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Ronald Hargreaves
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Thank you Dennis!

Gentlemen, please remember that I only have my Dad’s letters to work from, so any information, however trivial it may seem to you, is extremely useful to me and helps me understand what being part of FP involved.

Elaine Hargreaves

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05/04/2012 13:50:34

Mike Pass
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Hhmmm!!!!

Dennis, sorry my friend but I have never seen it spelled Irk in any literature. Erk is, to my belief the only ’correct’ form.......I have been wrong before!
I think it was in 1966 but it was so long ago that I could be wrong about that also!!!!!!!

Elaine. Whilst duties in the forces tended to follow a set pattern, particularly in the Army; the RAF tended to individualise somewhat (dependant on who was running the station’s discip section).
For example and relating to FP. I have never been involved in ensign raise and lower. The last time that I was, was during my time in the Scouts!!!!!

Damnant quod non intellegunt.

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05/04/2012 16:01:36

john daly
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I too have never seen erk spelt any other way (I have the scripts of "Get some in" and in there they spell it erk.)

Elaine this Fire Piquet was only a small irksome �(?)
duty which although �a bind was nothing much more than that. An airman was on it �usually for a week. As your late Father wrote so many letters home perhaps you could let us have some more snippets please. Regards J.D.

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05/04/2012 16:12:55

Michael Pavitt
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Fire Piquet.

As a JNCO I was in charge of the fire piquet responsible to the orderly sergeant.One night the Orderly Officer charged me with checking all airmen returning to camp for posession of their 1250 I.D. card and put them on a charge if they could not produce the same.For some of the time he stood with me but when he left I inspected a number of laundry lists,fag packets,and other detritus presented to me if I knew the offenders!It ended up the next morning with the corridor of Station Headquarters clogged up with about a dozen airmen while I presented the Adjutant with them.They were all admonished, a minor punishment!

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05/04/2012 17:48:03

Ronald Hargreaves
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Fire Piquet

I think it would be better if I started a new post if I’m going to give more snippets from the letters- I’ll post one about "mis-use" of an ID card.

Elaine

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