hi all

kev5915 · hi all

hello just joined the site. thought i'd introduce myself my name is kev biddle my dad and brother both served in the band service , my dad was a musician & brother a bugler, & I being the black sheep of the family decided to join the royal Artillery !!! After failing the audition at RMSM hello to all

RAB

Hello Kev and welcome to the Forum..

..The name doesn't ring a bell with me, but there are plenty on the site who will remember them I'm sure. You may even find out more than you bargained for if you hang in here long enough..

Have fun matey..

lesbryan

Hello there kev welcome

kev5915

hi and thanks for the welcome im sure a few of the bulgers on here have a few story's about my brother he still can't handle his drink ha ha

Hornblower

Hi Kev and welcome - I'm impressed you've got the right spelling of bulger weighed off.

kev5915

i checked out the forum first , so thought i'd go with the flow with regards bulgers

jock · biddle

brother? what was his name? steve? getting older now names not so clear

Aaron Aardvark

Hi Kev........Bid, Bid and Bid.....

Knew Steve well. Welcome to the site and please be a regular.

townsergeant

I see Steve quite a lot, as he lives just round the corner from me...anyway, enough of him.....I came on to say hello to Kev:

HELLO KEV

MrJpig

Hi Kev ....welcome to the site. The only Biddle I know has a comb (e) stuck on

Enjoy youself.........catcha later Gnr!!

admin

Hello kev. I was chatting to your brother (Bids (Steve)) as he was taking my son home last weekend!
Welcome to the site and join in the madness

Apricot

Welcome Kev

ANTS

hi Kev...welcome...

kev5915

thanks again for all the welcome's you seem such a friendly bunch !!!

Hornblower

I'm not

Siegfried

Hi Kev - welcome - and enjoy - I do,and I'm not a Marine...

lesbryan

Im not a marine either |||

RAB

bootybandy

Mr Bass Trombone

Hi Kev,
Welcome to the mad house I don't remember your brother but I sure as hell do remember your Dad,man and boy, Ooops showing my age again, Have fun.

Nick B

Hi Kev good to have you with us,

Nick

Siegfried

...post long and prosper...Booty-licious that,HAHAHAHA!

FFoglamp

Hi Kev. Say hello to Steve for me. From the real Bidds. (Yes the one who doesn't need the Comb(e), and other such jokes.

kev5915

hi ffoglamp, i will say hi when i see steve it's hard to get hold of him lately he was last seen flying around deal like a man posssesed in his taxi.

Errol

Hi Kev. Knew your cornet playing dad Terry. Served together in Singapore (HMS Terror) Know your Bro too - same branch as me.

Michael Thompson

Hey Errol

Seeing that you served in Terror band, does the names Eirc Hayward (Bassoon) and Ray (Taff) Talor (Solo Cornet) ring a bell??????

Tommo

Errol

Sorry Tommo no Eric I'm affraid. I was out there in 67/68. There was a Mick Hayward in the HMS Centaur band back in 63. I think he was a cornet player, could they be one of the same species of bandie !!!
Nice to here from you

Errol

Michael Thompson

You must be a young lad like myself Errol.
I'm not too sure of the dates eric was there but it must have been before your time.
I joined in '68 and I think that it wasn't long after that bands were being pulled out of overseas drafting and offered redundancies. We lost some good muso's back then.
Not too sure if I know you Errol, don't be offended, my memory is not so crash hot these days. It's a wonder I know some of the members of the forum.

Cheers

Tommo

Errol

Of course I am young Tommo

From 72 onwards I spent most of my time in 'sunny Deal'-mainly instructing. Sorry that I don't know you either but pleased by your messages anyhow m8. Alan Brooker (bugler) would have known him as he stayed until the end out there. BUT where is he now !
Regards
Errol

Michael Thompson

I served with Al Brooker in Chatham. Al & Libby lived across the road in Dargets Wood, along with Dee Lindars, Andy Mytum, Gaz Davies and Smudge Smith.
Still great being part of this forum.

