watts naval school

[Peter Smith 237]

looking for list of old boys to contact from watts naval school 1945 to 1949

[Peter Goodey]

If you're looking for contacts, Friends Reunited may be more productive.

If your interest is genealogical, the school was run by Barnardo's who may be able to provide records of named persons.

[edwardtjones]

hello peter, contact me, old watts boy 4549 no 183 edward jones

[Peter Smith 237]

thanks for contact 183

[Peter Smith 237]

hello peter, contact me, old watts boy 4549 no 183 edward jones

long time ..I knew you as Jonesy" you had one special friend you were a couple of rebels....I think !

I remember Mark from london 213 Feetom/Batty 241 Little 211 who always got thumped" for no reason.
222 Blondie boxer from Hoylake...Frostie the Personnel officer...Busby PTI
Has he recently passed away...Tank who fancied the tall nurse...FFI with the pencil,check all ok
if in doubt got a blob of blue...cured all! Breaking in the stores,breaking in the carrot clamp at Easter,
The big absconed ...all in the Daily Mirror....Band playing on QD...Always hungry, Hornpipe..,bare feet over cinder track when swim call went ...I was in Tyrett were you in Jerico.....?
I enjoyed signals ended up with GCHQ in Baghdad.....79 next year and did not regret my time there,talk about it to the grandchildren, sure the dont believe what we had to do etc....they just say ...it was the olden times.. 6 pence a month swapping sweets ...Cinema in the mess deck, I was Mess 22 ..
Showers,roll towel shout your number,-turn round and hope you did not get a Sunset" if you were not clean.
Captains tea and talk..about B and B , Out of divisions, at ease on QD no one to speak to you...remember
and six cuts across the backside !!
Slowly comes back used to remember more numbers ,not so much names, but fading a bit now.
Anyway hope you are keeping well...I have been living in Spain now for 26 years...retired last year...at moment in Liverpool at my sons...Take care Pete Smith 237

[edwardtjones]

Hello Peter. I83 meant i was in Sturdee. I have been on this site a lot, not about watts but about my time before that which was harder for me than WATTS. Every thing you have written rings a bell with me. You must be thinking of kit inspection on the quarterdeck. Eternal Father morning and night, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up every time i hear it played. I am a year younger than you, 78 next month. You mentioned Tank Wilcox, i was in contact with him for years. I have been on the Parkstone Sea Training School site, i have a big bit on there. So has bert busby, never knew he was a watts boy himself, you want to read his story its very interesting. E mail me at Edwardtjones@sky and i will send you some photos. nice to hear from you.
can you remember dopey sutton 204 he lived at mijas spain. Met him in fuengirola.

[Peter Smith 237]

Thanks for prompt reply...Bert Busby...right...All non swimmers down the deep end and he used a boat hook on your knuckles
if you tried to climb out.Did read some of your stuff before WATTS, I was lucky I did have a Gran for a short while,bless her.
I have never met ONE from those days, sad really. I will have a look at the Parstone site. My daughter in law her Dad was there .
My email is cpsvilla AT hotmail DOT es
Can recall Dopey Sutton . One of my best pals was Peck, Drum major and played trombone,he went to the Black Watch..Mr Joyce was band master. I remember being rescued from the mast by breeches bouy on some display day.
Apart from when we were made to climb it was out of bounds ! Nice to still be around to tell the tale