Beheading in WW1

[japeflakes]

What on earth is going on here? WW1

[jim1]

Looks like pre war annual camp. Can't make out the cap badge but could be RE.
End of camp show possibly.

[japeflakes]

RE would fit.

[jim1]

If the Sgt's name was Charles Stuart it would fit even better.

[Viktoria]

 Well I thought of Anne Boleyn but not pretty enough.
It is a bit of a laugh I think given the odd garments of some of the soldiers.
Only thing is Sergeants were not given to mirth or humour.
Thanks.
Viktoria.

[BW252]

Victoria

I can assure you, as a Sergeant in a very famous regiment, we did have a sense of humour.   How else would you describe having a defaulter scrub the latrines with a toothbrush!!!!!!

[Viktoria]

I have to say that was mild by comparison,how about painting everything in sight?Then scrubbing the barrack floors with a toothbrush.
I think you were a big softy.
If it moves by itself salute it
If it moves all together join it
And if it doesn’t move paint it.
Seriously though  I was only saying on Sunday how the Sergeants were the backbone of the army,mature and steady they kept the young lads calm and
must have been a very heartening presence  in the dreadful conditions.
If you have ever read “Covenant with Death” ,by John Harris,about The Sheffield Pals and the first day of The Somme ,the Sergeant Patrick Bold
was I feel very typical.
If you have not read it I do recommend it,you will not read a finer account.

It will be available on Amazon.
You know I was only joking.
Viktoria.








 

[BW252]

Viktoria

apologies for spelling your name wrong - for that I would have had to paint desert white!!!  I know that this post was in jest (but true in some of the punishments) and nobody can remotely imagine what went on in WW1.   Sergeants in every regiment were as you said the backbone of the British Army.   I was proud to have been a Sergeant as was my grandfather.

I will stand on Sunday with my daughter, son in law and my granddaughters wearing my regimental blue bunnet and hackle in Haddenham, Cambridgeshire in honour of all the fallen from both world wars

[Mart 'n' Al]

The sergeant has just been promoted to sergeant major the previous night, and he is reaping the negative benefits if I can say that of too much alcohol the previous night, praying that he never does it again.

I spent several seconds looking at a load of soldiers standing around a kitbag before scrolling to the right as well.

Martin