John A Silkstone
24-02-08, 09:27
I can’t watch the following video clip without thinking of the incident that happened while I was on guard duty 14 years earlier in 1957 .
Here is how I wrote about the incident in my book;
HIGH OH SILVER, AWAY
Another time I was on guard duty and I was manning the barrier by the main gate on the 04:00 – 06:00 stag. At 05:30 hours I opened the barrier to let the milkman enter the camp. The milkman did his deliveries with a horse and cart which he parked outside the guardroom and went inside with a pint of milk. While he was doing that I saw the early morning Land Rover coming up the road to collect the kitchen lads from the married quarters and so I opened the barrier. As the vehicle approached the gate it back fired and startled the horse which set off down the road like a cavalry charge. The milkman was off and running after the horse and cart which was now bumping about so much that it was throwing bottles and crates of milk of the cart. I had to remain on guard until 07:00 while the rest of the guard with brushes and buckets swept up the broken glass and washed away the spilt milk.
Silky
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Here is how I wrote about the incident in my book;
HIGH OH SILVER, AWAY
Another time I was on guard duty and I was manning the barrier by the main gate on the 04:00 – 06:00 stag. At 05:30 hours I opened the barrier to let the milkman enter the camp. The milkman did his deliveries with a horse and cart which he parked outside the guardroom and went inside with a pint of milk. While he was doing that I saw the early morning Land Rover coming up the road to collect the kitchen lads from the married quarters and so I opened the barrier. As the vehicle approached the gate it back fired and startled the horse which set off down the road like a cavalry charge. The milkman was off and running after the horse and cart which was now bumping about so much that it was throwing bottles and crates of milk of the cart. I had to remain on guard until 07:00 while the rest of the guard with brushes and buckets swept up the broken glass and washed away the spilt milk.
Silky
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