'Baron' Castleshort Part 2

**Gas Gas Gas** · 20-11-2008, 21:33

Originally Posted by cpunk

He claims to be a member of SASA with membership number 6132.

Is he still a member? I presume there are annual subs & the like to keep one's membership "current"? I know of one here who let his membership lapse when he went over to the "Dark Side".

**radiorental** · 20-11-2008, 21:36

Originally Posted by Gas Gas Gas

Originally Posted by cpunk

He claims to be a member of SASA with membership number 6132.

Is he still a member? I presume there are annual subs & the like to keep one's membership "current"? I know of one here who let his membership lapse when he went over to the "Dark Side".

No. Only to recieve copies of Mars & Minerva. I believe.

**Balleh** · 20-11-2008, 21:39

Ye gods,

I confess I have not followed this thread but I note the stats; 200 pages on the last topic and now yet more.

What is it about this man that generates so many words?

Please don't tell me to read past posts. I think I would die of boredom.

**radiorental** · 20-11-2008, 21:44

Originally Posted by Bubbles_Barker

I know people who aren't SF that are honorary members of the SF Club. They've earned it, but they aren't (as they would be the first to say) SF.

Quite but there is no mention anywhere of someone Post WW2 who is an honorary member of the SASRA.

Though I am happy to stand corrected on this.

**blue-sophist** · 20-11-2008, 21:50

Originally Posted by Balleh

Ye gods,

I confess I have not followed this thread but I note the stats; 200 pages on the last topic and now yet more.

What is it about this man that generates so many words?

Please don't tell me to read past posts. I think I would die of boredom.

He claims PARA and SAS ... and much else besides ...

THE BARON'S WIKI

**Sapper145** · 20-11-2008, 21:52

Just been reading through the LOF site. They have as a Colonel in Chief Brigadier General Richard W. Annand.VC

In the structure page Linky

However he sadly passed away in 2004 Obituary Link. Can anyone shed light on whether he was actually involved with this shower of muppets or as normal are they using someone else for kudos? Obviously bearing in mind he has also been dead for 4 years, so why would they leave him up as a Colonel in Chief

I know its not directly involved with the Pink Baron, but he associates with, and uses these muppets for justification.

**radiorental** · 20-11-2008, 22:03

Originally Posted by Bubbles_Barker

It is up to the individual to provide proof of his service and membership will not be granted unless we are able to verify this service.

So the SASRA clearly thought back in Aug 81 that Jimbo could "verify service," and now he has a number to back it up.

He would also therefore be automatically eligible for membership of the ARA.http://www.artistsriflesassociation.org/default.asp

Yet no one remembers him

Again what constitutes "service in" or being "attached to" for the nth time?
Please if he was attached, then a "full tour of duty" has got to be more than simply writing a book.

**ViroBono** · 20-11-2008, 23:23

Maybe Jimbo's really a member of SASRA; its members dress up in military uniform and exhibit odd behaviour.

**geordie_g** · 20-11-2008, 23:25

Thats an awful lot of meals to cook to get badged into the SAS.

Must have been the Gordon F**king Ramsay of the army world.

**Balleh** · 20-11-2008, 23:46

Originally Posted by blue-sophist

Originally Posted by Balleh

Ye gods,

I confess I have not followed this thread but I note the stats; 200 pages on the last topic and now yet more.

What is it about this man that generates so many words?

Please don't tell me to read past posts. I think I would die of boredom.

He claims PARA and SAS ... and much else besides ...

THE BARON'S WIKI

Fair enough, but doesn't all this attention merely massage his ego?

Doesn't it diminish those who rail about him?

Is he really worth the effort?

**TwentyBandH** · 20-11-2008, 23:49

I was REME attached 22 SAS, in the middle of a 4 year posting I was invited to join the SASRA.

The membership card Shortt has shown is similar to the one issued to me a few years later than his date but bears no relationship to the current card which he MUST have been given if he is still a member.

What is on the back of Shortt's membership card ?

edited to clarify when I was invited to join SASRA.

**radiorental** · 21-11-2008, 00:00

Originally Posted by TwentyBandH

I was REME attached 22 SAS, at the end of a 4 year posting I was invited to join the SASRA.

The membership card Shortt has shown is similar to the one issued to me a few years later than his date but bears no relationship to the current card which he MUST have been given if he is still a member.
What is on the back of Shortt's membership card ?

Quite.

Why did they not automatically renew it in his case?

Did they sack him?

Once again it smells of b******t!

**TwentyBandH** · 21-11-2008, 00:12

Originally Posted by radiorental

Originally Posted by TwentyBandH

I was REME attached 22 SAS, at the end of a 4 year posting I was invited to join the SASRA.

The membership card Shortt has shown is similar to the one issued to me a few years later than his date but bears no relationship to the current card which he MUST have been given if he is still a member.
What is on the back of Shortt's membership card ?

Quite.

Why did they not automatically renew it in his case?

Did they sack him?

Once again I am beginning to smell b******t!

If he was still a member when the ID cards were changed he would have been sent the new type.

Maybe he was given temporary membership for the period he needed to write up his piece for his book ?

The conditions mentioned, in earlier posts, on who can become a member of SASRA were not necessarily those that were in place in 1981.

**cpunk** · 21-11-2008, 00:14

Originally Posted by TwentyBandH

Maybe he was given temporary membership for the period he needed to write up his piece for his book ?

The conditions mentioned, in earlier posts, on who can become a member of SASRA were not necessarily those that were in place in 1981.

Yup, you've hit the nail on the head and kicked away the foundations from a lifetime of Walting.

**radiorental** · 21-11-2008, 00:20

Originally Posted by cpunk

Originally Posted by TwentyBandH

Maybe he was given temporary membership for the period he needed to write up his piece for his book ?

The conditions mentioned, in earlier posts, on who can become a member of SASRA were not necessarily those that were in place in 1981.

Yup, you've hit the nail on the head and kicked away the foundations from a lifetime of Walting.

And they gave him the post on the strength that he already had something published?

Talk about opening Pandoras box. :(