

eastney hooker

Just noticed Trev watters at the back.

MrJpig

Sorry...when I said Tubs Waters I meant Trev Watters!!

Is that Stu Barnby next to Keith Price?

E.Hooker Ol` chap..I don`t think its Chris Harvey ....looks more like Mr Boland to me??

Hornblower

You're not doing too badly - but 2 quezzies...

1. Who's the Chef?

and

2. Which one am I?

Andy, not sure, but I think you took the piccie.

Did you have your camera at that time and place though

MrJpig

Is there anything marked on the back of the photo?

Hornblower

Ooooh - good question!

Nope...

admin

Chef could be Drummy Dave Smith and I think you were probably in the sangar...

townsergeant

And much later on....tailored short-sleeve shirts were discovered!

BTW....I don't think you are on the photo Stu, as you were probably on Elsan duty!

Hornblower

I am there and yes, that is Dave Smith (and no, I'm not crawling up his duck run...)

Hornblower

Yes - I think it is Stu Barmby next to Keith Andy, but who is it next to HIM?

A bulger?

MrJpig

No....... he is a Sax player and i cannot remember his name

....sorry mate if it`s you and you are reading this

Hornblower

I'm reading this - but it's not me! (I am there though!!!!!)

MrJpig

I wasn`t apologising to you...it was to the guy next to Keith

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

MrJpig

That only leaves the guy at the bottom right of the pic........unless you are a BUSH !!??!!

RAB

Hornblower

Apologies accepted Andy! You're a good egg.

Bottom right's right - so no benefit of my rogue-ish and charming good looks this time, I'm afraid.

I'm a bit surprised you never got the guy puckering up to give Dave Smith a peck on the neck! 'Oozat then?

joe90

Hornblower

...and others!!!!

MrJpig

Sorry ...thought Deli had already done that...GINGE FREDERICKS

Hornblower

Good man! Have a good Sunday and bring us back a slippery one!

Mr Bass Trombone

Can'tadd any more names on this I wasl ong gorn.

Hornblower

YesMickyou werelonggornbythen.

AndIwasn't therefor verymuchlongerafter this picturewastaken.

Checkyourspacebar - or try hitting it in the right place!!!

Darn new-fangled typewriters...

Mr Bass Trombone

perhaps I ought to try and remember to hit it, when I should.

FFoglamp

So, where have I been for a whole month ? I could have named them all in one. But you've all got there between you. Thought the hard recalls would be Ginge, Si Porter, and John Becks.

Hornblower

So - where have you been for a whole month then Ffoggy?

(Seeing as no-one has asked and you're feeling a bit peeved that nobody 'cept me noticed...)

bootybandy

I asked him, but he didn't reply? I think it was work..

FFoglamp

.......and then I went away again !!! This weekend I'm playing "catch up" on the WHOLE thread. Thats going on and off all weekend (I like going on and off if and when an opportunity rises - usually zero). Any how, started at top, spent half a day at coffee boat, and now arrived here, getting thus this far.

In answer to the original question, Where have I been ?

Absolutely nowhere !!! Just too busy to get time to go on the forum.

Now that has to be the biggest anti-climax answer ever. Perhaps you were expecting some spicy exotic story....but ...er....no !

ZedHorn

[quote="FFoglamp] Just too busy to get time to go on the forum.

Now that has to be the biggest anti-climax answer ever. Perhaps you were expecting some spicy exotic story....but ...er....no !

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you could have at least told a wopping great fib about something exotic and spicy like being in a bath of chicken jalfrezi or abdul's chilli jobbies... absolutely nowehere is just not good enough!!

David Duxbury-Williams

Good 'Old' Dogends, first in the queue for anything. I think this was one of the first joint Fleet/Stsff Band Mil Trg weeks somewhere in East Kent.
I honestly really liked those weeks camping, no S%$t.

Dave Smith always seemed to run the stores tent along with 'Gunner' Yates.

How many of us remember the good times spent down at Lydden in the old ammunition store turned pig farm!!!!!!!

bootybandy

I don't......

MrJpig

RAB

MrJpig

I was the only one NOT

about!!

