Are you a tailor ?
By John Flashman
(served with RAOC 1956-59,
army number 23482683).
I joined the RAOC in June
1956 on a 3-year engagement at a time when certain skills were in desperately
short supply. One such skill was that of tailoring and all the recruitment
offices carried a notice saying something like: "Are you a tailor?
Then come and join the RAOC where you will be assured of a warm welcome".
In my training squad at Blackdown near Aldershot was a chap named Robinson,
a geordie who was a tailor in civvy street. When he went to enlist
he was treated (almost) like royalty and given every assurance that he
would be employed as a tailor and all would be well.
So what did they do with
him? They made him a clerk.
If you have a anecdote, funny
story, limerick or song that you remember from your service, we would like
to publish it.
Please send your stories or songs to James Paul
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