Dancing Lessons
It was 1952 and the NAAFI Club held dancing lessons. Now, trying to learn to dance in hobnailed Army boots was impossible, but I did chat up a NAAFI girl and arranged to meet her after her work, which I did. She had, to me, an exotic name and was Finnish. When I arrived back at Baadjos Barracks the Intelligence Corps awaited me. I was taken to their HQ near Tunbridge Wells and quizzed overnight. Apparently they thought she was a Soviet spy and had been placed there to quiz solidiers about their regiments. I was so innocent then, but was angry when they refused me transport back to Aldershot. I had to phone the RSM who reluctantly sent a PU vehicle for me to return to Aldershot and my RASC unit. Being the RSM he really tore me off a strip - as RSMs do, of course. As he dismissed me with an angry warning about chatting up foreign girls, and wasting his time, he winked. Graham Vahey.
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RE: RE: Dancing Lessons
What thought-provoking memories to see the photo of the NAFFI Club. I remember standing near the the Public House on the right hand side of the photo (circa as a very young boy) watching my father (Frank Mahon) and his beloved RASC Military Band play stirring music at the Club's opening ceremony.
Comment from Rod Mahon on Friday, 4th February 2011.