Pompey Rich

You didn't go away to Preston or Stoke then, matey?

RAB

MrJpig

Weathers fine...certainly no need for a TENT!!

RAB

FFoglamp

Spent most of the time at Lydden trying to hide in a field with the radio turned off. Did catch a couple at it in a car during a midnight patrol. and this is before dogging was invented.

.........and no, I haven't been away in Preston or Stoke. These were depressing places BEFORE the last week or so.

Hornblower

Hornblower

admin

The joint ones were such fun... twice the number of clueless people not having a clue what they were supposed to be doing or where, not that they could have found where if they knew!

RAB

MrJpig

Hornblower

2nd Clarinet

.

I remember one year when the Dogend war games were carried out on top of Dover Cliffs.

Boots Taylor was 'Sunray Major'

Paddy Weeks - 'Sunray Minor'

Seem to remember it was night time, Burglars vs Musns.
In a slit trench getting a bit of shut eye with Taff Cox, when Drum Major Andy Crofts runs past our trench firing a 'Gimpy' from the hip.

John Wayne to a tee.

We (the band) applied our cam cream in streaky lines on our face.
Paddy Weeks looked like a reject from the Black and White Minstrals Show.

RAB

2nd Clarinet

Hornblower

Another good ol' boy you two are dissing!

He was another sadly misunderstood kinda guy...

2nd Clarinet

Is there a vacancy in heaven or something?

.

RAB

2nd Clarinet

Hornblower

There goes another rib...

2nd Clarinet

Whats your name? Adam?

.

Hornblower

Somebody stop 'im before I run outta ribs!!

2nd Clarinet

G'Morning everyone!

Now, where were we?

Oh Yes..........!

Just because Hornblower has been on the road to Damascus and 'Seen the Light', it doesn't mean everyone else has to be in the same saintly state as him.
My memory is good (as you've seen from my Dits and so apparantly is RAB's memory) he was and probably still is, a man I would trust as far as I can throw you in my dilapidated aged state.

Forgive and Forget?...............................Nah!

Exodus 21: 23 - 26 will do me......

or

A bit of Latin for you.... Lex talionis

.
How many ribs was that worth?

Hornblower

Bored now

MrJpig

ZedHorn

Hugh, Pugh, Barney, McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub!!!

2nd Clarinet

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I remember this one......

I was playing, errrmmmm...oh yes! .....2nd Clarinet in the rear rank.

The Funeral of Lord Louis.

'Admiral of the Fleet, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British admiral and statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He was the last Viceroy and first Governor-General of independent India, and First Sea Lord, as was his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg. He was killed by the Provisional IRA, who planted a bomb in his boat at Mullaghmore, County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland.'

Lots of rehearsals of the funeral with Jolly Jack at Eastney Barracks.
A full dress rehearsal along Southsea sea front.

02.00am rehearsals along the route in London.

The day itself.....sunny, and lots of people.

A couple of weeks before he was murdered, Fleet Band were at the Royal Albert Hall for the annual 'Burma Star Renion'.
During a break in rehearsals, quite a few of the band were playing 'Frisbee' when Mountbatten walked past, he picked up the Frisbee and tried to throw it.

A great loss. As Colonel Commandant of the Royal Marines, he was the 'Saviour' of the Royal Marines on a few occaisions when HMG tried to loose the Corps in 'Defence Cuts'..

townsergeant

We would have been there, except we had to fly to Cyprus for 5 weeks (working, of course!)

bootybandy

Anyone that was in FOSNI at the time were spitting feathers.....His death happened when we were just about to start the Great Carlisle Fair. a teriffic annual event that we all looked forward to. B+B in the Castle, Tom Gallaghers egg banjos, day and night. Loads of lovely beer at the Crown and Mitre and a couple of rounds of Golf in between. Well, that came to an abrupt end and all our subsistence had to be returned. I think we were receiving about £13 per day subsistence, and spending 50p per day for your camp bed in the Castle. I suppose it was good to quote Max Boyce and say, "I was there". But to be there and skint.....huh.....

RAB

bootybandy

townsergeant

1st coffin behind the Band & Guard.....Lord Mountbatten