Abbreviations For Punishment in the Field

toki2 · Jan 16, 2015

Date of Offence 12th March 1945. Awarded 7 days FP BYOC for WOPS failing to maintain WO vehicle in roadworthy condition. Does anyone know wha the punishment was?

Tom Canning · Jan 16, 2015

Toki

looks like 7 days field punishment - which was not good as the culprit was run ragged for 7 days

Cheers

toki2 · Jan 16, 2015

Oh, poor Dad. He was such a gentle soul and law abiding type. He would have been mortified. Now me on the other hand..........!

Tom Canning · Jan 16, 2015

Toki-
not only mortified but exhausted

Cheers

dbf · Jan 16, 2015

toki2 said:

Awarded 7 days FP BYOC
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Might that be FP by OC ?

As far as my father was concerned FP was "water off a duck's back" compared to the training he'd endured, but here's one man's account (from the same battalion) which might be of interest to you.

He was asked about his CO...

Was he popular with the men?
Yes he was popular, I mean he was... he talked like a comic in bubbles. Snap: pop pop pop pop pop and I mean when - He had, apart from a scout car, he had a Humber staff car and had two loud speakers and on the inside he had a recording of classical music which he liked, which he played whenever we were out of the line resting. He thought it was wonderful. It was blown up at Joe’s Bridge much to my relief, and he said ‘how disappointed the troops were’. But you know he was a good soul, I mean, he was kind to me. I went across to Normandy under Field Punishment.

Really!
Oh yes I was, I tell you, they didn’t muck around in those days. We were in billets in Eastbourne and each day there was a billet orderly. I happened to be that morning billet orderly and my Platoon Sergeant - who got an MM - he said ‘Where’s the key of the billet?’ Somebody, some clown said ‘It’s down the loo.’ and he said “Brady go and get it out of the loo.” I got as far as saying “What?” and he said “You’re disobeying an order, fall in!” I had to get the bloody key out of the loo but I was doubled down to the Battalion Headquarters. Get down there, marched in eventually.

‘Disobeying an order? You realise what a serious crime this is and you want to be an Officer.’
Oh Mother of God!
He said: ‘I don’t know what to do, it’s a Court Martial offence.’ But I’d already volunteered to go, not for another Officer’s test, WOSB. I’d failed the first one and was due for a second one, and I said ‘No, I want to go with the Battalion.’

Anyway, he said ‘Well I’m going to let you off lightly.’ He said ‘14 days Field Punishment.’ Well in the old days they tied you to a bloody gun or something! But in Eastbourne, they put on big packs and you had to answer every call, you didn’t get any money or anything. Think the pay was stopped. It really was very grim. They used to parade and it was a Bank Holiday at Eastbourne and we were parading with the defaulters who were there anyhow. Up - and they were going up and down the Front and ‘Left turn, right turn, about turn.’ A woman came up and said to the Drill Sergeant, Thackeray: ‘I’m going to report you to the War Office!’ He said ‘If you don’t get off my Parade I’ll put you in with them!” Well of course that got me into trouble cos whenever we ‘faced’ I got the giggles. And whenever we turned round left turn, right turn, we faced together, god, I couldn’t help it and that gave you an extra bloody hour’s Drill. So I spent my luck. Anyhow...

...you were very good at Drill at the end?
Well I wasn’t any better but I always was the last one off. Anyhow we get off to Normandy and the R.S.M. came up to me in the Field on the first day and he said: ‘Ah, C.O’s been kind to you and he’s going to let you off that.’ But it never went on my documents so I was quite relieved but I’ll always remember old [Sergeant] Grant. I called on him after the war, he got an M.M. He was a character. He had a water bottle full of rum, but he was a good soldier.
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