Memories miscellanea The Army Children Archive TACAMEMORIES. When committed to paper, army childrens memories often make interesting reading, including, maybe yours, or some that you have read. There follows a small selection. My father was a native of Scotland, in the East India Companys service my mother was a Rajpootree, the daughter of a zamindar. My father then an ensign into whose hands she fell, treated her with great kindness, and she bore him six children, three girls and three boys. The former were all married to gentlemen in the Companys service my elder brother, David, went to sea I myself became a soldier, and my younger brother, Robert, followed my example. Lt Col James Skinner 1. Dennis Holman, Sikander Sahib The Life of Colonel James Skinner, 1. London, 1. 96. 1, pp. Plenty of army children can be seen enjoying band night in the cantonment gardens at Jubbulpore, India, around a century ago. I remember my father leaving the house and then checking under the car for a bomb before driving to work each morning. This was during the late 1. IRA was targeting British soldiers serving in Germany. TD b. TACA CORRESPONDENCE DO YOU RECOGNISE YOUR YOUNGER SELF Michael Few has sent TACA a family photograph shown here with a request for help If anyone recognises themselves in this photograph, I would love to hear from you. The photograph shows Michaels father, John Few, who was in the Royal Signals, sitting on some stone steps with a large group of children aged between around two to seven years. Written on the back is My gang, Sept 1. Katapahar, Darjeeling, Bengal. Michael thinks that his fathers duties may have included acting as a caretaker at a school in Katapahar, and is keen to learn more. If you can throw further light on the photograph, please e mail TACA. PERSONAL STORY WARTIME IN EGYPT AND SOUTH AFRICA, PEACETIME IN ENGLAND AND SINGAPOREThis army child spent much of World War II in Egypt and South Africa, and later lived in England and Singapore. My name is Daisy Caroline Blythe, ne Parris, and I was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1. Rct Uk Patch' title='Rct Uk Patch' />My father, Alfred Leonard James Parris, was in the Royal Army Service Corps RASC and married my mother, Georgette Eugenie Youssief, who, according to her birth certificate, was Palestinian, although she, too, was born in Alexandria, Egypt. Incidentally, all my mothers family were Roman Catholics. In 1. South Africa my father stayed in Egypt. We were all reunited after World War II. I have five sisters, including Valerie, born near Cairo, Egypt 1. Leonora, born in Palestine 1. Christine, born in Alexandria, Egypt 1. UK. We returned to the UK in 1. After docking in Liverpool, we stayed in a hostel on Lime Street Station in transit. After that, we were sent to the Isle of Sheppey in transit. I met my husband, Gordon also RASC, when my father was posted to Singapore. We married in Singapore in 1. My birth certificate and marriage certificate are both army forms. We have been living in Altea, Spain, since my husbands retirement in 1. Daisy Caroline Blythe ne Parris, b. PERSONAL STORY WARTIME IN THE UK PEACETIME IN MALTA, EGYPT AND OXFORDSHIREChris Fussells army child experiences included being billeted in a barn in Northern Ireland and witnessing joyful VE and VJ celebrations in Aldershot. Read on to learn more, and see PERSONAL STORY EVER HEARD A SHOT FIRED IN