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Jack Garry made contact with me March 27th 2008. A 3 year man 4086857 . He served at Kasfareet from April `53 to November `54 with 12 months in No 2 PSCO Wing then transferred to Station HQ until demob in November 1954. He served as the orderly room SAC under CPL Stan Manning until the transfer to Station HQ as CPL Clerk to the Adjudent`s office.
A.R.`POMPEY` BOND, Hampshire
Only a few names spring to mind in this group.
Back row: Mike Annis 4th left
Middle row: Fred Norcott 2nd left: Taffy Bowen 5th from left.
Front row: Pompey Bond 1st left
Billet 7 team 1954
Back row: me (Jack) and Roy Taylor, 2nd and 3rd from left.
Front row: Pompey 1st Left
Five a side cricket matches played between the billets with tennis ball and bat fashioned out of a piece of wood
Guard Duty-second from right is Johnny Goodall
with possibly Chas Finnigan extreme right.
The `Invincibles` team
Back row: pompy: Jim Bowie: Friz (Walter Hilsden)
Front row: Fred Norcott and Jim Coombes
Mike Annis
Jock ? and me (Jack)
Part of billet interior
Always a dispute when someone given out LBW
Friz (Walter Hildren) far left
Xmas Day 1953
Water Melon
Taffy Brown O.T.B. Oct 1954
This picture may have been taken in one of the SHQ Billets ?
Bicycle made for three:
Derek (Blackie) Underwood, Ginger Knight and Fred Norcott.
PSCO Orderly Room staff
I am at right hand of back row
with top of my head cut off
A Jazz Jamboree was held at the camp cinema in June `53. Jazz groups from various other camps made up the concert
Admit one
Some of the Billet 7 in the audience.....(p.s.See those seats ? They were joined together in units of 3/4. The first time I went into that cinema with my mates, several old timers came into the row behind, picked up a row and BANGED the seating hard on the deck several times then pulled out some canisters and sprayed the seats ! Yeah, the seats were a wild life haven for bed bugs...Alwyn York )
Taffy, ex Billet 7 ? Pianist. He also featured on the local radio station with a regular weekly request programme.
Taffy also played the trombone !
Anybody recall the Fun Day on the athletics ground which included home made chariot racing and a donkey derby.
( Beats me, I cannot recall this - Alwyn York )
Donkey Derby
PSCO Wing team in the Zone Final. Moascar or Fayid ?
(The only grass football pitch I recall was at Fayid - Alwyn )
Johnny Goodall extreme right.
Insert from Alwyn York.
I wanna tell you a story............Yorkshireman Johnny Goodall was in charge of my section and was a really great guy to know. A 2 year man, he left the zone well before me which was February 1956. You know the old saying that if you stand on a corner of Picadilly Circus long enough then you will see everyone you have ever known in your life. Well, not exactly Picadilly Circus but when I married Sheila in January 1957 we left the reception early to travel down to London for a few days honeymoon in the Shaftsbury Hotel just yards from Picadilly Circus. Sunday afternoon took us along the Mall towards Buckingham Palace and guess who we bumped into. Johnny Goodall and his wife who had married on the same day as us and travelled down to the smoke for their honeymoon as well.
What a coincidence. We had a good old natter, went our separate ways and never made contact again. He appears in other photo`s supplied by Jack Garry.
