The Continuing Story of Our Lad Ricky by
Michael A Ruston
Michael A Ruston
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Ricky – The Early Years
I have attempted in my books to give a feel of what life was really like for a military family living below the poverty line in the 1950s and early 1960s. In this, the first of the four books, I detail my life from my earliest memories, through my school days, until I eventually joined the Army in the mid 1960s. You are able to follow the numerous scrapes, incidents and often funny, sometimes tragic situations in which I found myself. Arrested by the RMP three times before reaching the tender age of 7!
Our Lad Ricky
In Our Lad Ricky I write about the several abortive attempts I made to join the Army, always failing due to my apparent weakness and ill health. And how, in desperation, I persuaded my best friend and school chum Ben to travel with me to Queen Street, Wolverhampton and take my entrance medical there on my behalf. The book highlights my hesitant, precarious and often hilarious attempts at turning from boy to man, by learning to be a soldier and how, not just once, but twice, I was almost discharged from the Army as 'Services No Longer required'!
Ricky – Green Beret
In Ricky – Green Beret, I cover the period from my arrival in Germany, through a host of mishaps and personal catastrophes. Ricky, having been betrayed by a friend, which almost resulted in a Court Martial was close to eviction from the Army. Meeting and falling madly in love with a country girl, but was it to be?
And then, quite accidentally, Ricky found himself posted to a Commando Unit forming up in Singapore. Although NOT a volunteer ‘Ricky’ struggled through weeks of ‘Beat Up’ and following Commando Training at the Commando Training Centre in Lympstone, Devon, to successfully succeed in winning the much coveted Green Beret. Much to his own surprise and the astonishment of comrades, friends and family!
Carry on Ricky!
(To follow in due course!”)
Following ‘Ricky’s’ Commando Training this book covers his subsequent moves around the world! Well Europe at least! Norway, Greece, Sardinia, Malta, Cyprus, Turkey and back to Malta. In true ‘Ricky’ style faces a Force 14 Gale on the trip from Scotland to Norway, gets himself snowed in a mountainside ‘Snow-house’, in Norway and miraculously managed to come second in a cross-country ski race even though he could hardly ski at all and lost one of his ski’s en-route. Makes friends with a top US General in Sardinia, and manages to miss his lift back to HMS Bulwark, in Greece, and hitches a lift with the USS Ulysses Aircraft Carrier. Oh yes . . . and
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