...However - During ITS we were told by various people (senior entries, DIs, Station Barber) that we were lucky because the last of the `Borstal Entries` had graduated before we got there in May 62. They had, apparently, ruled the camp with an iron fist. We had several of our number (no names, no pack drill) who had been given a stark choice of Gaol or becoming a B/E by magistrates....Nonetheless, Senior Entry `perks` still remained right to the very end, I gather. Must have been hard for the 51st as they had no one to lord it over....
Squipper, as 40th I was in one of those entries that left before you got there and I heard no such rumours during my time there, May 1960 to November 1961. Nor were we or other entries present, 36, 37, 38 and 39 in the "Borstal Entries"