GALLERY: 1976+

Yes, your kids are very cute, and your dog is very clever, but please plak those portraits next to Mother-In-Law.  What we would love is 14 Field pics, and we'll also concider CFA exploits showing old 142 vets. Please forward to rexb@adept.co.za.
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Contemporary art by Gunner Barr
142 Icemaking machine

View of lush Wes Transvaal countryside
Joker, looking serious

Hunter, Max & Joker taking a well-earned rest

Gunner Watkins fighting off a dangerous telephone pole

Sheppard, Bosch, Archer & De Swardt ready to take over regimental command

Determined gunners guarding a tent filled with cheese (Rudner, Barries, Hunter, Goldberg & OD)


Barries, Hunter & Tiffie? standing tall on captured German panzer.
142 icemaking machine defrosted

Staff Kriek's personal sidearm, the Five-Oh Browning
Small gun tastefully dressed in Churchillian camo 

Bigger gun displaying simple camo from the neo-colonial era
A really big gun sporting minimalistic camo from the post-Verwoerd era


Rogue gun lifting a barrel

Amputee version of Gunner Sauer standing guard over projectiles he won in a fierce card game


Really big gun lifting a wheel to pee
Horny gun getting ready to mount another
Two hungry gunners aiming their big gun at the kitchen

Several guns taking a break and standing around idle

Three signallers signalling the OP post

Shocked locals milling about after bloody gun battle in Umtata

Ice machine back in action


Joker all dressed up and playing with himself


Gunners Bouwer and Borman escorting Gunner Sauer to the Regimental Dance

Joker getting ready to perform another "Haas Das", here smartly assisted by stage props Blom and Bowers
Benecke impersonating Hoender

 
Benecke's crew waiting to be awarded the Honoris Crux

Burgers and Joker doing a tasteful strip for the officers' wives
Beyers congratulating Benecke on his perfectly shined shoes
Joker ordering Bdr Vorster off the gun position while Burgers looks on in admiration
Small gun with shortened barrel
Semi-friendly gunners looking down the barrel (Benecke, Bowers, Burgers, Basson, Blom, Hornby & Rauch)
 
Semi-skilled gunners assembling a kit gun (Blom, Joker, Burgers & Bowers)
Joker & Rauch wanking behind their gun, whileArcher is doing a lively rendition of Strafdrill in the background
Disgruntled gunners firing at the gates of the beer garden 

Two anxious gunners requesting permission to go to the toilet

The Sunday Book Club (Gunners Gillmer and Dyson standing; Joker, Day, Berry & Clifford seated)

Intellectuals discussing Tolstoy (Joker, Archer, Day, Berry, Gillmer, Matthee & Clifford)


Expectant gunners waiting to be awarded their Matric certificates
Back: Faddel, De Swardt, Saaiman?, Fuller, ?, MC, Cameron?, Garisch, Wakeham
Middle: Greens, ?, Van der Berg?, Pienaar, Bosch, Deness?, ?, Archer
Front: ?, OD, Erasmus, George, Sauer, Ayerst, Whittaker, War orphan, Sheppard, ?, Watkins, Sales

Angry gunners firing salvo into school after learning they have all failed Matric

Excited gunners waiting for BSM Jenkins to salute them from top of embankment (?, Greens, Clifford, Botha, George, Bosch & Erasmus)
Gunners reversing towards enemy in surprise attack

Gunner on right digging trench, wipes his brow
 
The Lonely Gunner, here presenting the photographer with a profile view of his brave stance (Owen) 
The Battle Of Umtata
Proud group of gunners having conquered an insurgent trash can (Whittaker, Greens, Erasmus, Sales, George, Garisch, Bowes? & Viola?)

Halfwit gunner enjoying half a shower (Berry & Joker)
Intrepid gunner racing through enemy lines to save his regiment (Joker)

Victorious runner delivering secret mail tube to General Magnus

Gunners with no toilet paper sharing a page from Die Transvaler (Michel, Clifford, Scodeller & Currey)



The former Gunner Cameron, here appearing as himself, "My view of the army which I can ensure you has not mellowed one inch in 34 years"

Typical Western Transvaal scene, inspiration for many romantic army poems and ballads.

 
1976 Volunteers lining up for their very first gourmet meal.

 
Country residence of the interior designer Reg J Botha, displaying his groundbreaking non-floral arrangement with trommels and sandsakke.

 
Ice machine, bottom drawer
Gunners Reg and Hoener executing an early version of toi-toi  to the
delightful first verse of One-Gunner-One-Projectile

The Secret Brotherhood of The Shiny Boot, here displaying a secret shiny boot (Bouwer, Botha & Bornman)

 Economists conducting a quick rusk analysis (Bell & Borrie)

Having returned from the hunt, visiting colonial travellers pose for the Burgersdorp Herald. 




Ferocious gunner with backpack full of one-ply about to storm and capture the shithouse (Reg)

Emotional gunner standing to attention at unveiling of revolutionary new see-thru barrel (Rod)


Illustrious choreographer leading his dancing troupe, the Follies Gonorrhea, onto the stage (Reg and the Invincibles)
Cruel hooker installing fear in enemy with much feared solo haka (Borrie)


Prima ballerina perfecting the never before seen St Petersburg pirouette with both feet off the ground (Burgers).


Astonished bystander watches hungry gunners fight over loaf of bread

 Transvaal & Free State border officials disputing exact placement of border fence

Spectacular try scored by Gunner Archer

Concerned gunners searching for RSM Venter's lost belly ring

 
The cast from the blockbuster "Brokeback Border" (Reg & Matthee on the right)

Lifeguard and surfer dude checking their tide tables (Matthee & Alberts)


 Previously disadvantaged gunners displaying their surgically enhanced improvements (Reg & Unknown)

 Milan models displaying the latest Calvin Klein non-wash lingerie (Alberts & Unknown)

Two opposing towers, here standing opposite each other

Visiting Selous Scouts CO barking at troops on parade ground (Hoender)

Focussed gunner diving into small diameter pool

 Appreciative gunners applauding amazing feat of focused gunner

Frolicking gunner showing a lot of cheek to run through the bathroom area

Terrified small gun hiding under tree

Gunner Archer skillfully preparing ground for gun spade to dig in

Lonely gun standing around aimlessly