A sad tale vaguely connected with BRIXMIS/SOXMIS days, told to me by an old pongo mate.
Fellow cold warriors will remember the SOXMIS pocket
aide memoire which we all carried - big coloured piccie of a SOXMIS vehicle plate, with a prominent number at
Herford Mil to 'phone with the report.
Many will also remember the two poor squaddies in Belfast who unintentionally ran into an IRA funeral in the (?) 1980s. Apparently one or both had their SOXMIS cards on them still, and Paddy misread
Herford as
Hereford and assumed they were - ahem - from a unit in that location.
Probably didn't have much of a chance anyway, but that misident didn't exactly help ......
