Artists Rifles Recruitment 1960s
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- A new recruit arrives at Duke's Road. He is interviewed by the Recruiting Officer. The volunteer then undergoes a medical exam and swears Oath of Allegiance before his training starts with a map reading exercise, shooting practice at Bisley with Sterling sub-machine gun and 9mm Browning pistol, and fieldcraft exercise on Brecon Beacons.
He is then seen in the Regimental Bar at Duke’s Road with veterans most probably from the First World War and purchases the regimental tie. He then takes part in training at Joint Services Amphibious Warfare Centre (located near Poole, Dorset) continues with instruction in Klepper canoes and Gemini rubber boat fitted with Seagull outboard motor, ending with insertion skills training with frogmen. Training concludes at RAF Abingdon No 1 Parachute School, where after initiation inside Ground Training Hangar, men jump from barrage balloon gondola before entering a Beverley aircraft and jumping with full kit. RSM Bob Bennett DCM wearing "wings" on his chest, indicating WWII veteran watches as the men descend to the ground.
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Brilliant. This is why gentleman of a certain vintage detest television, and spend their evening''s watching such treasures. Great stuff and thank you for sharing.
Now this is the Britain we all know and love 💕
Was
Is it ? Were you even born then ?
You obviously weren’t there.
@@George-dx2sd YES ! ! and it WAS ! !
Is it you must be very old then?
It is becoming more obvious every day that the past is another country. This was a very interesting and bittersweet film. The music choices and compilation were perfectly, and beautifully balanced. Thank you for uploading this treasure.
I joined in 1960 and passed selection in 1960, I had previously served two years as a National Serviceman in the infantry and four years in another TA Regiment but those two weeks selection was the toughest for many reasons. I served 6 years and this video brings back many happy memories!
Looks pretty simple. I could do that over a weekend. Especially with that music. And I'm 62!
Our mate was PSI at 21 SAS Maj. Alf Collyer amazing man RIP Alf never forgotten.
The New Zealand SAS was formed from scratch (I think in the late 50’s) specifically to serve in the Malayan Emergency. They used to insert by parachute into primary jungle. Should get a medal for bravery just for jumping into primary jungle! Seriously tough and well disciplined men
th-cam.com/video/Wy8hXK0THSI/w-d-xo.html We did it too!
Fill out the application form and yer in ! Sandy Beret on day 2, a spot of weapon-posing training and then stroll through the Brecon Beacon scenic wonder terrain and you'll be in the Regt's Bar after a few days impressing the WW2 Veterans.
Yep! Took me a bit longer. Wish I'd joined 25 years earlier!
Erm yes😅
@@roverboat2503Yep badge in two day's most have been Rambo.
21 was at kings road London they shared space with para reserve reg when I was there in the mid 80s 3 mile run around the track even before you got in to see the recruit officer and fill out paper work they don't mess around
@@Grayman58 10 Para 4 Coy was there as was I 😀
Amazing that 14,000 were members in such a short time !
Did 12 years with the "Artists" 6 years with "Sabre" 6 years in a support role. I loved every minute of it except when I almost drowned in one of those bloody Kleppers! Mind you I wasn't that keen on parachuting either.
Hello and merry Christmas, I'm trying to find more out about my grandad all I have to go off is his artists badges he was called Ralph mcminn I'm pretty sure it was post ww2 so any direction would be great
@@mcminn94 related to a Callum Mcminn at all?
All a bit different now. Ha
let me guess you were the 1st the man on the balcony in 1980 - along with 100000000s other SF heros
@geezerp1982 No he wasn't because I know who was. He made a perfectly innocent statement. And nothing about being a WM. Suggest you swallow your jealousy and go and do something yourself
Love the music. Had the opportunity to work out with 21/23 TA SAS in 1980. Great lads.
:55 He must be writing incredibly fast. His pen is on fire!
Damn, you beat me to it😂
Disappointed that the film is black and white. The SBS segment might have revealed the colour of the boathouse doors... 🙂
In “hearford” 😂
Wasn't that Sean Bean?
@@OoohAaah6603 Robert De Niro.
@@JFDA5458 he said it to Sean Bean as a reference to the non existent boat house doors at the Hereford base of the 22 special air service regiment.
Back in 1960, The boathouse was in fact an old shed with large timber doors and made of timber and nissan hut type sheets, roughly where the main gate is now and very close to the holiday camp before the MQ's were built.
At 5.02, the man on the outboard motor is smoking a pipe. Good, that's the army I remember, doing things efficiently and with style.
This is when we had a country now lost completed by criminals in government 🏴🏴☘️🏴🙏❤️🇬🇧👍🏻
You think Starmer's crowd will be any better? 🤣🤣🤣
You think the government of the day wasn’t in the fiddle as well.
