skelly Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Well my surname is Skelson.. Everyone calls me skelly tho.. I once had an indoor cricket team called Skellys heroes.. We were crap.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Rough, rough! (Sorrry run out of pills) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Thanks everybody for explaining your name but...... More more more!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferretfixer Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Well I'm still Rosie!!! but at work one child has called me strawberry, another calls me raisin and my favourite is a little child calls me gozeberry (not gooseberry)!!! It should Really be' Fuity' then!........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gren.nik Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 gren.nik = "Grenadier Nikolaus ", my military rank and name received when I joined the Second Battle Group in 1999.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedawnpatrol Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 thedawnpatrol................classic british film, Errol Flynn, David Niven, Basil Rathbone................the best ! Plus of course my interest in all thing Royal Flying Corps........... Jules Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosie Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 It should Really be' Fuity' then!...........easy tiger!!!!! :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haybaggerman Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 its what I do for a living, kind of. Coming from Devon and dealing with hay...... should have called myself yokel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minesweeper Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Following research that I was doing into the Royal Navy career of my Grandfather during the Great War. Family legend had it that the Minesweeper on which he was serving sank off the Scottish Coast somewhere and that he returned home to Falmouth in Cornwall from Scotland in borrowed clothes - but never really spoke about what had happened. My research found that he served as a CPO on HMT Calliope II which was involved in a collision with the S.S.Dane off the Butt of Lewis - the minesweeper sank and some of the crew drowned. So the family legend had been true! He had inlisted in the R.N. in about 1880 - I do have the exact date somewhere - as a Ganges Boy when the Ganges was moored off Falmouth. He completed his full service before the Great War started in 1914 - but re-joined the Fleet when war broke out and served right through. For anyone interested in the Ganges, there is a very moving Memorial to all the Ganges Boys who were killed in training at Falmouth - situated in Mylor Churchyard. A large number of very young boys - it must have been tough for them as they had enlisted at such a very young age. How different from today. Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Fairly obvious, nickname for Deryck, but Jack calls me Fred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Following research that I was doing into the Royal Navy career of my Grandfather during the Great War. Family legend had it that the Minesweeper on which he was serving sank off the Scottish Coast somewhere and that he returned home to Falmouth in Cornwall from Scotland in borrowed clothes - but never really spoke about what had happened. My research found that he served as a CPO on HMT Calliope II which was involved in a collision with the S.S.Dane off the Butt of Lewis - the minesweeper sank and some of the crew drowned. So the family legend had been true! He had inlisted in the R.N. in about 1880 - I do have the exact date somewhere - as a Ganges Boy when the Ganges was moored off Falmouth. He completed his full service before the Great War started in 1914 - but re-joined the Fleet when war broke out and served right through. For anyone interested in the Ganges, there is a very moving Memorial to all the Ganges Boys who were killed in training at Falmouth - situated in Mylor Churchyard. A large number of very young boys - it must have been tough for them as they had enlisted at such a very young age. How different from today. Tony I was a memeber of the last recruitment to HMS Ganges. That's when it was at Shotley point. Nothing now but the flagpole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essex5 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Nothing military about mine at all - sorry :mad: I do a lot of rally marshalling and it's my Motor Sports Association (better known as the RAC) radio call-sign. Although I now live in mid-Wales, I was founder chairman of the Essex Land Rover Club (in 1983), and I'm still member No.5 Boring, innit? John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero-Five-Two Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Any one in the Army with a surname like Smith is usually referred to by the last 3 digits of their army number. Mine being 052. My wife Helen, was very often known as "wife of 052" and when our eldest son was born in RAF Wegberg, the plastic tag they put on his arm said Son of......... Many people have been known to pronounce it as oh, five, two only to be told there are no letters in an army number. It doesn't always work though. There were many occaisions when the nice pay chaps got things mixed up with another Smith. His number was almost identical to mine but with a last three of 652. given some peoples hand written scribbles it is easy to see how mistakes were made, and there were a lot of them. There is also another forum member using the same numbers, must be a popular choice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Zero-Five-Two, you crack me up! I used to have nightmares concerning our radio instructor who kept on about "O" is a letter "zero" is a number! I still prattle on about that today, drives those around me bonkers, they call me pedantic and old. Know exactly what you mean about Smiths and Brown and the like, they were all known by their last 3 and some like yourself just became the last three! Thanks for the reminder and the laugh. R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 I call myself Robin Craig because that is my name. I was once legally Simon Turner. Can anyone guess why? R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rangie Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Nothing military, and the name I go by on the other forums I am a member of! Comes from my deep rooted fetish of all things Rover............ Alec. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G506 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 The aftershave I use? [ATTACH=CONFIG]59391[/ATTACH] :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recymech66 Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Recymech, because I'm err, a Recymech and the 66 is from the VRN of my last CRARRV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minesweeper Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 I call myself Robin Craig because that is my name. I was once legally Simon Turner. Can anyone guess why? R Looks like that you are going to have to tell us............... Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 The fact that they are both male names is a positive sign at least..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Child Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 I call myself Robin Craig because that is my name. I was once legally Simon Turner. Can anyone guess why? Looks like that you are going to have to tell us............... Tony I'm going to guess at "dating a girl with tattoos from a previous relationship, and you changed your name to avoid any embarrassing questions to her" (what a gentleman ) Mind if we call you Bruce now, it'll save on the confusion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Thanks for the replies guys. No I have not been relocated to Canada from the UK under the witness protection program. I was adopted in the UK at an early age is the reason, very simple. It must have taken incredible guts on the part of my birth mother and father to do so, for whom I hold the utmost respect. Never met them or traced them and at my age now, having just turned 50, it is unlikely to happen. Just thought I would throw it out there to see if the collective minds could figure it out. Absolutely no stigma attached to it. Quite settled over the whole event. Robin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minesweeper Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 The fact that they are both male names is a positive sign at least..... Well, I have come across a girl called "Robin" - but I was hesitant in going down that track......... Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malyutkaman Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Mine is not too complicated when you see my avitar....My BRDM2 fires the "Malyutka" AT-3 missile. NATO code name is SAGGER, and for obvious reasons I wasn't going to use that.:shocked: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bran D Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 With a name like Branko Dragovic I had to shorten it, as I struggle with it on a Monday, or a Tuesday...... Bran on its own would confuse me with a breakfast cereal, but then Bran D confuses with strong spirit drink so I should have used Bran on its own...Oh well I'm glad its not confusing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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