Soldiering

Part 1 of 2

Time Topics described
00:00:00 Soldiering Part 1
00:00:03 Tape introduction
00:00:21 Joining the army
00:02:22 Posting in North Wales
00:03:03 Signal training camp
00:06:10 Drills
00:06:50 Regiments
00:07:26 Isolation ward
00:07:55 Draft
00:08:42 After leave
00:09:08 Transit deport in London
00:10:05 Flight from Black Bush in Hampshire
00:10:54 Flight
00:11:54 Malta
00:12:15 Landing at Fade in Egypt
00:13:00 Qabrit
00:14:45 Assigned to HQ troop
00:15:51 Why we were there
00:17:00 Out on patrol
00:17:50 Friends in the Army
00:18:35 Driving a lieutenant
00:19:30 Full driving licence
00:20:00 Withdrawal
00:21:44 Leave
00:24:07 Prickly heat
00:24:30 Coming home as a unit
00:24:50 Troop ship
00:26:01 Life jacket
00:26:25 Ship stations
00:26:57 Disembarked at South Hampton
00:27:30 Tidworth
00:28:05 Beach
00:28:54 Bullford
00:29:30 Uniform
00:30:00 Home
00:31:04 End of soldiering part 1
00:31:14 End of tape

Part 2

Time Topics described
00:00:01 Soldiering part 2
00:00:13 Home continued
00:01:25 Demobbed
00:01:43 Suez Crisis 1956
00:02:45 Carlisle
00:03:55 Prep for deployment
00:04:57 Driving army transport
00:05:30 Brentwood
00:06:10 Samson
00:07:20 Isle of white
00:07:50 South Hampton
00:08:22 Missed the action
00:09:13 Demobbed
00:09:24 The experience
00:10:42 Illnesses
00:11:35 Army mates
00:11:50 Reunions
00:15:37 Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers
00:20:02 End of Tape