THE HAW K - The History of the 14th/20th King's Hussars

THE HAW KRegimental Journal of the 14th/20th King's Hussar

1987

JOURNAL OF ThE 14th/20th KING'S HUSSAR S

CONTENTS

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Foreword

The Colonel's Notes

Diary of Major Events

CATTERICK SECTION

Squadron Notes

HQ Squadron

A Squadron

C Squadron

D Squadron

The Regimental Band

BERLIN SECTION

B Squadron

Visit of HRH The Princess Royal

1986 Berlin Tattoo

Berlin Polo Tournament

Berlin's 750th Birthday Party

B Squadron The Blues and Royals

KAPE 1987

2nd Belize Troop

Musketry

Mess Notes Sectio n

Officers' Mess

WOs' and Sergeants' Mess

Corporals' Mess

Regimental Affiliations

DLO Y

6 G R

HMS Amazon

The Cadet Squadron

Sport Section

The D'Arcy Hall Competition

Polo

Racing

Hunting

Rugby

Football

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Swimming 6 2

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Hockey 6 2

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Cricket 6 4

D'Arcy Hall Inter-Squadron Athletics Meeting

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Cross Country 6 6

Fishing 6 8

Golf 6 8

Windsurfing 6 9

Game Shooting 7 0

Skiing 7 0

Article Section

A Hawk Out of Africa 7 3

A Hawk in the Sinai 7 5

Muy Loco Gringos 76

Hawks in Oman 7 7

A Walk in the Clouds 78

Wives' Club 79

Hawks in Korea 80

Tipperary Tactics 83

Sergeant F . J . Dodd 85

Medal of Pte Longman—20th Light Dragoons

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Foreword 1951 88

Regimental Association

Notes 89

Letters 9 1

Obituary 93

Address List 96

Regimental Gazette

Honours and Awards 105

Marriages105

Births 108

The Regiment—July 1987 107

Officers serving outside the Regiment 108

Soldiers serving outside the Regiment 108

Nominal Roll 109

THE HAW KVolume 11

NOVEMBER 1987

Number 3

COLONEL-IN-CHIEF :H.R.H. THE PRINCESS ROYA L

COLONEL OF THE REGIMENT :Major-General Sir Michael Palmer, KCV O

AFFILIATIONSRoyal Navy, H .M .S . AMAZON

6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifle sDuke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry

ALLIED REGIMENT SAustralian Military Force s2nd/14th Queensland Mounted Infantr y8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifle s

New Zealand Military Force sQueen Alexandra's Squadron R.N.Z.A.C .

Zambian Armed Force sZambia Armoured Car Regimen t

REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATIO NHome H.Q., Fulwood Barracks ,Fulwood ;PRESTON ,Lancashire PR2 4AA

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The Commanding Officer with HRH The Princess Royal during her visit to the Regiment on 10th September, 198 7

Foreword by the Commanding OfficerLast year, my predecessor, Lieutenant Colonel (no wColonel) John Smales, outlined how the Regimen tcarried out its task as the RAC Training Regiment .Since then, the numbers of Regular recruits (560) ,Yeomen (387) and other officers and soldiers on thenumerous cadres we run have hardly changed . Nor ,despite two years on the Training Regiment role, has th ededication of our instructors, the extra hours they hav espent giving tuition to recruits not up to standard and th epersonal treatment given to each recruit . Every man inthe Regiment and the Link Instructors attached to us ca nbe rightly proud of a difficult job well done .

Despite having the same role, we have been respons-ible for a variety of changes to the method of RA Crecruit training. We now have a special training wingwithin the Basic Military Training Squadron responsibl efor instructing recruits on NBC, First Aid and Skill-at -Arms, thereby releasing the Recruit Troop Instructorsto concentrate on administering their Troops and instruct -ing drill and fieldcraft . Once a recruit passes off th eSquare at the end of his basic training, he is transferredto the Trade Training Squadron for trade training and al ladministration, and is therefore properly led and ad -ministered in the equally-important second period of

training—something that did not happen before . All thetrade training instructors themselves now attend a cadre ,part of which takes place at the RAC Centre, to up-dat ethem on their particular trade, and part of which take splace at Catterick to give them a clear insight into wha trecruits are being expected to achieve and what they a sinstructors have to achieve . These are just some of thefundamental changes the Regiment has made to the rol eof the RAC Training Regiment .

In addition to maintaining a high standard of recrui ttraining, we are now in the middle of recruiting some 140new soldiers, to bring our numbers up to the establishmentrequired for our new role in BAOR as a Challenge rRegiment . To this end, we carried out an extremel ysuccessful KAPE tour in Lancashire, the climax of whic hmust have been the team's, the Band's and the Regimentalballoon's presence at the start and finish of the Presto nHalf-Marathon—all recorded on local Lancashire tele-vision . In addition, we have had parties of officers andcadets from the Greater Manchester and LancashireACFs, as well as visits to those ACFs .

To recruit a large number of new soldiers is oneproblem, but to convert the whole Regiment to Challenge rat the same time as continuing our present role is stretch-

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ing us all . Despite the slight turbulence to our lives whic hthis is causing, and not to mention tactical and admini-strative study days, TEWTS and all the arrangement sthat are now taking place in preparation for our move ,morale is high and everyone is as determined as ever t oget all jobs done to the very best of their ability . This isnot just those in Catterick . We now have nearly 75 pe rcent of a Squadron with the Blues and Royals in Germanypresently on Chieftain, but converting to Challenger ,and we are maintaining our Squadron in Berlin . When Ivisit both Squadrons, I am always struck by their cheer -fulness and by the thoroughly professional way they goabout their jobs. B Squadron in Berlin, for example ,were called out on exercise, and did not return from tha texercise until less than 72 hours before HRH The Princes sRoyal was due to visit . Despite some last minute "rushes" ,everything was prepared to the very highest standard .This can also be said of B Squadron 's gunnery camp .

Although the Regiment has militarily taken on a greatdeal this year, we have still managed to participate in agreat variety of sports and other activities, with varyingdegrees of success . We won the Inter-Regimental Pol ofor the third successive year ; we reached the finals of theArmy Swimming Championships, in which we came

fifth ; and we won all the RAC cups and shields at Bisley ,to mention just three sporting feats . On the loca lYorkshire scene, we have continued to provide vehicle sfor local fetes, men to help with sporting occasions suc has charity-day pigeon-shoots and equestrian events, andto participate in many local sports leagues .

I have only outlined a little of what has happened thi syear, and I commend you to read on to find out wha treally happened !

We now look to the future with sadness and joy :sadness at leaving a host of friends made in Lancashir eand Yorkshire ; joy in getting back to an operationa larmoured role as a Challenger Regiment in one of th emost up-to-date barracks in Germany .

Finally, I would like to thank you all—Hawks servingand retired and families—for the wonderfully kind an dfriendly way you have welcomed my wife and I into theRegimental family. The great spirit of the Regiment issomething which is immensely strong amongst us Hawks ,and is something of which we can be justly proud . Thelast piece of paper Colonel John Smales left on my deskwas a memo: "From : Commanding Officer . To: Com-manding Officer . Good Luck." .

My luck has been to become a Hawk .

The Colonel's NotesAn evening alone in London, with a glass of whisky t ohand, has put me in a reflective mood . Having given thiswarning, I will not feel the slightest bit hurt if yo upromptly turn over the page !

When I took over as Colonel of the Regiment fro mGeneral Peter Cavendish in early 1981, Major MikeUrban-Smith was near the end of 19 years of valuableservice as our first official Regimental Secretary . I canno timagine how Colonels of Cavalry Regiments coped wit htheir duties before this post was established! During hisentire tenure of appointment, he was greatly inhibited i nhis activities by unsuitable premises and by staffin gproblems. It is to his great credit that he achieved somuch for the Regiment .

Soon after Bill Williams succeeded him, new and morefortunate circumstances allowed us to broaden ou ractivities, building on the firm base already establishedby our predecessors. Thus we were able to set fo rourselves four targets :

I . To move Home Headquarters to a more congenia land convenient premises .

2. To enrol more of our retired members into th eOld Comrades ' Association, to widen the scop eof its activities and to associate it more closel ywith the serving part of the Regiment .

3. To improve our finances .4. To improve our Regimental Museum .

We were fortunate to find premises in Fulwoo dBarracks, Preston, into which we moved in 1982 . Thepurchase of a computer and an extra typist on establish -ment helped Bill to increase his output! Above all, th eclose proximity of Headquarters North West District ha sproved invaluable .

The leadership of Colonel Forty Allen and Lieutenan tColonel Christopher Ross, together with the dedicatio nand energy of our newly-created local secretaries, ha shelped significantly to achieve our second aim . As I havesaid many times, the huge attendance at our Reunions ,now numbered in hundreds, is a tribute to all concerned .Holding our London Reunion at lunch-time—after the

Cavalry Memorial Parade and in a decent, nearb yhotel—has greatly helped, as have the now-familia rsurroundings and arrangements of our Northern Reunion .The change of name from the Old Comrades' Associatio nto the Regimental Association may seem minor and ma yeven be regretted by some. However, it has helped t obring serving and retired members closer and both arenow well-represented on the Committee .

The Regimental Endowment Fund has been signifi-cantly increased, thanks to the generosity of many retire dofficers . Our Welfare and Association Funds, under theexpert and innovative guidance of Bill Williams, an dgenerously supported by those whom he cons int oinvesting in his money-making ventures, have greatl yprospered .

Finally, our Museum is now under construction, andthe exhibits are being assembled in part of the ne wLancashire County Museum in Preston . Our friends Th eDuke of Lancaster 's Own Yeomanry and the Queen' sLancashire Regiment, have their museums in the samebuilding, and it is right that we are now depicted as partof the history of the County Palatinate . After all, wefought our first battle in Preston in 1715—remember? !

Money again is a problem! No appeal is intende dwithin the Regiment, I can promise you, but any contri-bution will be gratefully received at Home Headquarters !Lieutenant Colonel Peter Harman is doing great work a sChairman of our Museum Committee . The Count yauthorities have been most helpful and we are optimisti cthat our Colonel-in-Chief will open our Museum in thespring of 1988 . I hope that many of you will not only bepresent on that occasion, but will also visit the Museu mas often as you can . You will learn much about the lon ghistory of our Regiment and the deeds of our predecessors .

I am quite confident in saying, supported by evidenc ein this magazine and by reports that I have had fro msenior officers, that the present generation of Hawks arechips off the old block—knots and all, to coin a phrase !As their Colonel, I could not wish for more, and weretired members of the Regiment can be proud of them .

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Diary of Major EventsOctober 1986 to September 198 7

October 198 6

1

Visit of Commander RAC Centr e8-17 DAMA Review

15-22 Visit of CO to B Sqn in Berli n

24

Charity Run to Mancheste r

29

Visit to ROF Leeds

November

7

Regimental Reception—Presto n8- 9 Northern Reunion and Remembrance Parade

15

Wives' Club Tank Driving

22

Ramnuggur Bal l

24

Regimental Officers' Dinner—Cavalry Clu b

Decembe r

6

Bedale Hunt Ball in Officers' Mess10-11 Visit of DRAC

15

Regimental Carol Service

January 1987

11

RAC Memorial unveiled—Garrison Churc h

12

CO's Handover Parade

19

Brigadier Taylor War Lectures

February

3

CO's Visit to Lancashire

7

Visit of Northumbrian University OTC

March3- 5 Regimental Musketry Meetin g

4

Visit of Vickers, Leeds

10

Security Exercis e

11

Visit of OIC RAC M & RO

13

Grand Military Meeting—Sandow n18-25 CO's Visit to B Sqn—Berli n

24

Driving Simulator Tria l

28

Beagle Hunt Bal l

Apri l

10

Visit of Commander RAC Centre

16

Medicina Ball

18

Bedale Point-to-Point23-24 Visit of Colonel of the Regiment23-24 Visit of Salters Company

May

3

Cavalry Memorial Parade

12

Visit of NE Universities Military Educatio nCommitte e

13-20 Band Visit to Berlin

16

Scottish OCA Lunch—Glasgo w21-22 Lancashire Recruiters' Visi t27-29 RAC Regatta—Seaview

30

Bramham Horse Trial s

Children's fancy dress parade in aid of Save The Children, o which the Colonel-in-Chief is President

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June5–19 KAPE Team Tour of Lancashire

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Ex Hawk Fall—Parachutin g19–21 Visit of Lancashire AC F24–28 Berlin Polo Wee k

July2

Visit of CTA D3

Contract Catering introduce d6–11 Regimental Team at Bisley

20–23 Instructors' Cadr e20–21 Visit of Colonel-in-Chief to B Sqn—Berli n22–24 Visit from HMS Amazo n24–25 Wives' Camp and Regimental Families Da y

August2

Finals, Inter Regimental Polo—Smith's Lawn3

Visit of GOC NEDIST14

Sp Sqn forme d16

Jervaulx Horse Trial s28

Visit of Mayor of South Ribbl e

September10

Visit of Colonel-in-Chie f10

Ramadi Bal l10–13 Visit of Lancashire ACF Officer s24–25 Visit of Mayor of Preston28–30 AFV Commanders TEWT

Muscle man SSgt Clayton tests his strength on a fully-loaded barre lduring the Wives' Club tank driving day in November 1986

The Commanding Officer presents Mr Davies with his Regimental Medal in Berlin

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CATTERICK SECTION

SQNIn some quarters, HQ Squadron is known as The FlatStone Brigade"—a most unworthy title for an organisa-tion which ensures the smooth running of the Regiment .The Squadron comprises a tiny Headquarters of fourindividuals, RHO, QM and QM(T) departments, th eCookhouse, Medical Centre, LAD, Unit Admin Office ,the Guardroom and the Band . You will find, later on inthe magazine, notes from some of these troops an ddepartments, and from these you will see how vital is th etask of HQ Squadron .

Inevitably, there has been an enormous turnover ofpersonalities since the last Hawk . The Headquarters an dRHQ have seen the most changes : Lt Col Price arrivingas Commanding Officer, Maj Fairman as Sqn Ldr, CaptO'Neil Donnellon as Trg Adjt, Lt Baxter as Asst Adjt ,and WO1 Davies as RSM .

Capt Burgess took over as QM from Maj Howard ,who decided to leave the Army to pursue a career wit hhot-air balloons . Capt Draper became QM(T), whic htriggered a change in both RQMSs . After 20 years in theSquadron—which must be a record—RQMS(T) Laceyleaves the Regiment for Lulworth, where he will fini shhis time in the Army . His place was taken by SSgt Tyson ,on promotion . RQMS Beveridge was commissioned int othe Regiment and his replacement was W02 Wells ,from D Squadron . These changes to the QM departmentshave not made life easy for those concerned, and grea tcredit is due to them for continuing to provide suc hexcellent service to the Regiment .

SSM Batchelder passed the Commissioning Board fo r

Sgt Rickett, ACC, with customers! For what we are about to receive . .

Mr Flatstone himself! Squadron Leader, Maj H . N . Fairman, MB E

the RAPC, and started his Paymaster Course in Septem -ber . We wish him and his wife the best of luck for th efuture . WO1 Hutchinson relinquished his appointmentas RSM, and was commissioned into the Regiment . Henow has the unenviable task of moving the Regimentback to Munster as Unit Emplanement Officer .

The Cookhouse continues to provide cordon bleustandard of cuisine to permanent staff and recruits alike ,whilst ensuring that they have enough carbohydrate tosurvive each day . WO2 Foster is the Master Chef, who i sably assisted by his Catpac computer, which is capable o fcosting each meal taken within the Regiment down t othe last lettuce leaf.

The Guardroom still receives many visitors—most o fthem not volunteers—and the job of Provost Sergean thas been taken on by Sgt Heyes . Lt Col (Retd) Holmes ,the civilian Medical Practitioner, has returned fro mAmerica laden with hats of varying sizes and string ties .He and his team have an enormous workload to conten dwith, and they are to be congratulated on the way theMedical Centre is run with such efficiency and goo dhumour. The Band appears to get smaller each year, bu tstill produces music of the highest quality, under thedirection of the Bandmaster, WO1 Sands. They play at astaggering number of engagements throughout the year ,as well as taking part on FTXs in Germany with theiraffiliated Field Ambulance . They are a great credit tothe Regiment, and the PR we receive as a result of thei reffort is immeasurable .


Vasectomies and all manner of strange operations are performed b your willing and helpful staff . . .

The Squadron's major achievement this year waswinning the D'Arcy Hall Winter League Competition .A separate article on the competition appears elsewherein the Hawk, but we won the cross-country and theskill-at-arms elements of the competition, and the D'Arcy

Hall Trophy by two points—not bad for The Flat Ston eBrigade" !

In August, A (Vehicle) Squadron became known a sVehicle Wing and was subsumed into Support Squadron .This came about as a result of an MOD Establishmen tCommittee inspection of the Regiment, when it wasdecided that there was no requirement for a Major t ocommand, and that the job could be done by a Captain ,under the command of Support Squadron . It is too earlyto say what problems this will cause both the VehicleWing and the tiny Headquarters that has to adminsite rit, but Support Squadron, as it is now called, makes u pwell over half the Regiment .

Posted In : Lt Col Price, Maj Fairman, Capt O'Neil -Donnellon, Lt Baxter, W01 (RSM) Davies, W02 Smit hRAPC, SQMS Winstanley, SSgt Tyson, Sgt Heyes, SgtTaylor, Sgt Kempson RAMC, and Tprs Parry, Pollit ,Taberner and Thornley .

Posted Out: Col Smales, Maj Howard, Maj Eliott -Lockhart, Capt Ashbrooke, Capt Yates ACC, Lt Stuart -Mills, RQMS(T) Lacey, SSM Batchelder, W02 Duffy ,SSgt Myerscough, SSgt Collins, Sgt Briggs, Sgt Entwistle ,Sgt Shepherd, Sgt Sidebottom RAMC, Cpl Turnbull ,Cpl Kay, LCpl Angel, LCpl Ellershaw, LCpl Wyre an dTprs Foxcroft, Hamer and Woods .

Quartermaster Departmen t

Hawks from Portobello Road—Capt Burgess and his gang

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The only difference between the Quartermaster's Depart -ment and Harrods is our prices . In all other aspects weare identical . Prime locations, open all hours, heavytrade, service with a smile, and the unusual easil yobtained. We even give out the same internationally -recognised green bag to all our customers .

Like any large business, the personalities in th edepartment have to change, and, since our last publica -tion, there has been some movement . Maj Howard hasnow left the Troop (and the Army) to fulfil his lifetim eambition of crossing the Atlantic in a hot-air balloon .After that, he hopes to settle in Bristol and work in th efield of balloon manufacture . The position of Quarter -master has now been ably filled by Capt Burgess, who ,until recently, was our QM (Tech) . He is now firmlyentrenched in the job, and, like his predecessor, has th esame amount of time off—though on the golf course, a sopposed to being in the air .

The RQMS, who, incidentally, is the only one wh ocannot afford leave or time off, will be leaving in Septem -ber . Between spending his money on Tina Turne rconcerts and ringing the bell in the Sergeants' Mess, th epoor man is destitute . W02 John Wells will be takingover as RQMS in September, so we will start to lay ou tthe welcome mat for him . Sgt Wood and Cpl Rowe stil lcommute daily between Catterick and Warcop, supplying

ammunition for the recruit gunners . Lately, however ,Cpl Rowe's main job has been fishing competitions . Sg tNutter and Cpl Crawford take care of all the families an dtheir many requests, not only in Catterick, but in Berlinand Sennelager as well . Cpl Winterburn ably managesall the accommodation stores within the Regiment—quite often he says that he feels like a Chinese juggler .The two carpenters, Derek and Tpr Pollitt, are kep tbusy throughout the Regiment, hammering and sawing,fixing and mending all day long . Tpr Pollitt will be ou rcarpenter in Munster, after adding the trade of signwrite rto his many skills .

Two expected additions to the Troop during Augus tare under legal enlistment age . Mrs Baldwin's baby i sdue soon, and Mrs Hurst's first baby is expected in lateAugust . Tpr Hurst, recently married, has been quitebusy doing most of the jobs in the department, whileothers are on leave . Pat Bush, our PSA clerk, still run sthe department ; however, she refused to write this year' sHawk notes, because of a recent libel action against he rarising from last year's notes .

Regrettably, we have had to say a sad farewell to Bo bTull, our clothing storekeeper, who has been in th edepartment for 23 years. Bob, sadly, passed away i nJuly, and will be sorely missed by all those who kne whim .

Technical DepartmentThe time has again come to find someone to write thesenotes and, as everyone has something more importan ton at the moment, and as I shall be going very shortl yand haven't got much to do, I have volunteered (if yo ubelieve that), so now is the time and place to get my ownback! The total manpower of the Technical Dept at th etime of writing is as follows :

Capt Burgess, RQMS Lacey, SSgt Tyson, SgtEntwistle, Cpl Ashton, Cpl Whitehead, Tpr Parry ,Tpr Taunton, plus our two tame civvies, Bill an dTam.

The Catterick (main party) side of the Troop has see na number of changes this last year . Faces that have goneon to better things are Cpl "Pop" Gannon, who went o nholiday to Hamm ; SSgt Fred Bellamy and LCpl Stenson,

RQMS(T) Lacey and Cpl (now Sgt) Ashton . "If you want to get off fo ryour wedding, then move that track right away! "

who went off to Berlin for their duty-free ; and CplTommy Turnbull, who has gone to Sennelager as part ofthe advance party for our Munster role . The QM(T) ,Capt Burgess, went to help out in the QM's Dept i nMay, decided that he liked the tranquil way in which thedepartment was run, and decided to stay ; but rumourhas it that the QM's Dept is nearer the golf course (only atee-shot away), so that could be nearer the truth! Anothe rwho will be leaving within the next month (and no tbefore time!) is RQMS Bill Lacey, who, after nearly 51/2years as RQMS, is going to do his last two years i nLulworth . We will miss both Bill and June, who havealways played a full part to ensure that Tech Troop is ahappy Troop . All you readers may wish to question th efollowing facts, but we feel that Bill has set some sort ofFarewell barbecue for RQMS and Mrs Lacey


record, and that it should be recorded . The facts are tha the has spent the last 20 years continuously at Regimenta lDuty, with no ERE posting . He was posted to HQSquadron on joining the Regiment, initially in MT an dlater transferring to Tech, and has never served i nanother Squadron—a true Hawk at duty . We wish yo uwell, and look forward to seeing you in BAOR sometim eto exchange your GS watch battery !

We welcome back SSgt Roy Tyson from his stint i nYork ; he will be taking over the RQMS(T) hot-spo tsometime in September . Just for the record, SSgt DougieColeman left his cushy posting in Berlin to take overfrom Roy at York, and is now looking forward to comin gback to Regimental life . Sgt Trev Entwistle, during hisvast amount of time off (official that is—playing golf) ,actually found the time to become the father of a bab yboy (Matthew), who weighed in at eight over par! Cp lAshton (now a Sergeant) has taken time off fro morganising his wedding to put in a few days working i nTech, and our latest report has it that his Golf TI is stil lin the garage (what's new?)! Cpl "Skeleton Staff "Whitehead is, I hear, busy organising Corporals' MessGames Nights in the Sergeants' Mess, so that he ca nout-drink RQMS Lacey, buttes the RQMS keeps saying

—"I know how l got homebodies he'?" .Tpr Taunton, who at one time was our only Indian

(ie—worker), is doing a great job, and looking forwardto becoming a Lance Corporal (maybe one day), bu tthen we will need some more Indians . He may be in luck ,because we have just had another Indian posted in fro mMT. He is Tpr "Skydiver" Parry, who, although on theTech books, is still due to report for a full week's work —not entirely his fault, owing to his partiality to para-dropping! He is very welcome, and is due to leave fo rBerlin as our Tech Rep, in place of LCpl "Babycham "Brown, who is leaving Tech and the Army to settle dow nin Berlin . The Troop wish him well, and thank him fo rbeing a good Tech soldier in the best traditions of Tec hlife . One of the last people to mention is Cpl Gannon —"Pop" to his many Regimental friends—who is currentl ywith 2 ADS in Hamm . He is thoroughly enjoying his sta ywith them and keeping up the Regimental Tech name ,which all our ERE-posted Technocrats continue to do .Last but not least is Cpl Tommy Turnbull, who at presen tis with the Blues and Royals in Sennelager (or is hesailing with Maj Singer'?) . Rumour has it that he i swearing three stripes and a crown on his wrist or on his

head - at least he got into the Sergeants' Mess before th erest of us !

The LADWhen is an LAD not an LAD? Answer—when it is par tof 31 District Workshop REME of course . Our officia ltitle is "RAC Training Regiment Detachment REME" .Quite a mouthful, you must admit, so it comes as a grea trelief simply to be known as "The LAD" . We areextremely grateful to be accepted as such and are gla dthat we have built up such a good working relationshi pover the last two years .

It has been another hectic year, and many personalitieshave changed . Capt Mark Shimmings left in Decembe rto take over as EME QOH—obviously the RAC hav etaken a liking to him . He has been replaced by Capt Joh nWhite . SSgt George Barnett departed in January, to b ereplaced in the Heavy A Shop by SSgt "Jock" Cameron ,who is on his second tour with the Regiment, havin gserved with them in 1978-79 . Two long-serving LADmembers, Sgt Huw Lennon and Cpl "Spuggy" Sparrow ,have decided to pursue careers in Civvy Street, and w ewish them every success in their new lives . Fond farewell swere also extended to Sgt Goff, on his posting to 5 Arm dWksp, and Sgt Butler on his posting to POW Depo tLichfield . Good luck also goes to SSgt Lynch, in his ne wpost with 8 Sqn RCT in Aldershot ; and Sgt Leech, who i son his Artificer Course at Arborfield/Bordon .

New arrivals include Sgt McMahon, who has take ncharge in the Armourer's Shop, and Sgt Robertshaw .who has done likewise in Recovery . Welcome also to SgtAllen in Optronics .

SSgt Mal Ankers, our new Artificer Vehicles, arrivedin January, just in time to set up our new A Vehicle sInspection Cell . The new inspections system was th ebrainchild of ASM Mick Tunney, and has proven to be agreat improvement on the old method used . As it i smore efficient, disruption to the Regiment has beenminimised and the serviceability of all A Vehicles ha simproved .

As well as our routine workload, we have been heavil yinvolved in two GTS conversion programmes ; the firs tone to fit TOGS to two simulators, and the second toconvert two Chieftain MBT into simulators . Our ECEs

Exercise Heavy Load was an LAD project to recover a Churchill tan kfrom the ranges . Herewith the casualty . . .

. almost there . . .


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. . . and mission accomplishe d

have been kept particularly busy with these extra com-mitments, and our Artificer ECE, SSgt Shaughnessy .has gained a few premature grey hairs recently . Othernotable contributions have come from our A & G GTSspecialist, Ken Dawson . and the "Platform King" . Cp IIan Healy .

Away from work, the Detachment has been involve din a variety of activities . In July '86, there was the ASM'sexercise, in which we built 1(X) metres of pathway up i nthe Dales at Malham—very hard labour, but it certainl yworked up a mighty thirst for the local Yorkshire ale . Asimilar event is planned for this year, only this year weare attempting to build a bridge at Aysgarth Falls . Well ,if the Sappers can do it, so can we! Other notabl ehighlights included the Warcop Trophy—Commande rMain t ' s test exercise—which we organised . Many thank sto the Regiment for the loan of instructors and resource s—it helped them to make the event a considerabl esuccess .

We have also been involved in a number of fund -raising events in aid of charity . We entered two teams inthe BSAD charity wheelchair marathon, held at RAF

Catterick in September, and also manned a wheelchai rrepair station—although, in the event, this was no tneeded. Obviously wheelchairs are far more reliabl ethan Chieftain MBT! We are participating in a similarevent later this year . In May, six members of the LA Dcompleted a 100-mile sponsored run to Bridlington, th eevent being the brainchild of our "racing snake", Sg tTom Goff. It could well have been 150 miles if we hadnot intercepted Cfn Ian Booton speeding southward stowards Harrogate—he was told "Second exit at th eroundabout", wasn't he? Sgt Bailey, 14/20 H, kept th esquad going, with his expert compo concoctions andplenty of encouragement, as well as setting up th eovernight camp in York . As a result, a total of over £30 0was raised for the physically handicapped charity PHAB .

