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Old 21-01-18, 03:43 PM
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Private May Gemmel, a WRAC recruit from the Seychelles, during training as a clerk at the Clerk Training Wing, 6 Training Battalion, Royal Army Sevice Corps✰, Yeovil, Somerset. Photograph taken during a visit by the inspector of Recruiting WRAC, Lieutenant Colonel G E M Saunders-Davies.

In 1965, the RASC was merged with the Transportation and Movement Control Service of the Royal Engineers (which was responsible for railway transport, inland water transport, port operations, and movements) to form the Royal Corps of Transport.








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That takes me back Jo. I did my driver training at Yeovil in late 1965 with what had by then become 6 Training Regiment, RCT. We were in Houndstone Camp and the WRAC girls were over the road in Lufton Camp. For a young bloke approaching 18 years of age, guard duty on Lufton Camp was a real eye-opener. No disrespect to the girls but some of them could have out-drank Rab C. Nesbitt and Jamesie Cotter. I was on patrol one night about 2 a.m. when I heard a noise outside one of the huts, it turned out to be a big hefty bird, well-oiled and throwing up and breaking wind at the same time. All she had on was an enormous pair of knickers that you could have made a sleeping bag out of!!. I thought about asking her if she was OK but decided against it in the interest of health and safety!!. Happy days.
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a good story Hoot.

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