by SuperAdmin | Oct 14, 2022 | Yarns & Jokes
What a change in life for a young bloke being taken from his everyday enviourement and thrown into Dads Army. Why do I refer to the conscription period in 1965 of the Australian Army as Dads Army, well you may ask? The first intake of National Servicemen arrived with...
by SuperAdmin | Oct 14, 2022 | Yarns & Jokes
4/ 71 Intake at the Victorian Resort of Puckapunyal. It must have been day 2 when they marched us into one of those dome tin huts to get issued with our greens. I am first in line and front up to a wire mesh screen with a barking dog demanding ” what side do I...
by SuperAdmin | Aug 17, 2022 | Story
A marble with a number attached – little did I know at the time that such a small object would have had such massive ramifications on the rest of my life. My life changed forever in 1967 when I received a letter informing me that I had been called for National...
by SuperAdmin | Aug 16, 2022 | Yarns & Jokes
Everyone knows that basic training was bloody hard work, and it really drained all our energy. It seemed to affect all of us in a particularly private way. There was even talk that all those cups of tea being laced with certain chemicals. The whole barracks was very...
by SuperAdmin | Jul 20, 2022 | Story
My name is George Baylis I was conscripted in the second intake 27/09 / 1965 in what I class as the most corrupt form of selected conscription. I was first sent to Puckapunual for recruit training , carried out by a bunch of alcoholic N.C.O who’s training skills...