February saw our two-week skiing exercise at Blair-gowrie in Scotland . Only one problem—no snow! Skiing

on wet rocks and heather proved pointless, so the firs tfew days were spent sightseeing and learning the theor yof the sport . Thankfully, the snow arrived soon enoughto give some decent skiing . Skills started to develop andeveryone started to enjoy themselves . However, theexercise did not go without incident . Sgt Simon Butlerhad a disagreement with a tree, resulting in a fracture dcollar-bone and a few broken ribs, whilst Capt Powel lhospitalised himself on the last day, after damaging hi sknee in a bad fall . Special thanks go to SSgt Shaughness yfor organising the event and for his expert ski instruction ;not forgetting Cpl "Pip" Phippard for his culinar ybrilliance throughout the fortnight .

On the sporting front, the LAD has performed wel lover the last year, considering our current establishmen tof only 29 military personnel . Our cricket side has put i na number of creditable performances, and LCpl Pau lSmith has maintained his place in the REME Corps side .LCpl Paul Miller continues to be the mainstay of th eRegimental cross-country squad and swimming team .

n conclusion, may we thank 14/20 H for the hospitalit ythat they have shown to us during their time in Catterick ,and wish them every success with Challenger on thei rarrival in Munster in 1988 .

SSgt Mike Baxter, LCpI "Clyde" Baxter and SSgt Shaun Shaughness ypoised for the off

The Wheelchair Marathon . Sgt Tom Goff, Cfn John Irving an dCapt Mark Shimmings (EME) about to start the marathon .

Lovely legs, Sir!

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Provost StaffIt has been rather a quiet year for the Provost, if indeed"quie t" can be used when describing the normal working -day of a Regimental Policeman. However, even if theProvost cannot claim to have made any spectacula r"busts", it does not mean that they have not made thei rown small contribution to the smooth and efficien trunning of the Regiment . In fact, quite apart from th eusual duties of answering queries, directing visitors to

various departments and liaising with the local Polic eand RMP detachments, the Provost have given thei rassistance to quite a large number of people . We havesent representatives to police stations throughout th eNorth to help lost soldiers find their way back to Catterick ,and to escort found soldiers to Brize Norton and Luton ,to make sure that they catch the right plane back to thei rparent units .

We have continued to run our popular instructiona lcourse in the correct use of the bumper hand Mark I ,taking a large number of candidates from BMT Squadronnearly every morning of the week . This course is sopopular that recruits are usually seen running around t othe Guardroom to take part, and many of them enrol fo ra second or third term.

The Provost have also been very active in the field of

Sgt Heyes, LCpI Seager, LCpI Ward and LCpI Simm . . . happy a spublic relations, and not only volunteer their services t othe PTIs in running charity events on the assault course ,but also go out of their way to help proud parents an drelatives of recruits relax in the NAAFI bar after everyPass Off Parade .

It is probably this reputation for hospitality an dfriendliness that has led to the extremely high turnove rof personnel inducted into the Provost staff this year .The raw material comes from A Squadron and, on joinin gthe RPs, they come under the wing of Cpl (now Sgt) SamHarrison, who is responsible for their training in th e

The Brain CellA comparison with the Troop Nominal Roll and thos efilling the seats of a varied temperature range last yea rshows that RHQ is the place to get on and get out . Avidreaders of the "Situations Vacant " column will knowthat the following jobs have been on offer this year : CO(1) ; Assistant Adjutant (2) ; Training Adjutant (1) ; RSM(1) ; Clerks (various) ; ORC (1) .

Those a little smarter than the rest will note that th eposts of 2/ic, Adjutant and Chief Clerk have not com eon to the market this year . Cynics will say that this i sbecause no one would do them, even if the carrot ofbuckshee sports afternoons was waved aloft . I prefer th eargument that the present incumbents are pretty good .However, movements there have been, and Sgt JeffBriggs managed to leave the Regiment without leavin gthe Army . Much to his surprise—although not ours—hepicked up promotion and is now teaching embryo clerk sat Worthy Down . Sgt Mick Taylor now incurs the wrat hof the Chief, but appears to thrive. Down in the engin eroom, Cpl Steve Laurie, after trying Berlin, RHO Crim eReporter and being put out to graze in the Pampa soffice, found the supply of Correctine in C Squadro nmore akin to his tastes . Cpl Kerry Jocelyn (that's true ,honest!) Claude suddenly found himself at Bisley, alon gwith LCpI Mark Ellershaw. My spies tell me that theydid well . However, as the Biro, mis-spelling, clerks, forthe use of, has the same diameter as an SMG round, Igave them the benefit of the doubt and five extras .

Reporters from the News of the World and others whohave tried to phone during the year and have had as

"pigs" in clover !

legal aspects of their job . After a period of usually threeto four months, these NCOs of local rank then continuetheir careers with other departments throughout th eRegiment . We note with a certain amount of satisfactio nthat the majority keep their first tape, and do well i ntheir new employment .

In conclusion, it must be stressed that there is no trut hin the rumour that the unofficial motto of the Provost i s"Let's do it to them before they do it to us" !

"Another g . and t ., Old Bean'?" First day back to work after ye tanother successful cricket season


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. . . Those in the Puzzle Palace who keep the cogs slowly turning . The Commanding Officer and his team within RHQ

much success as a dyslexic signwriter need wonder n olonger . The call of the sports-field, the jock-strap andliniment has been heard and answered with vigour, vi mand not a little skill . LCpls Steve Gaskell and MickSmith have both run up and down, diagonally across an dall the way round the hockey pitch . Taylor and Lauri ehave been seen creeping down to the river bank, festoone dwith hooks, bait and copious volumes of . . . well, let ussay "tea", to be charitable . The cricket grounds ofCatterick have echoed to the groans, as Wood dropped askier at short fine leg . RHQ Cricket Club can, in fact ,boast that the Commanding Officer, Lt Baxter, RS MDavies, Tprs "Smeg" Thornley and Tony Atkinson, a swell as "Tweaker" Wood (average 3 .5), have all givensome style to the long walk back to the pavilion . EvenLCpl Nick Carvell, hors de combat with duff knees, hasshown his skill at the chess board . I no longer play in th eDuty Clerks Open Chess Championship . When Smith—he with the diplomacy of an incontinent skunk—said :"Checkmate!" to me, I gave him ten for being familiar .

Of course, the grit in the well-oiled machine is alway sthe work . Courts Martial, Boards of Inquiry and Promo-tion Boards are just three areas where we aim to d obetter next year . The Adjutant, poor lamb, looked a sconfused as a colour-blind chameleon after one particu-larly trying day . He had just given the CO a work-pass tosign and, to everyone's astonishment, the CO agreed .

As we have received very few poison-pen memos thi syear (by the way, "Disgusted at A Squadron " , there i sno need for an apostrophe in "wassocks"), I assume tha twe have managed to give sufficient satisfaction to most .Certainly things go wrong . I pressed the erase button o nthe Pampas last week, and my 8-from-15 football poo lperm was golf-balled into nothingness .

We are all now busy engineering the manning for th eType 43 establishment in Munster . It is called "Type 4 3"because we have 42 amendments before we get it right .It is administrative exercises like this that bring the RH Qbran-tub into prominence . When my name was drawnout, I was given Chief Clerk! I slipped my ticket bac kinto the tub—the post of Deputy Assistant DeputyStables NCO is still unfilled . Read this space next year .

To those of you who have managed to get this fa rwithout falling asleep—congratulations! If you think tha tyou have read it before, you are dead right . It is a copy of

the 1947 Notes . Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose .PPS—The ink is still wet on these sentences . Tprs

Chris Gibb and Sean Lawson are the first voluntee rclerks we have had since the Boer War . Not only canthey read and write, but they can also operate the kettle !

While the cat's away, the mice will play . Sgt Taylor teaches TprsAtkinson and Thornley the fine art of keeping bus y

Pay OfficeLast year it was the Pay Office ; this year it is the Uni tAdministration Office (UAO). Out went the typewriters ;in came the computers . Jargon started flying around theoffice—floppy discs, megabytes, hardware, software .Heaven knows what they mean, but they certainl yconfuse the average visitor .

Of course, none of this happened until the arrival o fCapt Ayling as Paymaster, which poses the question—i she to blame? Well, the answer must be "yes", but h ekeeps on blaming District . Apart from setting up thenew office, the Paymaster, being a confirmed Southerner ,has spent the past year moaning about the cold up North ,trying to persuade the civilian staff that everything i sbetter down South, and going on about how he wa splaced 141st in the Jarrow six-mile road race when Steve

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Cram didn't bother turning up (presumably becauseCram could not face such stiff opposition) .

Also, newly arrived is SQMS Smith, commonly know nas "Q", because that is what you always see outside thePay Office since he has arrived. A keen footballer ,cricketer and runner, he did actually come into the offic elast week, and got upset when he was asked the sign th evisitors ' book .

Working on the documentation and Part Two Orde rside of the office is LCpI Carvell, supported occasionallyby the Regimental "rent-a-clerk", LCpI Smith . Alsoworking in A and D Squadrons, LCpl Smith occasionall yturns up in the UAO to do some work—this has bee nexplained as either a clever piece of man-managementby the Chief Clerk, or LCpl Smith does not actually

know where he should be working !On the civilian side of the UAO, Administratio n

Officers Glynn Jenkins and Barbara Miles have joine dMargaret Dennis, the real boss of the office . AlisonJones runs the movements side of the office, and, despit eprotests by the Paymaster, continues to speak Scottish .

Finally, a mention must go to Lt Wagstaff, who, a sholder of PRI Account, has contributed much to the Pa yOffice . Prior to his Service Funds Course, Lt Wagstaffconsistently came to the Pay Office, and by coffee brea kwould be totally confused . On completion of his Servic eFunds Course, he can still not understand the Paymaster' smotivation for joining the Royal Army Pay Corps (Pmr :"I hope it was Worthy Down he went to for his course ,and not Porton Down") !

The Truth, the Whole Truth and the Economic TruthIt was a dark and stormy day in June—good Catteric kweather. As we had nothing to do, we decided to emptythe cupboards in the Adjutant's office . There, coveredin dust and buried under a myriad of old faded copies o fthe Chief Clerk's posting applications, we discovered aremarkable document . It was the diary of RHQ for th eyear 180- . Written by an unknown hand, it clearly showedthat, despite the passage of time, some aspects of life areastoundingly similar to those we have today . For ease ofreference, a facsimile of a staff list is shown, although it sveracity is open to dispute .

CO—Lt Col C K Camember tAdjt—Capt Sloane Filo-Fax eAsst Adjt—Lt Barrowclough Dunde ePadre—Monsignor AubsThe Chief—Indecipherabl eThe Troops—Various scallywags recruited fro m

pot-houses and escapees from transportatio nvessels .

The first entry states that the Regiment was barracke din Northern England, and were under orders to move toErewegostan, one of the further-flung corners of th eEmpire .

The CO's staff coach-and-three (defence cuts eventhen) creaked and shuddered to a halt outside the palatialart deco edifice of RHQ . With a brisk salute to his driver ,who was a Blunderbuss Mech on 3d a day, the COmarched into RHQ, where, much to his surprise, he metthe Padre .

"Zounds, Aub, you're here early? ""Mornin' Colonel . I've come in to help Barrowclough .

He's got to write a letter today . ""Dundee write a letter? Never! ""He's just heard that Australia has been discovere d

and he wants to be a digger ."At this moment, a post office runner, replete with clef t

logs, lumbered into the Chief's office and deposited themorning's parchments and scrolls in a pile amongst thequills and sealing wax on his desk . The Chief, a wizened ,gnarled old sweat, merely sighed and filled his church -warden with an ounce of Cap'n Sea Dog Thick Twist .

The Adjutant, who had purchased his commissio nsome six years earlier for £5 and ten tomato-sauce bottl elabels, leisurely strolled down the corridor, snapping hi sred braces against his manly chest . Quicker than thetime it takes to read this, he swiftly worked through th emountain of manuscripts, making decisions of greate rand lesser moment every two seconds .

"Brilliant, Sir, brilliant!" intoned the Chief, who hadyet to sharpen his quill, "I suppose that you want a brie fin the next five minutes . "

"Not quite—three minutes ."

The Adjutant twanged up the corridor via the officers 'leave book .

Although it was Tuesday, the Assistant Adjutant' sdiary was open on Monday's page . The Adjutant wasalready on Thursday, and the Chief could not find hi sdiary at all . The troops were kept busy filling ink-wellsand strapping letters to the legs of pigeons . (Somehistorians say that this was the origin of the present-daycap-badge . Whenever a letter was lost, the cry was that ahawk had violated the pigeon . )

The next entry reveals a peculiar—indeed perplexing—case of impersonation . The Assistant Adjutant appearsto have changed his name at least twice during the year .A search through MOD archives shows that Lt Dunde ewas metamorphised into Lt H . H. Q. McWilliams, who ,in turn, was reincarnated into Lt "Snuff" Howzat-Bextar .

The DS solution is that as the salary of the Assistan tAdjutant was, at the magnanimity of the Treasury, two

florins per month, eked out by the odd couple of bo bfrom the Troop Holiday Fund, Assistant Adjutants wereregarded as superfluous . Thus the appointment is a purefabrication—an invention with as much substance as aJeffrey Archer novel .

Regrettably, the diary at this point loses its cuttingedge of authenticity . The entry which says "Ye chie fthen departed on leave" is such an outrageous piece o ffiction that the remaining pages should be viewed throug hsceptical eyes . However, nothing more can be shown, a sthe diary is still subject to Section 2 of Ye Official Secret eand Things That Go Bumpe in Ye Night Acte . Extract sare available in the United States and the Library of theHouse of Commons for those who are interested i nfurther research .


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This poem I've been asked to write ;It might be good, it might be (not so good) .It's about A Squadron, old and bold ,And also about Catterick, rainy and cold .

CVR Troop's still here with Trio in charge ,His voice is so loud, like a hooter on a barge .Dusty Binns and Dave Prendo are so full of tact ,They work together well, like a music-hall act .

Major Singer's departed . Oh! whata shame !

Captain Polley 's in charge now—his main claim to fame .

SSM Wyper is also quite new ,With his wispy grey hair, and hi s

"Och aye the noo" .

The office works well, though kep tin the dark ;

It would all be much easier if w ehad a clerk .

The sound of our typewriter is sosadly missed ,

If someone shouts "Clerk!", w eall think he's (seeing

things) .

MBT Troop is blossoming wit h50-odd men ,

But after commitments i t ' s whittleddown to ten .

Sgt Rae says "No problem, we'v emanaged before" .

Then, before you can say "TrackPin", it ' s whittled down to four .

FFR Troop is next, it's hard todescribe ;

I could mention a grand-dad, bu tI've accepted a bribe .

They live in a caravan, with twowheels and two legs ;

They must feel like gypsies, sellin gheather and pegs .

And last but not least, there's Ron and his boys :They eat lots of Yorkies and drive Tonka toys ;They're always on detail, from morning till nightI told you this poem would be a load of (rubbish) .

DPC

Much of our time is spent providing Static Line AFV Displays for visitors to the RAC Training Regiment . Here, the vehicles line up for a visit by agroup of sailors from our affiliated frigate, HMS Amazon

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As for Tpr Baldwin, he really takes the biscuitQuick, lads! Hide the marbles! Tprs Dawson, Riley, Howard, Harris

and Scot t

CV R Troop in training for their football : Tprs Myers and Cauchli-Ingott, Cpl Scott, LCpl Slade and Tpr Woods, standing ; Tprs Pope and Farthing,kneeling


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The Squadron continues its relentless task of turningrecruits into lean mean fighting-machines . Since theHawk article last year, we have trained some 770 Regula rrecruits, 330 TA recruits and 65 RAC soldiers on RA CSoldier 1 Courses, a grand total of 1,165 people passin gthrough the Squadron .

SHQ has seen many changes this year . Maj Garbut thas gone to further his military knowledge at Shrivenham ,and has handed the leadership of the Squadron over toMaj Tilney, who joined us from the Staff College . W02Smith has finally handed over as SSM, thinking that h eshould finally set an example as SSM by volunteering fo ra basketball match, in which he promptly broke his arm !Needless to say, he has decided not to volunteer again .SSgt Cornish departed on promotion to take up the postof SSM D Squadron, and was replaced by SSgt Gill a sSQMS, assisted by LCpl Pollitt in the Stores . Cpl Lauriecontinues as Squadron Clerk and, with the Squadro n2i/c, seems to be playing "Who Can Stay In The Sea tLongest" . Capt Nutsford handed over to Capt Bankes ,who handed over to Capt Wicks, who handed back agai nto Capt Bankes on posting to BATUS . Hopefully, Cap tBankes will now stay in station until the Squadron movesback to Munster! We also said farewell to Sgt Murphy ,the Drill Sergeant, who handed over to Sgt Winch, whohad just returned from the Drill Sergeants' paradise —Pirbright .

The four BMT Troop staffs, who are too numerous t oname, deserve a mention . They all work extremely hardfor eight weeks, including Saturdays and some ful lweekends, only getting a short weekend break at the en dof a BMT course before they start again on a new course .The BMT Wing has also seen many changes, with ove r75 per cent of C Squadron personnel having rotated

"There you are, I told you that Catterick really does exist!" Sgt Hun tassisting Tpr Marsden to spot the missing contour


C (BMT) Sqnadron Permanent Staff, July 1987

through the Wing, working as instructors in NBC, Firs tAid and Fieldcraft . Currently, Sgt Whittaker and LCp IRobinson run the nerve centre . Cpl Atkins and LCpI sBingham and Graham are the new NBC team (we lik edressing up in strange clothing), with a supporting cas tfrom the First Aid Department of Cpl Frankel and LCpl sRichardson and Adesile . Not all of the time is spent i nthe classrooms, and the instructors regularly go on thevarious exercises with the recruits to help to assess thei rperformances under field conditions . This can lead t oproblems such as laying CS gas up-wind of recruits an dthe wind direction changing, thus gassing the Permanen tStaff (much to the delight of the recruits) . The First AidInstructors do not make such mistakes—so they say .However, anyone who uses rubber dummies to practisemouth-to-mouth resuscitation must be a bit suspect !Those who have left the Wing to go to Civvy Stree tinclude SSgt "Ginge" Mayall, who did all the hard workin setting up the Wing initially before the arrival of SgtWhittaker and Cpl Patterson, who is now immortalise don the RAC Training Regiment video .

The Skill-at-Arms Wing have, in their own uniquestyle, threaded their way through the training year wit hBMT recruits, TA recruits and Soldier 1 courses, wit hthe odd ACF/CCF visit thrown in, not to mention th ePermanent Staff APWT! Sgt "Safety Catch" Sloan runsthe Wing, aided by Sgt "Sights" Hunt . LCpl Holt, who i salways at 10,000 feet ("Ten Grand" in skydiver's talk) ,spends much time in free-fall parachuting in on variou sparts of the country, and has recently successfull ycompleted an accelerated free-fall course in record time .Also in the Wing are LCpl Stopford, who helped th eBisley team to glory, and LCpl Holland, who has joine dthe Wing from D Squadron .

"Don't believe it when they tell you that there is no time for a cuppa . "Cpl Bradley, Mr Dingley and Sgt Garner


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Gym Troop

A fine bunch of ears! QMSI Garioch with LCpIs Simpson, Crompto nand Dickinso n

As another year comes to an end for the Gym Troop, Ithought that I would look back on what has passe dbehind us in this my third and final year as APTCI wit hthe Regiment .

As in previous years, we have lost a few instructorsand gained a few, just to keep us guessing as to what isgoing to happen next . Firstly, we said goodbye to LCplsSteve Evans and Dave Annett, the duo branded as "TheKray Twins", for their original if not somewhat unortho-dox recruit training techniques . Although praised forthe excellent quality of the recruit they turned out, theywere at times criticised for having an 80 per cent wastagerate! Steve is now living in Nottingham, working for asecurity firm as a guard, and Dave Annett (always onguard) is now with A Squadron . Joe Boydell left i nSeptember 1986 to go to D Squadron, but whether or not .he arrived there no one knows! We all wish him the ver ybest on his forthcoming marriage . Incidentally, he onlystarted taking an interest in women when he change dfrom playing rugby to kiss-ball--different ball-game !

The relatively new team of instructors in the gym for thepresent consists of LCpls "Crommers" (We can rebuil dhim) Crompton, Dave "Fats" Workman, "Simmo "(When's my next day off?) Simpson and our lates tapprentice, "Dickie" (It's either this or Provo) Dickinson .They are all doing such a good job of training recruit sthat they have been told by the OC that, if they continue

working as they have been, they will not be Lanc eCorporals for very much longer .

While we are on the subject of recruit training, ou rearly-morning PT sessions are really going well, and th eingenious methods which recruits devise to avoid P Tnever fail to astound us . One particular recruit wa sfound inside a locked locker, sitting on a chair an dreading a book by torchlight ; and another, while on theBFT, realising that he would not complete the distanc ein the required time, hid in the bushes near the finish !Unfortunately for him, he was spotted by LCpl Cromptonand, when he was eventually coaxed from the bushes, h eexplained that the reason he had hidden there wa sbecause he had been attacked by a group of soldiers in ataxi !

Once again there have been many visits by civilianorganisations . More than 3,000 people of all ages havetackled our assault course, which has raised over £15,00 0for various charities . Self-defence was another unenviabl etask reluctantly accepted after a phone call from Middles -brough nurses . "There will be 20 nurses each weekrequiring tuition on the finer points of self-defence fromnow and into the foreseeable future," we were told . Youmay have wondered why the gym staff are always sokeen to work on these events at weekends—well, onelook at the number of names and telephone numbers i nLCpl Workman's address-book will answer that question !So there are a few perks in this job after all !

Finally, for those of you who are under the impressio nthat we are hard on the recruits in the gym, you will beglad to hear that when a recruit was asked by Q Gariochwho his instructor was, he replied hesitantly : "I don' tknow his name, but the lads in the block call him `Uncl eDave ' . " !

Potential Officer WingA Dog's Life !

When I was very young—a mere pup, in fact—my Lor dand Master became OC PO Wing and life took a turn fo rthe worse . Strange events in the middle of the nigh t(from which I was excluded) were the norm ; peoplestamped their feet all the time and always shouted—nota suitable environment for a young dog at all . The mos tunpleasant aspect of this somewhat unsettled and roug hexistence was the endless walking over hills, throug hbogs and up steep cliffs—my little legs used to move in afrenzied blur just to keep up !

A chap called Bankes was in the chair before my bos stook over, and that charming man Sgt Harrison was theWing SNCO. The two Captains seemed to compete t osee who had the most childish sense of humour, andthose poor old POs caught the thin end of it every time .In the early days, His Lordship was constantly egged-o nby his side-kick, Sgt Woods—a very "Abbot and Costello "sort of arrangement! After madman Collier left th eWing, a demon, thinly disguised behind an even thinne rmoustache turned up. This man—one Cpl Cooper—tookgreat pleasure in squirting me with a water-pistol when -ever he could not find a PO as a target, and the bos swould simply sit there and laugh !

In April, I was most upset to see Cpl Prendergastleave the Wing, mainly because I felt that he couldcommunicate on my level . As it happened, his replace-ment was a godsend, in that Cpl Wheeler was a man with

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whom a little dog could relate, without having to clim bupon to a table to say hello ; he was very much a terrier i nhuman disguise, running around in circles, barking an dsnapping at those poor young men .

As the year progressed, and just as I was getting reall yto like all these people, the team changed again . I wentoff for a short holiday, while His Masterfulness wa strying to kill himself and his staff by jumping out o fperfectly serviceable aeroplanes (which were about t oland anyway), and, on my return, I discovered that Sg tWoods and Cpl Cooper had been moved on and Sg tLythgoe and LCpl Ford had taken their places . I am notsure that they thought much of me to start with, but ,when it comes to chasing POs, I shall soon teach them athing or two—mostly tricks learned in the Officers' Mess .

The boss actually has been thoroughly impressed wit hall the PO Wing staff ; we occasionally have the oddconference on the subject when he is in the bath! H ewould not say anything to them, of course, because itwould only go to their heads, but from the good old day sof Sgt Harrison et al right through to the bright futur ewith Sgt Lythgoe and team, the staff seemed prett yswitched on .

The only person in the PO Wing who really causes m eany concern is that fellow Mr Denning. I am alway sterrified that he is going to tread on me, because, wit hthose dark glasses on, he can never see anything, and i fhe did plant his size nine on me, the yelp would b edrowned by the noise of his Walkman "I-refuse-to-talk -to-anyone" stereo! Besides which, there is no room i nthe Wing for two puppies . I am also rather disturbed b ythe fact that he could probably run further and faste rthan me ; so why am I always the one who has to chas ethe rabbits?

Sadly, His Nobleness and I will have to leave the Win gin September, and Capt Renwick from the QDG wil ltake over . Sad because we have only run two PO courses ,and, after the last one ended up with only four of themleft, it was cancelled . But if your Master gets the chance ,make sure that he visits the PO Wing—the walks ar eendless and, if you are bored of chasing sheep, hares an dcattle, have a go at a PO . They cannot run very fast, bu tthey sure howl when you catch them !

Roland Rat, 3i/c PO Win gThe shepherd (CpI Prendergast) . . .

JOURNAL OF THE 14th/20th KING'S HUSSARS 2 1

The slave-drivers : Cpl Cooper, Mr Denning, Capt Reynolds, Sgt Woods and Cpl Wheele r

Climbing : Capt Reynolds taking it easy Cpl Cooper taking it any way he can

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The permanent staff of D Squadron have been moving inand out of the Squadron almost as quickly as the recruits .

Maj Lang departed in October 1986 for an enviabl efour-month tour of the Falkland Islands, to be followe dby a two-year rest as a Staff Officer in Cyprus . CaptWicks kept the Squadron Leader's desk tidy until January ,when he had to give up his additional field officer's pay ,as Maj Woodd arrived for a two-year rest, following astaff job in the MOD, where he had been looking afte rboth the Falkland Islands and Cyprus, and our othe routposts .

Maj Woodd is still seen occasionally in the SquadronLeader's office mid-week, but more often on a polofield . Capt Wicks, clearly not destined to follow, wasmoved to command C Squadron whilst Maj Tilney wasaway, and was succeeded initially by Lt Gossage an dthen by Capt Milverton, recently re-educated at JDSC ,so as to ensure that he was purged of any strange ideas h emay have picked up in Mozambique .

The Squadron Sergeant Major's office has also seen avariety of occupants . Sgt Maj Cornish, an avid travelle r

SSgt Atkins in . . . um . . . Libya? . . . Benghazi? . . . Hohne? . . . or is i tsimply a rare moment of sunshine in Catterick ?

as far as the credit card allows) and afficianado of Chilelike his leader), has moved to Sennelager to knock that

Squadron into shape, handing over to Sgt Maj Drum-mond, who, it is hoped, will see the Squadron well int oMunster . SQMS Rowlett, having just got his storereorganised, handed it over to SSgt Atkins, and left t otake over the Officers' Mess from Sgt Maj Drummond .Fortunately, both Cpl Bowman and Tpr Brown haveremained in post, and are now the veterans of DSquadron.

In the Wings, again the changing personalities are th emost noticeable occurrences, as otherwise life is muchthe same, day by day .

Gunnery Officers have been driven to a variety offates ; Gossage to go flying ; Baxter to RHQ as Assistan tAdjutant and Stables Officer ; Beardsall to try for theSAS ; and Stuart-Mills to marriage .

With much muttering and forecasts of doom about

"Hello, Sarn't Major? Um . . . you're not going to believe me . . ." . SgtJones makes sure that D Squadron's ERB does not go nnder-spent ,

much to W02 Best's consternatio n

trials, new syllabuses, TOGS conversion, and poor Sg tMaj Murphy, Sgt Maj Wells has departed to be RQMS .SSgt Broom has returned from the Oman and is stil lgetting used to pressing his own denims and suchunfamilar cries as "Pipeline time", "Dues out" ,"Ammunition shortages" and "No Rolex watches" .

On the D & M side, Mr Wagstaff, after a brief holidaywith the Bisley team and A Squadron, has returned t olook after the D & M Wing . Sgt Maj Best, after numerousresettlement courses (every Friday afternoon), has leftfor a new life, as has Sgt Gleadhill .

