Just spoken to an ex RA friend who tells me it was 94 Locating Regt RA but 14 Sigs in Celle. I'm looking for any information about Signalman James (Jim) Taylor who was killed in a vehicle accident in Kingsley Barracks, Minden, in 1969, but was in Celle before he was posted to Minden.

Can anyone tell me the Troop Nr which was
with 14 Locating Regt, RA, in Celle, in about 1963/64 please.

Info for ex 211 Signal Sqn and 640 Troop - Bill Wilkie has had a serious stroke. His daughter, Helene Mary Brannan, is on facebook and can pass on any messages to him.

I am trying to find the whereabouts of David (Dave) Fletcher, ex-Boy Service, Denbury, 1966-1967; AAC Harrogate,1967-1968. Dave came from Leeds. We both did a DTG upgrade course in Catterick.Two people who previously knew him were John Coleman and Steve Wright.

Attn Karl Lawrence
Re message 3740
The Royal Signals Magazines called "The Wire" are available on line back to 1920, however it was not published during the War Years, but there is a picture of Sig Suttle in the issue for Sept 1956 under the 18 Army Group Sig Regt entry on page 294. The downloads for each year of magazines can be found at [www.royalsignalsmuseum.co.uk]
Regards
Alan

Morning, I trust everyone is safe and well.
I am currently doing research for my 95 year old grandfather, who will be 96 in August.
Ronald served in the army having joined in the spring of 1943 - he would have been demobbed in the summer of 1947- but he signed on again in 1956- 9 and there is a record him still in during 1962-65. He served with the Royal Signals. During his time he received a Mention In Dispatches in November 1945. I have found a clipping of this from the London Gazette, which only gives you his name, number and date. I was wondering if there is anyway to find more details on this.
He was also issued a letter from the King for a particular reason, but as he is getting on he is losing some of his memory, which is to be expected. He calls himself a silly old fool. This letter used to be framed in the house but they can no longer remember where this has gone. I am wondering if there is any way of getting details for this.
I was going to register for Forces War Records subscription, but after reading reviews on here and other sites I'm saving my money. I currently have an Ancestry Sub and also a My Heritage sub, I must admit the My Heritage is not that good.
I know I can go through the MOD as he is still alive, but that seems like a long process and with the current situation, will probably be even longer. So, I have turned to the delightful people on this site who may maybe able to help.
His details are: L/Cpl Ronald K Suttle (Ron)
18/08/1924
14416943
Royal Signals
I really hope someone can help as I've pretty much exhausted all routes so far.
I have my Grandfather's consent to ask this.
Regards
Karl Lawrence

RIP
Graham Atkins

I joined in 1969 and completed training at Helles barracks, 11 Signal Regiment in December that year. It was cold, probably a culture shock especially to most of us when we spent a few days on field exercises in the North Yorkshire moors, probably not the coldest December but it was very wet. I wasn’t aware then what pull Yorkshire would have on my life then but so grateful my basic training was in Yorkshire. I completed 22 years in 1992 and returned to Harrogate where we bought our first home when we passed through in 1985, this was great for our kids in 92 to return home and start there new young careers and they have never looked back. Of course like most Forces people we didn’t come from where we finally settled. Janice and I are From Dundee, I left Dundee to live in Fulham, SW London in 63, Met Janice in Dundee in 69 just before I joined up, then all after is history. Wherever I served Yorkshire was never far from my mind. As said I lived in London, schooled in London and spent a lot of time there. My last posting was London, 31SR (TAVR), based in Hammersmith about 1 mile from where I was brought up in Fulham, you could say it was like going home. The problem was it just didn’t have the feeling of home, freedom, space or fresh air as we have in Yorkshire, no insult to Londoners intended. In Harrogate Janice and I had jobs until we decided we would like to do something together, this ended up with us buying a Guest House in Harrogate just across the road from the conference centre, a very good business location. It was a five year plan to work the business then move on, this we did and had a great time, made some wonderful long time friends and a good living. From the profits we bought a holiday home in Tatlisu, Northern Cyprus where we would spend lots of holidays, we sold it about 4 years ago. We bought in Cyprus in 2005 and around the same time not known to us friends of ours had bought a house in the same area to eventually retire. We never met because we were on holiday and visited Cyprus at different times, this went on visiting and never meeting for about 10 years. We eventually sold our Cyprus property then Janice and I received Facebook enquiries asking if we were those from 1970 to 73 who were based in 4 Div, Herford. It was indeed us and we were so pleased to be in contact with long lost friends, they also provided another couples contact who we keep in touch with. The irony is that our long lost friends owned a property in Cyprus for at least 10 years at the same time as us, they lived only 4 minutes drive from us but we never met, it took Facebook to reconnect us. I would like to thank John and Margaret Brown for catching up with us after such a long time and for rekindling our friendship with them and Rob and Sidney Pinkney.

I left the Corps in January 1992 after serving man & boy since 1968, and went to BT for the next 13 years. After buying our first narrowboat in 1993, fell in love with all things waterway related.
In 2004, on a whim, and long financial discussions bought a canal-side boatyard in Wolverhampton. Apart from now having our own bar, this has been 'interesting' at times and with never a dull moment until the Virus Pandemic. Things are a lot quieter now with the forced closure of the bar and restrictions to boat movement. We still provide essential maintenance, diesel, coal, gas and spares so managed to retain staff at the moment. During my 16 years here were have performed some jobs that I have written up for an on-line magazine (narrowboatworld) with many published. I have spent a little time over the last few quiet weeks to compile those entitled 'Yarns from the Yard' giving some 50 or so 'Yarns in 5 compilations. If anyone is interested than I can send them. Anyone interested can email me and I'll send them.

Thanks for sharing your stories lads. Any more out there?

On a more serious note: one site member has contacted me because he received an email demanding money by blackmail. The email contained a password which, he assures me, is only used in this website.
Now all the passwords in our database are encrypted but, as we signallers know, nothing is 100% secure.
Also no compromising information is held in our database (unless you don’t want anyone to know that you might have been in the Wanchai, Bugis Street or the Reeperbahn at some time during 197x!)
Nevertheless it is possible that our database has been hacked, although again our security in terms of input to and output from it are fairly secure.

So if anyone else suspects that their username (although this is often our old army number which can be easy to find) or password (this would be indicative of a hack) has been compromised either recently or in the past then please let me know by email (by clicking on the “Problem” link below) ASAP.

Thanks.