Pay Parade
Pay Parade
Pay Parade took place every Friday when you lined up by flight in a hanger. The pay clerks and an officer sat at a table and as your name was called you marched up to the table, saluted, called out your name and the last three digits of your number. Your pay was  placed on the table, you collected it, saluted and marched away. On the Friday of my first pay parade I still had a few pounds that I had brought with me and I asked someone if I could just leave the pay in my account as I didn’t want to have too much money on my person as there was nothing really to spend it on. I was told that this was probably OK. So I didn’t go on pay parade. As a result a search party was sent out in case I had done a runner. It didn’t take them long to find me and I had to go up to the pay parade and wait until the end to collect my money and explain my absence.
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