national service help please

[scrimnet]

Then you wake up dribbling on your pillow....

And then you think you might be a student again...lost days and nights, random things appearing in the house, and not knowing from whence they come....

[elaine447]

so what you are saying is I have got no chance
who put that there

[scrimnet]

Depending upon your age, it's either:-

Drunkenness

Pre senile demetia

Senile dementia

Full blown Alzheimer's

[oldjim]

Now theres a puzzle Elaine.  Your latest pic showing your dad  on back row poses the question which regiment/unit did he actually serve with?  Your father's headgear in the pic wouldn't be that of a Sapper.  Pretty sure it would have been of a Scottish unit.  Soooooooooooo we possibly have him in two different Regts/Corps or wot have you.  He could, of course, have been transferred from his original Regt/Corps.  Do you know what trade he followed at that age?

[oldjim]

Is there any detail on the back of the last pic showing the name of the photgrapher/firm?  Official pics such as that one usually had some detail given

[janerich]

Hi everybody.

I stand firmly put in my place over the National Service issue.  However as my father and Elaine's father served under the conscription National Service Act passed during the war even though the war had ended I can only assume that they called it post-war hostilities within the services.  I don't know - I wasn't there and my father has passed on 15 years since.  The 1948 act made National Service just 18 months long and this was after our father's served.

Elaine, I agree that your father must have switched regiments - my old sapper husband says that it looks Scottish  they look like Tam O'shanters!

Just to clarify - it was my husband in the RE in the 1970s and my father was actually Fleet Air Arm.

[scrimnet]

this is a picture of my dad during his national service
he is in the middle row far right
not sure were it was taken only info I have is on the back it say's
2 Troop and Squadron and I think it say's field regiment any one
recognise the badge on the uniformed mens caps
Elaine

Ooops meant to say ....

2nd Infantry Division.

23 Field Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers of the above Division, moved into Napier Barracks from Hameln in July 1950 until May 1958, when they disbanded with the re-organisation of BAOR.

ORBAT:

2 Field Squadron

5 Field Squadron

This might be useful...

http://www.remuseum.org.uk/corpshistory/rem_corps_part18.htm

And it might be worth putting your first pic and a couple of questions on here...

http://www.engineers-reunited.co.uk/

And the modern lot...

http://www.army.mod.uk/royalengineers/org/23regt/index.htm

Sorry..I recognised it as "£ Engineers straight away, but got carried away with the other stuff...

My (now ex)sis in law is RE, and was at 23 on her previous posting!


As for the "Jock" pic...

No reason why he couldn't have re mustered either during or after basic trg.

OR......Is it some other rellie?

[Ramsay Stewart]

Elaine It could be that The two guys in the first Picture were not in YOur dads Regiment at all Because your dad was part of the Football team which could have been made up of Various Regm's lol