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Old 18th Nov 2023, 13:40
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langleybaston
 
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Originally Posted by 57mm
The Memsahib was an RAF brat. She remembers the families officer donning white gloves on march out, then brushing them over the bedstead springs to check for dust.....

When we marched out of a Leeming OMQ in '79, the WRAF Familiies Officer scraped her nails round the toilet bowl to check for limescale. She was so pre-occupied with this that she missed me standing over a landing carpet stain....

IIRC, an army officer at JHQ kept his horse in the cellar; good luck with that March out....
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Said horse also frequented the
lounge. It was in my time.
full colonel, nobody seemed too upset, it was sort of normal.
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