You Tube finds

[fsn]

That's proper, that is.

Brightened my day!

[Raider4]

3rd and 6th RTR amalgamated in 1959. The film is part of a series with a 1960 date on them.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

So I guessed about right - thanks Raider

[Raider4]

Brightened my day!

Thought it might cheer someone up  

There's a whole playlist of 45 films in the same series, dated between 1960 and 1969: Look at Life Vol2 Military.

I suspect some of them, such as "Girls Ahoy", have not aged very well.

[fsn]

I suspect some of them, such as "Girls Ahoy", have not aged very well.

Oh I don't know ...

[John Cook]

So I guessed about right - thanks Raider

I think so.  The school in the film is at Detmold, where 3RTR were based, not far from Sennelager Training Area where the amalgamation parade was filmed.  I see the regiment came back to UK in 1962 and was the first to get Chieftain.  Life was simpler in those days - I was still at school!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I was at primary school

[paulr]

I wasn't born

[Leman]

I was dealing with transferring from a primary school on the Wirral to a primary school in North Wales.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I was -11

[Steve J]

I was one year away from being born!

[Ben Waterhouse]

Dad had just got posted to Hohne, we lived in Celle, I was 2....

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

We are a load of old fogies aint us ! 

[Ithoriel]

I was 9 ... and already gaming with Airfix Brits and Germans using dice. To be fair you flicked the dice at the figures rather than rolling them but, hey!, gotta start somewhere!

[Westmarcher]

Age 8.

First home made rudimentary rules didn't evolve until a few years later:-  WW2 Airfix - Basically, each man, tank or gun had a set movement rate, a set weapon range and a set damage value expressed as number of men killed (e.g., a rifle = 1 casualty, an Mg = 5 casualties, etc.) or vehicle (depending on weapon). Alternate turns moving/firing 1 'piece' (e.g., figure/gun/tank) only. Not too long before we progressed to something more sophisticated!