Perfect Real Names For Service Occupation.

lol i find this so funny i'm lcpl garnish's wife so to find him on a fourm has made me smile thanks for making my day guys x

 

Ha, Thats Brilliant - Tell him to say hi to my mate Griff who I believe is spending Christmas in the cook house at Bastion.

Best wishes for the festive period.
Andy

 

Pheathon -
There were Two - Pine -Coffins in WW2 - both were Lt.Col's
at the finish after distinguished careers in special ops - Geoffrey and John who both lectured at Old Sarum - Salisbury Defence College in the early 50's.

Major John Pine-Coffin in 1943 - "invited " me to serve on Brig. Fitzroy MacClean's Mission to Tito - by parachuting into Yugoslavia - happily somehow I failed the tests at Oxford University....
Cheers

 

And this one:

http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/veteran-accounts/12134-one-"veteran"-any-other.html#post265646

 

Dear Mrs. Garnish

As I started this little thread I am so glad you have found it and it has made you smile. Thanks for replying and you should be very proud of your husband and all that he and his colleagues are doing out there.

Merry Christmas.

Steve.

 

I've came across a Bdr Gunner, several Chutes (though non in the paras) and a couple of Tanks plus some Tankards which would be usefull in the mess!

 

Dear Steve

Thank you for your message, it was so lovely to find something like this when he is so far from home but i am extermly proud of him and all who serve along side him and who have served before him . merry christmas x

 

I've came across a Bdr Gunner, several Chutes (though non in the paras) and a couple of Tanks plus some Tankards which would be usefull in the mess!
Private Mortar, Rifleman Shott and Gunner Shell

 

and more . . . several by the name of Bunker, many Cannons and a ships cook called Alfonso Grenade

 

Private Bullet and the rather confusing Gunner Ivor Bullett

 

Our first roll call at the training depot at Bury St.Edmunds had the CSM tearing his hair out at the end ....Box - Cox -Fox - Knox - Somerville-Box...

Cheers

 

I used to work with the Grandson of Geoffrey Pine-Coffin ("wooden box" to his men!) at Greenwich. The first time I heard his name I thought it was a wind-up!!

 

007 SOARES WG 100532 133 EAGLE SQDN 27/09/1941 ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE
043 BRIDGES AT 141984 234 FIELD COY 18/02/1941 ROYAL ENGINEERS

 

Some Seamans in the RN:

001 SEAMAN HW C/K 60343 HMS BARHAM 25/11/1941 ROYAL NAVY
002 SEAMAN GW C/KX 11160 HMS BLEAN 11/12/1942 ROYAL NAVY
003 SEAMAN AEB C/KX 145129 HMS MANXMAN 01/12/1942 ROYAL NAVY
004 SEAMAN R C/JX184915 HMS PRESIDENT III 02/12/1943 ROYAL NAVY
005 SEAMAN PW D/KX 123859 HM LST 420 07/11/1944 ROYAL NAVY
006 SEAMAN GM - HMS LYNX 15/03/1941 ROYAL NAVY

My sister in law was a 'Seaman'.

 

We had a Sergeant Warr in the company at one time. He was a pretty hard-core type, but with a name like that could you expect anything different. In my basic training company, there was a fellow private with the name of Peter Gothardt. Imagine the muffled laughs when the Drill Sergeants called us out by the usual last name, first name bit.

 

Pilot A Bird
Gunner A Gunn
Flying Officer Eagles

Trooper Aimers - 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)

 

BANGER , ALFRED WILLIAM Trumpeter61811117/10/1918 22Royal Horse ArtilleryUnited KingdomF. 235.ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

 

Used to have a QARNC girlfiend called Vicky Gunn