ANGER and PERSONAL STORY BULLFROGS, CICADAS AND MACHINE GUN FIRE IN EGYPT, 1. LIVES TIMES page PERSONAL STORY A MARRIED QUARTER CRISIS IN EGYPT on the ACCOMMODATION page PERSONAL STORY EXPERT FIRST AID IN MALTA, and PERSONAL STORY MAYHEM IN A MALTESE MARRIED QUARTER, below and the SCHOOLING page PERSONAL STORY MY EDUCATION AS A MARRIED QUARTERS CHILD. My dad was a pre war regular soldier, Royal Warwicks the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He enlisted in 1. General Strike. He served in Palestine and India where my sister, Brenda, was born in Poona, in 1. Alan, my brother, was born in 1. He rose to be a lance sergeant in the Warwicks signal platoon heliographs and semaphore, a few new fangled radio sets by 1. He was severely injured at the start of World War II, but was kept on as medically downgraded in extra regimental work, away from his beloved regiment, until, eventually 1. I was born in Taunton in November 1. I do not remember it much, and we moved on as Dad became, sadly miscast, a military prison warder in MPSC the Military Provost Staff Corps. I remember Northern Ireland vividly, where we lived in the country, near Carrickfergus. There were no married quarters there, so the family Mum and three kids lived up a ladder in a farm barn. Rct Uk Patch' title='Rct Uk Patch' />My first girlfriend, Hazel Clark, aged three, lived next door. An older woman I do recall slow, wartime train journeys people living in the Tube stations in London houses in Liverpool backing on to the railway line split open like dolls houses, with furniture falling out being sick on the ferry boats Mum putting a rather oversized toddler me into a pram to push me over the Irish Free State border to buy unrationed bacon, butter and eggs, and then wheeling the pram back, with me sitting precariously on top, past winking Southern Irish and Ulster policemen at the border crossing. Then came Aldershot, North Camp, actually from 1. Dad was a staff sergeant by then, supervising the cookhouses in the legendary Glasshouse military prison. I recall three or four events of note. There were no school dinners then, so we all spent about ninety minutes dinnertime at home every day. A test pilot from the neighbouring Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, crashed a captured German jet plane into the school There was no school for a while. VE Victory in Europe and VJ Victory in Japan days hilariously happy Canadian soldiers touring the area in dazzle painted jeeps, throwing loads of sweets and toys to the kids in married quarters Hitler and swastikas and rising suns for Japan burning in effigy on huge bonfires. Later, prisoners rioted and set fire to the jail and then sat on the glass roof waiting to be rescuedOh, and the sky did go black with planes and gliders once our lot en route to the Rhine crossing in March 1. Then, in 1. 94. 7, Malta sun, sand and swimming. My sailor Uncle Jack coming up from his minesweeper in the Grand Harbour with presents for us from all over the Mediterranean. In 1. 94. 