Trials have taken place in the D & M Wing to establishthe optimum time for a recruit to spend in a simulator .For some reason, support for the simulator is no tenormous—which is surprising, as complete training o na simulator could have saved Sgt Massey a crushe dthumb, Sgt Jones considerable embarrassment with a n

Nor are recruits supposed to be washed in it, either


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upside-down tank, the green hut, an out-house, achicken-barn, a cemetery, a Mercedes, a Ford Escort ,several hundred yards of fencing and hedging, an dnumerous letters from the Regimental 2ic in response tocomplaints—normally to the same man !

In the Signals Wing, Sgt Horrocks left to go to Berlin ,handing over to Sgt Knowles, and Cpl Bradley moved toSennelager . Tpr Keller, having mysteriously lost a whee lwhilst driving a Land Rover, decided to volunteer fo rSennelager as well, in the hope that he would escape th elong arm of the Belize Mafia .

On the sporting side, the Squadron has been a nenthusiastic competitor in the D'Arcy Hall Competition ,in spite of an average age in the mid-30s . Our experiencehas stood us in good stead for the more skilful sports ,such as hockey and cricket, and our size for Rugby an dtug-O '-war . However, just as youth will forever elude us ,so, we fear, will victory in the D'Arcy Hall, unless w ecan introduce sports more befitting of our age, seniorit yand intelligence (after all, we are mostly instructors) ,

Staff, are you sure that we haven't got to the top yet?"

such as fishing, golf, darts or even volleyball .

The Regimental Ban d

Fanfare trumpeters : Bdsm Walker, LCpl Cassidy, LCpl Higson and Cpl Wigmore

This year on KAPE, we had the opportunity to loo kback at past Hawk notes . It was interesting to note tha tthe Band was reformed in October 1949 . The Bandmasterat that time was "Whacker" Hurst, who also helped theBand of the 11th Hussars (PAO) to reform . What is i ncommon with all Band notes is how busy the Band ha sbeen over each year—some things never change!

After our Christmas break, it was back into the swin gof things again . Our first engagement was the Officers 'Ladies Guest Night, closely followed by the CO's Hand -over Parade, which went ahead successfully, despite th ewhole Regiment suffering from extreme cold . Besidesour succession of Pass-Off Parades, we were very kindl yasked to RAF Swinderby to perform at a parade of

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theirs, and, having done that, we then set off to make arecording for the BBC . This was quite an eye-opener ,with Capt Burgess showing his skill at introducing th eRegiment and its history to military enthusiasts . Beforeour two days off in April, we managed to fit in a very we tparade for the very lovely QAs in Catterick . Not to beperturbed by the weather, the grills (don't I mea n"girls"?) went ahead and held it inside the hospital ,placing the Band right next to the morgue! Needless tosay, there wasn't much movement from our direction !

May saw us again in London for the Cavalry Memoria lParade Weekend, and, after much searching in an daround various public houses (hic!) for our old mate sfrom the Band, we eventually caught up with good ol dGeorge Knowles and Neil Bowman on the Sundaymorning . We exchanged old stories and laughs, and the nit was time to depart for more engagements up and dow nthe country, playing for the Burma Star Association, theLord Mayor of Newcastle and Jimmy Carter, the Whit -bread Brewery, and various members of the RoyalFamily, which included Her Majesty The Queen at th eopening of Hull's new fire station .

Berlin was without doubt the highlight of this year ' sactivities, in which the whole Band really enjoye dthemselves . We were all very well looked after by BSquadron, and our thanks must go to SQMS "Blue "Mallileu and Sgt Tony 'Orrocks, as well as the cats 'choir . They sang so badly outside the tank hangars tha tthe Russians must have thought that it was a secre tweapon, the ringleader being "Mac" MacNally—anyway ,great fun was had by all . In addition, we were honouredto have been the first band to play at the Citadel nea rSpandau since its reopening .

Our Tattoo programme this year saw us playing wit hthe Band of the King's Regiment in Preston, whom w efound were very easy to wind up! August saw us inOldham for their summer show, and a very earl ydeparture the next day for Kirkcudbright . We wereprivileged to witness Challenger in action—incidentally ,have any of our readers seen a 54-seater coach, includin ga very worried Bandmaster, being chased by a tank O nthe range?

Finally, we have bade a sad farewell to some of thestalwarts of the Band; firstly, Bdsm Eddie "Fingers "Harkin, who has been accepted for a very hard Collegeposition in London; LCpI Simon Honeybone, who has

Cricket—Band-style! SSgt Parkinson defends the expensive wicketswith LCpI Cassidy, Bdsm Jones and Cpl Cric k

taken up a post as Chief Tikker, somewhere in Doncaster ;and Cpl Steve McKindland, who is starting a new caree rsomething on the same lines—only this time on th efiddle! We wish them all the best of luck . The two ne wlads whom we received in Catterick—Tprs Mike Barbe rand Tony Atkinson-decided that Band life was not fo rthem, and moved on to a more relaxed departmen telsewhere in the Regiment, whilst Bdsm Eatwell andHumphreys have departed after a short holiday i nColchester . Our new recruits (if they ever get here) thi syear are Bdsm Kay, Savidge and Rodda, to whom we sa ywelcome—just in time for the Kneller Hall Inspection !

This Year's Sayings

Burma Star Church Parade—"Have you had a pint o nthe house lads'? The vicar gave us a cut from th ecollection! "

Overheard at Rossall School—"It's a good band, bu tthey play all that silly music! "

Finally, now that the Band is Signals trained, we have aspecial message for our CB enthusiasts—"CQ, CQ ,DX Yogi Bear, IO, 10, till we see you again, Ding! "

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BERLIN SECTIONThe extreme cold of winter in Berlin was approachin g

fast, and B Squadron kept itself busy with various trainin gtasks in Ruhleben and Doughboy Cities . 2nd Troop ,involved in the Staff College Demonstration, wer esurprised when Neil Kinnock, having seen a platoon and atank attack a defended house, commented on how usefulthe training must be for Northern Ireland! 1st Troopsupported the Glosters for a week in Ruhleben as, Com-pany by Company, they attacked and then re-preparedthe Fighting City for defence : the Troop occasionallyunzipped their sleeping-bags to ensure that the Infantrywere placing the correct amount of sand in each bag . Bythe Thursday, most had recovered enough from thearduous months behind them to try their hand atpreparing a house themselves . Sgt Lee and his trust yteam finished some 8 1/2 hours later and, with true Cavalryflair, were awarded a recommendation from the Com-manding Officer of the Glosters for the best-prepare dhouse Of the week !

4th Troop set off to discover the Harz Mountains b ycanoe in late October—and without wet-suits! By al laccounts, they enjoyed the experience, and special thank smust go to Tpr Malone for his culinary support through -out the five-day expedition . 3rd Troop, meanwhile, wer einvolved in the Brigade FIBUA Study Day, designed t oshow various aspects of FIBUA to a high-powered grou pof visitors from the UK and BAOR .

Other members of the Squadron were kept happ ywith the usual steady trickle of Flag Tours and Borde rPatrols. The Sergeants' Mess entertained the Germa nPolice responsible for escorting our tanks through Wes tBerlin . HMS Ark Royal visited the Squadron and were ,thankfully, a little more subdued than the submariner swho came to see us in 1985. In mid-November, 20members of B Squadron visited F Company 40th Armo r(our American equivalent in Berlin) and were given th echance to drive an M60 A3 . All were fascinated with thefacility the tank has to produce smoke by releasing diese lon to the back-decks ; Chieftain can do that—but no tdeliberately !

The Squadron Ski Team departed for Verbier and M rMetherall left for a 2½ -month RSO Course at Bovington .

The Queen's Birthday Parade : B Squadron fires the 21-gun salute

B Squadron has now been in Berlin for almost thre eyears, and the optimists amongst us were confident that .once the 1986 versions of the tattoo, parades and Solta uwere over, life would be exceptionally quiet . Almostforgotten, however, was the notorious Brigade Marc hand Shoot Competition . The Squadron—a very flexibleorganisation—changed Victorian costumes for the ever -comfortable KF shirt and webbing . Two teams ofapproximately equal standard were entered, and bot henjoyed two days of slow but hectic movement throug hthe large forested areas of the Grunewald .

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Troopers in training : LCpI Beaver, Tprs Storey, Latham, Randall andQuee n

Reproduced by kind permission of "Lancashire Life" Magazin e

Mr Joynson, Mr Orr and Tpr Bradley, not to be outdone .took the opportunity to do some sightseeing in Czecho-slovakia . The officers, meanwhile, were involved i nBrigadier Stone's leaving party, which included a ski tentitled Not The Berlin Tattoo, and few will forget Cap tClarke's interpretation of a Light Infantry Drum Major .

Everyone by now had had a very full year and, wit hthe extra work of Berlin's 750th Anniversary loomin gup, the Squadron to a man was looking forward to th eChristmas break. However, Squadron Headquarters haddifferent ideas and, early on the morning of st December ,Smuts Barracks resounded to the familiar noise of siren sand Chieftains ; within two hours, the Squadron wa smoving towards the Grunewald . Three days later, w ereturned and began the job of preparing our tanks forthe time they would hopefully spend stationary in th ehangars during the Christmas break .

The Sergeants' Mess held Ramnuggur and wer eextremely proud when the GOC, Major General Brook-ing, attended an excellent evening . The officers threw aparty for the many German civilians who had helpe dwith last year 's polo and those involved in the polotournaments to come . Capt Ogden arrived from Catterickto become the new Admin Officer, whilst Capt Well sbegan to move gently into the empire that Capt Clark ehad built in the 2ic Office . Capt Ogden, in his new role a sAdmin Troop Leader, has proved to be an invaluabl easset to the Squadron, with his ability to control both theyoung subalterns and the marginally older Troop Ser-geants .

All members of the Squadron enjoyed the variou sChrsitmas parties, and Cpl Cain of the LAD was see nplacing a large stereo system into the boot of his car, a sseveral of the more questioning members of th

e Corporals' Mess noted that he was part of the organisingcommittee! Smuts Barracks then took on an air o fsobriety, as single soldiers headed home to the UK o rstayed with married soldiers at Darbystrasse . Mr Joynsonand Mr Ross entertained themselves in the Officers 'Mess by perfecting the late evening "fry-up", as th ecook had also disappeared for sunnier climes .

On 5th January, the Squadron returned to work, wit ha year that promised to be fuller than the last . Berlin was

aiming to celebrate its 750th Anniversary in some styl e(although Spandau—traditionally a separate town fro mBerlin—were keen to point out that they were celebratin gtheir 775th Anniversary) . Our first priority was to shak eoff the cobwebs of the Christmas break and return t orelatively normal training before Gunnery Camp andSoltau in April . SSM Davies worked hard not only t oprepare a completely different style of Gunnery Camp ,but also to revolutionise the long-winded fire-order srequired for open country shooting into short conciseorders, better suited to the FIBUA environment .

Whilst coming to terms with these new ideas, BSquadron continued to train in Ruhleben . Two ne wInfantry Battalions—The King's Own Scottish Borderer sand the Black Watch—arrived in early spring, replacingthe Devon and Dorsets and Royal Highland Fusiliersrespectively . Both, therefore, had to be initiated into theexotic rituals of FIBUA . Thankfully for many, 2nd Troo pbore the brunt of these exercises, and were no doub tlooking forward to a quieter parade season . The Com-manding Officer visited us for the first time in March ,and enjoyed the sight of B Squadron preparing to movein its entirety to Hohne . On 25th March, we handed ove roperational command to D Squadron The Blues andRoyals and, having secured the tanks on to transporters ,left the following day .

Gunnery Camp was divided into two phases this year .For the first part, we were required to complete th enow-standard serialised shoots of the RAC before movin gto Range 21 and beginning a unique FIBUA Gunner yCamp, equipped with SAAB targets and a 30-foot towe rbuilt by 38 Field Squadron Royal Engineers in Berlin ;we were even equipped with a Squadron Gunnery Office rin the form of Capt Baxter . Most of the engagement swere at ranges of between 50 and 250 metres, using th eSSM's new slimmed-down fire-orders . A regular featur eof armoured warfare in FIBUA—and therefore of ou rnew-style Gunnery Camp—is the use of the Commander' smachine-gun ; and it was with great interest (and amuse -ment) that the Squadron and its many visitors watchedcommanders making half- or full-range corrections !

We were visited by a number of people whilst a tHohne, notably Major General Brooking ; Brigadie rPowell, Commander of Berlin Infantry Brigade; Brigadie rWilliams, Commander Armoured ; and, of course ,Colonel Bowles from Hohne Gunnery Wing . Our Frenchand American friends in Berlin also arrived for a flyin g

Brewing-up, bombed-up : Tpr Standish makes the tea


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On the Berlin Wall : Tpr Simpso n

Reproduced by kind permission of "Lancashire Life" Magazin e

two-day visit . We are still convinced that Sgt Geraghty' sattempts at explaining IFCS in French left some larg egaps in the two French officers' knowledge! Ultimately ,the week and a half was extremely successful, with 3rdTroop taking the honours as Best Troop and C/S 30 ,under Mr Orr, Best Crew . At the end of Gunnery Camp ,we said goodbye to SSM Davies, when he left—vi aPirbright—to become RSM. The Squadron owe him anenormous amount for all his hard work as SSM and a sGunnery Officer . The great credit that he brought th eRegiment in Berlin and in the RAC were justly rewarde dwith the Regimental Medal, presented by the Command -ing Officer during his visit in March .

The Squadron, more than satisfied with its performanc eso far, headed up towards Soltau to take part in a 7Armoured Brigade exercise against the Challengers of 2RTR . It was quite an education to see the Challengersliterally flying across the Red Areas, but, althoughoutclassed in equipment, our methodical employment o fbasic tactics eventually paid off, when we managed t oconfuse the opposing forces so much that we were abl eto reach their battle group headquarters unobserved in aChieftain! Unfortunately, our fun was cut short by th eEaster weekend, and we bade farewell to our Arm yassociates and awaited—with great speculation—th earrival of 33 Wing RAF Regiment .

On Saturday morning, the first Squadron arrived .equipped with Scorpions and Cabriolet Land Rovers .which were unpleasant in April, let alone December orJanuary. By Sunday evening, their Para Squadron haddropped in, and the briefings began . 33 Wing arededicated to airfield and Harrier site defence, and were a

little unpractised in the art of conventional war ; they hadcertainly never seen a tank before! It was an impressiveexercise, with helicopters flying Scorpions and troops al lover the place, but most of us had an insight into what i smeant by the expression "fog of war" . After four days ofexercise, the RAF had learned a great deal from BSquadron, especially concerning the use of radios, th eability to move across country without constant referenc eto a map, and the value of speed in general . The Squadronworked through the night to load the tanks on to th efreight-train, and departed for Berlin the next morning .There were some jealous and venomous scowls as thos emembers of the Squadron who were on the passenger -train paused mid-way through the second course o fdinner to wish those escorting the tanks well .

We returned to a Berlin which was gripped with th eexcitement of the forthcoming Queen's Birthday Parade ,which Her Majesty The Queen herself was taking . A ttank park level, this meant that tins of brown, white an dgrey paint we're everywhere . We had also entered a teaminto the Brigade Skill-at-Arms Meeting less than a wee kafter our return to Berlin! Our success was moderatedonly by the lack of training due to our recent return . Wewere, however, a little bemused when Cpl Duxbury wa sdisqualified for wearing the incorrect boots during ashooting competition !

The Regimental Band visited us from Catterick i nmid-May, and the concert they played in the Spanda uZitadelle is still commented upon by those who attended .Spandau Zitadelle has a Prussian Eagle just like ou rcap-badge above its main entrance . The Band also playe doutside the Rathaus of Tiergarten, our twinned borough,

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where the spectators included a Soviet Flag Tour .Two weeks after the Queen's Birthday came Allied

Forces Day Parade, when, this year, the salute wa staken by the French General . The Americans, who rubtheir tanks with baby-oil to make them shine on parades .did express their displeasure at following the "dirty ,smoky, noisy" Chieftains . But next year both th eAmericans and French will be behind us !

Polo this year was on a scale far beyond the Olympic sof 1936 (when polo was last played as an Olympic sport )and, with less than two weeks to prepare, B Squadro ncould be seen throughout West Berlin putting up posters ,gaining sponsorship, organising accommodation o rsimply building stables for 180 horses . The event was ahuge success and, although the weather was slightl ydisappointing, some 47,000 people watched polo ove rthe four-day period . A more detailed report will befound elsewhere, as will a report on the visit of th eColonel-in-Chief .

Anyone who thought that, after the visit of theColonel-in-Chief, life in Berlin would become quiet an dsedate was obviously living in the wrong city . Augustwas a month of PREs, cadres, annual training tests .Brigade March and Shoot training, with variety bein gadded by trials of a new tank tactical simulator system ,the Brigade Boat and Raft Race, and visits by two group sfrom 6th Gurkha Rifles, who were in Berlin on R and R .It was very good to see our Gurkha friends, who inspected .climbed around and drove the tanks, played sport an dhad a barbecue with us . To make the visit of the firs tgroup on 17th August even more memorable, our next -door neighbour, a Mr Hess . died !

The next few months will be full : the Regimenta lAssociation will visit us in-late September ; October wil lbe a month of adventurous training, JNCOs' cadres an dcommando training (at the French Commando Trainin gCentre) ; November sees the Squadron conducting it sown major FTX, followed by the hand-over by Ma jGrey to Maj Fellows, at which time this Squadronbecomes C Squadron .

The change-around of Squadron personnel, as th eRegiment moves to Munster, will begin some time thi swinter, so the Squadron you read about next year will b every different . But it will still be the Berlin ArmouredSquadron, provided by our Regiment, and we are sur ethat they will get as much out of their time here as we al lhave .

B Squadron SportsB Squadron has contributed fully to nearly all Brigad eSports Championships in the last year . We are neverafraid to enter a team, even if the training for a particula revent or competition has to suffer . Success has not eludedus, and we have gained many cups, plates and creditabl epositions in competitions, as well as an enviable reputatio nfor sportsmanship .

Hockey

Hockey has certainly been the Squadron's most successfu lsport in the last year . Managed by Mr Orr and captaine dby an extremely enthusiastic Tpr Smaje, the team madea very good name for itself . Two teams entered in theBrigade Six-a-Side Tournament, and our A Team too kfirst place, beating all the major units in Berlin . We alsowon the Brigade Knockout Plate Competition, made th equarter-final in the BAOR Minor Units and we ar epresently top of the Berlin Brigade Summer League .Three members of the team—Lt Orr, Sgt Wilson andCpl Hughes—have received Regimental Colours . and

LCpI Smith was chosen as "Up and Coming Player of th eYear" .

Swimming and Water-Polo

The Squadron has also been affected by the Regiment' snewly-found enthusiasm for the water . Cpl Beave rinstigated training at 7 o'clock in the morning for tw oweeks, when we shared the pool with 29 Signal Regimen t—our bitter rivals !

In the Brigade Minor Units Championship, we achieve dsecond place in every event bar one to 29 Signal Regimen tand, as a result, gained second place overall . Thefollowing day produced some excellent water-polo ; onlythree of the 11 players had actually played before, but ,with coaching from Cpl Beaver and LCpI Williams, weagain achieved second place .

The water-polo was an open event where we compete dagainst some major units, so this result was very pleasing .At the end of July, we were proud to be able to send backCpl Beaver and LCpI Williams to join the Regimenta lteam at Sandhurst for the Army Championships .

CricketThe cricket team this year, under our new captain, Cp lHebblethwaite, has had a good season . Our mainobjectives were the 4th Armoured Division Cup and theBrigade Minor Units League . In the cup, we had amarvellous first-round win against our Berlin rivals, 38Field Squadron, but were scratched in the second roun dbecause we were unable to travel to Rinteln during th eRoyal Visit . Fortunately in the League, things have bee ngoing much better, and currently we lie in top place . Th eteam's success is a credit to good fielding and an improvedbatting order, with Tpr Dockery often scoring well .Credit must also go to Cpl Fisher's straight bat and goodbowling from Cpl Meakin and Tprs Randall, Lofthouse ,Collins and Beckett . New talent is also emerging in th eform of Mr Ross and Tprs Hird and McArdle, whilstTprs Pinkerton and Rodmell have become useful all -rounders .

Footbal l

After a very successful year of football during the '8/'86season, when the Squadron gained most of the footbal ltrophies they contested, the following season was notquite as triumphant . The team lost many valuable playersand, although this left room for new players, we currentlylack the necessary experience . This year we finished fift hin the Brigade Minor Units League, and were knocke dout early in the cup . However, a new light has dawned :SSgt Bellamy has taken up the position of manager, an dwe hope that the forthcoming season will be as successfu las our first .

Skiing

Whilst skiing is reported on at greater length elsewher ein this issue, it must be mentioned that our grip on th e1 Div Minor Units Trophy was never in doubt, with ou rteam finishing overall winners for the second year . Thank sare due to Mr Ross—who never got near the slopes—fo rmaking it possible by battling his way through a moundof paperwork on the team's behalf .

FinaleOf the other sports played this year, wind-surfing deservesa special mention, as our team won the Brigade InterUnits Cup, for which our LAD in particular are to b econgratulated . In conclusion, the Squadron has provedthat it is not only a force to be reckoned with profession -ally, but also on the sports field . We hope that all ou rteams will be as successful next season .

29JOURNAL OF ThE 14th/20th KING'S HUSSAR S

Visit of HRH The Princess Royal to B Squadron in Berli n20th/21st July 198 7

The members of the Berlin Armoured Squadron fin dthemselves in an unusual situation : as part of the BerlinGarrison, they are well in front of NATO's front-line ,but, at the same time, they are separated from—an dsometimes cut off from—the rest of the Regiment . Thenews that the Colonel-in-Chief had asked to visit BSquadron in Berlin was, therefore, gratefully receive dby all .

The visit—essentially a private one—was the culmina -tion of six very busy months . From the beginning o fgunnery training, through Hohne and Soltau, to theparade season and the Polo Tournament, the Squadronhad worked "flat out", and so the visit of the Colonel-in -Chief was a fitting climax! Needless to say, "the best-laidplans of mice and men" being what they are, mino rhiccups did occur : we were fortunate that the elevatio nof the Colonel-in-Chief to the position of Princess Roya lhappened before the programme went to print ; we wereless fortunate that the sirens sounded for Exercis eRocking Horse (a Brigade crash-out exercise) at lunch -time on 16th July, just four days before the visit was du eto begin . Pausing only to tear up programmes entitle dFinal Preparations and Rehearsals for the Visit of . . ., theSquadron motored out into the mud and rain of th eGrunewald. Except, that is, for Cpl Duxbury, who wa sarrested for suspected desertion whilst attempting t odrive to Bielefeld to collect the Commanding Officer !

On her arrival, the Colonel-in-Chief was briefed b ythe Squadron Leader, Maj Grey, on the Squadron, it srole in Berlin and the peculiar problems of FIBUA . She The Colonel-in-Chief with Maj Grey, the Squadron Leade r

SSgt Mallalieu introduces the Colonel-in-Chief to her crew for Ruhleben : Cpl Meakin, Tpr Wigmore and Tpr Lofthouse


The Colonel-in-Chief adopts a radical approach to illegal parkin g

. . . and then examines her handiwork


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The Colonel-in-Chief talks with LCpl Ingham and Cpl Leave r

then saw some of those problems, and the solutions t othem worked out by the Squadron in the GTS bay . She i salready an experienced Chieftain gunner, so she wasable to appreciate how significant are the changes tha thave been made to the gunnery drills . Having watche dSgt Geraghty coach LCpl Blythe and Tpr Thoma sthrough the drills, she then had a go herself .

The Colonel-in-Chief then visited the Squadro nCommand vehicle, a brand-new, fully-customised Lan dRover. Having met the crew—Capt Wells, Sgt Horrock sand Tpr Dockery—she was asked to "crash out" theAlert Troop . Little did she know that all of the vehicle' selectrics had failed ten minutes earlier and that, far fro musing the stack of radios in front of her, the message wa sactually sent via a man-pack stuffed into the wheel-archby her feet! Fortunately, the system worked and member sof the Alert Troop appeared from all corners of th ecamp, including the squash courts .

Whilst the Alert Troop got themselves ready, th eColonel-in-Chief met the soldiers of SHQ and 3rd Troops .She then climbed into the driver's seat of C/S 30, and se toff down the Tank Park, where an elderly Ford Cortin awas waiting . It was destined to become a very famousFord Cortina, but seemed reluctant to accept such glory .The idea was to demonstrate how Chieftain is able t ocope with the obstacles likely to be found in FIBUA ,such as wrecked cars or rubble . The car had been stake ddown to simulate a road-block, but, when hit by th etank, it broke tree and was pushed along under th eglacis-plate . On the third attempt, the car finally gotover its stage-fright, and went under the tracks . As thepress and television cameras clicked and whirred, th eColonel-in-Chief dismounted to inspect her handiwork .

The Garden Party, for the Junior Ranks and theirThe Colonel-in-Chief presents LS and GC Medals to SSgt Mallalieu ,

Sgt Watkinson and Cpl Hughes

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wives, was held on the lawn outside the Hilton Club ,because it was rather rashly decided to opt for the fine -weather programme . In the end, this act of pure optimismpaid off, and the party was a very pleasant—if chilly —affair . The Colonel-in-Chief was met by the PMC of th eCorporals' Mess, Cpl Hawkins, and Mrs Hawkins, an dhad the opportunity of meeting all elements of theSquadron, including the LAD and the Air DefenceTroop . At the end of the party, she presented LongService and Good Conduct medals to SSgt Mallalieu ,Sgt Watkinson and Cpl Hughes . The first day of the visi twas rounded off with a dinner at the Officers' Mess ,which was attended by all the Officers, Warrant Officers ,Sergeants and their wives .

The morning of Tuesday, 21st July, saw the Colonel -in-Chief in Ruhleben Fighting City, the Brigade's urba ntraining area. The city, which is the size of a smal lvillage, had been used for the previous week's exercise ,for which a huge amount of work had been done : it waslittered with wrecked cars, barbed-wire entanglementsand sand-bagged positions, and was therefore a veryrealistic battlefield . The battle was planned an

d commanded by Lt Ross, and involved SHQ, 1st and 2n dTroops, with the infantry platoon being provided by th eBlack Watch .

Once she had been briefed, the Colonel-in-Chie fclimbed into her tank, crewed by Cpl Meakin and Tp rWigmore, with Tpr Lofthouse driving . Having taken u pa position forward of the defended house, they wer eforced to withdraw in contact as the enemy advanced .When the enemy attacked the main position, the Colonel-in-Chief rallied her forces and led them in a successfu lcounter-attack . It was a short, sharp battle, with a lot of

The Prussian Eagle, presented to B Squadron by the Borough ofSpanda u

The tank battle in Ruhleben : the Colonel-in-Chief and Cpl Meakin, hoping that a punk will make their day


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noise and smoke and at very close quarterst - a realisti cdemonstration of urban warfare .

After she had spoken to all those who had taken par tin the battle, the Colonel-in-Chief departed for Spanda uJugendautbauwerk, a centre for deprived young people .From there, she moved to the Villa Lemm, home of th eGOC, where a lunch party was held . Before lunch began .she accepted—on behalf of the Squadron - a magnificen tHawk . One metre high and one metre broad, beautifull ymade and painted, it is an exact copy of the Prussia nEagle which hangs above the main gates of Spanda uZitadelle . It was given to the Squadron by the Boroug hof Spandau, and was presented by the Mayor, Her rWerner Salomon, and by Herr Hans-Jurgen Schottler ,who sponsored the making of the Hawk . It will be hung

over the main entrance to the Squadron office-block .

After lunch, the Colonel-in-Chief took her leave o fthe Squadron and the Regiment . She passed a full and ,we hope, enjoyable 24 hours with her Squadron i nBerlin : it will certainly be remembered for a long time b yall those lucky enough to have been serving with th eSquadron at the time . Many people helped the Squadro nwith the visit but, in particular, we must thank Majo rGeneral Brooking and his staff, both in his Headquartersand in his house, where the Colonel-in-Chief stayed ; andthe relief Close Recce Troop from 15th/19th Hussarswho were staying with us, and who helped with thepreparations whilst we were on exercise, and who under -took the security arrangements during the visit itself .

