the Queens shilling

how much was it when you signed up?

i got £12 and was expected to buy 5 coat hangers, wash/shaving kit, boot polish and brushes, dusters and a steam iron with it. not bleeding likely, even in 1989.

note, you need to have actually been in the forces to answer this thread.

 

16 October 1987 - £10

 

I can't remember getting any ex gratia payment on joining, mind you it was 1972.

 

£5 (I think) for me in 1978. I walked across the road in Queens Road Brighton and invested it in the pub.

 

Fiver. Promptly blew half in local pub while thinking I was the dogs bollocks having taken the oath. Catterick a few weeks later soon knocked that notion out of me.

 

bus fare home and a Bible!! no shilling or the equivalent, cunts! can I claim?

 

Yep. 25th Nov 1987 - £10.

Winmarleigh St, Warrington.

 

1970s. Nowt. Jack Shit.

To keep me in the loop, the pay statement kindly provided at the end of the first month advised me that I owed The Queen £3.40. I'd never been so well off.

 

1995, 25 notes I think. Feckers didn't tell me it came off my first pay!

 

January 1976 a £1 note & a shiny 5p.
Wasn't taken out of my pay either but then again I had just signed up to be a crab........

 

How did you cheek that one? I signed up on the 5th Jan 1995 and sure I got £15! But I know it wasn't bloody £25. I thought the original idea behind the Queen's shilling, was you got half a days pay. Or did you join as a Rupert?

 

Chatham 1979, £6.50.
Bought a magazine on the way home and spent the afternoon in bed.

 

Cant remember, but i do remember after 14 weeks of basic training at brats that after being paid my weekly 15 quid or whatever it was, that the money i had in the bank after all the shite i went through in training was a measley 140 odd quid which really pissed me off with the leave being over Xmas.

 

Can't remember but I spent more than I would have got paid getting wankered in the Clarence pub in Whitehall afterwards