Triangle Tattoo

[anglo-saxon]

If you get your arms blown off, does that make you completely 'armless?

(It at least might affect your grouping!)

[Wezley]

The triangle tattoo was used as a means of identifying which way up we should stand, wasn't it? We also had back and front on our skidder's!

But seriously its an old Pathfinders Tat.

[Maroon]

It's a blood group tatoo, and yes it's useless as if your that bad you'd have O wacked into you as it's universal and besides it's on your tags, Id card and if crossed with your Zap No. they'd get your blood group anyway...

Most toms get it done as their first tatoo coz they are normally pissed and can't decide what to get......believe me, I know

[Stephen]

When my uncle joined the Paras he got his blood group tattooed on his wrist. He happened to have a rare blood group.

[Tab]

What can I say, I never saw one in my days, nudes, daggers, skulls, Berets, girl friends names, even mum & dad, just a triangle tatto, or blood group never. We always thought that having a blood group tattoed to you was rather like the SS who used to have it under their arm pit, and was not for us.

[Maroon]

A lot of the guy's when I was in had it for that reason, don't ask me why some sort of cult following, they also had fallschirmjager tattoo's?? There was one guy in Patrols who believed that he had been a german para in a past life!!!!! 0X mind you it was in the 80's, there was a lot of fruit cakes in the Battalions in those day's!!!!!

[neil1955]

It's a blood group tatoo and it states the soldier's blood group. Handy for medics to know if killed in combat.
ED.

if you had been killed in combat no one would give a toss what your blood group was

[harry hackedoff]

Salmon? Bream hmm maybe. Tuna, hmm don`t think so
Definately Fish Oriented though.

A lot of the guy's when I was in had it for that reason, don't ask me why some sort of cult following, they also had fallschirmjager tattoo's?? There was one guy in Patrols who believed that he had been a german para in a past life!!!!! mind you it was in the 80's, there was a lot of fruit cakes in the Battalions in those day's

Airhead, anyone, chin chin

[Maroon]

You've lost me there Hackedoff!!!

[Maroon]

Seems we've lost you aswell, no witty retort? I am disapointed! Thought you'd at least come back with something As for your last post, I can only assume you think I'm bullshitting?!?!?! Not so old fella, was there, got the t-shirt and all that. I only say what I see and I saw it! Happy landings

[Tab]

The only place I had my blood group listed was on my Blood Donation card, and how many medics have you seen undress a soldier to look for his blood group. I always thought it was a kill cure operation with them./

[wannabe_bootneck]

Surely for a bloodgroup ID tags would be the first palce to look, not at a bloody tatoo? Just a thought. Although, many people do get blood group included in tat's, maybe it's just the fashion

[Maroon]

It is on your tags and ID card, I don't think for one minute blokes got it done so that it would help a medic in the field, as I mentioned earlier it tended to be guy's pissed up when they first got to battalion, end up in North Camp or the dodgy one (tattooist) in the arcades in the town centre ...A lot of the guy's got the blood group done and the capbadge, it was after I had my done that I got told about the story of the Nazi's had their blood groups done during WWII.

[ED]

I know all about that tatooist in town Maroon. Fu**ing shite! Very good one in North camp though. You still in mate?
Cheers,
ED.

[Tab]

Well it was never on our dog tags or our ID Card, it was not till we all gave blood at a transfusion centre that I found out what mine was.
In those days if you were alive you where called up, and I felt very sorry for some of the poor sods that where called up who were a few sandwiches short of a pinic and could not look after them selfs.