The 1986 Berlin TattooBerlin ground to a halt in September 1986 for the Berli nBritish Military Tattoo . The first Berlin Tattoo was heldin 1947 in an attempt to cheer up the Berliners : the citywas in ruins, food was scarce and the previous winter ha dbeen one of the worst ever. The first tattoo was such asuccess that it has now become a bi-annual event . Thetheme of the 1986 tattoo was "London in the Yea r1851" . This might sound rather an obscure date, but i twas the year of the Great Exhibition at the Crysta lPalace .

The three Infantry battalions were each told to producetheir own act . These ranged from the Devon and Dorset' sre-enactment of the Battle of Plassey (elephants and all) ,a display of Victorian PT from the Glosters and a 300 -strong Scottish reel from the Royal Highland Fusiliers .Several established "tattoo acts" were imported by MajMichael Parker, the producer . The Household Cavalryflew their mounted band and "trick ride" from London .whilst the Royal Artillery Motor Cycle Display Team,the Queen's Colour Squadron and police dogs of th eRAF were enrolled, along with nine complete militar ybands .

The reader is excused for wondering what was BSquadron's contribution to this extravaganza . Our smal lsize meant that we were not able to produce an individua lact ; instead, we were tasked to provide the cast for th eopening sequence and finale, the Lord Mayor's Processio nand the State Opening of the Great Exhibition respect -ively .

The requirement for the Lord Mayor's party appearedto present few problems—a Lord Mayor (portly), chap -lains and beadles (of all shapes and sizes), a couple o fjudges and the odd bishop. The State Opening was t opresent more of a problem, requiring a Queen Victoria ,a lady-in-waiting, a small girl, a smaller boy and aChinaman . The SSM's search for aspiring Thespian sinterested in an albeit short-lived acting career wassuccessful, and the cast was assembled for the costume -fitting . The Lord Mayor was indeed tailored for a portl yfigure, but many of the other costumes were rather to osnug for comfort! It very quickly became a question o fwhoever fitted the costume got the part, and ultimatel ythe only part of the original plan that came to fruitio nwas the use of the Air Defence Troop as the Roya lCompany of Archers .

The cast then began six exhausting days of rehearsal .under the expert guidance of Maj Parker . After manyhours' clever make-up and excellent costumes, the bisho pexuded an air of total sanctity . and one of the judge smight have been mistaken for the Master of the Rolls .and the Lord Mayor was getting quite used to travelling

in a state coach .The tattoo ran for eight days and 13 performances .

The Deutchlandhalle (Berlin's equivalent of Earls Court )was filled with 10,00(1 people a night, who witnessed thepageantry and splendour of this most British event .Notable salute-takers included the Duke of Glouceste rand the President of the Federal Republic of Germany .

The show finally came to an end, cassocks wereexchanged for coveralls and Equity cards collected . Thecast were left feeling somewhat exhausted but enriche dby the enjoyment they had brought to so many peopleand the gratitude that had been shown . B Squadron ha dmade a significant contribution to the 1986 Berlin Tattoo ,and particular congratulations must go to Gareth Colema n("The Prince of Wales") and Mrs Belcher ("TheLady-in-Waiting") .

SSgt Coleman with his son, Gareth, who played The Prince of Wales inthe Berlin Tattoo

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The Berlin Polo Tournament 1987

The Berlin Polo Tournament came of age in 1987. Notonly was this the 21st such tournament (the sport wasrevived in Berlin by the Queen's Own Hussars in 1966) ,but it was also the first tournament that was more than a nArmoured Squadron event . The Berlin Polo Tournamentwas, hitherto, the Armoured Squadron's contribution tothe sporting and social life of Berlin and the polo-playin gregiments of BAOR. The focus of the tournament hasalways been the Maifeld—probably the finest setting fo rpolo in the world—and it has always been the wish of th epolo-playing Berliners to take an active part in th eorganisation of the sport on the Maifeld .

The 750th Anniversary of Berlin' provided an idea lopportunity to produce an entirely different tournament .The 1987 tournament was designed to be an extravaganza :the European Medium Goal Championship ; a majorlow-goal competition ; massive sponsorship ; widespreadprofessional publicity; and a major horse show. Indeed,it was the largest single British contribution to the city' sanniversary celebrations .

There were two competitions : a medium-goal Europea nNational Championship, with teams from Britain (Ma jWoodd, Maj Vickery, James Scott and Alexande rBrodie), Spain, Switzerland and West Germany ; and alow-goal championship, contested by four RAPA team sand four West German clubs : these were the Ligh tCavalry (QOH and RH), the Heavy Cavalry (RHG/ Dand 15/19 H), the Lance Guards (QRIH and 17/21 L)and the Scarlet Lancers (16/5 L) on the one hand, andDusseldorf, Munich, Hamburg and Berlin on the other .

There were other attractions too : as well as the horseshow, which included show-jumping, dressage and atwo-day event, there were displays of carriage-drivingand displays by the Berlin Prussian Society, who wearthe Hawk on their saddle-cloths and sabretaches ; therewere fashion shows (which included a petite and demur emodel who wore a necklace worth DM1,000,000, ver yclosely escorted by a brace of large RMP), the bands o fall three Battalions, and a parachute-drop to deliver theball for the final .

Given the vast amount of work put in by all of theorganisers, it was essential that the event should b ewell-supported : a tented stable-yard for 180 ponies ha dto be built ; almost 1,000 square metres of tentage waserected on the Maifeld ; and the city's resources of VI Pstores were thoroughly looted . To make this all worth -while, some 50,000 free tickets were given away to th eBerliners, mostly through clubs and employers . I naddition, the tournament received wide publicity o nGerman and Allied radio and television, as well as in thelocal and national press ; and the LAD placed hundred s

. . . and against West Germany in the final

of posters all over West Berlin—some of them eve nsurvived the onslaught of rain, vandals, Frenchmen andsenior officers! In spite of grey, overcast and sometime swet weather, the tournament was watched by an estimate d47,000 people, so that all those who had laboured fo rlong hours building stables, erecting tents or humpin gstores had the satisfaction of knowing that their effortswere appreciated by so many .

The play in both competitions was organised on aleague basis, with the leading teams playing off in th efinals . This ensured that all teams played at least threetimes over the four days . The low-goal competition wasplayed for the Garrards Cup—a magnificent troph ypresented by the Crown Jewellers, which will become apermanent fixture of the Berlin Polo Tournament i nfuture . It was won by Dusseldorf, after a close-fough tfinal against the Light Cavalry .

n the European Championship, played for the Aud iCup, the ideal final took place - a contest between Britai nand West Germany . The British team was a Hawks tea mcaptained by Maj David Woodd (+3) . It included MajMike Vickery (+2) ; James Scott (+1), ex-9/12 L and arespected opponent from Hohne ; and Alex Brodie (+3) ,who was replaced in the final by Gary Hoey (also +3) .Their German opponents were captained by Hans-Jurge nRiese (+1), playing with Norbert Kaiser (+ I ), Alexande rSchwartz (+4) and Miki Keuper (+5 Germany's highesthandicap) . This left West Germany with an initia ldisadvantage of 1 1/2 goals . At first, the final was veryone-sided, with Britain moving to a convincing lead o f

5 1/2-1; but Germany then found their stride, and force dthe score back to 5 r/2-5 . Britain never abandoned thei raggressvive, attacking game and Germany were not abl eto force home a final, decisive attack . The final scorewas, then, 5 r/2-5, after a truly breath-taking final—undoubtedly the finest display of polo seen on th eMaifeld for a long time ; perhaps the finest since 1936 ,when polo was played there as an Olympic sport for th elast time (and where Agentina beat Britain 2-I in th efinal) .

The 1987 Berlin Polo Tournament was a magnificen tspectacle, which showed the co-operation between th eBritish authorities and Berlin interests in the best possibl elight . It should be a source of great satisfaction to al lHawks that members of their Regiment played such a nimportant role in the planning and organisation of th eevent and on the field of play .

Maj Woodd riding hard in England's match against Spain . . .

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Berlin's 750th Birthday Part y

The readers of B Squadron's notes in this edition of TheHawk will find many references to Berlin's 750t hAnniversary celebrations . To confuse the issue, Berli nwas not founded 750 years ago—1237 is just a convenien tdate to celebrate !

Legend has it that the city was founded in the mid-12t hCentury by Albert, Margrave of the Nordmark . Havingbeen soundly thrashed in a battle somewhere nea rBrandenburg, he was fleeing for his life when he saw amother-bear and her cubs playing in the sun on an islan din the River Spree . Since his nickname was "Albert th eBear", he saw this as a good omen—so he threw hi snamesakes off the island and set himself up in thei rplace .

Whether or not Albert really did evict the bears, adocument dated 1237 mentions the town of Colin, whichwas built on the southern bank of the Spree, opposit eBerlin . Berlin itself does not get mentioned anywhereuntil 1244 but, since the towns were more or less unite dby 13(X), the date of 1237 is given to Berlin as well . The

fact that the town of Spandau—now part of West Berli n—was first mentioned in 1232 is largely ignored, exceptby the Spandauers .

The 750th anniversary is not significant because of theage of the city (Germany has very many cities which arefar older), but because it gives the two halves of th ecity—and the different interpretations of German lif ethat they represent—a chance to show off themselves .The rivalry is intense : West Berlin had a three-day open -air rock concert—so East Berlin had one too ; East Berli nhad a magnificent exhibition of "Art in Berlin"—s oWest Berlin produced one as well ; West Berlin laid on amassive open-air historical review at the Victory Colum n—so East Berlin had one in front of the Schauspielhaus ;both had Water Festivals on the same days ; Mr Gorbachevarrived in East Berlin the day Her Majesty left the West .

For those fortunate enough to be serving in Berlin a tthis time, the anniversary has meant even more wor kthan usual, but it has also brought the chance to shar ethe history, culture and celebration of one of the world' sgreatest cities .

The reality of life in Berlin . 4th Troop advance into Ruhleben Fighting City

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B Squadron The Blues and Royal s

Establishment changes are normally fraught with anxiety .To produce the manpower cover for the 12th Armoure dRegiment, a number of what had hitherto been fourSquadron Regiments were to reduce to three, and tobecome what in the trade is known as a "Type 43" .

The Household Cavalry Regiments regularly swopbetween the roles of a Recce Regiment based in Windso rand an Armoured Regiment in BAOR . The manning o fthe two roles are very different and every swop ha smeant much re-badging—a messy and difficult job .Fortuitously, the manpower establishment of the Windso rRegiment neatly matches that of a Type 43, and thus th eHousehold Cavalry were told to reduce to a three -squadron Regiment in March 1988 . As you will know ,we become a Type 43 with a large squadron in Berlin inMarch 1988, and thus was born the idea of temporaril yreplacing the reducing numbers within The Blues an dRoyals with 14/20 H .

Many were tempted by the idea, whilst others though tthat it was a giggle to serve with The Blues and Royals . I thas been an unqualified success, with both Regiment smaking it work . The success reflects great credit on al lconcerned, but our first Troop laid the groundwork . I twas their high standards in everything which the yattempted that earned the respect of The Blues an dRoyals .

The first 14/20 H Troop assembled in Athlone Barracks ,Sennelager—possibly the worst lager in the world—o n16th January 1987, to take over Three Troop, B Squadron .Sgt Clayton, the Troop Sergeant, had arrived in earlyDecember and, despite his daily commuting 72 kilo -metres, he was well-known to The Blues and Royals .The handover was done in the traditional Househol dCavalry style, tallest on the left, smallest on the right—i eshovel left, small adjustable right . The hand-over wen twell .

The Squadron Leader, an American Cavalryman, MajJeff Holmes, organised a progressive plan to initiate th eTroop into his Squadron, and part of this was a few day son the Goldgrund Training Area ; this is opposite Barke rBarracks, which many of you will remember . The TroopLeader's—Mr Goldie's—map-reading improved and hi soperator, Cpl Cohen, learned the art of protecting hi sTroop Leader by only allowing him to speak afte rconsideration of what he was about to say .

In early March, inter-Troop tests were organised inpreparation for Soltau—remember it? No change—verycold and snowy . In the tests, the Troop came first, raisin gthe 14/20 H stock even higher with The Blues and Royals .Soltau was fun, fighting against the Royal Hussars i ntheir Challengers . Everyone benefited, and by now th eTroop was totally conversant with BAOR soldiering .

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Let us now break from a diet of self-congratulation toexamine some of the differences between the tw oRegiments .

a. The Blues and Royals other ranks salute withouthead-dress . This commemorates the Marquess ofGranby saluting the Duke of Wellington atWaterloo with neither a hat nor a wig .

b. There is no term such as "Sergeant " within th eHousehold Cavalry—the word used is "Corporal " .Thus Squadron Quartermaster Corporal is pro-nounced "Squimsee", whilst Corporals of Horse(Sergeant) and Lance Corporals of Horse (Cor-poral) wear the same badges of rank in the field .

c . Membership of the WOs' and C'sOH Mess i sopen to the honorary rank of LCOH . 14/20 HCorporals are therefore given the honorary ran kof Lance Sergeant .

d . The Commanding Officer is always addressed as"Colonel" by all ranks, even on parade ; WarrantOfficers (SCM, etc) are always addressed as "Sir" ,even in the Mess .

e . On Orders, Blues and Royals soldiers are doubledin, wearing hat and belt without escort ; they losetheir hat and belt after sentencing . On releasefrom jail by the Adjutant, still in this form o fdress, the soldier salutes and doubles out . Thiscaused problems with 14/20 H soldiers who, afte ra spell in the Regimental hotel, also saluted with -out head-dress, resulting in a further booking i nthe hotel .

f . The Blues and Royals squadrons sport the follow-ing colours: A Squadron—Blue ; B Squadron—Red ; C Squadron—Grey ; D Squadron—Green .

Two weeks after Soltau was Gunnery Camp, and al lwere busy during that time preparing . The turret crewslived in the GTS, up-dating themselves with the lates ttechniques. Sgt Clayton was the Squadron IG, andtherefore extremely busy . The three drivers, Tprs Postle ,Vasey and Wyre, were left to prepare the tanks on theirown, and were congratulated by the Commanding Office ron their high standard . The Troop did very well a tGunnery Camp, with the three gunners—Tprs McAleese ,Pomfret and Overton (RHG/D)—firing accurately an dfast ; Tpr Overton replaced Tpr Maran, who had injuredhimself . The final battle-run was excellent, and the Troo pcame second in the John Tucker Trophy—The Bluesand Royals Gunnery Competition .

On return from Hohne, it was a quick turn-aroun dand prepare for the hand-over by Maj Holmes to Maj

Singer, 14/20 H. His first act was to put the Troop into BSquadron sweat-shirts and his second was to distribut ethe Three Troop talent amongst the other Troops . Hethen took a mixed RGH/D and 14/20 H crew off on aNicholson 55, sailing 1,500 miles around the North Se aand Scandinavia .

The second 14/20 H Troop, under Mr Morgan and Sg tMcNally, arrived at the end of June and settled i nquickly. The third Troop is to arrive at the end of Augus twith Mr Allinson and Sgt Bradley, who arrived as Cp lBradley with the second Troop .

It has not been all duties and work . Apart from Ma jSinger 's sailing, Mr Goldie, with LSgt Wild BEM, theSCM and nine RHG/D adventured in Corsica, beatingthe French Legionnaires' time in ascending the moun-tains . Mr Goldie is also taking his Troop sailing for aweek off the East Coast of England . Mr Morgan isskippering The Blues and Royals sailing team in both th e3rd Armoured Division and Royal Armoured Corp sOffshore Regattas . Mr Goldie led their team for Seaview .

In September, we deploy on Exercise Certain Strike ,when we shall be umpiring the massive Reforger battles .In October, we have the Battle Group Trainer and the"Major General's Inspection" . The GOC London Districtis tasked with the responsibility for ceremonial withi nthe Household Division . On 14th October, The Blue sand Royals will parade and, for the first time, line Cavalr ywill be participating—pictures in next year's Hawk! Asyou can imagine, the parade is taken extremely seriously .We had our first CO's drill parade in mid-May! Novembe rsees us full cycle in Soltau, but with a new team an dTroops . Sgt Clayton is due to take over from the SQM Cand be called "SQMS/Sergeant Major", and WO 2Cornish comes as SSM. It is going to need great menta ldexterity for us to cope with the mix of ranks within theSquadron .

Maj Singer departs at the end of November, and wil lbe replaced by Maj Suchaneck, once the latter ha s"done" his courses ; we eagerly await the second-in-command . In March 1988, we rejoin the Regiment i nMunster .

No account of our time here would be completewithout mention of some of The Blues and Royals wh ohave been so helpful to us—SCM Hunter, SQMC Pit tBEM, SCpl Maskell (WOs' and Cs'OH Mess) and CO HMellor (Families NCO) .

It has been interesting, educational and worthwhile t ohave served with The Blues and Royals. I hope thatsome lasting bond is forged between 14/20 H and RHG/D .

KAPE 1987In June, a team consisting of the Regimental Band an dtwo CVR(T), with crews, toured Lancashire and Greate rManchester on a "Keep the Army in the Public Eye"(KAPE) tour . The team visited schools in the Preston ,Bolton, Blackpool and Manchester areas . All the childre nenjoyed looking around the Scorpion and Scimitar, an dthe soldiers showed great patience in answering thei rmany, varied and often spurious questions! The Bandperformed at each school, and the concert was geared t oa younger audience . Music from the films Superman,The A-Team and Star Wars all went down well, and i twas good for the youngsters to see how versatile a militaryband can be .

The Band also performed for the South Ribbl emagistrates in the Grimsargh Village Hall . It was aconcert to which the audience warmed, and the hal lresounded to the strains of Trial by Jury, as well as

Sinatra favourites .On a cool, rainy day, the CVR(T) team set up thei r

display on Blackpool Promenade, opposite the Towe rand next to the North Pier . It was a pity, however, tha tbecause of the weather there were not as many peopl eon the front as we had hoped for . On this day, the Bandperformed in Southport as part of an ABF appeal, firs tparading through the town and then combining with th ePolice and King's Band to put on a concert in a Southpor ttheatre . During the interval, Sgt McGahey was presentedwith his LSGC Medal by Colonel de Beaujeu .

The Preston Half-Marathon this year was organised i naid of the Heartbeat Charity Appeal . They were ver ykeen for our KAPE team to participate and, with apotential audience of 30,000, it was an opportunity no tto be missed . On the day, a 14th/20th Scimitar wa sparked at the start of the race . Sally Moon, from Red

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Rose Radio, standing on the turret, started the marathon .Cpl Wigmore played The Posthorn Gallop as the runnerspassed by, and all this was broadcast live on Red RoseRadio . At the end of the run, in which LCpI Higson ,Sgt Shepherd and W02 Renshaw took part, the Ban dperformed to the exhausted audience . However, theRegiment really stole the show with the Regimenta lballoon, which Lt Gossage had brought over for on eday .

Preston Flag Market . The full KAPE team on displa y

On the last day of KAPE, the team visited Rossal lSchool, Fleetwood. The Duke of Gloucester was openin ga new Girl s ' Boarding House, and the Band transforme dtea on the Headmaster 's lawn into a gracious garde nparty. In addition, the Scorpion and Scimitar wer epositioned on the school 's main square . The CCFclambered over the vehicles, and LCpl Woodford coul dbe heard all over the school, drilling a detachment o fCadets . One of these Cadets, incidentally, was a relativeof King Hussein of Jordan . He showed a particula rinterest in our Scorpion—perhaps with a view to buyin git?

The 14th/20th KAPE team visited numerous othe rplaces in Lancashire, and truly achieved its object . It wa sa tremendously enjoyable two weeks for all those wh otook part .

The start of the 1987 Preston Half-Marathon . Cpl Wigmore plays The Posthorn Gallop

Cadets from Rossall School PJN

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Tprs Nettleship and Dawson keep their sense of humour, despite a nendless stream of childre n

LCpI Adesile explaining the driver's control s

Cpl Wheeler and LCpl Woodford at Rossall School

Stopping the show at the Preston Half-Marathon

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2nd Belize Troop

It all started on Blackpool beach in February! The second Belize Troop on pre-Belize trainin g

Ah, Belize! Pina Coladas, idyllic Caribbean beaches ,lone lazy afternoons in the tropical sun—how the passingof time distorts the memory! However, writing this someeight months after the Troop has returned to a wet an dwindy Catterick, there are still a few memories whic htime and the weather have not distorted .

There was the "small but uncompromising" SSg t"Bulldog" Drummond's first dismounted jungle patrol .This was when our heroes struggled through the lus hthick undergrowth and, for the first seven hours of th epatrol, only managed to cover 600 yards, but, on reachin gthe patrol RV, found that it was the back garden of avery reasonable hotel! Hardly the jungle survival exercisemost of the boys had expected .

Medicina 1986 was a joint Hawks/6 GR celebration .Our guest was Lt Chris Latter 6 GR, from Airpor tCamp, who joined in a number of inter-section sport scompetitions and a dinner in the Mopan Hotel, whic hwas kindly laid on by the proprietor, Tom Shaw (a nex-Hawk and local Regimental Association representa-tive). Everyone enjoyed themselves, including LCp lRichardson, who, even though he had fallen over andbroken his ankle during a game of volleyball earlier i nthe day, would not allow himself to be admitted tohospital until after the celebrations had finished at 3 a mnext morning .

The Troop did find time to do some serious soldiering,Our patrol programme covered the whole country, from the hills of th e

Guatamalan border . . .


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. . . to the streets of downtown Belize Cit y

An amazing feat of map-reading : Mr Carter manages to bring his section across not one but two international borders at the same time! Th emonument marks the intersection of the Mexico, Guatamala and Belize borders . The CVR is in Belize

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Patrols had their exciting moments . In this case, a track-pin sheare dand, luckily, there were no serious injurie s

and Belize offered many unique training opportunities .One of these was a week-long joint exercise with FCompany—a special forces group based in Belize .

During the first part of the week, the Troop was split .One half carried out weapon training and battle-handlingexercises, while the rest tried to penetrate as far into theBelizean jungle as CVR would go, and give the soldiersfrom F Company some driver training lessons . The wee kculminated with a live-firing exercise on Baldy Beaconranges, where F Company demonstrated the 30 mmtechnique against low-flying Harriers .

All the Troop had two weeks' R and R, either i nMexico or Florida, plus the occasional long weekend o na beach somewhere . One group even made it to theWorld Cup, the Troop flag being spotted by many peopleback home on TV . Belize also offered excellent adventuretraining facilities, the diving being some of the best in th eWestern hemisphere. However, from all the picture sand descriptions of beautiful beaches and sunshine, it i seasy to forget that Belize was a wet, sticky and uncom -

Some made the most of the excellent Adventure Training facilities i nBelize . . .

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It may not look big, but it took the combined efforts of LCpI Richardso nand Tpr Billington to catch it

Tpr Gemzala thinking about a job with the Mexican Police

Jungle Hawk s

fortable place to soldier . It was thus with great satisfactio nthat the Troop learned that 3rd Battalion The Queen' sRegiment, whom the Troop supported in Belize, ha dbeen awarded the Wilkinson Sword of Peace for 1986 .This honour is awarded to the Regiment which is

considered to have contributed most to peace-keepin goperations and to improving trust and understanding i nareas of tension . The Regiment can be proud that theirhigh standards displayed during this tour contributed t othis award .

PPO'ND

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Musketry

The team with the fruits of their success—The Lindley Cup, The Cambridge Shield and The RTR Cup . Standing, left to right: Lt Wagstaff, LCp IEllershaw, Tpr Bartley, Lt Denning, Tpr Kobewka, Cpl Frankle and COH Blunt . Kneeling: CpI Ewen, LCpl Stopford, Cpl Claude and Tp r

Edwards

The Regiment has continued to build on the solid startmade last year in the field of musketry . This year we hav eheld a successful D'Arcy Hall Skill-at-Arms Meeting ,competed in the District Skill-at-Arms Meeting, qualifie dfor Bisley and collected a considerable amount of silver !

D'Arcy Hall Competition

The competition was held over four days, as last year ,with each Squadron providing a team of ten firers . Thisyear, we held matches involving SMG, SLR and GPM Ggun teams, and this, combined with the smaller teams ,enabled us to be more selective in choosing a team t orepresent the Regiment . The results of the competition swere : 1st—HQ Squadron ; 2nd—A Squadron ; 3rd—DSquadron ; 4th—C Squadron .

District Skill-at-Arms Meeting

Folowing the D'Arcy Hall Competition, a team of 12were selected to train for the District and Army Meetings .Training started in earnest in March and, in May, weentered the District Meeting with some confidence . Aftera hard weekend, our confidence was justified by ourwinning the Regular Army Team Championships, finish -ing as runners-up in the Falling Plate Competition andwith individual members in some cases being close forindividual honours . We continued to train for Bisle ywith our morale and confidence high, having qualifiedfor our position so very well .

Bisley

All musketry thus far this year had been conducted with

the aim of doing well at the Army Meeting at Bisley, an din this we were successful .

The team was again managed by Lt Wagstaff. L tDenning took over the role of team captain from Cap tWilliams, who is now with the DLOY . The team ha dchanged considerably from last year, with only Cp lFrankle and Tprs Bartley and Edwards from the previousteam. We were very fortunate this year in having CO HBlunt as our trainer . He arrived in January as a D & Minstructor, having successfully coached the Life Guard sshooting team for two years, and our successes this yea rwere due largely to his efforts and expertise . He trainedthe team as if it were his own Regiment's, and we ow ehim our thanks for doing so well .

The team did extremely well this year . We swept theboard as regards Corps positions, winning the Cambridg eShield for the best overall RAC team ; the Lindley Cu pfor the best RAC GPMG team ; and the RTR Cup fo rthe best RAC team in the Parachute Regiment Match—all trophies won many times by our predecessors, and itis nice to have them displayed in the Regiment again . I naddition to the Corps positions, we improved our positionin the Army considerably on last year . In particular, i twas pleasing to find us at the end of the meeting ahead o fmany Infantry teams . We are now on a firm footing to g ofor major honours in future Bisley meetings .

Footnote.—At the end of the meeting, the Regimen tprovided five of the six firers selected to represent th eRAC in the Inter-Corps Methuen Cup Competition .Later the team was placed third in the annual Triangula rShooting Competition, which comprised many team sfrom the Army, the RAF and the USAF .

Cpl Ewen and LCpI Stopford with the Lindley Cup awarded to the

Tprs Edwards and Bartley with the Cambridge Shield awarded to th eBest RAC Gun Team

Best RAC Team at the Bisley Meetin g

Well into the Parachute Regiment Cup Match two-mile run, prior t othe shoot Tired and thankful at the end of the Parachute Regiment Cup Matc h


Cpl Ewen and LCpI Stopford receiving the Lindley CupCpl Frankle receiving the RTR Cup awarded to the Best RAC Team i n

the Parachute Regiment Cup Match

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MESS NOTES SECTION

Officers' Mess

This was the year without beginning or end . In last year' sarticle, we were moving in and getting to make the mos tof England. In next year's article, we shall be hearing ofthe end of Catterick and the beginning of Germany . Butmeanwhile . . .

Many events have taken place . Many people hav ecome and gone, while the job of training continue sceaselessly . Almost as soon as the Regimental Weeken din July 1986 was over, we packed up the Mess in cam pand moved 1 r/2 miles to the Mess in Somme Barracks .An unoccupied camp on the +edge of the Garrison, i tprovided plenty of room and solitude to carry on suc hactivities as "Carbecue-ing" Peter Garbutt's little Fiat ;extermination of vermin, with dog and gun, in a neigh-bouring farmer's field ; and the ancient martial art of thesamurai warrior. Soon the guards on the gate becameaccustomed to weird noises and lights at all times of theday and night . This included letting in "convicts" fo rSean Searight's Jail-Break Party and letting out bodie sin MFO boxes stuck in car boots! In case you arewondering why we moved, I shall give a brief explanation .No, not insanity—but a chance to get the Mess redecora -ted in time for Christmas . A bit optimistic, actually—ittook until the spring of 1987 before we could move back .In the meantime, James Allan, Johhny Beardsall an dAlistair Ross all had the chance to be Mess Secretary .

One memorable summer's day found a host of officer sand companions, led by Johnny Beardsall, being waite don by a number of staff, floating serenely (at first) downthe River Ure. This was on a makeshift raft of inner -tubes, MFO boxes and carpet . The arrangement wa scompleted by table, chairs and three-course lunch ; muchto the amazed speculation of the odd tourist and livestoc kalong the river-bank . The raft's journey was finished offon a late October afternoon by a carefree bunch ofamateurs "shooting the rapids" of East Witton . Thisevent was rounded off with a drying-out session around ablazing fire in the Coverbridge pub .

