chevpol Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Morning all :wave: a quick question, I was at Anchor Supplies on sunday, as you do, and I noticed a pile of Latrine Screens, can anybody tell me what the dimensions are? They want £25 per screen Mark :cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 fv1609 Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 It depends, there were 6 types of Screens, latrine used by the Army of which the last 2 were used also by the RAF. 8340-99-130-1296 8340-99-130-1297 8340-99-130-1300 8340-99-130-1301 8340-99-943-8484 8340-99-943-8485 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Austin Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 As this is posted in the 'I maybe stupid but..' forum, I don't feel so daft asking what is a latrine screen?! :shake: I dont have a military background but, I'm picking it up slowly....:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Richard Farrant Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 I don't feel so daft asking what is a latrine screen?! :shake: Without one of these screens, everyone would see you doing your bodily functions, if you see what I mean :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jack Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 As this is posted in the 'I maybe stupid but..' forum, I don't feel so daft asking what is a latrine screen?! :shake: Its a good question. Where does the word latrine come from? French/Norman/Latin?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Minesweeper Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 I seem to remember them being made of hessian. Not very satisfactory- didn't last long. Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Yorkie370 Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Hessian and 2x2 poles, sisal guys and wooden pegs. Loaded onto the G1098 truck, and only taken off at endex to go back on the shelves. I guess they use Portloos these days to avoid embarrassment. Gone are the days of the shovel-recce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 fv1609 Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 I guess they use Portloos these days to avoid embarrassment. Yes, but it is to avoid the wrath of English Heritage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Yorkie370 Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 I wonder what the German equivalent of EH made of our 'remains' when they cleared-up Soltau Luneberg Training Area? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 fv1609 Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Its a good question. Where does the word latrine come from? French/Norman/Latin?? Latin, latrina a contraction of lavatrina from lavo to wash. According to my 1850 dictionary. But I think they have go it wrong, surely it is a first declension verb, so lavo is I wash? Bit of a contradiction really as the majority of people do not seem to wash after their activities.:shake: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 fv1609 Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 I wonder what the German equivalent of EH made of our 'remains' when they cleared-up Soltau Luneberg Training Area? Did you mark your 'remains' with a "L" in stones to make sure you didn't camp on top of it some time later? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Minesweeper Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Remember going on Exercise to Normandy in June 1960 - 20 Land Rovers and Trailers and one RL (carrying fuel in Jerry Cans) crossed the Channel in RASC Landing Craft. We camped up in the grounds of a French Chateau near Granville. Dug holes for Thunder Boxes in a very pretty wood - but ground too hard and full of tree roots so just impossible to erect screens. Wonderful sitting there at Dawn, communing with nature in such pretty surroundings and passing the odd greeting to anybody passing by......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 gazzaw Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Just returned, last week, from Sennelager and Fallingbostel trg areas on annual exercise and it is all portaloos with stinking inners, first person to use it and break the crust has to hold breath and swat 1000s of bluebottles that are trying to escape through the hole you are sitting upon. Bring back shovel recces any day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Yorkie370 Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 (edited) The 'Turdis' was making its presence felt on schemes at about the time I was leaving, so my experience of them is thankfully limited. I did manage to have a row of 20 of them blown over at an airshow once, by marshalling a visiting SH-3 over them. You can't beat having your early morning constitutional on a proper bog seat whilst overlooking miles and miles of open prairie, though. Edited September 10, 2009 by Yorkie370 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Enigma Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Bit of a contradiction really as the majority of people do not seem to wash after their activities.:shake: I found it better to avoid peeing (or worse) over my hands...:rofl: Washing is not so much effective...why? Because before you manually open the fosset with your dirty hands, wash your hands clean and then touch the dirty fosset again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Stone Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Washing is not so much effective...why?Because before you manually open the fosset with your dirty hands, wash your hands clean and then touch the dirty fosset again... Not in a Portaloo, the water is pumped into the basin in insipid squirts by a foot pedal on the floor. If the people who hired them bothered to fill the water tank, that is...:n00b: Stone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ferretfixer Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Just returned, last week, from Sennelager and Fallingbostel trg areas on annual exercise and it is all portaloos with stinking inners, first person to use it and break the crust has to hold breath and swat 1000s of bluebottles that are trying to escape through the hole you are sitting upon. Bring back shovel recces any day Health & Hygine wasnt insisted on then with all the 'Progress'?? installed with todays 'Modern Fighting Forces'! My god, Blue Tardis'-es. How Bloody tactical! At least with a shovel Recce, the 'contents' broke down & turned into Nutrients for the soil/ ground. I bet Troops will be issued with surgical rubber gloves to have a Pee with next! A microwave to gamma iradiate the toilet paper with first. The powers that be, dont know what to waste money on next! Etc, Etc...... Rant, Rave... disbelife....Etc...:??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Morning all :wave:
a quick question, I was at Anchor Supplies on sunday, as you do, and I noticed a pile of Latrine Screens, can anybody tell me what the dimensions are? They want £25 per screen
Mark :cool:
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