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4 hours ago Topic: My mail Murray Whyte Posts: 5830	Murray Whyte Posts: 5830 Topic: My mail Janet Worth wrote: Hiw to read it Sorry for the late reply, Janet. Go to Your Profile Options. There is a drop down menu where you will find your Mailbox

2 days ago Topic: 1955 to 1959 Cyprus Veterans Les Smith Posts: 57	Les Smith Posts: 57 Topic: 1955 to 1959 Cyprus Veterans 1955 to 1959 Cyprus Veterans, The National Memorial Arboretum Staffordshire, D13 7AR

3 days ago Topic: Bronwyn, st athan 1966 david bartell Posts: 9	david bartell Posts: 9 Topic: Bronwyn, st athan 1966 Bron was on a physical training instructor course in 1966,sadly she didn't pass, I think she may have then opted for the police, She was a young girl from the valleys, any information please. St athan 1966

3 days ago Topic: Edit information Dominic Hayhoe Administrator Posts: 1301	Dominic Hayhoe Administrator Posts: 1301 Topic: Edit information david bartell wrote: I cannot edit dates when searching, also cannot put unit info on my profile,when I enter my unit ,eg bomb disposal will not allow me to enter dates. Hi David, I literally just did this and added Bomb Disposal to my profile with and end and start date, clicked update, and it is now showing in my profile.

3 days ago Topic: unsubscribe Dominic Hayhoe Administrator Posts: 1301	Dominic Hayhoe Administrator Posts: 1301 Topic: unsubscribe Kenneth Flynn wrote: i am not happy with this site but it is made so difficult to unsubscribe Hi Kenneth, It is simple. Go to Your Profile Options, top right of every page > My Profile > Account Settings.

3 days ago Topic: unsubscribe Kenneth Flynn Posts: 1	Kenneth Flynn Posts: 1 Topic: unsubscribe i am not happy with this site but it is made so difficult to unsubscribe

4 days ago Topic: Edit information david bartell Posts: 9	david bartell Posts: 9 Topic: Edit information I cannot edit dates when searching, also cannot put unit info on my profile,when I enter my unit ,eg bomb disposal will not allow me to enter dates.

5 days ago Topic: Equality in veterans pensions Alan Mudge Posts: 55	Alan Mudge Posts: 55 Topic: Equality in veterans pensions Ellen Jeffery wrote: Michael Smith wrote: Veterans of the UK Armed Forces serving on regular engagements who left the service prior to April 1975 having completed less than 22 years for Other ranks or 16 years for Commissioned Officers made indirect contributions towards pension but receive no benefit in return. Those who served for a minimum of 2 years beyond April 1975 are entitled to a preserved pension pro-rata their service on reaching the age of 60,on the same terms as the pre-April 1975 leavers. This is an outrageous injustice which Governments over the past 30 years have chosen to ignore. I served nearly 5 years 1968-72 and my ex served 9+boy school (included active service in Aden). We worked all hours, while civil service on cushy 40 hour week got pension, we got sweet nothing. Shame on this countries Government. Told our son to never join military services, Just treated like cannon fodder. Do any of you think that this campaign is going anywhere, It's dead in the water. Governments of whatever party don't have a lot of interest in something that happened pre- 1975, for a start it's 46 years ago. If you don't know by now that the Armed Forces Covenant is just another piece of paper............................. The one Minister who is on our side is Johnny Mercer, but look what happened to him after facing Boris down in Parliament, he was sacked, that must tell you all something. Suggest to put in into perspective you read "Tommy Atkins" by Rudyard Kipling, a poem about the British soldier in the days of Empire. If that all sounds rather cynical, well I'm know as being exactly that, I am also a realist. I joined as an RAF aircraft engineering apprentice in 1957 and served for 31 years so I've no complaints as regards pensions. In all honesty, pensions didn't even cross my radar until I re-engaged, it was only at that point I realised I would receive a pension of some sort based on rank and length of service after 18th birthday.

6 days ago Topic: Rhymes off the cuff dennis shrubshall Posts: 1505	dennis shrubshall Posts: 1505 Topic: Rhymes off the cuff Wood pecker Artists come in many guises Painters behind easels Mason with Stone Each carrying out their chosen work Creating masterpieces of their very own But this one is rather unusual As anyone here can see This image has been sculpted From a thick branch of a tree Using chain saw and carving knife Each detail is clearly shown As thought this lonely Woodpecker Has done the sculpture on its own The feet the wings and head portray An image so defined To make one think how intricate Must this be in the Artist’s mind Dennis Shrubshall 11th January 2022 edited by dennisshrubshall on 15/01/2022 edited by dennisshrubshall on 15/01/2022

7 days ago Topic: My mail Dominic Hayhoe Administrator Posts: 1301	Dominic Hayhoe Administrator Posts: 1301 Topic: My mail Janet Worth wrote: Hiw to read it Not sure what that means Janet.

8 days ago Topic: My mail Janet Worth Posts: 1	Janet Worth Posts: 1 Topic: My mail Hiw to read it

8 days ago Topic: Parents WW2 Medals Alan Mudge Posts: 55	Alan Mudge Posts: 55 Topic: Parents WW2 Medals Morning Julia, As you most probably know, a Will is a legally binding document. 1. Obtain a copy of the Will if you don't already have one. 2. Contact a solicitor who specialises in civil law. 3. Explain the situation and ask if he/she will write what is known as a "Solicitors Letter" to your brother, explaining to him that you have legal right to the medals etc. as per your parents Will and that your brother must pass them on to you. 4. If this does not produce a result, based upon advice from your solicitor you could begin a civil court case against your brother to return those items. 5. Cost in legal fees - ?? As a double check on what I have written above - have a word with your local Citizens Advice Bureau.

