Brecon Beacons Servicemen Die

[paulus 26]

You ex para Palo

no mate im scared of flying

[cookiemonsterandmerlin 145]

When we done our parachute course at weston on the green they showed us film of officer landing on the A34

[paulus 26]

When we done our parachute course at weston on the green they showed us film of officer landing on the A34

you would remember the knacker cracker then?

[paulus 26]

the spotlight club, the osprey??

[cookiemonsterandmerlin 145]

 

When we done our parachute course at weston on the green they showed us film of officer landing on the A34

you would remember the knacker cracker then?

 

Osprey had gone shows what old fooker you are the spotlight was still going but we normally went into carterton

[paulus 26]

 

 

When we done our parachute course at weston on the green they showed us film of officer landing on the A34

you would remember the knacker cracker then?

 

Osprey had gone shows what old fooker you are the spotlight was still going but we normally went into carterton

 

the Eagle then ex England rugby player John Orwin`s Mrs worked behind the bar china fooking doll

[cookiemonsterandmerlin 145]

If we wanted somewhere nice we use to go to plough at alvescot run by a couple of gay boys but cracking food

[paulus 26]

If we wanted somewhere nice we use to go to plough at alvescot run by a couple of gay boys but cracking food

i thought the Lord Kitchener in Brize Norton village was were the Faggots hung out

 

i remember now, there were 3 pubs

 

Beehive = old farts, Eagle = squadies & rock-apes, Osprey = lobotomized yokels & underage tarts

[cookiemonsterandmerlin 145]

A I am amourer B I am amourer

[Born Hunter 17,910]

 

If we wanted somewhere nice we use to go to plough at alvescot run by a couple of gay boys but cracking food

i thought the Lord Kitchener in Brize Norton village was were the Faggots hung out

 

i remember now, there were 3 pubs

 

Beehive = old farts, Eagle = squadies & rock-apes, Osprey = lobotomized yokels & underage tarts

 

 

You spent a lot of time in the Osprey then Paul?

 

 

Amused me when I heard the RAF Regt. called rock apes, thought it was some hard core WWII name they had earnt..................... pissed myself when I found out the real reason!

[paulus 26]

 

 

If we wanted somewhere nice we use to go to plough at alvescot run by a couple of gay boys but cracking food

i thought the Lord Kitchener in Brize Norton village was were the Faggots hung out

 

i remember now, there were 3 pubs

 

Beehive = old farts, Eagle = squadies & rock-apes, Osprey = lobotomized yokels & underage tarts

 

 

You spent a lot of time in the Osprey then Paul?

 

 

Amused me when I heard the RAF Regt. called rock apes, thought it was some hard core WWII name they had earnt..................... pissed myself when I found out the real reason!

 

Gibraltar

[gonetoearth 5,144]

I heard that story years ago refresh my memory palo

[Born Hunter 17,910]

http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Rockapes

 

[paulus 26]

http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Rockapes

 

bollox

Origin of the "Rock Ape" nickname[edit]

In the past the nickname "Rock Ape" has been attributed to their traditional role guarding areas of Gibraltar,^{[citation needed]} but this is not so. The term came into use after an accident in the Western Aden Protectorate in November 1952. Two Regiment officers serving with the APL at Dhala decided to amuse themselves by going out to shoot some of the hamadryas baboons (locally referred to as "rock apes"). The officers drew rifles and split up to hunt the apes. In the semi-darkness one of the officers fired at a moving object in the distance. When he reached the target he discovered he had shot the other officer. After emergency treatment Flight Lieutenant Percy Henry Mason survived to return to service a few months later. When asked why he had fired at his friend by a board of inquiry the officer replied that his target had "looked just like a rock ape" in the half light. The remark soon reverberated around the RAF and it was not long before the term was in general use.^{[citation needed]}

Another version of the nick-name rationale was that Reichmarshal Goebels, head of Nazi Propaganda, heard the legend that, if the barbary apes on the Rock of Gibraltar ever left, the British Empire would crumble. At that stage of the war, when things weren't going too well for the Axis forces, he decided that a propaganda coup was required and reportedly sent a commando raid to erradicate the apes. The story goes that Winston Churchill heard of the mission and immediately tasked the RAF Regiment with protecting the apes, and thus the nick-name was born.^[2]

^{My old man was there in aden in 1952 he told me it was bollox}

[Born Hunter 17,910]

 

Origin of the "Rock Ape" nickname[edit]

In the past the nickname "Rock Ape" has been attributed to their traditional role guarding areas of Gibraltar,^{[citation needed]} but this is not so. The term came into use after an accident in the Western Aden Protectorate in November 1952. Two Regiment officers serving with the APL at Dhala decided to amuse themselves by going out to shoot some of the hamadryas baboons (locally referred to as "rock apes"). The officers drew rifles and split up to hunt the apes. In the semi-darkness one of the officers fired at a moving object in the distance. When he reached the target he discovered he had shot the other officer. After emergency treatment Flight Lieutenant Percy Henry Mason survived to return to service a few months later. When asked why he had fired at his friend by a board of inquiry the officer replied that his target had "looked just like a rock ape" in the half light. The remark soon reverberated around the RAF and it was not long before the term was in general use.^{[citation needed]}

^{My old man was there in aden in 1952 he told me it was bollox}

 

 

He wasn't serving with a chap called Percy Mason was he by any chance?