| Subject: Boys Service...JLRRA! |
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Dave P.
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Date Posted: 23:07:35 04/17/05 Sun
Jim has opened a floodgate of memories for me, I'm afraid, so stand-by for some tales from my time in Boys Service. I know it's not strictly relevant to this Bty but, as the JLRRA at Bramcote didn't disband untill well into the eighties, maybe even later (Ray Covell was there as QM in the eighties I believe?) there must be a fair few ex-boys in the Bty. I know John Myatt and Barry Hands where, because they joined the Bty with me, from there, in Jan 1965. Some of the stories will be a bit harrowing, in light of the present day appetite for stories of bullying in the forces, But, in those days it was par for the course, accepted, suffered and left behind. I haven't heard of ONE suicide as a result of our treatment and, as far as I know, it never did any of us, who survived the experience, any long term harm. In fact, it made us darn sight better citizens than the soft boiled wankers who undergo training nowadays are going to turn out to be in their post service life. With exceptions, of course!
So...................stand by!
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