9 days ago Topic: 22nd Squadron RAF Christmas Island 1957 Eleanor Ball Posts: 4	Eleanor Ball Posts: 4 Topic: 22nd Squadron RAF Christmas Island 1957 Matthew Richmond wrote: Hi Eleanor My grandad was Ollie Richmond. He was in 22 squadron on Christmas Island 9th November 1957. I have all his tickets and items he collected along the way to the island. He told me all the stories about everything that happened whilst they were there. Just wondering if your grandad knew mine as well. Many thanks Hi Matthew, I've replied to your message also, just covering all bases. I'd love to hear about your grandad even if he wasn't the Ollie my grandad shared a tent with. I'm deeply interested in the whole event and I'd love to know more about your grandad and his time on Christmas island.

10 days ago Topic: Looking for Helen O'Donnell Lennox Inglis Posts: 171	Lennox Inglis Posts: 171 Topic: Looking for Helen O'Donnell Can you remember where she came from and her age now.?

11 days ago Topic: Looking for Helen O'Donnell Agnes Mcgladdery Posts: 4	Agnes Mcgladdery Posts: 4 Topic: Looking for Helen O'Donnell I'm looking to trace the above person. She did her trade training in Clerk Accounts in RAF Hereford in the summer of 1971 and was then posted to RAF Upavon.

12 days ago Topic: Chiang Mai Alan Mudge Posts: 55	Alan Mudge Posts: 55 Topic: Chiang Mai Hi John, It's ten years since your post, but you might pick this up. I was on Armament Support to 20 Sqn at Chiang Mai. Employed in the Bomb Dump at RAF Tengah, and at 21 years old in lunatic mode, myself and a three others in the Dump volunteered, breaking the first rule in the book. If the situation had become hot we would have prepared the 3" rockets with 60lb SAP heads and also the 30mm HE ammo, the squadron armourers would have collected it and loaded onto the Hunters. I was employed on small arms servicing so lived in the airfield main building in a small room surrounded by Lee-Enfield rifles, Sten Guns and Enfield revolvers, personal kit, tool kit , old Uncle Tom Cobley and all. Flying up from Tengah in a Beverely, via Bangkok for refuelling, I seem to remember that we were the second aircraft to land. Once de-planed, we unloaded tents and duckboards and sweated cobs putting the damn things up. Then the all flap and no fly brigade got their knickers in a twist because no one had thought of a secure place to store personal weapons as we were all armed to the teeth with guns and ammo. in my case a bandolier of 50 rounds of 0.303. The proverbial in a brewery comes to mind. You might remember the rat packs that we dined from for a while, that was to stand me in very good stead years many later, when in Germany and living in a hole in the forest with a Harrier for company. Better quality food by then, but some of it still had to be cooked. Once things had settled down and the Hunters arrived, when on duty armourer my job would be to trot over to the the Ops Tents and issue the aircrew with their Enfield revolver and 12 rounds of ammo. which was sealed by sellotape into a wee cardboard box, mate you couldn't make it up. Steely eyed pilot slipped the box into a pocket in his flying overalls and stuffed the revolver into his webbing holster - John Wayne he certainly was not - empty gun, ammo sealed up in a box- which idiot came up with those rules, we were on active service for God's sake. Were you there when the King and Queen of Thailand paid us a visit ? I was on the RAF guard of honour, tall airmen were picked because the King was only a little bloke. Our tame Rock Ape F/Sgt soon knocked us into shape and our Lee-Enfield rifle arms drill was slick and sharp. Unlike the Thai guard of honour, kick the butt with the boot, catch it on the way down etc. It was a good detachment and a free-be couple of days in Bangkok in the Kings Hotel on the way back was a satisfactory conclusion. A couple of months later I was in the Northern Territory of Australia as a member of the bomb prep team for 500lb and 1000lb HE bombs. Three squadrons of Canberra's then dropped them to re-arrange parts of the Northern Territory bombing ranges - very happy days.

13 days ago Topic: A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS Dominic Hayhoe Administrator Posts: 1301	Dominic Hayhoe Administrator Posts: 1301 Topic: A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS Happy new Year peter

15 days ago Topic: HMS JUPITER ASSOCIATION Ken Williams Posts: 12	Ken Williams Posts: 12 Topic: HMS JUPITER ASSOCIATION HMS JUPITER ASSOCIATION, Royal Maritime Club Portsmouth, PO1 3HS

15 days ago Topic: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022 Myrtle Meads Posts: 109	Myrtle Meads Posts: 109 Topic: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022 Happy New year to you all. I wonder if Tony Blair is going to have one! should he get the award, I have signed this petition, I didn't know how to put this on this site. chng.it/Bg5qNWGr

15 days ago Topic: A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS Alan Mudge Posts: 55	Alan Mudge Posts: 55 Topic: A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS Just turned 18 and a freshly baked Armament Mechanic (Bombs} I was stationed at RAF Binbrook, high on the Lincolnshire Wolds. Detailed for Station Duty Crew over the Christmas/New Year period 1958/59 myself and many others on that same duty spent much time on digging Canberra bombers out of snow drifts. On Christmas Day, a quick change into best blue and down to the airman's mess for Christmas dinner served by the Officers and SNCOs and then back into working kit and more digging, shovelling and sweeping snow. Photo - myself, bottom left, all armourers, a mixture of National Service, 3, 5 & 12 year regulars, as a former Trenchard Brat I was in for 12, finally completing 31 years in the RAF

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