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Category: Arborfield
Arborfield 65A Passing Out Parade
So after 9 divs at Arborfield it’s 65A’s turn to throw our No Dress Caps in the air!! This is the video my dad took on December 14th 1976 at Arborfield. You’ll have to forgive the dreadful quality, it was…
Arborfield History
The training of young soldier tradesmen in the Army presented the engineering and technical Corps of the British Army with a valuable source of manpower for many years. The system of centralised Technical Schools for boys started as far back…
Arborfield Old Boys’ Association
Membership of the Association If you are an Arborfield ex-apprentice and not yet a member of the Arborfield Old Boys Association then please seriously consider joining us – if you’d like a sample copy of the OBAN magazine to find…
Arborfield Old Boys’ Reunion
This weekend – 15-17th July 2017 55th Annual Reunion of the Arborfield Old Boy’s Association. This year we will be honouring those lads from intake year 1967 as it will be their 50th …. Loads of lads tip up, some…
Arborfield
Arborfield 1939 – May Opened as the second Army Technical School (Boys) with boys transferring from Hilsea, Jersey, Bramley, Didcot and Chepstow, also from Catterick in 1943. Badged RAOC followed by GSC. Those destined for REME were rebadged after its formation…
Apprentice History
A potted history of the Army Apprentice Scheme 1900 Up to 1923, trade apprentices (boys) were taught within Corps establishments, usually within the AOC/RAOC Ordnance College at Woolwich. Trades taught there were armourer, wheelwright, painter, leather-worker, plasterer, blacksmith and the…
Arborfield Reunion 2015
Nineteen sixty five, does not seem that long ago, when so many young lads or more correctly, young men, assembled from all corners of the UK, and in some cases other parts of the world, at an old military camp…