On leaving the RAF Taff gained employment as a hewer in the Marine Colliery in Cwm. He met Laura at one of the Saturday squeezes. Taff and Laura were married in 1948 and in no time at all had 3 children, Michael, John and Mary. A notable incident at this time was when he had gone over the mountain to another village and lost track of time in a club or bar with another man from Cwm, they were both supposed to meet their girls at a specific time, which they weren't worried about as they could get the train. When they got to the station there was a strike on, luckily as Taf put it his friend was an engine driver in the ar, so they took a train that was sitting in the station still fired up.
Taff joined the 14/20H after an altercation with his mother-in-law that involved the relocation of the rockery.

After basic training Taff was trained as a gunner, during one of his postings in the desert he came up with the concept of a different sight it was named for him, by the officer who patented it., His first deployment was to Sabratha in Libya where he he took part in the caernavon tank trials. Taff loved the desert, on days off he would go 'native' riding a camel across the desert in semi Bedouin dress. He learned after the first trip that sandals were not the best footwear as he burned his feet really badly and couldn't wear his boots.

His first accompanied posting was to Munster, an addition to the family on this posting Anne.

In 1958 Taff was still serving in BAOR in Detmold now, another addition to the family her Berniadette.

In 1960 Taff was posted to Berlin, both he and Laura loved the city, he was present at the addition of a daughter on this posting, he had to deliver it, famously using a bootlace to secure the umbilical.

When the Regiment was leaving Berlin Taff was the commander of the lead tank in the parade.

Being a man of poor memory he only noticed as he was leaving Berlin he had forgotten to have child 4 and child 6 to Laura's passport, so he corrected the omission and added them himself. Which caused the delay of the train taking the unit out of Berlin by some hours as the USSR border guards were convinced he was trying to smuggle east Berlin children out.

The next posting was Hohne, another posting another child this time a boy,

The next posting was Triploli, in 1963 an eventful posting, Taffs side arm was mislaid, which in later years was to cause him a lot of trouble.

In between the years 1964 and 1966 Taff was deployed as a UN peacekeeper in Cyprus and also went to Canada for 6 months. He had an accident whilst driving in a mountainous region of Cyprus which involved rolling a tank off the road into a ravine. This resulted in a helicopter having to be scrambled. When asked to explain hpw it had happened Taff said it was a full moon and as he rounded the corner he was blinded by the light of the moon. Taff when relating the story would finish by saying luckily it turned out when they checked the weather it was a clear night with a full moon. Taff refused to take the family to Cyprus as it was too dangerous, so they were housed in Pontefract.

During all of his postings Taff was frequently sent back to the UK to carry out Gunnery instruction, which resulted in him being promoted on several occasions, Due to his love of socialising and not being able to keep his tongue, he was demoted as often as promoted. He made the rank of Sgt 5 times in his careeer, which is no mean feat, when you consider how many incidents there had to be to make it back down to trooper.

In 1965 he was posted to Tidworth, by now his two oldest boys had joined up so he was in a household as he put it with too many females.

In 1966 Taff was posted to Paderborn, another child this time a boy. Taff broke his elbow during his time in Paderborn which resulted in it being screwed back together.
In 1969 Taff was posted back to Tidworth. He was sent to Northern Ireland in 1970.

In 1971 Taff left the Army