Thanks to everyone who has replied to this thread. I didn't expect that I would be touching quite so many raw nerves, or reminding so many that their goats had already been got. (But then it is pprune).
I should point out (again) that my OP was not to complain (and certainly not to take the piss), merely better to understand what lay behind the RT and what replies were expected to calls that, despite CAP413, are non-standard in the civilian world.
Thanks, in particular, to Downwind.Maddl-Land for giving the context to Mil Ops. Pottering down the glideslope in an intact aircraft on an approach that I have the benefit of time and foreknowledge to pre-brief with modern avionics at 110 kias is, thankfully, different from the operations that the system was designed to support.
Until the next time...