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Junior Leaders Company RASC in 1958
written by chris ottewell
 I decided to join the Army at the age of 15 as a Junioor Leader=The advert said "Officers and Senior NCOs of Tomorrows Army"t sounded such a good idea at the time. I arrived at Liss Station on September 8 1958 and was put in the back of a Commer 3 tonner and taken to St Lucia Barracks in Bordon. My Army career started by someone shouting to us "You will regret it" What a start . I got worse and I wondered what I had done the first three months were awful and all I seemed to do was march clean and generally take a load of arders from small young juniour NCOS and Serniour Ncoa.I
CSM Dibble although only a small man had a very large mouth and a vouce to match but we became a unit and I progressed from the intake platoon to the Band . I joined Clayton platoon as a fluutist as it meant that I wuld not do so much square backing.
Trumpet Major Bottley was the man who taught me that a flute I could not play but a trumpet I could play1
The next year or so went well and i progressed to be the Intake Juniour Sergent of Connaught Platoon and then finished my time as the Juniour CSM of B Company.
I left in 1961 and would like to make contact with any other ex Juniouyr Leaders |
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