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.................................................................................................................................The next Fandance is Sat 18th May 2024......................................................................................................................
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Having taken into account the current COVID restrictions that currently apply in the different parts of the UK, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2021 reunion.
The Chairman Nick Butler will be heading up the Fan at 0930 hrs on Saturday the 15th May and he will lay a BAFC wreath on behalf of the Club at the summit.
He will also toast The Fallen.
If other members wish to make their own pilgrimage up the Fan at their own risk please follow the relevant COVID restrictions that will be in place.
As a Club we are not able to accept liability for members safety and well being over the weekend of 14/15 May. Our Clubs insurance that normally covers Fandance will not operate this year.
Update to follow reference Aldershot 10 Miler on the 20th November 2021.
.........................................................................................................................The 10 Miler will be held on w/e Saturday 23rd November 2024........................................................................................
In the week before test week i had been hobbling about like everybody else. Henry Morgan asked me what the problem was, i showed him my big toe nail which was half off infected and bleeding. He ordered me to go to the med centre and came with me. The medic said it needed to come off, the fukker gave me about 5 injections around the joint. I was screaming like a stuck pig, punching fukk out of the locker and genuinely crying. I think i brought the centre to a standstill. Henry Morgan and another P Coy staff, Dave Williams (1 PARA) who had turned and both were holding me down. DW pointed to his beret and said "look this is what you'll get", i said i fukkin better get it after this.
The medic, recognising my distress, thought he would speed up the process and ripped the toenail off, fukin good bloke. The problem was the anaesthetic ("ring block") hadn't fully taken effect...more screaming and crying.
Henry said i could have the Sunday off when we got to Cwm Gdi, the toe hadn't improved much by Mon, so it was a fun filled week
Remember on my course, so many blokes dropped out that I had to carry a log under each arm and race against myself. I won but try telling that to the youth of today.
look at the size the diameter of the logs compared to some of the logs in use today. i can tell you this the logs we used at palace bks nick were rather large and heavy happy days indeed.
The First pic Don, Tommy Downie and Neil Westbrook, Pic2 Tommy Downie and Atu i won't insult him by trying to pronounce his second name. Both he and I lobbing on Frog Hill became entangled in each others rigging lines on an night descent. best landing I ever did and Atu made it to Figi for leave. The others spotted, Sid Davies, and Sid Routh,Gurney Fisher but memory fades for putting names to faces Don tyhink dementias approaching mate.
Him and Tommy Downie raided the NAAFI at Hamersley Barracks in the Shot, went in through the roof skylight. Then found they couldn't get out as the doors had big iron bars across them with a big padlock on, so as you do they made the best of it and were found by the NAAFI staff on Monday morning. A classic Rubber Dick!
Just basic bad planning, Bob. Me and Chalkie always had a getaway planned in advance. Mind you, we ended up in Colly so the planning couldn't have been that good.
Never make plans, their doomed to failure frrom the start. learned after another visit to the headmasters office and ending up with an arse resembling a Zebra crossing!
Thy az ta tek things az thi come. A planned ta be a brain surgeon but got fukked off at the interview when the cheeky bastards sed a were,nt tall enuff ta reach the operatin table!
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