9, a drab married families transit camp back in Hull. Dad left the army briefly, then re enlisted in the RPC Royal Pioneer Corps. Fast forward to 1. Egyptian Canal Zone. Rct Uk Patch' title='Rct Uk Patch' />Nice flats in Ismailia riots in 1. Moascar Garrison. More sun, swimming and sand. My sister could not wait to leave school and worked on the garrison telephone exchange. There was an excellent army childrens school, a sort of proto comprehensive really. I was doing O level GCEs at the age of thirteen. Then it was back to reality and Bicester, Oxon, in 1. Dads last days in the army. I went to Bicester Grammar School. The girls I had discovered girls by the age of fourteen were all gorgeous and had accents just like Pam Ayres. Regimental Arm Badges Patches for Sale. Ian Kelly Militaria Mail Order Insignia Dealers since 1. Original uniform badges buttons bought and sold with money back guarantee of authenticity. Please be patient whilst pages load around 1. This is an extract of our Master Militaria Catalogue dealing with Regimental arm badge. Formation signs. 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O8. 12 6th QEO Gurkha Rifles Mess Dress Arm Badge 1. Hussars Eagle Bullion 8. D1. U6. 12 Adjutant Generals Corps Army Legal Services ALS On RedBlue Woven TRF 1. D1. P9. 84 Adjutant Generals Corps Education Training Serv ETS On RedBlue Woven TRF 6. D1. P9. 85 Adjutant Generals Corps Military Provost Guard S MPGS On RedBlue Woven TRF 6. Rct Uk Patch' title='Rct Uk Patch' />D1. X7. 53 Adjutant Generals Corps Military Provost Staff MPS On RedBlue Woven TRF 8. D1. P9. 86 Adjutant Generals Corps Staff Personnel Support SPS On RedBlue Woven TRF 5. D1. N2. 85 Argyll Sutherland Highlanders Princess Louises Diced Strip Diamond Woven BLM 3. D1. P0. 60 Army Air Corps Silver Eagle On Sky Blue FL Mess Kit Bullion 6. D1. C3. 28 Army Air Corps Sky Blue Eagle On Black FR On Rectangle Embroidered BLM 2. D1. A0. 40 Army Air Corps White Eagle On Black FR Shaped Eagle Embroidered 4. D1. U5. 34 Black Watch Royal Highland Regiment Tartan Star Tartan 6. D1. J9. 35 Black Watch Royal Highland Regiment Tartan Star On DPM Camouflage Sewn 6. D1. J9. 82 Cameronians Scottish Rifles 4. LAA Regt RA TA 5. Douglas Diamond Tartan BLM 2. D1. M6. 03 Cheshire Regiment CeriseBuff Diamond Introduced 2. Woven 4. 0. 0 D1. S5. 06 Corps Of Army Music Gold Lyre On Blue Woven BLM 3. D1. O0. 25 Duke Of Lancasters Own Yeomanry Arm Badge Coronet On Red Felt Bullion 2. D1. P7. 89 Duke Of Lancasters Regiment Glider On GreenMaroon Rectangle Woven 5. D1. W3. 19 Duke Of Lancasters Regiment Brown Edge Black Lion On Sand Woven 5. D1. L0. 13 Duke Of Wellingtons Regiment RedGreyRed Strip Germany April 2. Woven BLM 3. 1. 87 4. D1. P9. 55 Glider Staffords Kings Own Royal Border Regiment On Desert Camouflage Embroidered EL 8. B 5. 0. 0 D1. F2. Glider Staffords Kings Own Royal Border Regiment On Khaki Officers Bullion EL 8. B 6. 0. 0 D1. A0. Glider Staffords Kings Own Royal Border Regiment Yellow On Khaki FR Embroidered EL 8. B 4. 0. 0 D1. P4. Glider Staffords Kings Own Royal Border Regiment Yellow On Sand FR Embroidered EL 8. B 5. 0. 0 D1. M6. Glider FR Staffordshire Regiment Yellow On Olive Black Border Woven EL 8. B 4. 0. 0 D1. O6. Green Howards GreenWhiteGreen Bosnia Issue Embroidered TRF 3. D1. C0. 19 Guards 5. X 6. 3mm also Worn In Gulf Bosnia BlueMaroonBlue Ribbon TRF 3. D1. S7. 87 Guards 5. X 6. 3mm New Merrowed Edge Type BlueMaroonBlue Ribbon TRF 4. D1. X1. 71 Guards 5. X 7. 0mm New Merrowed Edge Type BlueMaroonBlue Woven TRF 4. D1. X2. 38 Guards 5. X 7. 1mm New Merrowed Edge Type BlueMaroonBlue Embroidered TRF 4. D1. P5. 33 Gurkha Troops Crossed Black Kukris On Olive Woven BLM 1. D1. M6. 73 Highlanders Gordon Tartan Dark Green See SOLDIER 2. May. 97 Woven 1st pattern 6. D1. N7. 