We had
a squadron leader
who came from the RAF unit
at Harrogate once a fortnight
to teach us about
the history of the RAF and what was the expectancy,
how you could do certain things, you know, you couldn't.
And I remember his.
He was a pleasant chap.
He'd been a been retired for I think he was in the
flying corps had been retired for quite a long time,
but he used to treat us
used to take us for the aircraft recognition was one of the things
and they had silhouettes on the wall.
They had things flying across the screen
and you had to identify these aircraft.
He was
he told us
what was port side and which was starboard side.
And Barnes could never get this.
And this chap and this squadron where they got.
I can remember him getting so exasperated
as he
at the fact he couldn't understand
which was port and which was starboard
and he banged his
fist on the table
and said
Port damn it!
Port! The way you passed it after dinner
and Barnes just looked at him in this vacant way.
He probably
he’d never had port after dinner
he didn’t know what he was talking about,
but it was a great source of amusement for the rest, for some of us anyway.