Although covered in greater detail elsewhere, I shoul dmention that the Mess made the most of a sporting

autumn, with everyone having a go at hunting, shootingor beagling, from which many a tale may be told, an dmuch enthusiasm charged for this season . At this point, Iwill add that life in Catterick would not be completewithout our furry-faced four-legged friends . To namebut a few : Treacle ; Pudding; Ben ; Haggis ; Muffin ;Bertie ; Floosie ; Cruiser ; Wagby; Jemma; Bess ; Osca rand the other six puppies by Bandit out of Ripper ; Snuff ;Roly ; Sprocket, Ben and Bob ; Soda; Rasta ; Pat ; Peggy ;and, recently, Smut ; all of whom get on very well witheach other, for the most part !

Before we knew it, winter had arrived . The Mes ssettled into such events as the Northern Reunion a tPreston, the Regimental Dinner in London (including aSubaltern's Tour of the Stock Exchange, Houses o fParliament and the Opera) and a round of Christma sparties, including the Bedale Hunt Ball ; while someho wwe also found time for some film nights and lectures ,particularly one on Operation Goodwood and Johnn yBeardsall's exploits in the jungle and famous conquest ofBati Lawi in Borneo .

On our return from the Christmas break, we mad efinal preparations for the hand-over of Command fro mColonel John to Colonel Christopher's party that wa sheld on a cold and snowy day in January .

In no time at all, so it seemed, we packed once mor eand moved back into camp . Albeit just in time, for, a swe were moving out of Somme, an entire glass and woodsection measuring about 30 feet by 40 feet detached itsel ffrom the Mess, with shattering consequences (a result o fthe March winds, not subalterns, I can assure you!) .

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Maj Lang receives his Regimental Medal from the CO

The Mess Secretary plans his escape from the Mess Bill Summar yBook in the balloon


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Some pleasantly official occasions .

. . . others officially pleasan t

Some very wet occasions . . .

. some not so dry

The Ante Room and Dining Room of the Cambra iMess had been changed completely . It was now rich i nwood, plaster castings and window-seats . The patio ha dbeen enlarged, as had the garden, now enclosing ou rown tennis-court . At first, it was all a bit vivid, but now ,as I write, we find that it has mellowed well .

Of course, during the year we have had many gues tnights, but I will mention one in particular . This was inApril . We invited a number of guests from the Worshipfu lCompany of Salters, with whom we have been in associa -tion for some time . It was decided to cement the relation -ship and, in respect of this, we were very kindly given apair of salt cellars, a history of the Salters' Company an dthe traditional gift of a Bible to a new member . Whilethey were here, they had a chance to see the role w ecarried out, a chance to drive some tracked vehicles an dfire on the small-arms range . It was felt that this was agreat success, and a number of us will be going to Londo nsoon, on a return invitation . We all hope that this will b ethe start of a long and happy association .

Since I write of associations, there have been one o rtwo I want to mention . Henry Dixon, Adrian Bradsha wand Neil Polley have all got married this year, 1987 . Weall wish the best to Henry and Sue, Adrian and Sally an dNeil and Claire . In the wake of these, two engagementswere announced : Andrew Stuart-Mills to Sophie Pryo rand Sean Searight to Caroline McKenzie, both of who mplan to get married in the spring of next year .

These notes would be incomplete without the inclusio nof the epic attempt to cross the Atlantic in a hot-air

balloon by Jim Howard, co-pilot to Don Cameron . Afterthe initial apparently lemming-like race against th eBranson–Lindstrom team, Jim has settled down in S tJohns, Newfoundland, to wait for exactly the righ tweather . So far, it has been eight weeks, and Jim leave sthe Army at the end of August, after which he is going t owork with Don Cameron at his factory in Bristol a sProduction Manager . The Regimental Balloon has beenretained, and currently Andrew Gossage is under trainin gfor his licence, with the hope that others will follow in hi stracks, thereby continuing one of the Army's moreunusual sports within the Regiment .

In July, we underwent "contractorisation" of the Messstaff . Out went the soldiers and in came a civilian stafffrom Gardener Marchant, a subsidiary of Trust HousesForte . The change-over was effected smoothly, afte rinitial doubts were dispelled . The system is workin gwell, and will continue when we leave in March 1988 an dthe Queen's Royal Irish Hussars take over . To maintaina little discipline on the staff side, the Mess Sergean tMajor's job remains, with SSgt Drummond soon to han dover to SSgt Rowlett .

The first major test will come on 10th September ,when the Colonel-in-Chief visits briefly, followed o n19th September, with the last Summer Party in Catterick .

Space precludes mentioning the moves of all ourpersonalities, the answers to which may be found in th eNominal Roll, but to Geoff and Lorraine Hutchinson —welcome to the Mess!

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WOs and Sergeants' MessThere are those who say that getting into the Mess is fa rharder than getting out . Although there may be an ounceof truth there, it can be argued that the escape committeehas put in a ton of work this year . Geoff Hutchinson ,after years of wearing sensible shoes and reading improve dliterature, handed over the duty cards and became a nofficer . He has been on leave since then, and my spie stell me that he is still adjusting to the world of sued ebrogues and vol au vents! Similarly Trevor Batchelder ;RHQ will miss his annual ritual of completing th ecommissioning form . At least his cavalry twill trouserswill come in useful at last .

Even Alistair Beveridge has decided to throw in his lo twith the officers . No doubt he was becoming tired o ftrying to explain the theory of Inter-Spatial Relationshipsvis-a-vis the price of a drink and a track-suit that doesn' thave pockets . May I digress? Above the Mess bar ther eis a bell . It is rung on occasions of national rejoicing an dto mark those events which cause a feeling of jo ythroughout the Kingdom . Those who, through misplacedzeal, ring the bell with no just cause are invited—nay ,persuaded—to slake the thirst of the assembled throng .Poor, naive Beveridge (no wonder he is being commis-sioned) did so on a recent Mess evening . It is with tear sof joy that I report that this indiscretion, calculated a t£10-a-ding, depleted his reserves by some £45 !

Those more sober souls who are taking the mor edifficult route out of the Mess include Harry Best, BrianDuffy, Frank Smith, Ginge Mayall and George Gleadhill .I think that the least said about those characters, th ebetter my solicitor will be able to conduct my defence .Suffice it to say that, when my old Troop Corpora lreached his 40th birthday, I went out and bought a DI Yrocking-chair kit .

On the social front we can include the Cavalry Memoria lParade and the Northern Reunion as Battle Honours .Those with an ear for this kind of thing tell me that th esinging was somewhat below par . Nevertheless, MickTaylor's attempt to change water into wine was partiall ysuccessful ; but he should learn not to take the RSM' sname in vain when liberating vino from Old Comrades .

On a more prosaic note, the Mess celebrated a weddin gfor the first time for some years . Old Bean, disgruntled

W02 Batchelder receives his salver from the RSM at his dining-out

with the vagaries of the Mess washing machine andshocked that living in the room next to Trevor Jones di dnot attract a rent rebate, decided to improve Anglo-Zimbabwean relations . The Court and Social column ofThe Catterick and District Scotch Egg Appreciation SocietyGazette said that any man who enlists Beveridge as bestman deserves all he gets .

On the sporting front, Mess members have held keypositions in all Regimental teams . Naturally, they do notseek—indeed, positively shun—fulsome praise . However ,Trevor Jones deserves the Green Hut Rosette for settin ga new British All-Comers record for the back-spring ,with pike, performed by his tank . A commendabl eeffort—the tax-payer is proud of him !

"Whenever a new RSM takes over, the first thing h eshould do is change the bar ." Thus spoke Ken Davies a this first Mess meeting . For days afterwards, blokes wer eseen peering into cupboards and behind curtains seekin gthe elusive nectar . Already he has made his mark—thenumber of Sergeants with the initials "ED" is silen ttestimony .

Finally, congratulations to all those who were promote dthis year . One day . I'll have sufficient seniority to eat ho tsoup at Mess dinners .

Corporals' MessWell, once again it's time to sit down and try to tabulate th egoings-on of the Corporals' Mess over the last 12 action -packed months. First of all came the Summer Ball in al llts glory . Admittedly, the organiser—Cpl Steve Ellis—was confused on one point as to precisely when th esummer in Catterick occurs . But, after consulting theRegimental seaweed and listening to various old wives 'tales in RHO, he did pick an excellent date . I would als olike to take this chance to thank everyone who helped toset up the place and also tidy up on the day after .

No sooner had the hangovers subsided (well, mos thad anyway), than it was time for our first-ever dinne rnight, the venue being that holy of holies, the Sergeants 'Mess . The Senior Ranks kindly gave their permission fo rour lads to have the run of the place for one night, i norder that we could see how the other half live . I thin kthat most of the members were a little dubious at first, a sthe only cutlery ever used by many until that date ha dbeen a sharpened spoon ; however, after much wine andport had been consumed, people relaxed sufficiently t ohave a very good evening indeed . This also gave th eMess the ideal occasion to say farewell to the CO . who

was due shortly to hand over the Regiment .Then came that never-to-be-forgotten experience, th e

Christmas Draw : the only time in the year when you wil lsee grown men weeping and clutching several doze nuseless draw tickets! Well, I was anyway . Even so, i tmust be said that Cpl Bob McMullen did a very worthyjob in organising everything with a masterful hand . B ynow, the PEC job had been returned to its rightfu lowner, Cpl Steve Plumridge, and he made sure that th eNew Year did not get boring or set in a rut by giving us anon-ending line-up of Cafe Continental Nights, Germa nBier Keller Nights and many other entertaining venues .

January saw PMC Cpl Ken Bradley hand over to someunknown called "Hardbattle"—or something like tha tanyway—who then attempted to keep the momentu mgoing for the next six months .

I know at this stage that it is usual to bid farewell to al lwho have left our sacred walls and the lucky blighterswho have wormed their way in to be welcomed . But, onchecking records, there are just so many of each, that Iwill have to cover it with a blanket "Farewell" an d"Hello", so as not to offend anyone!


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REGIMENTAL AFFILIATION S

The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanr y

Nineteen eighty-six to 1987 has been a year for newHawks and, inevitably, the loss of some very goodfriends . In November, Capt Alastair Wicks handed overas Adjutant to Capt Mike Williams ; SSgt Morris move dfrom PSI at B Squadron in Clifton, Manchester (via th ePirbright Drill Course), to Catterick, to be replaced b ySSgt Little ; SSgt Dukes relinquished the mantle of th eSignals "god" (PSI), also via Pirbright, and went t oBerlin (B Squadron) as SSM, and was replaced by SSg tCollins . November also saw the arrival of the new "tan kteam", with WO1 Hill 2 RTR replacing WO1 Stapele y(now Captain with the Ordnance Corps), shortly followedby Maj Andrew Best 2 RTR, replacing Charles Shaw .

The new team were first put to the test by th eCommanding Officer, Lt Col John Woolley 17/21 L, a tthe end of January, when all vehicle commanders ,JNCOs and officers attended a study weekend to switc htheir mental mettle and stimulate their motor neurones .February brought just enough snow, biting winds and avery enjoyable ski training exercise in Scotland, which ,for the lucky participants, encompassed basic langlauftraining and a downhill refresher course for all levels o fexperience. In March, the 100th Anniversary of the Re dRose Dinner was held at Chorley and, to mark th eoccasion, the Inspector General of the Territorial Army ,Lt Gen Sir John Akehurst, gave the principal speech .

By the end of March, skill-at-arms training was in ful lflow, culminating in Regimental and District skill-at-arms meetings, at which the Regiment again qualifiedfor Bisley. The Ceremonial Guard, which has nowbecome one of the most well-known ambassadors of th eRegiment both inside and outside our District, was againinvited to form the Guard of Honour at the GrandNational Meeting at Aintree .

In May, the Regiment provided a strong uniformedmarching party and officer contingent at the Cavalr yMemorial Parade in Hyde Park . Edward and SandraMelton again excelled themselves with a superb lunc hfor all who attended .

Within a week of the parade, most of the marchingparty were donning quite a different uniform, an dpreparing to embark with the rest of the Regiment' sgladiators for Gibraltar on Exercise Marble Tor . Twoweeks of searing heat, excellent instructors from 3 LIand a lot of good fun for all—not least the hospitality an dadventure training provided by 1 Royal Anglians, theresident battalion . The Regiment left its mark on theRock, and no doubt will forever be remembered for thecanary-yellow T-shirts that became collector's items ,and the Ceremonial Guard in Scarlets and Orderl yOfficers in Blues in temperatures of over 84 degree sFahrenheit!

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JOURNAL OF ThE 14th/20th KING'S HUSSAR S

A memorable Officers' Mess Ball at Hoghton Towe rwas quickly followed by the Regimental weekend exercis eheld on private land in Cheshire . The Ceremonial Guardappeared yet again in June at carnivals, Beating Retrea tceremonies and dinners, only to be up-staged by apersonal appearance by (HSF) Squadron and a composit eRecce Troop, all commanded by Maj Hugh Laing at theRoyal Tournament .

Meanwhile, the real training continued, with escap eand evasion exercises, long-range signals weekends across

the length and breadth of the UK, and a never-endin ground of recruits' courses . We now look forward toAnnual Camp in September—hopefully, along with ou rsudden influx of Officer Cadets, a strong Regimenta lturn-out .

In conclusion, the Regiment has continued to flouris hunder a demanding but varied programme, and we loo kforward to a year equally as interesting and enjoyable .

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6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifle s

"And these boys are my orderlies, Your Majesty ." Maj Gopalbahadur Gurung, MBE, escorts HM The Queen as she reviews 6 GR's Honou rGuard during her visit to Hong Kong in October 1986

On the basis that one picture is worth a hundred words ,your Editor has very wisely and considerately asked formore pictures and less words from us this year . As thepoor individual who finishes up writing these accounts ,this is a suggestion with which I thoroughly approve! Iwill therefore confine myself to letting those of you wh odo not already know that we departed Gallipoli Lines ,Hong Kong, in March and are now part of the greatAirborne machine in Church Crookham. Life is provin ga little more hectic than Hong Kong ("and about tim etoo!" I hear you all say) . At present, virtually the wholeBattalion is deployed either helping to run Bisley o rcarrying out Public Duties at Windsor .

Following block leave in August, we will be away onexercise, virtually until December. Life is certainlyinteresting, however, and perhaps in time could even b edescribed as "fun" .

We hope to see a lot more of you during our timehere—that is if you can be persuaded to forego you rrustic North Yorkshire existence and head down the M lfor a few hours (I am sure that you can) .

I hope that the photographs give you some impressio nof our last months in Hong Kong and our life sincearriving here .

IPB

The Battalion 2ic briefs Members of the House of Commons Defenc eCommittee on illegal immigrants during their visit to Hong Kong i n

December 1986


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"Wach out—the white man's got aids!" The Adjutant, Capt A . P . M .Griffith, is seen hard on the heels of A Squad during the Bullock

Trophy Inter-Platoon Test Exercise held in June 198 7

"I am happy to confirm that you don't have to share the sentry-boxwith this creature tonight ." In July, B (Medicina) Company took ove r

guard duties at Windsor Castle from 2nd Coldstream Guards

A major part of the Battalion's life in Hong Kong—the border . This i sa view of Lowu from Man Kam To—a "show town" built in a n

amazingly short perio d

Soldiers of C (Mogaung) Company seem apparently willing to find some wild pig for their "bhat" during November 1986 . The Company went toNew Zealand to take part in Exercise Kauri Pine

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HMS Amazon

On completion of Sea Training at Portland at the end ofMarch, HMS Amazon sailed for Gibraltar for a week oflive-firing for the benefit of trainee warfare officer sspecialising in gunnery . The calm seas and glorioussunshine were a blissful relief after the rigours of the las tfew weeks, and, while some sailors had their wives andgirl friends out to stay, others went sailing in the Gibralta rarea in a yacht chartered from HMS Rooke .

The ship spent a well-earned Easter break in Palma ,Mallorca . The sun shone and the island proved extremelypopular, combining physical beauty, excellent cuisineand cheap car hire with the more cosmopolitan an dwell-chronicled entertainments of this crowded resort .Everyone enjoyed himself !

The following week, Amazon arrived in Naples and, i ntheshadow of Vesuvius and under the watchful eyes of th etown's exuberant football supporters, NAVOCFORME Dwas born . This was the 34th activation ; under the com-mand of a Turkish Commodore, the force included a nAmerican Charles F Adams Destroyer, USS Richard EByrd, an Italian Lupo Class Frigate, ITS Perseo, and aTurkish Fram Gearing (ex-US), TCG Savastepe . The

five-week activation, of which there are usually two pe ryear, included visits to Cartagena, Palma (again!) an dLa Spezia. The sea-time involved a series of exercisesoften with other NATO units, designed to prove theinter-operability of the four Navies and the desire t oshow commitment to the more vulnerable southern flan kof NATO . There were good opportunities for cross -pollination (often as an eye-opener), and an exchange ofideas and experiences at all levels .

The operational highlight of the activation was Exercis eOpen Gate 87, involving ourselves, STANAVFORLAN Tand a real merchant convoy . This was one of the mos tinteresting aspects of the exercise, being one of the fewoccasions since the last war that NATO ships have ha dthe opportunity to work with the real thing . During arealistic scenario, NAVOCFORMED ventured into th eAtlantic on a couple of occasions in the hunt for "enemy "submarines and surface units, before repairing to Palm aonce again after the war had been won! Here, fortunately ,the locals had had an easy time of it and Amazons lost notime in rediscovering the delights of the island . At seathe following week, the Ship hosted a horse race meeting,


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Cross-pollination with Byrd—light jackstay transfer . The victim keeps a wary look-out for sharks !

during which the betting and adrenalin ran high, and th ehorses fast ; a successful racing programme and som eexcellent side-shows raised cash for Plymouth charities .The final port visit was to La Spezia, in Northern Italy .Here many of the Ship's Company took the opportunit yto sample Italian trains, and visited the historic sights a tPisa and Florence . Others chose to conduct a detailedsurvey of the various spaghetti institutions round about .

Then it was time to make tracks for home . After abrief stop in Gibraltar, Amazon called at Oporto inPortugal . Here the Ship was well entertained by a stron gBritish community, largely involved in the port win etrade, so most of the sailors were able to see somethingof that industry and sample their wares! The visi tcoincided with their annual church fete—just like th eone at home, it poured with rain !

Here we embarked 2Lt Frost for the trip back t oDevonport, and he spent his first forenoon with th eRoyal Navy in a port lodge in downtown Oporto . . . wehope that he has fond memories !

The Bay of Biscay was quiet for once, and Amazonreturned to Devonport in something approachin gMediterranean sunshine and a warm welcome from he rfamilies on 11th June, 1987 . Club Med '87 was over .

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Amazon approaches

replenishment group during Exercise Ope nGate 87


The Cadet SquadronHawk Force—A Squadron Greater Manchester Army Cadet Forc e

The Cadet Squadron photographed at Cambrai Barracks during the visit to the Regiment in Jul y

It has been an exciting year for the Cadets, now aptl yknown as "Hawk Force" by their colleagues . Traininghas been interesting and varied, with weekend campsthroughout the year . Military training has generated anumber of successes in the Army Proficiency Certificat eScheme, particularly at the lower 1 Star and 2 Star levels .Work is continuing to develop these Cadets into 3 Starand 4 Star over the next year .

The Squadron is fortunate in having most of th eclimbing and canoeing instructors in the County, wh oprovide a varied adventure training schedule for theboys, mainly in the summer months. Our instructor shave also been actively assisting the other companies i nthis area .

The highlight of our training for those lucky enough t oattend was the visit of 30 Cadets to the Regiment in May .Thanks to Maj Fairman, Capt Burgess and the instructors ,the boys were well entertained and left Catterick a sdedicated Hawks . Although the driving simulator di dseem to go sick at the sight of 30 Cadets, the armoure dvehicles on the static line remained intact, despite theCadets' built-in aptitude for demolition . The weeken dfinished with an overnight patrol and march and shoot ,with the Cadets cooking their own breakfast in the field .It came as a surprise to many of the Regular instructor sthat, when you issue a 24-hour pack to a Cadet and tel lhim that it is for breakfast, he eats the lot—all threemeals !

A highly-succesful Annual Camp was held in the Isl eof Man, and we were delighted to receive a visit from theCommanding Officer and the Quartermaster, whic hresulted in an aftermath of Hawk fever . When the COasked the boys if there was anything that he could do fo rthe Squadron, one young man replied : "Could you havea word with the RSM? He keeps calling us a Company ,and we are not . We are a Squadron . One of the Sergeantsthis morning shouted `A Company—'shun!', so we al lstood still to teach him a lesson!"

Maj Fairman presents the prize for the Best Individual Effort durin gthe weekend visit to the Regimen t

Our thanks go the the ACF liaison officer, Maj JimHoward, for all the help that he has given us over manyyears . We are delighted that his place is being taken b yCapt Mick Burgess—another old friend from 63 AYTdays .

The Cadet Squadron has seen some changes, with the


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Maj Fairman presents the prize to the winning patro l

return of Maj Martin Newman as Squadron Leader ,leaving the comforts of the PMC's chair in the Officers 'Mess . Maj Bernard Slattery returns to County HQ t oassume other duties . Lt David Quayle has been promotedto Captain, to become second-in-command .

In the past year, our QLR Detachment has split int otwo, and we have formed a new unit—Bolton East —based on the new RA Drill Hall . Very soon we shoul dhave our own Battle Group !

Every encouragement is given to our Cadets joinin gthe Regular Army to think 14th/20th and to join many of

the former Manchester Cadets already serving in theRegiment .

We are hoping to see more of the Regiment before th emove to BAOR, and certainly intend to maintain ourvery close relationship with the Regiment beyond that .

The Cadet Squadron is continually looking for newofficers and adult NCOs to help in consolidating existingunits and in developing new detachments . We would bedelighted to hear from former members of the Regimen tor those about to leave and who are planning to settle inGreater Manchester or Lancashire .

MN

A Coy (Sqn) ACF Adult Instructors "posing" on their tank prior to driving instruction, Catterick, May 1987

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SPORT SECTIONThe D'Arcy Hall Sports Competition

On the move of the Regiment to Catterick, it was decide dthat, for the length of our tour in England, rather thanhold an annual competition, the competition would b esplit into a Winter and Summer League . The SummerLeague for 1986 was won by A Squadron, with DSquadron three points behind, in second place . Despitethe disparity in numbers and average age between th eSquadrons, all the sporting events were keenly conteste dand, for the most part, teams were evenly matched .D'Arcy Hall sports have always been highlighted b yintense inter-Squadron rivalry, and no quarter is aske dor given, especially on the Rugby pitch . Despite th eabsence of B Squadron in Berlin and the division intotwo leagues, the D'Arcy Hall Cup is still highly-prizedand much sought after .

The Winter League for 1986/87 was no exception, andagain the result was only decided after the final event —the cross-country race . The table of results is as follows :

Sqn SAA RugbyCross-Cntry Total Plac eSoccer Hockey

A 3 1 3 2 3 12 3C 1 2 4 1 2 10 4D 2 4 2 4 1 13 2HQ 4 3 1 3 4 15 1The main problem that beset the whole competitio n

was the weather, which forced the hockey to be playedindoors as a six-a-side event . The Skill-at-Arms, becaus eof the shortage of the appropriate weapons, had to beheld on four consecutive days in March, with eac hSquadron having a day on the ranges . The weather waskind to some and positively unfriendly to others, and thi sclearly had an efect on the final result, with someSquadrons feeling hard done by .

The Rugby was played on one day, with the winnersand losers of the opening rounds playing each other ,which meant that each Squadron only played twice . Thedraw was such that the two strongest teams, C and DSquadrons, played first, with D Squadron just having th eedge, and turning out the eventual winners of the event .This enabled HQ Squadron to take second place, havin gbeaten A Squadron initially, before losing to D Squadronin the final . The result may well have been different i fHQ and C Squadron had met in the first round !

The finale to the winter season was the Regimental

The Commanding Officer presents the 1986/87 D'Arcy Hall Winte rLeague Trophy to SSgt Winstanley of HQ Squadro n

cross-country, across five miles of road and moorland .LCpl Higson started as the favourite and was minutesahead of the rest of the field on re-entering the barracks ,with about 300 yards to the finishing-line . Tragically, h ecollapsed with heat exhaustion, and was unable t ocomplete the course, which enabled Capt Beardsall t owin the event . Thankfully, LCpl Higson recovered, wit hthe help of the Medical Centre and copious drafts o fsalt-water . HQ Squadron fielded a strong team, and wo nfairly comfortably, which meant that they won the D'Arc yHall Winter League overall, with D Squadron two point sbehind, in second place . The old and bold had done i tagain !

PoloWith Michael Vickery in charge of polo at Tidworth, i tseemed sensible to base ourselves on Tidworth, but ,after much discussion, it was decided to return t oWindsor, where, fortunately, the club had kindly keptten boxes of ice for us at Flemish Farm . Our aim was towin the Inter-Regimental for the third year in succession ,in England. Although we had lost Jamie Gordon an dNigel Jackson, we had gained Rupert Gordon an dMichael Milne, and they were both despatched t oWindsor on attachment to the Life Guards .

By the end of June, the Woodd/Gordon/Milne strin gof ponies was 14-strong, and Vickery had another threeponies at Tidworth . As a warm-up for the Inter -Regimental, we entered the Gerald Balding as a Hawk steam, and did well to get to the final of the subsidiarySweethills Cup, when we were narrowly beaten . In the

Inter-Regimental tournament, which nine teams ha dentered, our toughest game was in the semi-final agains tthe Life Guards . After a good start in the first chukka ,things started to go badly wrong, and we squeaked hom ethe winners by 6-5 . In the finals, against the Scots DG ,we won comfortably 7-2, with Vickery playing a particu -larly good game .

In the Captains and Subalterns, Milne and Gordonwere supported by Bankes and Bradshaw, neither ofwhom could be described as being in training for polo . Asurprise victory (for both teams) in the first round agains t13/ 18 H and a close win over the RAF in the semi-final ssaw our minus-one goal team on the No . 2 ground a tWindsor in the finals, against the experienced plus-fivegoal team of the Life Guards .

Surprisingly, there was not a lot of money on 14/20 H ,


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Captains and Subalterns' Final, Smith's lawn, August 1987 . A copy-book hack-hander from Miln e

Inter-Regimental Final, Smith's Lawn . July 1987 . Gordon clearing th eball out of danger

Inter-Regimental Final . Milne, somewhat surprised at Compo's turning-circle ; Vickery is in the background

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AThe victorious team at Smith's Lawn after the final of the Inter-Regimental against Scots DG

The same team completed the double by winning the United Services Cup for the third successive year in Germany against OOH two months later


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but, although we lost 9-0, it was a very exciting, opengame, in which Milne and Gordon both played out-standingly well .

As a season, it was a very full one . Both Milne an dGordon played regularly as No. 1 in the Prince of Wales' seight- and 15-goal teams respectively, and acquittedthemselves well . David Woodd and Michael Vickerytook their ponies to Berlin to play as part of the Britis hteam in the tournament organised so beautifully b yJeremy Grey and B Squadron . As is so often the case i nthe game of polo, the team surprised everyone by winningall four matches and the tournament .

With the season over, it is time to plan for next year i nMunster . There is a polo ground nearby and, althoughthe standard is not high, polo is thriving in BAOR . Wewill have a good ready-made team, but our main aim will

be to get the younger officers playing .Our grooms this year have once again done us and th e

ponies proud . LCpl Pearson moved to Tidworth and th eVickerys, and Tpr Roberts returned to Windsor for th epolo season as the old hand. He was joined by TprsRedgrave and Abbotts initially and then Tpr Adamson .LCpl Hyam also spent a month at Windsor, whils tRedgrave was on leave, and was a bit surprised to fin dhimself on the side of the ground with six ponies to ge tready for Woodd . Polo is not much fun in the rain fo ranyone, but for the grooms it doubles the work-load .Sadly it wastes we all know so well - a very wet summer ,but they remained cheerful, willing and co-operativ ethroughout, and the owners and ponies are most gratefu lto them. It is certainly hard work, but it is different, an dwe like to think and hope that they enjoyed it .

