Noah's ARC

Thanks for posting these, as I wrote in a Hawk in Ireland I was on a night off with my half troop from Newry and was at Gosford that night. Mick came in the bar and we had a pint together before he left, for what I thought was Newton Hamilton. Al Bev put me right on that and I've since changed it. M...

This is great stuff, memories are made of it.

IMG_20141217_0001.jpg This is the card we had designed for Christmas 1990, little did we know how relevant it would be. We deployed to the Gulf that Christmas. The original art work was framed and given to the Sergeants Mess early 1992, I don't know if it was ever hung or not. I can't read the cart...

Thanks for this, it just serves to show what badness can come out of a supposed civilized country

There are too many happy memories to recount here, it was great to serve along side you and you'll not be forgotten. Both our thoughts are with you, Deni and the family. We'll keep you and the family at fore front of our prayers and rest assured your family will still be there after you have gone. W...

How the memory plays tricks, it's amazing to recall the names long forgotten. I think Ernie Pattle was in the troop, I remember I once had to stop him punching Jock Hynes after a bit of name calling (he was going to do a bit more than punch him). It was the first and only time that I saw Ernie in a ...

Thanks for all your comments, none taken personally. I'm amending the original to read that the bucket of piss was thrown at the end of our tour when we handed over to the QOH, well deserved it was to. Kev Whittaker was also helpful with his account of the ND on our first tour at Gosford. I mentione...

There's talk of European leaders putting pressure on Putin but they won't because they'd be afraid of Russia turning off the gas taps to Europe (they come, I believe via the Ukraine). If that happens we will be hit with rising gas prices and probably shortages which will effect the poorest in our so...

Look in the top of the sanger behind them and you'll see D Sqn on guard

Isn't it just great that its the Scotts who get the vote on English devolution.

This is good to see, recently I've started to write about my own experiences on the tours with A&D Sqns (I'm up to 14000 words so far). It's a war the government and society have chosen to forget, yet I suspect there are many Hawks who either haven't or can't forget. When you look back at old Ha...

Hi Al

Good to here from you, all's well here. Memories fade so some of the details were clearly wrong, having said that it was my last pint with a good mate and a cherished memory. As for the shooting it seems that we all got away with it with the sad exception of Mr Williams-Wynn.

I've just Googled Bill Bentley M.M. and there are all the details including a photo of bill and sitation for the mm. Great bloke

Remembrance aquired a new meaning for me this weekend. I sat at the reunion dinner at a table with Dusty and Sheila Fog and the death of Mick Herbert came up. Mick was a good friend to me, as the new boy and worse still a boy soldier in 2nd troop A squadron January 1967, Paderbourne, it was Mick, wh...

So jonny you were knackered, If I remember correctly so was Woods 27 and me as we draged you along. The Bft was a ball buster 1.5 miles up hill but at least the second 1.5 was down again. And what about the escape and evation exercise that ended up on the Mosel. Or the how to be run aver by a tank a...