Blue Peter National Service Excerpt
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- An excerpt from a 2005 (we believe) episode of Blue Peter taking a brief look at the life for the National Service soldier of the 1950s. With at least one face who'll b familiar to you from the Keighley Drill Hall video.
got drafted into Australian army during american vietnam war. our platoon sergeant was a vietnam veteran, lived on the base with his family, his wife worked in the canteen. he never raised his voice, never abused threatened or struck a recruit. we were instructed by corporals whose behaviour was the same, humour not aggression , quite repetitive instruction , never abuse or ridicule. all of us completed basic training and passed out . the sergeant said you follow orders, you do your best because the life of the man next to you was in the balance if you failed, if you didnt care, if you were lazy. you poor pommy bastards. an Australian nasho would never have copped any of this shit.
the British army might not well known for high tech weaponry, but its high standard of regimental life continues in many Commonwealth nations.
2:30 The Corporal here is also on (Bad) Lads Army as the NCO in charge of the Quartermaster’s Stores. He also runs a firm which provides historical military uniforms, equipment, weapons etc. for films and TV shows.
Indeed so, his name is Taff Gillingham.
God my grandad had to do this and he when to Kenya in the mau mau uprising that shit was brutal.
Iron Wolves .
I was also in Kenya in the 1950s, I may even have known your Grandad. For some more insights from one who actually endured the experience, you might like my short video, 10 Facts about National Service. 10 Facts about National Service
th-cam.com/video/sYAUsSkZHtk/w-d-xo.html
Or have a look at my blog, What was National Service, berwickcoates.co.uk/what-was-national-service/
The Middlesex Reg' hat badge,(4.01), should have a "Blood and Sand" backing to it!
Rifleman Moore - Such treatment certainly did happen, and there were some rather sadistic regular army NCOs that delighted in making lives a misery. I remember my father {a 25 year regular, and at the time a sergeant] telling me about the time, when we were in Catterick, that their RSM had a pot shot taken at him by a pissed off conscript with a Mk IV .303. The Nissan hut the guy was in must have all been behind him - because despite half the NCOs and officers and a bunch of Military Police and SIB trying to get to the bottom of who had squeezed the trigger, they never did. The best they could do was to put all the occupants of the hut on punishment.
My dad said that the RSM was pretty much disliked by everyone, including NCOs and officers. The bullet just missed the RSMs head and almost scared the crap out of him. I saw many many 'virgin soldiers' in Catterick, Singapore/Malaya, Hong Kong and [West] Germany; and just missed becoming one myself.
+Truth Seeker A bad SNCO can make life hell for all beneath them and some above.
My grandad was in TA in 1963 he said Sargent used to shout at them.
Always find these re-enactors amusing, the hair is far too long for a start lol.
This is very good
Have to say Blue Peter did a very good job with this.
Nashnal Servic, Been there, Done that, And that's how it was. Eye's to the front, Stand up straight, Don't mumble, Shout.
Quite so.
There is Bad Lads Army also, have a look on YT about it.
+André Maggi Yeah I know Bad Lads Army, it's a bit contrived to be honest, a shame, it had the makings to be a really good show.
Rifleman Moore I have to agree with you on that !
If they're off to Malaya, shouldn't they be wearing Jungle Greens instead of Khaki Drill? Or is this for the layover in Aden ... ;--)
+Jack Flash I thought that too, however I have seen photos of troops embarking for Malaya in KDs, my Grandfather was sent off to Korea in '53 in KD shorts and shirt, made sense on the passage through the Suez Canal.
This reminds me of a passage in Tony Gould's book Imperial Warriors, where he describes his arrival in Malaya as a National Service Officer. He had flown via the Mid East and was in KD when he arrived in Singapore. The greeting officer thought the whole look was so comical that he just laughed and took pictures of the poor guy.
Why haven't they had their heads shorn, I did mine in 1958.
It’s not real
They need a haircut.
They would have been on a charge for looking like that.
Haircuts . . . . or lack of them . . . . adds to the fakery, eh?
Im sorry, but British DIs are just not intimidating. Not compared to the US. Marines.
Fire Line They can’t show in a reconstruction-DIs swearing & beating people on Blue Peter now can they,
This is a kids programme you plum
It’s not real. It’s a children’s programme