RacingSteeplechasing's truest of Corinthians and all-too-rare aRegimental animal—the Army jockey—had a boost t oits ranks, in the form of Colonel Christopher . Winningtwo Grand Military Gold Cups—one in '77, the other in'82-is, indeed, no mean feat .

Last season began with the Colonel coming second i nthe Prince of Wales Cup at the United Services Meetin gat Larkhill, and then attention focused on the bold CaptBeardsall and that well-known gift horse, Astrosyn ,trained in Lambourn by Charlie James . Charlie, son-in -law of the well-remembered Regimental character GingerDeniston, has kept up a tradition of suffering variouswould-be amateur riders in his yard for the spring-tim erebuke .

No problems here over dwelling on successes, as ther ewere few beyond a distant sixth at Cheltenham in a hothandicap . Later we moved from Lambourn to Catterick ,with Astrosyn being cared for by Robynne Watton, Cp lWatton's daughter . Several enterprising point-to-poin ttilts with a hunter chase at Hexham were enjoyed by all .

Catterick has added training hazards, such as double -decker buses and Fusilier BFTs which refuse to stop !

Sandown loomed on our horizon, and both the Colone land Capt Beardsall secured two rides each at the meeting .Colonel Christopher looked certain to beat the eventua lwinner, Burnt Oak, but was an unlucky faller at th efifth-last . Beardsall finished down the field on Dargai ,whilst The Princess Royal made her first steeplechas eappearance in the Grand Military, and went very well —having asked the Colonel for room at the third fence !

The Bedale Point-to-Point saw a huge crowd andmassive Regimental support, with Beardsall snatching asecond and a third from four rides . Needless to say, on ewas a faller, causing a massive exodus of fans to th emomentarily-prostrate Jock .

The season drew to a close with all virtually in on epiece. Next season should see Mr Frost making his debutin the saddle, if he stays off the muffins and lashings o fginger-beer . We have also acquired Care, a gift horsefrom Simon Sainsbury, which, with careful handling ,should be an exciting hunter chase prospect .

Grand Military Gold Cup . The Commanding Officer to the Princess Royal : "I see Beardsall isn't doing his career prospects any good!" Cap tBeardsall, the Colonel-in-Chief and the Commanding Officer take a fence early in the rac e

Reproduced by kind permission of "Today " newspaper

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HuntingThe 1986/87 hunting season illustrated one of the mai nbenefits of a posting to England : unlimited hunting . witha choice between the Bedale, West of Yore and th eZetland, as well as the opportunity to spread furtherafield . Members of the Regiment have hunted with pack sfrom the Scottish Borders (the College Valley and theBorder Hounds), and spread as far south as the Black -more Vale and the Seavington . As a Regiment, we hav espent at least 120 days in pursuit of "the inedible" an dvery often presenting a perfect example of "the indes-cribable" !

The opening meet, so often a crowded and frustratin gday, saw the then Commanding Officer and CaptReynolds rejoining the field by way of several acres o fgrass and inviting hedges, to be greeted by comment sabout the first cavalry charge of the season . Memorablemoments of the hunting months are too numerous t oreport, but some of them cannot be entrusted to th enotably unreliable memory of folk-lore alone . A primeexample is the story of Astrosyn dragging an iron five -bar gate around a field, as Beardsall attempted to untangl ea pair of them ; or the more common sight of Bankes ,face aglow with effort and excitement after one of ou rfaster runs across good Yorkshire grass .

So spiced with danger and near-disaster was the seasonthat it is remarkable that we all survived intact . Baxter ,while attempting to go well with the Zetland, took aslippery corner too fast, when horse and rider both wen tcrashing to the ground . Having picked both of them offthe road and vaguely checked all six legs, our ma nclimbed back aboard his grey and set off again, to th eastonishment of the crowd, who expected at least on ebroken bone !

Following the meet outside the Mess, the Bedal ehounds moved off to draw the Hill Top covert and soo nfound, despite some considerable confusion . In the rus hto get away, the Field found themselves back-trackin gdown the side of Hill Top, and the Galloping Majo rSinger found himself to the fore . Unfortunately, thenormally-reliable Bertie took an instant dislike to a se tof rails with a ditch before . He stopped suddenly, an dturned to his left along the ditch . So close behind th eMajor was a certain careless Captain that he wa spresented with the hunting equivalent of a side-on move rat point-blank range, approaching at extremely hig hspeed! Austen (for it was he) literally rose to the occasio nand leapt the ditch, the rails, the unhappy Singer an dBertie in an enormous stride . Later in the season ,Reynolds came unstuck while trying to repeat such antic swith the Border Hounds, and his hireling came down o nhis leg, forcing him to prolong his stay in that region ,while he was gently nursed back to health !

Our last brush with disaster was of a very differen tnature . Having failed to entice four recalcitrant nag sinto the box for a meet at Constable Burton, we panicked .The new Commanding Officer was out for the first time

Rugby

Capt Reynolds, Cpl Naylor and Robyn Walton at the Catterick Meet

and would not have been impressed to see his officer slate . In the ensuing race from Catterick to the meet, w emust have broken several records and the odd spee dlimit—but not in the lorry . We hacked on and arrivedwith minutes to spare .

These are but a few of the more exciting moments ofthe season . Several names are mentioned, but man ymore were seen out—Garbutt, Frost, Milne, Gossag eand quite a few others all managed some sport . With theend of the hunting came the start of Team Chase an dHunter Trial mania . Two Prices, one Bankes and aReynolds started the Theakston Team Chase, and al lbar Reynolds finished it! The Bedale and HurworthChases saw yet more thrills (and a few spills), and we ha dentries in the Catterick and West of Yore Hunter Trials .

All this mad activity would not have been possibl ewithout the supreme efforts of the Stables Staff—the yplaited (and Robyn Watton went on and on plaiting) ,groomed, washed, fed and cared for our hunters through -out a long and hard season . Cpl Naylor ran the yard fo rthe majority of the season, assisted by LCpls Pearso nand Cotton (who took over when Cpl Naylor left th eRegiment), with Tprs Abbotts, Bell and Redgrave .Robyn Watton had an interesting winter : when notwearing a pair of black eyes earned on (or off, in fact )Astrosyn, she was jumping car bonnets belonging t oanyone imprudent enough to park in her way! Quite afew of the Stables Staff had a day out at some stage ,either cubbing or hunting, or both . To them the Officersowe thanks for their hard work and perseverance through -out a long winter .

This was a season which was memorable in more way sthan one ; not only did we see the first Rugby Unio nWorld Cup, but also—and much more significantly—th efirst trophy to come to the Hawks RUFC for quite awhile !

However, the early days had us struggling to find ateam and on occasion relying on recruits or POs, whichwas a great pity . We set our sights on doing well in th eArmy Cup, and so looked for good teams to play against

to practise our skills and test our fitness . Along cameJunior Infantry Battalion Ouston . They gave us the run -around for most of the game, but greater experienc epulled us through to a good win of 9-4, with our point sbeing scored by "Zig-zag" Paterson and Tom Gratton .This was a very good game, which showed our weak-nesses, but also, due to injury, saw the captaincy of th eteam change hands more times than the ball !

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surprise! surprise!—we drew 8 Sigs, one of the stronges tteams in the competition . Not only did we have problemswith training for the game, but on the day it very nearlydid not start . This was due to a new rule concernin gstuds. Of course, 8 Sigs knew the rule, but most of ou rteam now had illegal studs . The referee (an RSM) pointe dthis out to us and said : "Unless you change your studs ,the game is off!" . He then played his trump card . He jus thappened to have seven sets of the new studs which h ewould generously part with for a few shekels (quite afew!) . After begrudgingly paying up, the game started .It is funny but, even with the new studs, we lost . Amazing !No two ways about it, the better-drilled and fitter teamwon on the day, but 110 per cent effort was given by th eRACTR team during the whole game .

Our next game took us to 38 Engineer Regiment ,whose tactics were : (1) get the ball ; (2) give the ball t othe dark-skinned gent on the wing (who would havebeen better suited at White City) ; (3) score a try! Goodtactics, lads! It worked well (I'm sorry to say!) .

It was the Harrogate Seven-a-Side Competition whic hbrought us our trophy . Transport turned up, ration sturned up, and even enough players turned up! A veryapprehensive RACTR team went to Harrogate, expectin gto get a good lesson in "Sevens" . And we did . Both Aand B teams were beaten by 8 Sigs . From here, we se tour sights on the plate, with the B team becoming valuedsupporters, enthusiastically pushing the A team fro mthe side-line . The A team grew in confidence and under -standing of the game and on all occasions took the gam eto and through the opposition . After the five KO games,

we arrived at the final . By this stage, the legs were tiredand the bodies battered and bruised . But enough enthu -siasm and determination was aroused to get an early tr yand conversion. We soaked up quite a bit of pressur efrom 21 Ord before they scored their only points . Eddie"The Juggler" Walters missed the opportunity to mak eit 10-4, by dropping the ball on the line (and so did a fe wothers) . But it was an unconverted try by Mr "I ' veScored Again" Baxter who put us out of reach at 10-4 .

A summary of our results overall is as follows :

Played

Won

Lost

For

Agains t18

7

11

223

242

Lastly, a few memorable happenings during theseason :

27th August—Won our first game 24—0 agains tDKMH .

24th September—Collected all subs !1st October—Sale of studs by ref (who, we think ,

had shares in Adidas) .11th November—No beer available . Bulldog appre-

hends 48 cans from Officers' Mess at 55 pence acan .

28th January 1987—Tom Gratton pays subs .18th March—Eddie Walters scores? To be confirmed .18th March—Willy "I'm Too Old For This " Wype r

and Bulldog "G'day Blue" Drummond come ou tof retirement (again) .

25th March—Mac "I'm Bored On The Wing "McDonald scores—also to be confirmed .

With the cup won at the Harrogate Seven sStanding : Tpr Birch, 2Lt Hancock, Lt Searight, LCpI McCardle . LCpI Blundell, Tpr Billington, Lt Baxter . Sgt Rae, W02 Wype

r Kneeling: LCpl MacDonald, Cpl Walters, Cpl Patterson, SSgt Drummond, Cpl Williams, LCpI Richardson, Sgt Webb

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FootballThe 1986/87 season has been one of ups and downs fo rthe Hawks. The team started well in the Hambleto nSix-a-Side Competition at Northallerton, coming thir dout of the 36 teams who took part . Yet again, the teamgained promotion in the Sunday League—this seaso nfrom the Third to the Second Division . The Hawks werethe third-placed team, missing a runners-up medal b yonly three goals . LCpI Graham picked up the "Player o fthe Season" and top goal-scorer awards in the League .

The Cavalry Cup has, for another season, escaped ou rgrasp . After holding the Scots Dragoon Guards to agoal-less draw at Catterick, we went down 2–1 in thereplay at Tidworth, Cpl Sandie Mackie (Link instr )scoring one of the goals for his Regiment . The Scot sDragoon Guards went on to win the overall competition .

The season ended with the final of the NE Distric tLeague Cup, played on the stadium pitch against 2 InfDiv . After an early goal by Cpl Bryan Lythgoe . 2 Inf Div

came back and scored the winning goal minute s fromtime .

We welcome Capt White, our EME, as manager o fthe side, and wish him luck . Tpr Paul Keller must begiven a special mention, as he turned up for nearly everygame of the season, and only got his boots on twice !

Finally, if you think you are a good plumber, le tyourself be known to the football manager, as we needsomeone to patch up our leaky defence .

Results

Goal sP

W

D

L

F

A47

26

9

12

151

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Player of the Season : LCpI Graha mTop Scorer : LCpI Graha mSupporter of the Season : Mrs Jacquie Duxbury

HockeyAlthough this has been a mixed season in terms of results ,a lot of enjoyment has been had by a small but enthusiasti cteam . With no Cavalry Cup organised, the North Eas tDistrict League and Cup provided the main competitio nthis year .

After losing narrowly to St John's College, York, in afriendly, the Regiment then proceeded to beat 16 FieldRegiment, Royal Artillery, 3–2 . The defence in particula rhad a good day, with Sgt Stobbard and Cpl Wood workin gvery aggressively and LCpI Chalke performing miracle sin goal . A 2–2 draw against 11 Signal Regiment, with Sg tHarrison scoring a fine individual goal and Bdsm Walker

adding another, was followed by a close defeat in th eFirst Round of the NE District Cup by a strong 38 Eng rRegt team 2–1 . Then they beat us 1-k) in the League aweek later .

After a long break due to bad weather in January, ascratch team suffered defeat 6–2 at the hands of 8 SignalRegiment in a friendly, but gained revenge with a fine2–1 win against the same team, with LCpl Smith an dLCpl Gaskell combining to score the goals . With thefinal two games cancelled due to bad weather, our fina lposition in the NE District League was a respectabl efourth out of eight teams .

SwimmingHad someone mentioned a Regimental swimming tea mlast year, people would have laughed . This year, however ,it was a different matter . Capt Wicks decided to enter ateam for the North East District Championships . Wehad problems from the start though : the CatterickGarrison pool was closed for repair, which meant tha tthe team had to do their training in the local Richmon dpool . Luckily, the Regiment had a block booking onTuesday nights for recruits, which enabled us to do som etraining, although not as much as we would have liked .

The team was to be selected after the D'Arcy Hal lCompetition . However, after a double-booking at theRichmond pool, the competition had to take place afte rthe NE District Championships, which were held inHarrogate . Much to our astonishment, we easily wo nthe Championships, qualifying us for the Zone B

Championships - a geographical elimination round .Just before the Zone B Championships, the D'Arc y

Hall Competition was held . This again took place in th eRichmond pool, and was easily won by A Squadron ,followed by C, D and HQ Squadrons respectively .

The Zone B Championships were held in Ripon and ,not knowing what the competition against us would be ,we entered the championships with some trepidation ,with only the first two teams going forward to the Arm yChampionships . In the end, the team came second to th eDuke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment by one point .This was the first time that the Regiment had qualifie dfor the Army Championships .

The Army Championships took place on 22nd July

Maj Dean presents LCpI Bingham with his prize for the 50-metr eFreestyle in the 1986 D'Arcy Hall Competitio n

1987, at the Sandhurst pool . The team knew that the ywere up against some tough opposition when they sa wthe other teams warming-up, let alone racing! We cam ea very creditable fifth, beating DERR by four point s(sweet revenge!) .

Thanks must go to QMSI Garioch for coaching theteam, and to Cpls Williams and Beaver, who joined u sfrom Berlin (on temporary posting!) .


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At RMA Sandhurst for the UKLF ChampionshipsBack : Tpr McKenzie, LCpI M . Beaver, LCpI Williams, WO2 Cornish, LCpI Springal l

Front: LCpl Pollitt, Cpl Price, Tpr Schofield, W02 Garioch, SSgt Murphy, Sgt Rae, Capt Wick s

Cpl Price receives the 1986 D'Arcy Hall Swimming Cup for A Squadro nfrom Maj Dean Breast-stroke Relay—LCpI Gaskell (2) about to spring into action


Leather on WillowThis season has not provided many opportunities for th ecrowds to flock to the ground and bask in the sunshine ,while reminiscing about feats of brilliance in days goneby, and listening to the dulcet tones of leather on willo wand the occasional ripple of applause . Rather it has bee nan opportunity for the weather-beaten to gather th eextra pullover and take to the field as a passable impressio nof a Michelin Man protecting himself from the unfor-giving elements .

Sgt Maj Batchelder did some sterling pre-season work ,entering the Regiment for two competitions, but fade dinto the background once play began . He made one briefappearance early in the season as an umpire . Unfortu-nately he could not reappear, as he was finalising th edetails of his transfer to the Royal Army Pay Corps (th eCommanding Officer was given out lbw!) .

The nucleus of the team remained fairly constant ,with Cpl Cooper and LCpls Graham and Workma ndoing the majority of the bowling, whilst Capt Polley, L tBaxter and Sgt Lythgoe boosted the middle-order batting ,and Lt Col Price and Cpl Wheeler shared the wicket-keeping and opened the batting . Lower down the battingorder were W02 Smith (RAPC) and Sgt Harrison, wh onot only added depth to the batting, but also proved t obe highly effective first- or second-change bowlers . Theseare the names which feature on a more regular basis i nthe scorebook ; however, because of the nature of thejob in Catterick, there has not been an occasion thi sseason when the selectors have not been franticall yrunning round the Regiment one hour before the gamewas due to start .

The Regiment has competed in the North YorkshireService Cricket League, where our performance ca nonly be described as "inconsistent" . There have bee nsome memorable batting collapses during the season ,thereby producing some disappointing results, when weshould have been celebrating . Unfortunately, we did not

head the table at the end of the season .The second competition was the Buchanan Cup, whic h

is a knock-out competition for clubs in the Richmon dlocality . The rules of the competition stated that matchesshould start at 6 .30 pm, which meant that one teambatted in daylight and the other in darkness . We won thetoss in the first match, and consequently were victorious .In the second match, the toss went against us and th eresult was disappointing .

The D'Arcy Hall Competition appeared to produc eteams at opposite ends of the talent spectrum this year .The majority of the Regiment's cricketers seemed to bein HQ or C Squadrons . As usual, the closet cricketersappeared in public and raised the eyebrows of theRegimental selectors on numerous occasions . The fina lmatch of the competition was between HQ and CSquadrons, and would decide the overall winners . Cp lO'Connor pulled off a catch, which raised the comment :"If he had played like that, we would have won th eCavalry Cup Football" . The hasty departure of th eCommanding Officer was too great a blow for H QSquadron morale, and C Squadron won with relativ eease .

The final paragraph is set aside for thanks and congratu -lations in most articles, and cricket is no different . First ,many congratulations go to LCpI Graham, on bein gawarded Regimental colours for some outstanding all -round performances throughout the season . Secondly ,many thanks must go to the individual who has producedthe most consistent performance from start to finish .There have only been two occasions this season whe nMrs Wood has been unable to score, and the standard inher absence almost resulted in her resignation both times .For the sake of the scorebook, it is now almost certainthat the Chief Clerk will never be posted away from th eRegiment again !

D'Arcy Hall Inter-Squadron Athletics Meetin gThe Athletics Meeting was held in the Garrison Athletic sStadium on 29th July . The weather looked set to be askind as it is ever prepared to be within the Catteric kcyclonic area . All Squadrons had carefully picked ,trained and honed their athletes to the peak of fitness—with perhaps the exception of some members of DSquadron . With more weight and experience represente din his team than the other Squadrons put together, SS MJohn Cornish was overheard earnestly appealing to th eorganisers to be allowed to enter some of the Junio rLeaders currently undergoing a short period of trainingin his Squadron . He was clearly distraught by the answe rhe was given !

With the very full programme of events to get throug hwith the minimum of fuss, QMSI Rick Garioch and hi sassistants swung into action without delay, with Sgt StefRodowicz making the announcements over the publi caddress system . The 100 Metres was the first event, an dwas well won by Cpl Patterson 9/12 L, representing DSquadron in 11 .2 seconds . Mr Baxter followed with afast and stylish 200 Metres win in 24 .44 seconds . Hi ssupporters watched with bated breath lest the long "Ou tof Africa" shorts that he was wearing should begin to fal land slow his progress . Capt Polley, not to be outdone, 4 x 400 Relay . Tpr Jones (A Squardron) hands over to Tpr Ward


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Mr Baxter on his way to a new Regimental record in the pole vault

But Tor Lythgoe is not so luck y

GARRISON AT HLETIC TR A CK

Squee-e-e-ze! Mr Dingley gets a grip of the C Squadron team in the Tug-o'-War

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All set for the off in the 200 Metres—LCpI McCardle, COH Gratton, Tpr Blundell and Mr Skinner

proceeded to show everyone how seriously he had takenhis fitness training, by winning the 3,000 Metre Steeple -chase most convincingly . For those readers who are no taware of it, he had returned from his two-week honey -moon in Corsica only hours previously !

Two Regimental records were broken during th eafternoon . In the Hammer event, Cpl "Dusty" Binns ,discovering reserves of strength that surprised even him ,threw a massive 38 .98 metres, breaking the previou srecord by 5 .68 metres . Having recovered from his earlie rrun, Mr Baxter took up his pole and vaulted into th erecord books, with a height of 3 .10 metres, thus raisin gthe record by a devastating 20 centimetres .

D Squadron, relying heavily on the experience of its"big boys", pulled itself to victory in the Tug-to'-War ,after a spirited final encounter put in by a lighter CSquadron team . This clearly proved the justificatio nrequired for the D Squadron selectors, and W02 Joh nCornish could be seen looking more like the cat that hadbeen at the cream! Many individual performances

demonstrated the spirit and competitiveness that togethe rmade for an intriguing afternoon. By the time the twoRelay events were held at the end of the meeting, ASquadron were just ahead of C Squadron by two points .Both the 4 x 100 Metre and 4 x 400 Metre Relays wer ewon by inspired C Squadron teams, with all runner sputting everything into it . This effort was enough for CSquadron to run out the eventual winner, six point sahead of A Squadron . Third place went to HQ Squadron ,and fourth place to D Squadron .

The Cup was presented by Mrs Fiona Dean to th eteam's captain, Mr Dingley . It is of interest to note tha tthis cup was originally presented to the 20th HussarsSergeants' Mess in July 1887, by Lt Col Blake . Thisyear's Athletics Meeting thus marked the cup's centenar y—correct even to the exact month .

The afternoon was a great success, due entirely to th ehard work put in by the organisers and the spirit in whic hthe athletes competed . The Catterick weather system, a salways, had the last word. No sooner had the last eventbeen decided than the heavens opened, thus remindingall of us never to take our local cyclone for granted .

Cross Country

One or two minor problems beset the team during theseason, the biggest being the unavailability of people t orun . Regardless though, certain stalwarts kept thing sgoing to enable us to achieve satsifactory results overall .Our major involvement was in the Fasttrax North Eas tServices Cross Country League . There were eight racesfrom late September through to March, though w eentered only five of them from November onwards . Forthe first of our events at 8 Signal Regiment on 5t hNovember 1986, our best results came from LCpI Higson ,of the Band, who achieved 27th place . and LCpl Miller,

40th . Undeterred, they fought on to achieve 20th and35th places respectively two weeks later at Guiseley ,near Leeds .

There then occurred a long gap until the New Year ,due mainly to appalling weather conditions and th edifficulty of running in snow-shoes . By 21st January1987, LCpI Higson had got the hang of it, and pulled i n17th place at 2 Infantry Signals York, though Cpl Ashto nstill needed practice, coming 92nd . Our best two occasionsfor a full team were on 4th March 1987, at RAF Catterick ,and on 25th March 1987, at Royal Signals Harrogate,


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Individual Winners : Capt Beardsall receives his prize as winner of th eD'Arcy Hall Cross-Country . . .

The strain begins to sho w

where our team positions were fifth and eighth respect-ively . Considering the overall standard in North Eas tDistrict, this was a significant achievement .

The one occasion when the Regiment was assured o fpulling together full teams was on 26th April 1987, forthe D'Arcy Hall Cross Country race. HQ Squadron wo nfor the second year running, with W02 Batchelde rwinning the Warrant Officers and Sergeants' Mess Cup .Capt Beardsall achieved overall first place, winning amedal which he was told that he could exchange fo rpuppy food in lieu of any prize money—times are hard !

LCpI Higson kept the Regimental name involved withall civilian events that took place during the season . Heran in more than 13 competitions, including the LondonMarathon, where he finished in an excellent time of 2hours 49 minutes 32 seconds . Overall, it was "well don e"to all those who took part this year, and everyone i slooking forward to achieving even better results for th eforthcoming season, which is due to begin in September .

. . . and SSM Batchelder as winner of the WOs' and Sergeants' Mess Cup

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FishingThe 1987–88 fishing season started off with severa lfarewells to past members of the RACTR fishing squad .Members returning to their respective units were Sgt sPat Astin, Reg Daniels, Glen Nuttall and Cpl Pau lWilliams. However, it was with great expectations tha twe all looked forward to the new season . Being i nYorkshire, the season started 14 days earlier than th erest of the country . Various trips had been organised ,including one to Scotland, where it can be noted that Sg tMick Taylor was seen on Loch Mabin hurling around asmall rainbow trout that had been dead for several days ,trying to convince the pike in the loch that it was fres hbait! The locals could not believe it, and the rest of u signored him, telling everyone that he was from a ninfantry unit based down south .

We started the year off by entering the Army Associa-tion Group 5 Team Competition, of which we wer ealready the reigning champions . The teams were mad eup of five anglers, and the best four results from the fiv ecounted towards the team points . We entered two team sand, at the time of writing these notes, the RACTR teamhave once again won the NEDIST Group 5 AA ACompetition for the third year running . The RACTR Bteam came fourth, which is very creditable, considerin g

that there are new anglers in the squad .NEDIST Individual Placings : 2nd—Sgt Rodowicz ;

3rd—Mr Taylor ; 7th—Mr Rabjohn ; 9th—Sgt Fogg ;10th—Sgt Nuttall ; 12th—Cpl Grimshaw ; 15th—Cp lLaurie ; 17th—SSgt Scott .

River Champion 1987–88: Sgt Fogg, RACTR A Team .Canal Champion 1987–88: Mr Rabjohn, RACTR A

Team .In all, eight of our anglers were selected to represen t

NEDIST in the UKLF Championships, with a furtherfive of our anglers selected as reserves . This is a goodomen for the future, with the possibility of anglers fro mthe Regiment being selected to represent the Army .

Golf

Sgt Fogg on the river ban k

The following received Regimental Colours for fishing :Sgt Fogg, Sgt Rodowicz, Cpl Grimshaw, Mr Rabjohn .

For the future, it is back to Germany and its larg eshoals of bream—and more honours .

All the team members would like to thank everyone atthe RACTR Catterick—in particular, Capt Burgess—fo rtheir support . Tight lines to all !

Compared with the last two years, in which we were ver ysuccessful in picking up many NE District trophies, thisyear seems to have been an uphill struggle . This has bee nmainly due to the fact that, over the past year, many o fthe low-handicap golfers have either been posted orretired to play the "big golf course in the sky" .

Having said that, the Regimental Society has seenmany newcomers join its monthly "thrash" around th egorse and rough of Catterick Golf Club. These days hav ebeen well-supported by all golfers of varying standards .It is alleged to be a casual and social occasion, but ther eis always an atmosphere of tense competition, especiall ywhen certain members have a wayward shot into th etrees or ditches. You can always identify those golferswho are henpecked or paying a mortgage, because theyare forever looking for their balls !

We have managed to ensure that the Hawks are alway srepresented in the NEDIST and Garrison competitions .The teams have mainly consisted of the followin gpersonalities over the whole season :

Capt Burgess, 14/20 H

Cpl Goldie, REMECapt Keane, Civil Admin Sgt Kelly, 2 RTRSSgt Parkinson, 14/20 H Cpl Cooper, 14/20 HSgt Entwhistle, 14/20 H

CpIMcKinland,14/20 HCapt Sowerby, RAOC

W01 Davies, 14/20 HSgt Craddock, 14/20 H

Sgt Zelinka, QDGCpl Wheeler, 14/20 H

Maj Gregory, REME

The most notable result was when the team finishe dsixth in the NE District Spring Meeting held at York .The team consisted of Capt Keane, SSgt Parkinson andSgt Zelinka . Capt Burgess could not qualify for theteam, as he is "too much of a rabbit", we are told . SSg tDave Parkinson once again proved what a good golfe rhe really is, by shooting a gross 79 net 69 at the N E

The Hawk bandits from Catterick . Left to right: SSgt Lynch, Sg tEntwistle . CpI Wheeler, SSgt Parkinson . Capt Keane . Capt Burgess ,

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District Summer Meeting at Catterick, coming secon dout of over 100 entrants . At the same meeting, MajGregory and Capt Burgess shot two "two-balls " duringthe high handicap Stableford in the afternoon, winning a"new set of balls" .

As these are the last Golf Notes for Catterick beforewe move to Munster, we would like to thank all member sof our Society who have helped to organise, fund andeven play for us over the past three seasons . We are mostgrateful to Maurice for paying our green fees and to Joh nfor ensuring that we always have cards with the tee -timings on league days . Last but not least, to Paul andBob, who "top up" the team from time to time, and that

is not always at the 19th hole! Without all members ofthe RACTR, no matter what badge, we could not hav eenjoyed our golf as much as we have here in Catterickwithout your support . From all Hawks—thanks! And wewill take you on in Dortmund once we arrive .

