Last of my memories for those that were there. CYPRUS Char wallah that lived on the landing of the single accommodation in Dhekelia. Both Turkish and Greek staff working together in our offices in Dhekelia and Nicosia. Someone who shall be nameless p**ing on a Pioneer’s beret from the second-floor accommodation (allegedly). Great egg banjos from the tailors behind the accommodation.
Hannover – a Ginger-haired Sgt who lived in the street behind Ostland Str in Hannover who decided he would convert his cellar into a bar. Keeping in mind that these were married quarters, he painted everything in psychedelic colours, including the water tank. Opening night for the bar went into the next day and I can still see him on the floor a massive speaker on each side of his head listening to heavy rock, out of his mind. He was on courier duty the next day so the lads loaded his wagon and it picked him up from his house. It took four of us to get him into the back. Dita’s bar in Hannover, within walking distance of MQs, where posties had the big round table at the back reserved for the whole time I was stationed there. Mill Hill Sgt Barclay decided he was going to see how many he could put on a charge one evening when he was duty officer. The next day there were dozens of us in the offices and down the stairs. I don’t think anyone got anything other than a telling off. Trying to forget that shambles of a march for the Post office Rifles that created major changes in the way Mill Hill was run. Just for information, no one could hear the band so no pace was being set and it turned into an embarrassing ramble.
While serving in Hanover in the mid 80s I was told that one of the married sergeants was a model train enthusiast who built a train line all through his married quarter. There were trains chugging up the stairs and around every room and tunnels were knocked through walls to allow access to all areas for this tiny transport system. I heard that when he left the PSA were not at all impressed and a big bill was sent to him. I never found out who he was.