Hi Taff .
sounds like the same person,he had arms and hands like a gorilla and a voice like a fog horn. I remember he shouted once right in my ear when he was telling us about look out duties and i to can still hear him to this day shouting , Watch there watch. I think it was because that was the last thing i heard for the next few hours.
You got off lightly with only a slap around the ears. he once sent me to the shipping fed building and because it was raining he lent me his bike. Going down Collingdon Rd the bike slipped on one of the railway tracks that were embedded in the road and i jammed both wheels in between the tracks , buckling both the wheels and sending me flying across the road. So soaking wet and sore from grazes i had to carry his bike back to the school approx a mile away. His punishment was me to haul myself up and down on the bosun's chair(approx 10ft high) and hold myself at the top with one hand gripping the the rope until he counted 20, then lower myself and do it all again 20 times .My arms were like lead when i finished and would i do it all again ,YES with no reservations.
KISS.keep it simple stupid