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RAF Cardington - Attestation
DIR By: terry
Date: November 8, 2012, 11:24 am
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Re: RAF Cardington - Intestation
DIR By: Bill Reid
Date: November 8, 2012, 4:52 pm
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Blimey a polite corporal , where did they find him? lol
#Post#: 7390--------------------------------------------------
Re: RAF Cardington - Attestation
DIR By: guest87
Date: January 4, 2013, 10:14 am
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I thought Cardington was a great camp,the' first I had ever been
to,everyone so friendly,had a great time at the camp dance in a
balloon hanger,with a good jazz band.
Things changed a bit after signing on,found out the Nco's didn't
have the same sense of humour.
My kit fitted reasonably well.
Arriving at Bridgnoth certainly livened things up a lot,but
that's another story!!
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Re: RAF Cardington - Attestation
DIR By: terry
Date: October 20, 2015, 7:30 am
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From Dave Carnell
Doug,things hadn't changed much when I went to Cardington in
1959 except the recruit training had moved to Bridgnorth.
You still were given a couple of sheets of brown paper and some
string to send your civvies home,still same aertex vests and
shreddies plus still the old rough battle dress but you at
least as a regular had the new barathea best dress although the
National Service men were given the old WW2 uniform rough as
sandpaper and two brass hooks and eyes to close it around the
neck.
Old flannel PJs with the convict stripes and the collarless
shirts plus a front and back stud,I lost mine after two days
(stolen) off my bedside locker whilst in the ablutions,so I
remembered my G/dad having two small buttons with a small bit if
string between the two so I made one up and used that for ages
until they issued shirts with collars at Bishops Court in late
1960, memories are what keeps sites like this going.
#Post#: 32679--------------------------------------------------
Re: RAF Cardington - Attestation
DIR By: guest416
Date: January 5, 2016, 8:57 pm
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Does anyone remember the kit boxes at Cardington.
They stood on the floor at the end of each bed and were about
2feet by 18 Inches in size.
Whoever created these boxes must have been round the bend.
Inside the box there was a partition about 6 inches wide and ran
the depth of the box.
On the top inside of the partition wall was a groove with a
corresponding groove in the box wall facing in.
There were small pieces of plywood the same width as the width
of the partition and about one inch wide these slipped into
the wall/partition grooves.The pieces of wood had to be placed
under a fragment of a garment then the garment was screwed
around under the wood ,thrust in the partition space whilst the
piece of covered wood was slid into the groove.this was done for
underpants ,shirts .vests etc until the partition was filled and
all one could see was a sectioned row of pieces of material.You
can imagine what state a shirt was in when it was taken out of
the box to wear.The rest of the box had to be laid out with kit
in a certain order.
Hope this makes sense as it it not easy to explain the mind of
madmen.
Doug.Wallis
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Re: RAF Cardington - Attestation
DIR By: Brian Reynard
Date: January 6, 2016, 4:00 am
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--- Quote from: Doug.Wallis link ---
>
> Does anyone remember the kit boxes at Cardington.
> They stood on the floor at the end of each bed and were about
2feet by 18 Inches in size.
> Whoever created these boxes must have been round the bend.
> Inside the box there was a partition about 6 inches wide and
ran the depth of the box.
> On the top inside of the partition wall was a groove with a
corresponding groove in the box wall facing in.
> There were small pieces of plywood the same width as the width
of the partition and about one inch wide these slipped into
the wall/partition grooves.The pieces of wood had to be placed
under a fragment of a garment then the garment was screwed
around under the wood ,thrust in the partition space whilst the
piece of covered wood was slid into the groove.this was done for
underpants ,shirts .vests etc until the partition was filled and
all one could see was a sectioned row of pieces of material.You
can imagine what state a shirt was in when it was taken out of
the box to wear.The rest of the box had to be laid out with kit
in a certain order.
> Hope this makes sense as it it not easy to explain the mind of
madmen.
> Doug.Wallis
>
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Doug fascinating recollection, I went through Cardington in
early 54, the RAF by then were issuing kit bags. I can just
imagine what a crumpled mess kit would get into. kit bags did
not resolve the issue of messing up clothing, when we got to the
square bashing phase (Hednesford for me) we had lockers and
single wardrobes.
Kit bags soon were replaced by privately bought 'holdalls. I
believe holdalls are actually issued nowadays but not sure
whether they have completely replaced kit bags as part of the
initial issue.
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Re: RAF Cardington - Attestation
DIR By: terry
Date: January 6, 2016, 11:51 am
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--- Quote from: Brian Reynard link ---
>
> [quote author=Doug.Wallis link=topic=167.msg32679#msg32679
date=1452049038]
> Does anyone remember the kit boxes at Cardington.
> They stood on the floor at the end of each bed and were about
2feet by 18 Inches in size.
> Whoever created these boxes must have been round the bend.
> Inside the box there was a partition about 6 inches wide and
ran the depth of the box.
> On the top inside of the partition wall was a groove with a
corresponding groove in the box wall facing in.
> There were small pieces of plywood the same width as the width
of the partition and about one inch wide these slipped into
the wall/partition grooves.The pieces of wood had to be placed
under a fragment of a garment then the garment was screwed
around under the wood ,thrust in the partition space whilst the
piece of covered wood was slid into the groove.this was done for
underpants ,shirts .vests etc until the partition was filled and
all one could see was a sectioned row of pieces of material.You
can imagine what state a shirt was in when it was taken out of
the box to wear.The rest of the box had to be laid out with kit
in a certain order.
> Hope this makes sense as it it not easy to explain the mind of
madmen.
> Doug.Wallis
--- End Quote ---
Doug fascinating recollection, I went through Cardington in
early 54, the RAF by then were issuing kit bags. I can just
imagine what a crumpled mess kit would get into. kit bags did
not resolve the issue of messing up clothing, when we got to the
square bashing phase (Hednesford for me) we had lockers and
single wardrobes.
Kit bags soon were replaced by privately bought 'holdalls. I
believe holdalls are actually issued nowadays but not sure
whether they have completely replaced kit bags as part of the
initial issue.[/quote]
Brian. Kit bags were replaced by holdalls sometime mid 60's I
believe. When my son joined the army he 'nicked' my kit bag and
holdall which I had retained when I retired. When he went to
Iraq for desert Storm he was not given anything to take his kit
in, Sainsburys bags were his only choice, along with the
holdall. I had to buy him a back pack for his kit. TB
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Re: RAF Cardington - Attestation
DIR By: steve beddoe
Date: January 6, 2016, 12:12 pm
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Joined '62 and remember having both at one stage.
#Post#: 32696--------------------------------------------------
Re: RAF Cardington - Attestation
DIR By: David Carnell
Date: January 6, 2016, 12:54 pm
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I was issued with a large RAF blue holdall when at cardington in
april 59 and we were expected to get evertthing issued there
into it,it was only whilst trade training at Compton Bassett
were we allowed to bring civvies from home and allowed to have a
civvy case or holdall.I had a tartan one with plastic handles
that lasted for about a year before it rotted to bits.
#Post#: 32700--------------------------------------------------
Re: RAF Cardington - Attestation
DIR By: Myrtle Meads
Date: January 7, 2016, 1:29 am
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When I joined at RAF Wilmslow in 1959, us WRAFs were issued with
a holdall, the men got kitbags
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