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In response to Ray and needing excuse not to weed the patio (plus cricket and Ascot on radio) herewith my pennyworth - In no particular order – I suspect that many more wrens were commissioned because there was no direct entry route - they joined as wren rating then commissioned when qualified and passed Admiralty Interview Board. If I have erred in my list I apologise but there is really no way to track so I have trawled the course photos in the hope they would jog my memory. In going through the photos I noticed (unrelated to above) a pic of David Philpot in Course No 1/79 dressed as a four ring Captain but in all subsequent phots dressed as a Commander ! (…. wonder - did he fail the ‘frothy’ coffee making test … !!!) Finally - a bit more for this rainy day …. Confucius did Not say …… Man who wants pretty nurse must be patient. End |
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Well, started as a boy entrant at HMS Ganges in 1958, having run away from a detestable bording school, and signed on for 9 years, as it was then. Unfortunately this 9 years did not start until my 18th birthday in 1960, so really it was 11 years. I then stgned on for a further 5 tears and left in 1974, During all that time I only made it to P.O. and having read all the latest on this website, I was a bit of a failure! Perhaps Spud could furnish us with all the METs who succeeded to the Wardroom - and how far they got. |
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I do seem to remember a guy called Cutting spending some time at AFS with me maybe around 1966 or early '67. |
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... JDD Whitehead was a regular on here around the time of the Pompey 2009 reunion. He sent Charlie some genuine Sophia Loren memorabilia (not underwear just to be clear) which Charlie presented to me at the reunion and I got Gill to forward to G Blewitt knowing he was passionately in love with her! I hope G Blu is keeping well - amazing memory for detail in all his posts on here ! |
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Confusion solved! The person you are trhinking of was Lt. Cdr. John Whitehead, who was on board Victory at that time. I joined up at HMS Ganges with him and was on the same Met course at Culdrose. One of us did very well in the R.N. and it wasn:t me! |
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Sorry that last bit didn't make sense, I don't believe Cutting continued in the Met Branch but had his commission in a General Service or the Like. |
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Now I am really getting confused but I am sure it was a Young Michael Cutting who was on board HMS Lion in 1965 and went sick prior to sailing, |
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... sorry Johnny should have added you ! |
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Ray and Ken - there is no record of anyone called Cutting in the Navy List in that era. |
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I'm a bit confused _ was this the Mike Cutting who joined up in 1963 - see Departed Shipmates. I was on HMS Hermes with him in the late Sixties, and we were both P,O, Instructors at Culdrose Met school after that, I left the Navy in 1974 and lost touch, but he left in 1985, presumably having done gis 22 tears. This drosn't point to him being an Officer, as surely he would have stayed in |
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