What? There's always been criminals in the government! How many secret wars have we been involved in or started? .....you people seriously need to wake up! ⏰️
What are you talking about? I’m obviously not of your generation. I’m proud of this country. You’re just a bunch of old has beens that will soon be leaving this mortal earth for good thank God.😊
All those lads around the kleppers looked like they could have a row!lol.
Outstanding! Thanks very much for sharing and hope you can share more.
Now this is the Britain we all know and love: Terrible Haircuts lol
The Artist Rifles used to be a TA battalion of The Rifle Birgade, the boat section of 21SAS is the WW2 SBS which was older than LRDG and SAS
Read The Quiet Soldier….On Selection with 21 SAS (V)….by Adam Ballinger…..1989. A somewhat different view 😂
An excellent read.
@@seekerofthetruth1298 isn’t it though? I’m former army, a 2434 from 1974 - 1998 and it’s easily one of the most authentic accounts of this sort of thing I’ve read; funny and bloody hard too!
did you see the chap with the steam pen
I was 21st SAS in 1958 to 1960 Under Colonel Southerland !
My Wife Name Here !
well lets put that to the test then; CQB fighting - double taps or full auto on each target ? ,
do 9mm submachine guns have any use in the modern era ? what do you think of the US new 6.8x51 service round ?
Cooked for them many a time! We are the Pilgrims Master - more chips!
how funny to see the clubhouse at bisley.... spent so much time there...!
cracking upload!!! thank you!!
The song ,the longest day ...great movie as well
Awesome video.
My only experience is as regular Army infantry instructor. 70s/80s/90s. We had an influx of Artists, 23, and Rhodesian SAS to my Reg (Royal Hampshires at a time when most operational time was on Op Banner). Good lads. But not exceptional save the Rhodesian guy who I think went to 22.
Royal Hamps! Royal??
The officer administering the oath of allegiance looks very much like a young Peter De La Billiere. He was adjutant of the Artists Rifles aka 21 SAS at this time.
I doubt it. the black jock was a Scottish rugby International before the war that good looking Rupert was probably about 10 at the start of the war. Lapraik was honary colonal in the 80's
Sorry you are right it probably was de billiare
He was a pretty boy.
Met DLB more than a few times!
@@mattatkinson1431 And ne when he was DSF
4 (v) RGJ’s shooting-lodge was right next door at Bisley ….
Bunhill Lodge, if I remember correctly
My grandad was in this my dad told me about the 2nd world war. By profession he was a master goldsmith.
Encountered these people in relation to the Devizes Westminster canoe race.
Did it in the 1970s:-)
Amazing, just walk in off the street and join the sas....... was a bit tougher joining 4bat RRW !
Am not sure but I think you had too have some trade or skills too enlist.
Selection was 6 months every other weekend and a 2 week camp, pass rate 10% or less. After the embassy over 150 applied, largest course ever but the pass rate was about 12. Interestingly civies did better than ex Regulars.
Where do they check if he can sing, dance declaim and paint a halfway decent water colour?
That's on continuation 😂
That looks a lot better than getting shouted at by tattooed ex military on Channel 4
Did anyone else notice Colours not wearing his Commando Green Beret ? That I have no doubt that he had earned (and then some)
Super film, thank you for sharing 🏴☠️
seen!
How come they got their much coveted berets whilst still learning how to use a compass?
I was just going to ask that lol..💂♂️🪖⛑️🏴🇨🇦
"Security is everyone's business" then everywhere they go they wear the beret. A colleague of mine was in Two Three and he said they were not allowed to wear the beret anywhere until qualified and then usually only when in the TA centre, or MOD property on training courses. I guess this film is intended to show off the Two One as the Corps which led to Two Two (from 1952) and Two Three (from 1959) and is after all a recruitment film, before they became anti-terrorist. Interesting to watch and as a uniform buff to see the Officers in the Blues with the light blue collar (Oxford Blue and Cambridge Blue) plus the light blue and maroon shoulder arc flashes. My friend reminded me that Julie Ege a Norwegian model/actress was trained in survival by Two One sometime around 1970 for some film or something. Apparently Airey Neave MP who escaped from Colditz and later joined MI9 the escape and evasion line experts in ww2 (which led to Two Three SAS via the Reserve Reconnaissance Unit) was their CO for a time, only to be murdered later by terrorists, before taking up his post as Northern Ireland boss to deal with the IRA etc.
Looked again and saw the Mars and Minerva patch on the sleeves, later on they had Rifles regiment chevrons green gold black as opposed to those of Two Two and Two Three who wear black on cambridge (light) blue rarely seen.
Fascinating historical insight. Thanks for showing that.
Not sure about the 60's but later until you had passed continuation which was about 6 months after selection finished they didn't issue a beret. You were presented it and badge by the colonel
They only got the beret once they’d learned to flip up the sights on the compass 😂
So that's the easy stuff out the way lads, next week - RAF REGIMENT!!
