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Post by Frank Williams on May 10, 2009 13:24:54 GMT -5
Hi Guys I know I am getting past it know (80) but what on earth has happened to all the guys I served with in 242 Company Trieste /Tolmezzo/Palestine. 1947/48. CSDIC EL Kabrit/Fayed Egypt 1948/49 and 356 Company Clayton Barracks Aldershot which became 9 Company1949/52 Surely I am not the only one left???
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Post by John Giles on Jun 17, 2011 9:58:46 GMT -5
I was at CSDIC for 6 months in 1948 until leaving in september on detachment to SIC Salonica I remember Tom in the canteen and sleeping locked in the armoury on a canvas bed with hugh spiders running about underneath. I saw Brian Webber who was sent later to salonica and RSM John Day on his way home to the UK spending a night with us at SIC. He got me drunk and I was ill for days. I remember Cpl Brindley oc of our transport. And Major Wories who I did not like. I did like Captain Stewart Black Watch who was a real gent.
I am now 82 and at johngiles05@aol.com
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Post by Peter Girdlestone on Oct 21, 2014 21:27:51 GMT -5
Hi Frank Williams. No, you are not the only one left. I was with 242 Company RASC in Trieste in 1946 under the command of then Captain Cork. I was there when the Quarter Masters Store caught fire, in fact on Guard Duty at the time and raised the alarm. Corporal Cousins, then in charge of the store, was none to pleased about it. Captain Cork was a bit of a firebrand, or should it be better said, "eccentric"? Who put his dog on a charge of 14 days C.B. for not obeying his order to come when he called, but none-the-less a good leader of men. We used to take supplies up the Pola Road to an outpost in Yugoslavia, a bit of a hazzard as you may or may not know? The Company was sent to Palestine about January 1947 via Tel el Kabir, where we waited until all the transport and equipment was offloaded from the ship; and the sent on to Khasa Syn in Palestine where we no longer remained as the 6th Armoured Division but became part of the 4th Armoured, from the "Mailed Fist" into the "Charging Rhno", then in Jan 1949 we were sent on to Mackinnon Road in East Africa. Hope this has helped, but I'm afraid your name escapes me. Then, I am a few years older than you!
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Post by Brian Hoten on Jun 19, 2016 10:35:43 GMT -5
My late father, Thomas Derrick Hoten, served in the 242 Company as a Scammel lorry driver from 27 December 1944 to at least 8 November 1950 and was in Italy, Camp 21 in Nathanya in Palestine and then in Kenya. He was tall and thin and had a mate called 'Butch'. I have a group photo of him and colleagues in front of a Scammel.
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