24 Joint NBC Regiment Mixed RAF Royal Tank Regiment Black On Olive Embroidered BLM 3. D1. P4. 63 Joint NBC Regiment Mixed RAF Royal Tank Regiment Brown On Sand Embroidered BLM 3. D1. N4. 52 Joint NBC Regiment Mixed RAF Royal Tank Regiment Colour Retorts Woven BLM 3. D1. N7. 25 Joint NBC Regiment Mixed RAF Royal Tank Regiment Green On Olive Embroidered BLM 3. D1. P6. 07 Joint NBC Regiment Joint Assessment Team JAT NATO Black Blue On Olive Embroidered BLM 3. D1. Q9. 16 Kings Own Royal Border Regiment 3. Square Yellow IV On Blue Embroidered 5. D1. E5. 20 Kings Own Royal Border Regiment 3. Square Yellow IV On Blue Woven 4. D1. I6. 20 Kings Own Scottish Borderers Leslie Tartan Square Introduced Feb 1. Woven 4. 0. 0 D1. D8. 24 Kings Regiment 5. X 6. 3mm GreenBlueMaroon Ribbon 5. D1. J6. 51 Kings Regiment 7. Square GreenBlueMaroon Woven 4. D1. N3. 03 Lancastrian Cumbrian Volunteers GreenYellowMaroon Woven BLM 3. D1. A9. 46 Leeds Rifles Company Flash Black Maple Leaf Woven BLM 3. D1. T5. 87 Leicestershire And Derbyshire Yeomanry QC Bullion 2. D1. P4. 90 Light Dragoons Tactical Recognition Flash WhiteBlack Diamond Embroidered BLM 3. D1. N8. 79 London Regiment BlueGreen Square With Red Diagonal Stripe Embroidered BLM 3. D1. U5. 68 Mercian Regiment 1st Bn Reconnaissance Platoon Spearhead Lightning Woven TRF 8. D1. U3. 49 Mercian Regiment 1st Bn Tactical Recognition Flash Cerise Eagle On Buff Woven TRF 6. D1. U8. 76 Mercian Regiment Glider On Stafford Knot On Black Back Cloth Bullion 8. D1. R0. 59 Mercian Regiment Tactical Recognition Flash RedBuffGreen Woven TRF 6. D1. E3. 35 Princess Of Waless Royal Regiment Gold Tiger For Mess Kit Bullion 6. D1. G3. 99 Princess Of Waless Royal Regiment BlueYellowBlue See SOLDIER 0. Dec. 96 Woven TRF 4. D1. D6. 76 Princess Of Waless Royal Regiment Tiger On Blue Felt Rectangle Embroidered 4. D1. C4. 10 Princess Of Waless Royal Regiment Tiger On Blue Linen Rectangle Embroidered 3. D1. M6. 42 Princess Of Waless Royal Regiment Tiger On Blue Rectangle Merrowed Woven 4. D1. S5. 03 Queen Alexandras Royal Army Nursing Corps Woven BLM 3. D1. U0. 86 Queens Lancashire Regiment Arm Badge With Edging BlackMaroonGreen Ribbon BLM 3. D1. X5. 54 Queens Royal Irish Hussars QRIH Monogram On Red For Mess Dress Bullion 2. D1. T6. 67 Queens Royal Lancers Skull On Crossed Lances Black On Desert Camo Embroidered TRF 6. D1. R8. 19 Queens Royal Lancers Skull On Crossed Lances Black On Olive Embroidered TRF 6. D1. A8. 33 RAMC 2. Scottish General Hospital Medic Rat Gulf issue Embroidered BLM 2. D1. C4. 68 RCT 8 Regiment Nuclear Escort Yellow Scorpion FL On Sand Background Printed Gulf issue 1. D1. K8. 50 Regimental Police Sp Bn HQ ACE Rapid Reaction Corps RP ARRC Shield Woven Bosnia 6. D1. N7. 45 Reserves Training Mobilization Centre Chilwell CrownSwords Scroll QC Embroidered BLM 3. D1. G4. 09 RLC 1. Support Regt Black Trident On Olive Subdued Issue Woven BLM 1. D1. L1. 85 RLC 8 Regiment Scorpion FL Black On Olive Small 4. X 3. 0mm Woven 5. D1. N0. 23 RLC Army Department Fleet Union Flag Top Left New Merrowed Edge Woven BLM 2. D1. D6. 39 RLC Army Department Fleet Union Flag Top Right Embroidered BLM 2. D1. N0. 24 RLC Army Department Fleet Union Flag Top Right New Merrowed Edge Woven BLM 2. D1. L1. 86 Royal Anglian Regiment TA BlueRedYellow Woven TRF 5. D1. L8. 63 Royal Anglian Regiment 1st Battalion Minden Flash Yellow Red Embroidered BLM 3.