| Yates Palace of Pain |
| Submitted by Jim Garrett |
| Does anyone remember Yates had a small 10 line exchange in the guardroom. When he used to answer it he used to bellow BASTILLE!! I remember when I was doing 7 days in his palace, I used to have to stand in front of his desk and say over and over again YATES IS A B******D while he sat there and roared with laughter.<br /> You really went through all the emotions. First laughter, then you really meant it, then tears! John Nicholls used to stand there laughing too. I remember that after our pass out parade in Dec 59, we could drink legally. We went down to Newton Abbot and all got plastered. Yates came down town and rounded us all up and took us back to camp, made sure we were all tucked up and got us all up for the trains in the morning. Completely different in Character. John Nicholls (I remember we used to call him the PIG) lived a few doors away from me when I was at 16 Sigs Krefeld, He and his family , really nice people. Does anyone else remember being in the recruiting film they made about 58/59. Never got the chance to see it. Wonder what happened to it. They had us canoeing down the stream that ran behind the assault course and climbing rocks just down the road. We were all roped together and about 6 feet off the ground. The cameraman was lying on the ground saying look scared! We all shouted, "WE ARE F******G SCARED". GREAT SITE. Great times, I have to say I enjoyed every minute that I spent there. |
| You Never Can Tell |
| Submitted by Joe Inguanez |
| Another Thursday and a group of us were out on the moor with a 2Lt. whose name I have forgotten. He was however a giant of a man, the son of a vicar and very softly spoken...<br /> . It started to rain and gradually the weather turned very nasty. We made our way to a road and huddled together in a crofter's ruin which afforded us some shelter. After an hour or so, either by luck or design a 'champ' came over the hill and picked us up. Eight of us were packed into this jeep and we set off for Denbury. Ten minutes down the road our Rolls Royce engine sputtered and died. It was still raining stair-rods and after discovering that the driver had no mechanical aptitude the Lt. got out and tried to fix the problem. He must have tried for an hour to get the thing going until drenched and covered in grease he flung the door open and proclaimed: F**k the F**ker the F** king thing's F**ked. |
| Change Parades |
| Submitted by Pete Penfold |
| Anyone remember being given a few days on "Change Parades" as punishment for some ghastly crime or other?<br /> Not sure why I got them but do remember having to report to the lower guardroom at a specific time, being inspected, told that I looked like a bag of sh*t and ordered to return in 5 minutes dressed in different gear. Took 5 minutes to run back up to the block, let alone change and get back on time, so would then be told I was late for parade and given another deadline, which was also impossible to keep. Went on for ages. Tried taking a suitcase and hiding it behind one of the nearer blocks and on the only occasion I managed to get back more or less on time I was accused of cheating and given another few days of change parades!! |