Does anyone (drivers) remember taking Officer Cadets on to Bellerby Ranges for shooting practise, if you do, you have got to remember the Apple Pies that Ma Brown used to bake, the Officer in made that his first job, to send one us drivers round to take orders for the Apple Pies, then off to Ma Browns to get them, I used to sit in her kitchen while she baked them, they used to be the size of a small dinner plate, by the time I got back the pies were still nice and warm,off course I got mine free; never forgot taste****Les

After passing my test as a lorry driver at Harper Barracks at Ripon 5Tr I immediatly checked Orders in barracks, as once you passed your test you passed from Sgn to Dvr and then posted out to where-ever they sent you.Ihad signed on for 22 years as a regular, and had put in for Singapore,I looked on the board and it said, Dvr Henson posted to O.T.W. I thought it was Overseas Transport Wing, so I asked the Orderly Sarg; he looked at me and said you poor bugger, Thats Officers Training Wing Catterick Camp your hands will be going up and down like bees-wings saluting, the Officers out number the rest of personel by 50 to 1.then asked me where I asked to be posted to, i told him,he said, did you upset anybody, I said no, but told being as I been chosen as best driver of the day, and allowed to drive the lorry back from Ripon where I took my test, to Harper Barracks he immediatly said ,had you not been picked for best driver, you would have been posted to Singapore. needless to say I never got to Singapore, you live and learn. Les.

For all above paragraphs i forgot to mention that they all missing vital data and that is i was a driver in the Royal Corps of Signals sorry about that.and O.T.W. stands for Officers Traing Wing. by the way, dose anybody out there know why we called our R.S.M. "TARA" I have never found out after all these years. of course we never let him hear us call him that name. regards Les