Receipt For Smith & Wesson Revolver.

good day joe brown sm.april24.2013.03:55pm.re:receipt for smith & Wesson revolver,a sad momemt in your army career as you hand in your final peace of equipment.and collect your pin stripe suit.a great reward for a job well done,i got mine in oldam.i hope you found civi street as good as you dreamed about it when you were on the front line,great to know you,regards bernard85

Hello Bernard. For the first few weeks it was marvellous being back in civvy street but I found after while I was actually missing Army life! Kept wondering about my former mates and what they were doing and longed to be in daily contact with them again. When the Cold War was on I was in regular contact with a close friend from OCTU-days and we both were wishing that we might be called back to served again . . . It was the companionship that I really missed.

But I had to get a job, to start earning money and then the big change which truly settled me down was meeting my wife-to-be. I also found being back in the Territorial Army was a big help to settling down in civvy street, as I met up with some former colleagues and made new friends with others who had served during the War. I always looked forward to my TA nights.

It all worked out, but it was not as easy as one imagined it would be during the dark days of the War when you just longed to be back home.

How about you, Bernard: Did you having any difficulty in settling down after the end of the War?

Warm regards.
Joe

good day joe brown,yesterday.11:10am re:demob. thank you for your informative reply.it sounds like you overcame your loss of all your mates.only to find new ones,and a bonus of finding your wife.i am glad you have had a good life,as for myself.i had a couple of days ashore.i could not fit in with my old mates,each one had gone there separate ways during the war.i went down to the pool in London.they gave me a great job on a Canadian ship and I sailed out the next day and kept sailing.a great life good mates.and finaly married.great talking to you.regards bernard85

Bernard. You opted for a very active and exciting career. I am sure you enjoyed it. My work was in newspaper publishing and that involved from time-to-time meeting up with a lot of interesting people. Life has been good since those dark days of the Second World War and I am contentedly resting on "my laurels" as I look with love and pleasure at my family of two children, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. My youngest grandson just recently back from Nepal where he climbed Kalapata (5545m) and Island Peak (6187m); last year it was Mont Blanc (4810m). Maybe . . . just maybe . . . some of my training in the Mountains of Scotland during the War when I was with the Mountain Division rubbed off on him. Take care. Kindest regards. Joe