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WRAC Basic Training, Lingfield 1963 in 1963
written by Vee Taylor
 One morning we were waiting for the sergeant to do kit and locker inspection and having a last cigarette. We heard the shout 'Stand by your beds' rather earlier than we expected. I threw my cigarette out of the open window behind my bed and my friend Pat Ripley in the bed opposite, didn't have her window open so she looked around for somewhere to put her stub. She was about to put it into her ashtray but changed her mind, she didn't want to dirty it.She looked frantically around but couldn't see anywhere to put it so she quickly opened the top drawer of her dressing table and dropped it in. The sergeant advanced down the billet checking peoples' kit and furniture for signs of dust and dirt. She got to Pat's bedspace and gave a cursory glance at her kit laid out on the bed. She went behind Pat to look in the locker and I saw Pat close her eyes, praying the sergeant wouldn't open the drawer. Too bad! She did just that and was met with a cloud of smoke from Pat's underwear which had caught fire. When I saw this I couldn't contain myself and burst out laughing. This did not go down well with the sergeant, nor the Troop OC when we were up before her on a charge. We got 5 days jankers cleaning out the orderly room every evening after tea. |
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