For those who have not previously been mentioned ,thanks for coming on the fun days, and "swing low, eye sdown and bend your knees for a hole in one " !

Ode fora Golfe rWhat does it avail a ma nIf he owns the whole world ,But three-puts the 18th green?

WindsurfingSince the last Hawk notes on windsurfing, certai nmembers of the Regiment have been quite busy, despitethe cold weather !

October 1986 saw the District team, consisting o fteam captain Trumpet Major Hamilton (14th/20th), SSg tShaughnessy (REME) and SSgt Povey (ACC York) ,taking second place in the Inter-District Team Cham-pionships at Reading . November brought the local sailingclub championships at Thornton Steward, and Trumpe tMajor Hamilton took individual first . Sgt McKindlan dwon the Commodore's Cup for Most Improved Sailor o fthe Year . The Army Team Trials were held in March —with snow still on the ground - and Trumpet Majo rHamilton was selected for a second year to represent the

Army at all national events . Due to his efforts at th etrials, he was chosen to be part of the Combined ServicesTeam to go to Gibraltar, where he came fourth overall .

Capt Wicks had to brave the elements at Seaton Care wat the end of March, to prepare for his instructor' scourse, which was due to start in April . Unfortunately ,just one week before his course, he injured his shoulderand had to withdraw from the course . Capt Milverto nwent out for one afternoon but, after a gruelling sixmonths in Zimbabwe, his blood had become too thin ,and he went home the same colour as his car—blue !

The rest of the summer saw the Trumpet Majorachieving notable personal success and flying the flag fo rthe Hawks at the highest level of the sport . He wasplaced second overall in the Army Championships a t

Flying the flag T/M Hamilton and his sponsors

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Browndown in June; tenth in the Joint Services Competi-tion ; and he has represented both the Army an dCombined Services in other competitions . He would lik eto take this opportunity to thank both the Regiment andhis sponsors for their co-operation and support over theyear .

Despite the Yorkshire cold, windsurfing flourishes i nthe Regiment and recently three new boards have been

purchased. SSgt Parkinson has not been able to leavethem alone, already qualifying as a Level One windsurfer ,whilst LCpl Adesile has proved to be a real dark horse ,spending the whole day on the water in the roughest o fconditions. How he manages to stay dry in a Force Fou rremains a mystery to the rest of us! We look forward toour return to Germany, where the facilities on the Balticwill enable us to continue our enjoyment of this excitin gsport .

Game ShootingThe 1986/87 season was a great success, with a recordbag on the Catterick grouse moor, and plenty of wil dpheasants in the coverts . Several officers shot their firstgrouse, and some of the Mess dogs actually managed th eoccasional retrieve . Regular guns out were the Colonel ,Majs Dean, Garbutt and Lang, Capts Nutsford an dSchofield and Lts Baxter, Morgan and Goldie . Yorkshirewas exceedingly generous, and memorable days were

had by some officers on the well-known shoots of th eEarl of Swinton, the Marquis of Zetland and Lor dMiddleton. Shooting etiquette improved and we learne dfrom Maj Dean that you do not shoot British grouse withforeign cartridges—and certainly not with foreign guns !Armed with Purdeys and Eley, even more officers areplanning to shoot this season .

SkiingDOWNHILL

"Right, boys! It ' s snowing . . . after this, in for a coffee!" 2Lt Denning, 2Lt Goldie, Lt Gossage, LCpl Fisher, CpI Hebblethwaite, Lt Milne, TprGarne r

The Team : Lt A . A. Gossage2Lt J . K. Goldie2Lt J . C . V . Dennin gCpl G . Hebblethwait eLCpl J . FisherTpr A . J . Garner

As the vehicles sped towards the high Alps via th emonotonous German autobahns (on separate days—bu tthat is another story), many a tale was told of last year' sexploits ; of jumps that big, or of slaloming through anovice ski-school class . Of course, the main problem ofrealising the pre-season dreams is that, in the first week


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in December, there is very little snow, and anythingmore than a straight run from top to bottom will sen dyou flying down a crevasse or on to a rocky path .

However, within the first week, we had sorted out th eright groups for everyone, and the serious business o ftraining got under way. Since this was the third yea rtraining in Verbier, the instructors from the Swiss sk ischool had accepted the fact that the British Army race dwhatever their experience or ability . Generally, th einstruction received was very beneficial, especially fo rTpr Garner! He had only learned to ski six month sbefore, but it was proof to all that lack of experience an dtechnique was only a small problem when negotiatin gthe poles! His aggression and determination got him tothe finish every time, and this paid many dividends in theAxams Ski Meeting later on, where he achieved abrilliant 45th out of 86 in the Downhill .

We had paid for the instructors for six hours a day ,with classes starting at 0830 hrs, and we alternate dbetween technique and stamina training . In techniquetraining, we would aim to go down a course ten times inrapid succession, which was all very well when lift queue swere short . The instructor would stand at the botto mand debrief after each run . However, in stamina training ,the aim was to get as many miles under the skis as quickl yas possible, and the instructors soon learned that soldier swill follow wherever they choose to go !

After the day's instruction, the team would take off t odo some fun skiing, making use of the video camera . MrDenning quickly became recognised as the high-flier ,putting in more "air time" than most . Then followed th eevening training schedule . The RAC scheme in Verbie ris developing a certain reputation with the chalet holida ycompanies, to such a degree that one statement made i nan unnamed company's interview pro forma to potentia lchalet girls is : "You will break your contract if you fall i nlove with someone in the Army and then run off wit hhim when they move to Austria . Is that clear?" .

The RAC Ski Club Meeting was concluded with th eCavalry Cup Competition . This comprised two races in

each discipline, Slalom and Giant Slalom, and for th efirst time a Super Giant Slalom (Mini Downhill) wa sheld . The meeting was dominated by 15/ 19 H, 4/7 DGand SCOTS DG; however, some good individual resultswere achieved by our skiers . On arriving in Axams forthe 1 Armd Div Ski Meeting, we settled down to the jo bof retaining the minor units trophy which we won las tyear . Fortunately, the snow was excellent here as well ,with three metres falling the day before we arrived . Themeeting was as well organised as ever, and included acomputerised seeding system, as used in the World Cu pseries .

Although the snow was good, the weather was bitterl ycold, with temperatures going down to minus 27 degree sCelsius. Mr Goldie suffered an excruciating case o ffrostbite on his foot, along with many other competitors,

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Meanwhile, Capt O'Neill Donnellon wanted to prove that his lon gholidays in St Moritz were entirely justifie d

one of whom nearly lost all the toes on both feet !In the team Giant Slalom, we produced steady results .

finishing sixth out of 18 teams, widening the gap betwee nus and the nearest team in the Minor Units contest . I nthe Team Slalom, the results were better, and we finished

fourth, much assisted by Mr Golide's result of eighth ou tof 87 runners . Confidently, we started the compulsor ythree-day programme for the Downhill, and also enter-tained the crowds while completing the 15-kilometr eLanglauf race over the valley in Seefeld .

The Downhill course was built tight for the first fiv egates, and then opened out for the remaining 23, andcovered a distance of 2 .2 kilometres straight down th emountain . The morning of the race dawned bright an dclear as we trekked up to the start . With the knowledg ethat there had been two injuries the day before, on thenon-stop run (with one being casevac'd by helicopter t oInnsbruck), Mr Denning went flying down the course t ofinish 18th, at an average speed of 67 mph (faster tha nthe World Cup Men's Downhill at Crans Montana thre eweeks later!) . He was followed closely by Mr Goldie a t22nd, and Tpr Garner at 45th. The remainder were alittle more unfortunate, finishing 61st, 63rd and 64th ,after one or two accidents on the way down . However ,our results were good enough to carry us through t oretain the trophy, much to the delight of all the team .

Cpl Hebblethwaite and LCpl Fisher produced th esteady, consistent results we needed to reinforce ou rposition, enabling us to obtain the overall placing of fift hout of 18 teams . Next year we hope to see them at th eArmy Meeting in Fulmes as well .

LANGLAUF

After least season's successes at the UKLF Champion -ships in Scotland, the Regiment sent the team—unde rMr Searight—to Bavaria, to compete with BAOR . Theteam consisted of : Mr Searight, the great Norwegiantrekker ; Mr Morgan, a complete novice ; Cpl Ewen, o fSnow Queen experience, and the man who kept theteam on the road by regularly inverting himself insid ethe front of the Rover, with his legs waving in the air ; Cp lWild, another novice Langlaufer and the team's culinaryexpert; and Tprs Fogg and Edwards, the veterans o fGlenshee, who entertained the local Bavarian talen twith tales of racing glory, in sign-language .

Ruhpolding, our training location, greeted us wit hbrilliant sunshine and green grass . In fact, it was not unti ldays before the first races that Mr Searight was able toset off on skis with the "A Team" of experienced skiers ,while Mr Morgan and Cpl Wild puzzled over how th ebindings worked .

The other RAC teams arrived, and it was not unti lthen that we realised our problems . The teams with fou rweeks' good training on snow were able to out-class us i nfitness, technique and ski preparation . As a result, th eraces gave a sensation rather similar to that of running i na cross-country competition wearing gum-boots !

We set off to Austria with the team down to four ,having lost Cpl Wild to injury and Mr Searight t oShhhh . . . a course . At the Divisional meeting, we wer ethe best of the novice teams, but were still not in aposition to worry those who were more experience dthan ourselves. Shooting was our forte, the fruit ofconsiderable practice in December, under the instructio nof Cpl Ewen . This saved us several kilometres of penalt yloops! The races were hard, but morale was always ver yhigh, aided by the catering of Cpl Wild . The last word o nthe sport goes to Maj Moger, who said, after running i nthe 15-kilometre race : "You either have to be very tit fo rthis sport . or quite mad" .

DHMLt Morgan completes the weigh-in before the start of the 20-kilometr ePatrol Race

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A Hawk "Out of Africa ""What do you think of this?" The Adjutant, in whos eoffice I was standing, thrust his hand into a large pile o fpaper (sometimes referred to as the "First Sight File" )and handed me a rather crumpled signal . An examinatio nof this signal revealed that there was a vacancy with a norganisation known as the Mozambique Training Team .1 was unable to recall exactly where Mozambique was —my knowledge of African geography has always bee nsomewhat sketchy—but I did realise that it would be alot warmer than North Yorkshire . Having just endure dwinter in Catterick, a posting to the "Dark Continent "was an attractive proposition . Not being prone to lookin ggift horses in the mouth, I volunteered my serviceswithout any further delay . My friend the Adjutant wa spromised as much champagne as he could drink, eterna lloyalty, and an end to any complaints about the office rplot should my application be successful . It was, and Iflew out to Zimbabwe, where the Training Team wa sstationed, in June .

The Mozambique Training Team started operation sin January 1986 . It was a response to an earlier reques tfor military aid by (the late) Samora Machel, the nPresident of the country and leader of the rulin gFRELIMO Party . When FRELIMO came to powe rin 1975, having encouraged the withdrawal of th ePortuguese, an anti-Marxist resistance movement cam einto being . It is known as the MNR (Mozambiqu eNational Resistance), or RENAMO . Estimates of thei rnumbers vary, but they do control large area s ofMozambique . The Government is hard-pressed t ocontain these "bandidos", despite assistance from th eZNA (Zimbabwe National Army), who maintain a largepresence along the Beira corridor . The Mozambica nArmy is Soviet-equipped and, for the most part, traine dwith the assistance of Russian advisors . There are a largenumber of Soviets in the country, but the Mozambican sare beginning to look increasingly towards the West foraid. The Training Team, of which I became part .represents the military part of the British aid package .

The task of the Training Team was to train Mozam-bican officers up to Platoon Commander level-a sort o fmini-Sandhurst course . Courses lasted for three months ,and catered for about 60 students . The students varied i nage from 17 to 34 and, despite some of them havin gconsiderable experience up to Company Commande r

Skill-at-arms instruction

Capt Milverton with his Assistant Instructor, W02 Jakat a

level, their professional knowledge was minimal . Iarrived half-way through the second course, and assumedthe appointment of "Training Officer .

There were only five British officers and two Warran tOfficers on the team ; the rest of the staff, other tha nsome Mozambican officers who acted as interpreters .were provided by the ZNA . We were particularly luck ywith our Assistant Instructors, who were excellent SNCO sfrom the Zimbabwean Para Group—very tough charac-ters, with bags of operational experience .

The Training Team was situated at a place calle dNyanga, in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe; an are awhich boasts some spectacular scenery . We were accom -modated in the village (I shared a very comfortablebungalow with the two other Captains), and the student sand ZNA staff were accommodated at Border Camp—an idyllic purpose-built camp where we worked . Nyangais home for a large ZNA training organisation, equippe dwith a massive training area and all the necessary range sand facilities we needed .

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A bit of bodily encouragement on the assault cours e

As Training Officer, I was responsible for all map -reading instruction, weapon training (AK47 and RPG),demonstrations, rangework and the writing of variou sexercises . It took me a bit of time to get used to teachingnavigation to people who had never seen a map before(and did not understand magnetism!), in a foreig nlanguage, through an interpreter . It certainly tested m yinstructional technique . It did not take me long to learnsufficient Portuguese to be able to run a range, but m yearly attempts caused the students to laugh so much tha ttheir aim was affected .

A large proportion of the course was spent in the field .I had to pretend to be an Infanteer, and spent man yhappy hours wandering around the bush on patrols wit hstudents . Navigation could be a problem a t night - aswas the ground, large areas of which were covered withterraces and pits left by some ancient civilisation . Thepits were particularly diabolical ; on one exercise I fel ldown one so deep that I had to be extracted by th estudent patrol I was with .

Rangework took up a large proportion of my time .This included not only running ordinary small arm sranges, but also COB ranges, grenade ranges (exciting )and field firing exercises (very exciting) . The last-name ddid much to test the starch of one's upper lip . TheMozambicans tended to become rather carried away onsuch occasions, and, as they were liable to be a touc homnidirectional with their weapons, life could becom einteresting . There were, however, no accidents .

Between the second and third courses, we had nearl ya month's leave . Sunglasses, T-shirts and the accelerato rpedal of the "Yellow Peril"—our issue Datsun Bluebir d—were deployed . We managed a complete circuit o fZimbabwe; rafting down the Zambezi Gorge belo wVictoria Falls and being chased by an elephant (whic hresulted in the fastest 200-metre sprint I have eve rmanaged) were the high-points of what was a fantasti choliday .

Just prior to the start of the third course, I was luck yenough to spend a fascinating week in Mozambique ,helping to select students . There is not the space here t odescribe my impressions of what is a rather sad an dchaotic country . It was, however, very interesting to see ,and I was impressed by the friendliness of the people wemet . We were flown from Maputo (the capital), to th eplace where we were to cross back into Zimbabwe, in aSoviet Antanov—highly amusing . It was packed full o f(large) nursing mothers, numerous babies and lots o fRussian advisors . I spent the journey sitting on a nupturned bucket, inwardly forgiving the Crabs for all th euncomfortable flights I have ever had with them .

The third course ended in December . Christmas wasspent, very enjoyably, in South Africa, before wor kstarted again on New Year's Day . I was only involved i nthe first week of the fourth course, during which time Ihanded over to my successor .

I left the Mozambique Training Team in early Januar y'87, and, not being required back at regimental dut yuntil March, spent a very happy seven weeks "swanning "around Africa . Travelling by air, bus, car and hitch -hiking, I managed to see most of Malawi, Kenya an dEgypt . Whilst in Nairobi, I contacted Colonel Bria nTayleur, who very kindly put me up. Having just spenttwo weeks camping out in the bush, the civilisation of hi shousehold made a very welcome and much-neede dchange !

I returned to England at the end of February . It too kme a few weeks to re-adjust to the great British climate ,which nearly killed me—especially Catterick! It was no tlong before I was hankering after Africa ; having hadsuch a marvellous time there, I can honestly say that ,given the opportunity, I would return tomorrow . TheMozambique Training Team has gone from strength t ostrength, and has doubled in size since I left . Trainin gMozambicans was, at times, frustrating, but, on th ewhole, it was great fun—and certainly different . I foundthe job-satisfaction enormous .

The combination of working in interesting parts of th eworld and the conditions of service make loan service avery attractive proposition . My time with the Mozam-bique Team provided me with the most memorabl eexperience of my career so far . I would recommend it toanyone .

NJM

Viva Frelimo! The passing-out parade


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A Hawk in the SinaiThe Sinai Desert, that small triangle which divide sAfrica, Europe and Asia, is a place about which so man yhave heard yet so few have visited . Famous from th eBible for the Sermon on the Mount and Moses' exodu sfrom Egypt, to the modern-day Arab–Israeli wars, wit htheir great tank battles and vivid pictures of the debris o fwar—burnt-out tank hulks and thousands of pairs o fboots, it is an area of magnificent beauty, 450 miles lon gby 250 miles wide at its widest, with the white beache sand sparkling unpolluted Mediterranean and rolling san ddeserts in the north . As the traveller goes further south ,the sand gives way to rocks—mile upon mile of gre yrock, slashed by deep ravines ; which gradually turns intored rock, which form truly spectacular mountains . In thecentre of these mountains is Mount Sinai and the ancien tSt Catherine's Monastery—continuously inhabited sinc eit was built in 604 AD . Southern Sinai is bordered by th eRed Sea (so called because at dusk the mountains arereflected in the sea—and being red . . .), with, to thewest, Egypt and, to the east, Jordan and Saudi Arabia .

In 1979, Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty, whic hpaved the way for an Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai, areturn of the Sinai to Egyptian sovereignty and th eformation of an international peace-keeping force t omonitor the agreed troop force levels and to provide abuffer between the Israeli and Egyptian forces . TheUnited Nations would not take on this task, therefore aunique force was created—the Multinational Force an dObservers (MFO). It was to this force that Capt Nige lMurray was posted for six unforgettable months as AD Cto the Force Commander .

The 3,000-strong force is truly multinational : a Nor-wegian (three-star) Commander, Fijian, Columbian andUS Infantry Battalions, a French Fixed-Wing Squadron ,a Canadian Helicopter Squadron, Uruguayan Enginee rand Transport Companies, a New Zealand Trainin gTeam, Dutch Military Police and Signals Companies ,and the British contingent, which was small (only 36 -strong), and provided staff officers, clerks and staff ca rdrivers . This force is split into two camps: the head -quarters and largest camp is near the Israeli border, onl y40 kilometres from the Gaza Strip ; and the southerncamp is near Sharm el Sheik, on the beautiful southerntip of the Sinai, overlooking the Tiran Strait to SaudiArabia .

As ADC to the Commander of this force, I was i ndaily working and social contact with all nationalities ,which was fascinating yet, at times, highly frustrating .To give an example : one of the more remote OPs in th ecentre of the area of resposnibility had no road to it, an dall movement of men and supplies had to be by helicopter .The Uruguayan Engineers were tasked to build a road—no mean feat blasting a road out of solid rock i ntemperatures of over 140 degrees, but a task at which theUruguayan soldiers were good . One day, the Forc eCommander wanted to fly down to inspect the newroad . The inspection party was soon assembled—Chie fEngineer (US), Uruguayan CO, ADC and Commander .We climbed into a helicopter, and off we went . Twohours' flying later, the pilot reported that we were ove rthe grid given as the Engineers' site camp . Necks strainedout of the open doors for a glimpse of the new road—bu tthere was no road and, what is more, there was no one t obe seen except the occasional Bedouin tending his goats .Pilot error was suspected, so we then had sight of athree-star General, two Lieutenant-Colonels (decidedly

worried) and a Captain poring over a map, to find outwhere we were . We were in the right place, so the pilotspent half an hour going in increasingly larger circles tofind this road—but still no road . The General is acharming man; however, there are some things whichcan irritate even the most docile three-star General (andthis one was not famous for being docile), and th eatmosphere for the return two-hour flight was, shall w esay, "tense". On return to base, the two Colonels weredespatched by vehicle to find the road and not tocome back until they had done so! Well, it transpiredthat the Engineer Troop Leader was not the world's bes tat navigation (we have all met someone similar), and hewas in fact building the most marvellous road—but t othe wrong OP !

Desert life was busy and fun . On average, we had fourofficial VIP visitors a week, who all needed wining an ddining (no wonder I put on weight) ; meetings to beattended every other week, either in Cairo or Tel Aviv ;and, every second month, meetings at our Headquarter sin Rome . Hotels were all five-star; travel always first-class ; and, as ADC, I carried a Diner's Club card with afour-million-dollar credit limit—so I made sure that theGeneral (and his aides) always had the best !

Out of work, there is much to see and do—Israel i sjust up the road, with the Dead Sea, Jerusalem, Beth-lehem and all the thousand other historic sites to visit ;Egypt is the other way, with the Pyramids, Nile, palace sand treasures of the pharoahs . And I even managed aweekend in Jordan .

Leaving the Sinai in January for Catterick, the nBielfeld, was very saddening . My six months there canonly be described as hectic, trying to pack in as man yexperiences as possible, both at work and at play, and Ibelieve that I achieved a great deal in the time available .It has given me a real flavour for the area, which I a mnow keen to develop ; also, working in such a multi -national environment was great fun—there were frustra -tions, but these were more than compensated by th egreat number of super friends I made whilst I was ou tthere . I would recommend the "Sinai Experience " toanyone .

NMM

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Muy Loco GringosThe three of us were huddled together in the back o f

the truck : seated comfortably on the rations, our back sagainst the headboard, and the truck's canopy wrappe daround us to ward off the early-moring chill . We heardthe driver miss a gear, but thought nothing of it . Then .as we gathered speed, we were thrown from side t oside as the driver had to negotiate the bends . I got upand looked over the side, realising that we had n ogears or brakes . We were travelling down a very stee pand twisting mountain-track, which would have lookedvery picturesque under different circumstances . Self -preservation overcame my fear of jumping, so I tol dthe others to jump and, seeing my chance, leapt clear .I rolled several times and got shakily to my feet . to seethe truck disappearing around another sharp bend . Istarted to run down the mountain-track and, on turnin ga bend, I came upon the truck, the crew and passenger sstanding safely at the rear . Luckily, the front axle hadcollapsed after hitting a boulder . The nose of the truc kwas poised over a 180-metre drop to the river below .More importantly, the beer had survived, so we poppe da couple of caps and drank to our good fortune .

That was 16th February, and I had been in Chile for amonth and a half with Operation Raleigh . I was the Field

Quartermaster for Phase 4B, and, luckily . not every daywas to be so suburban .

Operation Raleigh is about youth, and provides a nopportunity for those selected to participate in, an denjoy, a unique experience in support of science and th ecommunity—an experience never to be forgotten tha twould have a profound and beneficial effect upon thei rattitudes for the rest of their lives . There were 160Venturers drawn from a broad spectrum of cultures an dbackgrounds, covering 16 countries and spanning fiv econtinents . They found themselves in a strange country .working together . thus overcoming barriers of communi-cation and prejudice .

There were 32 directing staff, ranging fro m scientiststo squaddies, whose job it was to guide and advise th eVenturers with their projects . Decisions were left to th eVenturers, and the staff would only step in if life an dlimb were at risk . Our HQ was in Coyhaique . a smal lfrontier town in Chile's 11th Region (only three per cen tof the Chilean population live in this rugged wildernes sregion) . There were five main project sites, covering a narea of some 300 miles . I had to administer the re-suppl yof all sites with such things as mail, nails, flour, and fres hfruit, much of which had to he acquired locally . I never

went far without my Berlitz South American Spanish fo rTravellers—which was fine . but you try asking for 50boxes of Tampax in Spanish! Laguna San Rafael coul donly be reached by air or boat . The other sites wer ereached by Chilean Army trucks or Suzuki 4 x 4s . Therewas a good network of tracks, but they were ofte nwashed-out and treacherous . The flights were breath -taking, the boat trips stunning, the Chilean Army truck seither a nightmare or a fitters dream, depending o nwhich way you looked at it . As for my driving—well , Icould live with it, even if the photographer used to tur npale and cross herself whenever I had to take he ranywhere .

I spent most of my time on the road, going from HQ t oone or more of the sites, taking anything from four t oeight hours . The Suzuki had been rolled once, and was abit of a mess : leaking roof, cracked windscreen, n odriver's door window . If I was not soaked . I was covere din dust, and most of the time with only the company o fLou Reed or Madonna giving me brain-damage on m yWalkman.

At Laguna San Rafael, I used to sit on a rock with th eradio operator, "Crazy", sipping whisky from a tin cup .with two-million-year-old ice in it . The silence was broke nat irregular intervals by thunderous booming . as theglacier broke up in its flow to the sea . The peace andsolitude of Lago Jenimenji, high in the snow-cappe dmountains of the Andes on the Chilean–Argentine borde rwas only surpassed by the abundant wildlife, includin gthe huge Andean Condor, and even an unwelcome visi tfrom a puma . To sit by the lake on a crisp and clea revening, eating a freshly-caught trout cooked over an


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open fire and feeling that you only need reach up t otouch the stars that seemed so close was a far cry fro mExercise Field Fare in sunny Catterick .

These were just two of the sites where Venturers wereworking on many diverse projects, ranging from achildren's playground to monitoring fluvial sedimentatio ndeposits . Projects were challenging, both mentally an dphysically, and everyone took great pride in their work .The Chilean Army gave us a great deal of assistance . Forthe trucks, we supplied the diesel for the journey an dfood for the drivers . On one occasion I had to go to thelocal Cavalry barracks to try and "ponce" some saddle sand tack . Somehow, the Colonel found out that I was i nthe British Cavalry, and asked if I could ride . "Ofcourse," I replied, "and would willingly have played the

odd chukka if it weren't for the pulled muscle in my lef tbuttock . Maybe I could play on another occasion?"Needless to say, I gave the Colonel and the camp a wid eberth from there on .

On reflection, Operation Raleigh was a great experi-ence, and one that will remain with me always . I met lot sof interesting people, from politicians to peons, andmade many friends along the way . One day I will returnto that beautiful country . At the moment, I am back i nreality, answering the phone and agreeing with potentia lPVRs that "Yes, I'm sure that you will make a greatchicken-catcher in Norfolk—good luck, son" . So whenyour chance comes, grab it with both hands, it may neve rcome your way again .

Hawks in OmanIn September 1984, I was told that I was to do a tour o nLoan Service in Oman, along with three other Hawks :Capt Sutcliffe and Sgts Jim Broom and John Whittaker .

Having completed language training at Beaconsfield ,and having dealt with mountains of paperwork, we al lmet up at Heathrow on 3rd October 1985, for our nine -hour Gulf Air flight to Muscat . Stepping off the plane a tSeeb Airport was like stepping into a sauna . With ouronly thoughts on a cool drink, we were then subjected t oa two-hour Customs search, which basically made surethat we had not brought any "page three" pictures alon gwith us !

Day One and suffering from jet-lag, we were rushe daround everywhere for ID cards, driving tests, uniformsand yet more paperwork . We were living in Portakabinsin Seeb Camp, and were allocated our jobs for the nex t20 months . Capt Sutcliffe went to Sareea Wahid ( ASquadron) as second-in-command, and Sgt Jim Broo mwent to Sareea Arba (D Squadron) as the Trainin gSergeant . This not only entailed planning all training ,but also looking after the Squadron's BOS and th eservicing of its 16 tanks . Sgt John Whittaker went t oSareea Tadreeb (Trg Squadron) to take charge of D & Mcourses and also to check on the Omani instructors ,giving advice where it was needed .

I was sent to Fasela al Lasilkeea (RHQ), to comeunder command of ex-Hawk Bob Taylor, who wasSignals WO . My job there was to run the troop of 30Omanis and in the field to take charge of Recce Troop .Our VHF radios were very up-market—the Jaguar V

SSgt Broom and his Troop in the Jebal Akdar

Sgt Redhead with ex-Hawk WO2 Bob Taylor . . .

frequency-hopper . The big problem here was tha tBeaconsfield had not taught me Arabic voice procedur e—they had not even taught me the local dialect! Howeve rthat soon came with practice, and, if you are willing t olearn, the soldiers out there are more than helpful . Theaverage Omani soldier is very friendly, and is a ver yhumorous individual ; they are also fiercely loyal to theSultan, with pictures of him everywhere .

At the later stage of the tour, we moved from ou rfamiliar surroundings to a completely new and purpose -built camp. Lucky us—it was an Armoured Unit's dream .The new camp was absolutely huge, with enough hanga rspace to house the whole Regiment . Sgt Whittaker move dto the Armoured School to continue running the D & Mside, Capt Sutcliffe went to HQ Squadron as the Squadro nLeader, whilst I also moved to the Armoured School t oteach map-reading and signals .

