Longest Serving (Oldest) Bar Steward

[unofire]

I was 8197 (Swinders) Jul 80. In the subject of YTS 8270, was for the boys and 8275 was for the girls. It all started in 1983, I know coz I was at PMC paying the poor sods their pittance every week £24.99 and £10.01 for food. Ah! heady days.

 

[Shortie]

8419, Swinders Mar 91.

 

[Barch]

8020 and been a civvie for 20 years come September.

 

[Sandbag]

8101 ... July 72......!

But as you can see below I'm on the countdown...

SandbagDT_Xtremez_30:

 

[Ex-Bay]

Mines 8019 but likewise thats an appos number.

Off Topic slightly as we are having fun with numbers...

I remember my first pay parade @ Swinditz and there was a young unfortunate called Bond in our entry......yes, you've guessed it.

Sgt(paymaster): Name?
Bond: Bond
Sgt: Last 3?
Bond: 007
Sgt: You taking the fcuking **** lad!! etc etc
Bond: No Sargeant, here's my ID!

Someone at Innsworth must have had a sense of humour!!

His Christian name, if I remember was Dennis. His ID was "fixed" for him at about the same time as some Bond film was released. I wonder if he ever lived it down?.

 

[ROTORHEAD]

Numbers

Numbers

Thank god for Hu, Sandbag etc, I'm feeling slightly more sprightly on 8138.

 

[HandbrakeHouse]

5203. Callaghan was PM but not for much longer

Prior to 1968 when the 8 series was introduced, if I remember correctly, the following categories applied

Beginning with:
......

On the officers' side:

60 Cranwell cadets (6 digits only) current CDS was in the last entry
26 Ex-Aux Air Force
52 University Graduates
43 Direct entry (ie, OCTU as opposed to Cranwell)
2X Females (number contained only 4 digits)

I am sure that someone will remember others - I look forward to being enlightened.

The 52 for male graduates and 2X for women graduates survived past the introduction of the 8 series. Connected with graduates not attesting (never clear why this was). Seem to remember that exUAS had 26 numbers