And the FIVE MILER OF DEATH!!!
@@CL-vz6ch got there before me!! lol
I was in the SAG 1983 to 88.
I tried to join at Chelsea Barack's, the run was awful.
well that was all very jolly
Are those SBS teaching the SAS with the canoes?
More than likely.
Could this be right - what appears to be sand coloured berets with SAS cap badge while in training? Must also be officeer training given they need to be taught how to read a compass.
I thought you had to be in the Army for a couple of years before you could apply to join?
And an equipment jump too!
Bisley hasn't really changed at all!!
I the day no buoyancy aids😅👍The way we were. Happy Days.
I have just realised they are wearing sas berets
Inaccurate video, these recruits would have to pass Selection to get their berets, many months later..... 21 SAS moved to B Block, Duke of Yorks HQ, Chelsea.
I was thinking the same thing. The "game" is to earn the beret. Like the Green berets
@@irishtony.2879 True the film did not show Selection or Continuation training which might take six months,,,presumably all those in the video had passed..
@@gchqjtrig6492 True the film did not show Selection or Continuation training which might take six months.....presumably all those in the video had passed..
@@gchqjtrig6492 I remember B block well. Remember the running track too. across the way was the med centre and I think the Irish rangers. 10 Para used to be there too. Would have been nice to start your training already badged haha ;)
0:54 does he have to finish the application essay before his pen explodes?
What happened to selection? They’ve missed aptitude, test week, continuation etc etc?
Yeah, missed out selection😂
STABS init bruv lol@@creepswithcameraphones2423
Do they do weapons training
Did you watch the video?
Come on chaps fix bayonets and kindly follow me.. Jolly good.
Could you really join the SAS as a recruit? Was it easier then? I cannot visualise someone straight from civvy street passing the course today.
Yes you could join as a civilian with no prior experience up until fairly recently, although most came from previous military backgrounds. Now it's different potential candidates with no previous experience are sent to conventional reserve units first to gain some experience before being allowed to attempt selection.
territorials
Who would have guessed you could be in " special forces" without a Taliban beard, arms full of tattoos, and muscles like Schwarzenneger? When men were men and not celebrity TV wannabees.
I could have joined the artist rifles, but it would have meant having my haircut, wish i did, i probably would have been diagnosed with diabetes sooner, it's my biggest regret not joining 21 artists
12.13 Some dodgy PLF’s there? 😂
Jon Sly...FYI
It looks as if they have passed selection. Badged. ,Makes no sense. No sign of parachute course then sigs training. explanation of continuation training etc. Pretty poor video. Amazed at actually seeing. This I did not know it existed. Obviously rare footage.Brings back memories of years gone by going through it all. My Brize Norton training phase was a scream. Especially the way the RAF manage you. Balloon jumps great bottle test. I got no 1 in door aircraft as first jump. Balloon following day as second jump. Happy days.
The Balloon Jump was your first Jump then you progressed to Aircraft.
@@FHIPrincePeter not if the weather was too bad for balloon. I hot ac first.
This is an actual unedited recruitment video that 21 did in the early 60's. While you may think it is pretty poor, for the time it was thought of as a useful tool to get new recruits and was one of the first of its kind.
@@rickydepledge3245 Lucky you. Mine was a Balloon. Scary but did it in the afternoon having watched many Blokes go up in it and jump out I figured based on the stats mine was going to open so although scared was quietly confident.
@@FHIPrincePeter
After a few. You sensed your plumit to ground speed and knew chute was open. Low twists was worst if you could not get head back and look up to check. Taught if in doubt reserve out. Did a couple when later i realised should have pulled reserve.
Im little like a lot of blokes and usually ended up walking off someone elses chute because they were under me. That always scared me shit less. Never pulled a reserve. Never got badly injured. Training was brilliant.
Think of the money you'd make , if you lay yer hands on all those para smocks & helmets!!
Why are they called artists rifles
Piss Artists.."who cares who wins,as long as there's a pissup afterwards"
Artists Rifles look up the wikipedia article
Looks doddle doesn't it !
Lack of diversity is shocking.
Where are the many BAME?
Down range.
7.35 front left
Me thinks this is spoof
It is a a bit of a propaganda video I think. Lots of incorrect stuff, many details wrong.
You cant join the sas you have to be in the army first
This is one of the TA SAS Regiments.
At 2.28, these idiots are pointing pistols at their instructor. Even as just an ex cadet, I know that was a big NO NO. I can't believe that was allowed at Bisley, or anywhere in the Army. And given an SAS beret after walking in off the street. I don't think so. Total bollox.
Bisley was not a military camp. It is highly doubtful they would be doing that sort of training on the grass in front of the club house like that. They would be on Shorts. I spent some good days in the Artists Club. This is a propaganda video, nothing to do with reality.
The state of those berets at 1:55! That should always be the lesson.
They've all been "badged" on the first day of training?