Hi Mog! Yes, Puddy was indeed a true eccentric. I was holding for a while on Standards at Brawdy (summer of '76 - heaven!) when Puddy came in muttering about "The wretched Navy". He'd been towing a flag behind Clementine (the T7 partner to Winston) and something had sailed into Hartland range. "Went down and got the bugger's number though!", he announced, "M1115!".
Knowing Puddy's eyesight, to obtain the number would undoubtedly have meant quite a 'close encounter' between the Meteor and said vessel.
I went next door to the Education Section and borrowed a copy of Jane's.... "M1115 you say, Puddy. That'll be HMS Bronington then - commanded by HRH the Prince of Wales!"
"Only right then that our Welsh prince should have been honoured with a flypast", he rumbled in that rich voice of his.