I hope to try and attend a reunion, after I have retired from work.

I'll be sinking a few pints with the likes of Stu (HB).
And many others I hope.

Cheers

Tommo

bootybandy

Did Tad Marriot and Butch Rutter live on the patch as well Tommo? I always remember going up there for Sunday roasts after a lunchtime sesh at some club I can't remember the name of??

townsergeant

Michael Thompson

I think Tad did but not Butch. I recall those from the Strood "Super Pigs" such as Dave Bromley, Tim Dick, Ginge (passed away can't remember his last name). Bob Richardson albeit I think that most of our time was spent with Pete and Sil in the Bootneck.

Lots of faces come to mind but names seemed to have slipped away.
Other serving names were, Smiler (Dennis) Rumming, Toby Phil Pot, Sid Tanner, John Adamson, Jock Apleby, Mike Stone, Bernie Winters, Paddy Weeks, Frank Kent Oooooh My God it'sssssss all flooooooding bbbbaaaack. I'll have to stop before I go into relapse.

I'm sure there might be other names that can be added to this short list, I'll be glad to here from others that served at the same time.

Actually there was also Stu Thorn (I'll be in trouble for not putting him at the TOP of my list) and never forget that tea shirt of Dave Bromley's when we washed it for him, I think it was about a 98 gigger at the time.

Also Dean Pavey, Andrew (Brick) Wall, David Cole and Andy Henderson. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! More names flooding back....I'd better go. Any bells ringing Errol?????

Errol

yes quite a few Tommo. some old and bold in that lot.I wonder if the ginge you refer to was Gooch ! Dean Pavey was killed in the Deal bombing.I know Paddy Weeks is still kicking as i have seen him at reunions.

bootybandy

It was Ginge Couch Errol.

Errol

Frank Kent is a local vicar.

Errol

You have a good memory Booty

bootybandy

I've been told that before. But I can't remember who said it!!!!!

Errol

Me the last time!!!!!

Hornblower

Michael Thompson

I think that Tad went into the MOD as did John Adamson, both at Chatham Dockyard.
Waste of a bloody good cormet player if you ask me. I heard too that Frank is now a priest. I think Don Pritchard is too.
It was Ginge Couch, sad that he passed away so soon after he left the mob.
Garry Powell, Ian Clarkson, Oscar Richardson, Bless Him-Clive Sproston, Tim Smye-Rumsby, Mick (Ginge) Reynolds, Wally Walters MBE (French Horn/Librarian), Rivers Howgil, Mick Jones - who could ever forget the Tasmanian Tattoo and the telephone call for Capt. Chris (Boots) Taylor, Mac McGill, and there was a good trombone player Jock???? who I believe is now a Chief Inspector in the West Country.
Memory is starting to blank out again

Dave Dawson (joineed the prison service I think) and Dave Bently.
Waaaaaaaaaah there is something seriously wrong with me, remebering all this lot.

I'm sure there's plenty I've missed.
I'm off to practice a Zzzzzzzz X

before it's too late for me. help me out if you can

bootybandy

That Jock was Bobby Nelson who is now a Detective Chief Inspector in the Kent Constabulary. He lives near Dartford, and due to retire very soon, if not already.
There was also the Bishop Brothers, Terry and Geoff, as well as another Geoff, Goodrum he was called, a flute player. Geoff Truss, Mons North, Ivor South, Alan West(?). Keith Tomlinson I could go on, but most of these have been aired at many other times on different threads.

Michael Thompson

Well done Booty, it getting to the stage that I was running out of recolection.
I won't start on my Pompy days as it will start showing too much of my age.
I'm trying to think that I'm still young, even though I'm approaching retirement myself in a couple of years.

Errol

Enough in there for a massed bands Tommo.
Yes Dave Dawson still alive and working in the prison service.Seen him new years eve.