Interesting times I bet. Crash course in French ! Brothers mate went AWOL before going up the road in Aldershot. He joined the legion for a while then nipped off again to the states where he found himself a sugar mammy in California. Hell. Of a boy !
I did a little with the Aramalite although heavier the SLR was the staple infantry weapon of my service , hit by one of them and you weren't tempted (nor could get up) , recoil of a horse kick so you had to get it to the shoulder or you knew it . As I left the SA80 was being introduced so never had the opportunity of by all accounts a much improved and versatile infantry weapon ,another you'd remember Victor would have been the sterling SMG , basic but again effective at short range and still in service today. Ah the smell of cordite in the morning
Only fired sterling smg once wern't they prone to jams ? Stripped one and remember rat tail part was a bugger to get back in ?
As a signaller in the Recce platoon I had one as my personal weapon for awhile , my recollection is that they were/are pretty reliable and accurate helped by having two return springs ? which reduced the recoil (too much recoil lessens accuracy) . if I remember you twisted the cap at the rear to release the springs to start the strip down process, the rats tail was part of the breech block and slide in the SLR.
Pity about the Silkmen. My first visit to the ground I remember there was a posh pub on the corner of the ground that serv3d food and a couple of other smaller pubs on other sides of the ground. The last time I went the posh pub and th3 other ones were gone.....shame that and it seems that the club unfortunately is rotten to the core