question Latrine screens

[chevpol]

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:

[fv1609]

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

[Austin]

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

[Richard Farrant]

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

[Jack]

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??

[Minesweeper]

I seem to remember them being made of hessian. Not very satisfactory- didn't last long.

 

Tony

[Yorkie370]

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.

[fv1609]

I guess they use Portloos these days to avoid embarrassment.

 

Yes, but it is to avoid the wrath of English Heritage.

[Yorkie370]

I wonder what the German equivalent of EH made of our 'remains' when they cleared-up Soltau Luneberg Training Area?

[fv1609]

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:

[fv1609]

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?

[Minesweeper]

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.........

[gazzaw]

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

[Yorkie370]

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

[Enigma]

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...

[Stone]

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

[ferretfixer]

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...:???