Serving in Oman was a chance in a lifetime, and one o fthe most rewarding and worthwhile jobs ever experiencedin my career . I would certainly recommend it to anyone ,and I can speak for us all when I say that it was athoroughly enjoyable two years .

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A Walk in the Clouds

It was Sgt Dharam Bahadur Gurung, 6 GR, seconded t othe Regiment for six months, who suggested that a tre kin Nepal would be a memorable way to learn more abou tthe Gurkhas . He planned a route that would take me 15 0miles around Annapurna, to a height of 18,000 feet, wit hthe opportunity of meeting retired 6 GR serviceme nalong the way .

After flying Bangladesh Airways, I was looking forwar dto the British Gurkha Camp in Pokhara, a small Arm yunit in West Nepal, about 200 kilometres from Kath-mandu . This camp deals primarily with the payment o fGurkha pensions, but it is also the base for treks into th ehills on specific projects : water-pumps, irrigation, foot -bridges, improvements to schools—the list of projects i sextensive .

At Pokhara, I was allocated a guide—Rfn Dhansin gGurung, of 1/2 GR—and porters . Their English wa slimited, but they all lived up to the Nepalese reputatio nfor unfailing cheerfulness . The porters were to carry al lthe food and equipment in baskets on their backs, takin gthe strain of 70 lb on thongs across their foreheads .

From Pokhara we went first to Besi Sahar, wher ethere is an Army Welfare Centre . Here a retired Gurkh aofficer acts as an Area Welfare Officer (AWO) respon-sible for all the ex-Servicemen and their dependant sliving within the district . When disaster strikes, th ebreadwinner dies, or a landslide takes away the livelihoo dof an ex-serviceman, the AWO can allocate a small su mof money on the spot to meet immediate needs .

In Jagat, perched high on the side of a mountain, I me tex-Cpl Hakim Bahadur Gurung, the schoolmaster . Afteran explanation by my guide about the eagle that Haki mhad worn on his uniform, the passage of time had no tdulled his memory, nor his enthusiasm for the Army . Herushed away to put on his suit, and was delighted when Isuggested taking a photo . He gave us some yak meat toadd to our evening meal of dhal and bhat—rice an dlentils—the Nepalese staple diet .

Rfn Dhansing with the porter s

n Bhulbule, I met Capt (QGO) Matbarsing Gurung ,a very senior, old Gurkha who comes down to the villag eeach day to watch the people pass by . Matbarsing wasinterested to hear about my trek, but was concerned t osee a sahib walking with such a miserable-lookingwalking-stick of bamboo . He took it from me and thre wit on the fire! In return, he gave me a stick of blue pin ewood, which proved invaluable later in the trek, to wardoff a rabid dog .

It took us seven days' walking to reach the base of th eThorung Se Pass, over which we had to cross . In thoseseven days, there was a huge variation in height and awide variety of climate and vegetation . The Northernpeople of Nepal are in many ways more Tibetan thanNepalese, being mainly Buddhist . The Valley of Manangwas windswept and, in crossing the pass, we were at aheight of 17,700 feet . Near to us now were the crystal-sharp snow peaks of the Annarpurnas . At this heigh tand with two porters suffering badly from the effects o faltitude sickness, it was a surprise to come across an ol dNepalese man, also crossing the pass, dressed only in acloak, shorts and flip-flops, with plastic bags on his fee tto keep them dry !

With the mountain pass behind us, we were now in th eJomosom Valley . One day, we saw a group of men, wit htheir heads shaven bald except for a little wisp . The ywere in mourning fora lost relative—a Hindu custom .

By the time we returned to Pokhara, we had complete din two weeks a trek of 150 miles, and met a fascinatin ggroup of retired Gurkhas . All were tremendously proudof their service and of the Brigade . Before I left Nepal, Ispent a time in the Kathmandu Valley . The three principa ltowns of Patan, Bhadgaon and Kathmandu are a touris t ' sparadise, with more temples to the square mile tha nanywhere else in the world . My other impression ofKathmandu, however, is of a town of dogs which howle dand barked incessantly all night !

Nepal is the most fascinating country and a chance t otrek in the Himalayas, should it present itself, is anopportunity not to be missed .

PJ NCapt Nutsford with ex-CpI Hakim Bahadur Gurung

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Wives' ClubAnother year has passed in Catterick, and we are now al lwell and truly used to this weather. We have realise dthat "thermals" are not just something our grandmother stalked about, and our husbands wore on exercise !

Our weekly coffee mornings are still going strong ,with delicious cakes provided by the wives and, o noccasions, husbands too—such rare talent amongst th eCorporals !

In November, Exercise Birdwalk got under way, whic hgave us all a taste of the real thing to come later on in th esummer. Keeping on a fitness note, after this PTI Ric kGarioch ran some very successful aerobic classes ,although I am not sure who laughed most—Rick or th ewives—obviously very beneficial to the jaw muscles !Our thanks go to Rick, who leaves us shortly, for givin gup so much of his time for us .

Once again, the Sergeants' Mess kindly opened thei rdoors to us for Christmas Dinner . The theme for th ewaiters this year was "Pantomime Dames", which gav ea whole new meaning to the song There Is Nothing LikeA Dame, I can tell you! At the end of a very good, bu textremely boisterous evening, everyone was wearin gindelible lipstick kisses, and a few diehards, includin gMrs Boot, Mrs Bowman and Mrs Walton, had to b egently eased out of the Mess as we said our goodnights .Our grateful thanks go to Sgt Wilde, the Mess Member sand the Band for a very enjoyable evening .

The children also had their Christmas Party . It was amass (or mess!) of sticky buns, jellies and crisps, wit hspecial guest appearances of "Wurzel Gummidge" and"Aunt Sally" (alias the RSM and Mrs Hutchinson) .Father Christmas, alias the Bandmaster, arrived b yreindeer-driven Land Rover, to the delight of all th echildren .

The Festive Season over in January, we bade a veryfond farewell to Mrs Smales, who had befriended somany of us in Catterick . Our very good wishes go with

Worzel Gummidge and Aunt Sally at the Christmas Part y

her and the Colonel on their move to Bovington . In herplace, we welcomed Mrs Price . We soon got to kno whow energetic she was, as she attacked Mrs Dean andthe other wives at a Self-Defence Evening . It has to be afirst when the Colonel's wife gets you in a strangle-hold !

The children had more excitement, as they scrambledthrough bushes in the Easter Egg Hunt . A huge cake wa sdonated by the Cookhouse in order that the wives mightguess its weight . The winner, Mrs Cassidy, later kindlydonated some to the Coffee Morning .

Dining-out Mrs Hutchinson at the Bunker Restauarant : Mrs Batchelder,Mrs Price, Mrs Tilney and Mrs Schofield Incoming and out-going : Mrs Davies and Mrs Hutchinson

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July saw the return of Exercise Birdwalk, with th eCatterick Moors becoming alive with female "Rambos"marching (trudging!) to their destination for the night .In typical Catterick weather, their bivouacs were pitche dand their compo rations cooked . Mrs Walters seemed t oprefer hot fruit salad to bacon grill! In a night-tim eassault, led by the CO's wife, with the RSM's wife as 2ic ,the enemy were temporarily relieved of their four-tonner ,ably driven away—with no lights—by our HGV driver ,Mrs Rae . After a sleepless night and an early-mornin gcall by Mrs Wyper, the wives were collected by truck, i norder to participate in activities such as an assault course ,rifle shooting and drill, after which—much to the despai rof our Drill Sergeant—we marched past the Commandin gOfficer . Repatriated with our husbands and families ,there then followed a barbecue lunch and familie s ' sport s

day. What with Barbecues, Quiz Nights, Teddy Bears 'Picnics, Bingo, Fashion Shows, etc ., the Wives' Club ha sbeen extremely busy . One of the most memorabl eevenings of the year was our Farewell/Thank You Dinner

to our RSM's wife, Lorraine Hutchinson, who hadworked so hard behind the scenes . Forty wives, full ydressed in various disguises and Army uniforms, dine dher out in the Wartime Bunker Restaurant. I do notthink that the six businessmen quietly eating their eveningmeal will ever recover! A very big "thank you" to Mr sHutchinson, and a warm welcome to Mrs Davies, wh ohas arrived from Berlin .

As usual, several people have moved on this year .Among them are Mrs Stobbart, Mrs Murphy and Mr sBatchelder—stalwarts of the Wives' Club Committee ;Mrs Lydiard, of Can-Can fame ; and Mrs Greenwood ,who ran the netball for so long . Our congratulations t oMrs Schofield, who beat a long list of rivals to get the jo bas co-organiser of the New Catterick Garrison Beehive .

Last but not least, our thanks to all the men who havehelped us out, by organising events for us ; providin gmeals from the already hard-worked Cookhouse ; andfor baby-sitting, so that we could enjoy ourselves . Longmay it last !

Hawks in Korea

The author and his loader in the turret of their Mk 3 Centurion from 2nd Troop B Squadron 8th Hussars . The 14/20 H pennant attached to th eaerial of the 19 set was flown throughout the campaign, even after the tank was handed over to 5 DG . The canvas cover in the left foreground

contains the barrel of the .30 Browning knocked out by Chinese machine-gun fire during Operation Command o

The Korean War, which lasted from July 1950 to Jul y1953 was the last occasion when Royal Armoured Corp sRegiments were fully committed over a long perio dagainst a determined, well-equipped and well-arme denemy .

Whilst the 14th/20th Hussars did not serve in th eKorean War, at least four members of the Regimen twere seconded to the 8th Hussars, the first UK Armoure dRegiment to serve in Korea, so the Regiment wasrepresented (there may also have been others) . Those

seconded from Catterick were the Padre, Capt (late rCol) Howarth, Capt Ted Paul MC (a Troop Leader), Sg tR. E. Wood and LCpl Frost (both D & M Instructors) .The Regiment at the time was based in Catterick a sRAC Training Regiment, then under the command ofLt Col Stevens, and with the likes of the Colonel of th eRegiment, Mike Urban Smith and Peter Bromley servin gat RD .

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The author's tank being overhauled after patrolling over the Imjin in August 1951, prior to Operation Command o

Communist-controlled and the South supported by th eUSA . In June 1950, the North Koreans invaded Sout hKorea, an act which drew an immediate response fro mthe UN . A multi-national force was gathered, includin ga strong Commonwealth element which formed its ow nDivision, to repel the invaders . First UK troops to arriv ewere 1 A & SH and 1 Middx and the 29th IndependentInfantry Brigade Group, which included 8th Hussarsequipped with Mk 3 Centurions, which reached Korea i nNovember 1950 .

Anyone who served in Korea will never forget th eterrain and the climate . The ground consisted of never-ending ridges of solid rock, rising from 500 feet to ove r1,000 feet, which traversed the whole country . Theseridges were incredibly steep and inhospitable, whilst th evalleys between them were mostly used for rice padd yfields . These were invariably full of water, mud and ice ,depending on the time of year . The climate in winter wa sindescribable, with arctic conditions blowing down fro mSiberia. Temperatures as low as minus-40 degrees Centi -grade were often experienced. At night, tank tracksfroze firmly to the ground, rendering our tanks immobile ,and any attempts to thaw them out by igniting petro lwere unsuccessful, as the solid rubber road wheels simplyburned out . It was essential to have some form o finsulation, such as fir-tree branches, ammunition con-tainers or cardboard boxes in order to be able to moveeasily in the morning . Frost was a real hazard—anycompo pack rations with moisture content froze solid ;our anti-freeze mixture was as strong as 70 :30; skin stuc kto bare metal if accidentally touched, and even limite dsupplies of beer froze solid! When out of the line, afterbreakfast the duty fitter defrosted the wooden latrin eseats with a blow-lamp, and there was minimum tim ebetween occupation, as everyone was scared of freezin gpermanently to the seat !

On arrival in Korea in November 1950, our 64

Centurions were immediately loaded on to railway flat sfor the move into the Chinese-occupied North . However ,a massive Chinese advance forced UN forces into retreat ,and our tanks had to do 90-degree neutrals to drive offthe flats, in order to avoid being captured in situ . Thi swas our first indication of the excellence of the Meteorengines, which proved reliable in the intense cold .

When the line stabilised, in the spring of 1951, 29 Bde ,covering a Divisional frontage, were situated on theRiver Imjin . B and C Squadrons carried out patrols up t oten miles over the Imjin without sight of large numbersof Chinese, but suddenly a Chinese Corps attacked 1Glosters, who were defending the traditional route toSeoul, the capital of South Korea . Within two days, theGlosters were overrun, with only 36 survivors, th ebalance of 600 being killed, captured or missing . CSquadron attempted to relieve from the rear, but, due t othe narrow lanes, were unable to get through . TheChinese then attacked the right flank of the Brigad eposition, and we were forced to withdraw, being out -numbered by approximately 50-to-one . During thi swithdrawal, the Chinese climbed aboard our tanks whilethey were moving, and attempted to enter them and t oremove the MGs with their bare hands . When thishappened, gunners would spray adjacent Centurion swith MG fire, in order to clear them of the enemy . OneCenturion was lost because a burst of MG fire ignited theunarmoured smoke-grenade dischargers . The 80 grenadesexploded and the white phosphorus poured over theengine-deck, being sucked in by the forced-air coverin gsystem and igniting the engine . Since this incident, al lsmoke grenade dischargers have been armoured .

During this two-to-three-day action, 29 Bde had ove r1,000 casualties out of a strength of approximately 3,000 ,and only one Infantry CO survived . Many Infantrywounded were brought out on the backs of the Centurions

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MAP OF OPERATION COMMANDO AREA, OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 195 1

This map was actually used by the author during the operation .All ground shown was held by the Chinese prior to Operation Commando .

he objective was to seize Hills 217 and 317 . 1st Commonwealth Division seized Hills 199 . 233 . 355 and 227 and retained thesethroughou t th e operation . Th e Commonwealt h Division mounted unsuccessfu l assaults o n th e enem y position s o n Hill s 21 7 an d

317 . and these remained in Chinese hands .

X indicates the area where the author's .30 Browning was knocked out whilst supporting an Australian assault on to Hill 317 .

O indicates the area where T ed Paul won his MC .

- - - indicates the path used by dismounted crewmen re-supplying tanks with 20-pounder shells .

indicates the approximate UN front line held until the end of the war.

and, without the covering tire provided, very few Infantrywould have survived . Whilst the casualties were high ,the result of the Battle of the Imjin was that 29 Bdefought a major delaying action, enabling UN Forces toestablish a line north of Seoul . With the high level ofcasualties inflicted on the Chinese, their offensive wasweakened and their prime objective of taking Seoul wasnever achieved .

The 20-pounderofthe Centurions proved to bemagnifi-cent, with an HE shell almost as big and effective as th elegendary Artillery 25-pounders, being capable of killin gover 30 Chinese with one round . As the rounds wer e"quick fire" , with the projectile and propellant in on epiece, it was possible for the loaders to obtain

a phenom-inal rate of fire. (The Australians were initially convince dthat the 20-pounder was automatically loaded, due t othe high rates of fire achieved . At longer ranges, it wa snearly possible to get three HE shells in the air at once .This could never be achieved by the separate projectil eand propellant charge of the Chieftain/Challenger) .However, the BESA(COAX) was very unreliable, dueto a complex ammunition feed, and was later replace dby the .30 Browning. The ability of the Centurion to

soak up massive punishment was remarkable . Direc thits from Chinese 155 mm HE were survived . Chinesemines, which split the hulls of American M46 Patton sand Shermans, had no significant effect on our Centurions ,but tended to give the drivers a headache and make th eturret crew's ears ring a little !

The next major action fought was the direct supportgiven by A & B Squadrons to 28 and 29 Bdes in OperationCommando in October/November 1951 . This was aDivisional offensive, approximately ten miles north o fthe Battle of the Imjin, and was intended to straighte nthe UN front line and seize the high ground whic hdominated the area (see map) . To provide adequate firesupport, tanks climbed hills up to 1,000 feet in heigh tand shot the Infantry on to their objectives, firing bothmain armament and coax . Some troops were also used inthe intimate support role, going forward with the Infantr ytowards their objectives . However, this intimate supportwas limited, as it was easy to become bogged or to thro wa track in the soft ground . During one such operation, atank commander had a lucky escape when a burst o fChinese MG fire knocked out the .30 Browning which hewas firing from the cupola .


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During Operation Commando, most of the Divisiona lobjectives were taken and the new line establishe dremained constant until the end of the war, with tank sdug in hull-down on the Infantry forward positions ,giving direct fire support whenever it was required . Inearly November 1951, the Chinese counter-attacked a tnight, and the tanks high on the hills engaged the enem yat a rate of up to 100 rounds per hour, with the surplu sammunition stacked on the engine-deck and the drive rand commander doing instant replenishments durin glulls in the artillery/mortar fire . On one occasion, tan kcrews in reserve at the bottom of the hills were asked t ocarry 20-pounder rounds up the reverse slopes to th etanks at the top, under mortar fire . All volunteered, andall were petrified with fright . Nothing is worse than atank crewman out in the open during a battle . This was atask normally undertaken by Korean porters when theline was quiet .

In early December 1951, the 8th Hussars were relievedby 5 DG . The seconded Hawks had their excitin gmoments : the Padre was involved in the Battle of Imjin ,but escaped, whilst his companion, the MO, was am -bushed and captured . During Operation Commando ,the new MO was killed by mortar fire, whilst travellin gwith the Padre in his jeep . Capt Ted Paul won a well -deserved MC during Operation Commando, and it wa sthe "Dismounted Sergeant" (Sgt R . E . Wood), who ha dthe .30 Browning knocked out of his hand whilst support -ing the Australians .

The Korean War proved the effectiveness of the Mk 3Centurion . Its two major faults were the unreliabl eoperation of the BESA Coax Machine Gun, and th eability to throw tracks frequently, requiring precisiondriving. Due to the frequency of throwing tracks, aspecial explosive charge was carried by each tank to cu tthe track in the minimum of time, and almost every tan kcrew had to use it . In addition, the tank's operationa lrange was poor, with a fuel consumption of five gallon sper mile when in action . But the Centurion's abilityto withstand tremendous sustained punishment, theaccuracy and effectiveness of the 20-pounder APDS an dHE shells, the reliability of the Meteor engine and it sability to climb hills up to 7(X) feet in height more tha novercame these shortcomings .

Perhaps the last chapter of Hawks in the land of th emorning calm was closed on 11th March 1987 when, 34years after the war, the Queen unveiled, in St Paul' sCathedral, the memorial to the 1,200 servicemen wh owere killed in action . Among the 800 Korean veteran sattending the ceremony were the "Troop Leader", Te dPaul, and the "Dismounted Sergeant", R . E. Wood .

REW

Editor's Not e

It is possible that other Hawks may have been seconde dto 5 DG or 1 RTR . It would be interesting to hear fro mthem in a future edition of The Hawk.

Tipperary TacticsAnother Look at the Battle of Chillianwallah

In the 19th Century, the Battle of Chillianwallah, fough ton 13th January 1849, was a by-word for incompetenc erivalled only by the charge of the Light Brigade .Chillianwallah involved an Army of four Divisions (twoInfantry, one Artillery and one Cavalry), totalling som e15,000 British and native troops opposing a Sikh Arm y(trained by European mercenaries) of some 25,000(10,000 of whom were irregulars), with 60 pieces o fartillery . The most recorded events of the battle werethe actions of two famous regiments, the 14th Ligh tDragoons—now the 14th/20th King's Hussars—and th e24th Regiment—later to become the South Wale sBorderers and now part of the Royal Regiment of Wales .

In The Hawk of 1981, 1 wrote an article seeking someanswers to the actions of Pope's Brigade, which include dthe 14th Light Dragoons, on the right flank of thi sconfused battle of the Second Sikh War . Pope, whonever recovered from wounds received in the battle, wasan easy scapegoat, but what of the Army's Commander ,Lord Gough? Where did he go wrong ?

Gough had been commissioned at 17 into the Limeric kCity Militia, and fought with distinction in the Peninsula .At the time of Chillianwallah, he was 70 . He had nearlybeen removed from command during the First Sikh War ,but, in victory, had been rewarded with a peerage . By al laccounts, he was more popular with his soldiers thanwith his superiors, who wanted to remove him, bu tfound it impossible to replace a general who won ever ybattle .

The Second Sikh War ended a few weeks afte rChillianwallah at the Battle of Gujrat, and the Punja bwas annexed . This victory once again stopped Goug hfrom being relieved of command for what Sir GarnetWolseley described, when writing of Chillianwallah, a s"that unfortunate battle where British courage was amore distinguishing feature than either the strategical ortactical skill of the general commanding" .

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Gough faced a problem familiar to commanders fromFabius Cunctator to "H" Jones: he was under politica lpressure to join battle without delay, as his diary entry o f9th January 1849 shows : "Heard from Governor Genera lthat he would be glad if I gained a victory" .

On 11th January 1849, Gough advanced to contact th eenemy and, two days later, around mid-day on 13t hJanuary, he encountered their outposts on the mound o fChillianwallah .

To the west of the mound—and unknown to Goug h—the Sikhs had established well-camouflaged andentrenched positions . Between the Army and the Sik hposition lay a mixture of arid open spaces and jungle .The jungle (which remains today, but to a lesser exten tfollowing cultivation) is not particularly high or dense ,but it is punctuated by thorny keekur and kureel bushes ,which makes the movement of men and horses difficul tand painful . Behind the Sikh's position was the Rive rJhelum. The only other elevated ground is some twomiles to the north, at Russool, where, unknown t oGough, the Sikh Commander, Raja Sher Singh Attari-wala, was observing his preliminary moves .

Having driven the Sikh pickets from Chillianwalla hand unaware of the enemy's main positions to the west ,Gough decided to pitch camp for the night and takeadvantage of the local wells .

At 3 pm, Sher Singh opened fire with his artillery . Oneof the first rounds fell close to Gough, and an artiller ybarrage commenced . Daylight was limited and Goughwould have had no wish to engage in night-fighting, ye the probably still had no idea of the size or disposition o fhis enemy . Notwithstanding, he ordered the Army toshake out for a frontal assault .

The Army swung into line towards the sound of theguns and the mainly invisible enemy, with Major Genera lSir Walter Gilbert's 2nd Division on the right, andBrigadier General Colin Campbell's 3rd Division on th eleft . The Cavalry Division was split, with the 1st Cavalr yBrigade, under. Brigadier White (including 3 H) on th eleft of the line, and the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, under Pop e(with 9 L and 14 LD) on the right . The heavy artiller ywere in the centre .

The front was some six miles long . The first actionbegan on the left, in the way that was to characterise th ebattle for its poor communications and the inflexibilit yof thought of its commanders . Campbell was told by amessenger from Gough to carry the enemy's guns to hi sfront at the point of the bayonet . He re-issued the orde rliterally to Brigadier Pennycuik of his right brigade, an dthe 24th, with the words : "There must be no firing ; thebayonet must do the work". He then took persona lcommand of the left brigade of his Division .

The 24th advanced one mile through the jungle i ntheir full-dress red coats, without the support of th eheavy artillery or even the brigades' integral artillery .Broken up by their approach through the jungle int oindependent groups, they reached the open space i nfront of the enemy guns, and fell into the Sikhs' killing -zone . Those who survived the grape were then attacke dby the Gurchuras (Sikh Cavalry) : 11 officers and 237men were killed and ten officers and 266 men werewounded .

Brigadier Pennycuik was killed, as was his son, wh owent to his aid . But, despite its horror, it had been abrave action which succeeded in breaking the enemy' sline . "Their conduct has never been surpassed on a fiel dof battle," wrote Charles Napier, describing the gallantryof the 24th .

Nearly six miles away, on the right flank, in ver ydifferent circumstances, 14 LD lost one officer and thre esoldiers killed . (The officer was Lt Augustus Joh nCureton, aged 18, whose father had been killed a tRamnuggur .) One officer and 14 soldiers were wounded .

The battle lasted until 8 pm. By the end of the day ,2,338 of Gough's army had been killed or wounded . Th eBritish public were unaccustomed to such losses and, a sByron Farwell wrote in his book Queen Victoria's LittleWars, "Gough—so recently honoured and praised as ahero—was now thoroughly damned for his Tipperar ytactics" .

Gough represented the battle as a victory, and he waslucky that the Sikhs did not counter-attack, but wer econtent to scavenge and mutilate the bodies on th ebattlefield during the night . The Sikhs carried off al ltheir artillery .

Gough had acted in haste, without careful appreciation .Manoeuvring his army in jungle conditions, he and hi scommanders inevitably lost control, which—coupled wit heither poor or poorly-transmitted orders—generated th eincompetent and courageous actions of Pope's an dPennycuik's brigades . The cavalry and artillery couldnot be used effectively in support of the infantry .Applying today's tactical principles to a battle of 14 0years ago, it seems that Gough had done nothing righ tand was indeed guilty of "Tipperary tactics" .

Footnote.—The gallant offensive action of the Britishand native infantry of the East India Company prevente da greater disaster at Chillianwallah . The gallantryobscured the incompetence of the British commander sand effectively perpetuated the acceptibility of unpro-fessional generalship . Consequently, with no lessonslearned, history repeated itself . The most chronicle dexample of poor communications followed shortly afte rChillianwallah, with the charge of the Light Brigade a tBalaclava, on 25th October 1854 . (Campbell was the ncommanding the Highland Brigade with great distinction . )But the problem of incompetent senior commanders wa snot properly addressed until it became evident to th epublic closer to home in World War One . On 26thSeptember 1915, in circumstances of unbelievable tacticalincompetence horribly reminiscent of Chillianwallah ,two Divisions totalling 10,000 men were ordered to attackentrenched German positions at Loos . Three hundre dand eighty-five officers and 7,861 men were killed o rwounded in 3 1/ 2 hours from sustained enemy machine -gun fire . No casualties were inflicted on the enemy .

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Sergeant F . J . DoddA few months ago, I received an envelope with tw opiano scores of military band marches . One was calledThe Yellow Plume and the other Rough Riders . Theywere both written by F . J . Dodd, one-time Bandmaste rof 20th Hussars, during the First World War, and hadbeen sent to me by his daughter, Mrs Lewis .

F. J . Dodd was born in Bethnall Green in July 1884 . Asalesman before he joined the Army, he was recruited i nLondon in 1907 at the age of 22 years, and served seve nyears with the Colours and three years in the Reserve .

He was transferred to the Army Reserve in Februar y1914, with a final discharge in February 1919 . However ,on 5th August 1914, he had to report, along wit hthousands of others, to the Cavalry Depot, Scarborough ,for general mobilisation . The Regiment began to entrai nfor "an unknown destination" on 16th August, 1914 . Byabout 8 a .m. on 22nd August, a patrol of the 20th were i naction with the Germans . "We must thus . . ." notedMajor Darling, who was Signals Officer of the 20th at th etime " . . . have been one of the first units of the Britis hArmy to become engaged" .

During the First World War, he took charge of th eBand and, although they had a small repertoire, it wa svery classical . A programme of the Casino de Spa o n12th January, 1919, illustrated here, shows this . Inaddition, an interesting paragraph in the NationalOrchestral Association Monthly Report, published at th eend of the war, illustrates very pertinently the enterprisedisplayed by our boys in the fighting line . Dated 29t hMay, 1916, it reads : "Dear Sir, I think you may beinterested in the accompanying photo and programme .The photo represents a voluntary band which I (with theassistance of some friends in England) have forme dduring the last 12 months . We commenced with fiveinstruments and, since the photo was taken, we have

Programme1. Overture2. The Man About Town Jem Tasker3. Descriptive Vocalist Ben Jordan4. The Card Sharper Ballard5. Extra-special Turn H. Stanford6. Eccentric Musician Kent and Hallet t

Interva l

7. The great revue entitled Quatre Sous or After YouWith The Haddock . Written, composed and arrange dby D'Arcy Hall, Ben Jordan and F . J . Dodd, Lyricsby Captains Darling and Smith .

Act 1Drawing-room, No . 1 Mayfair (Ben Jordan )

Sir Ralph de Dewar Jem TaskerCapt Templeton Harry Baile yButtons Steve Braithwait eSir Philip Smolewski Ben Jorda nLady de Dewar Bert Wheele rMiss Arabella de Dewar Miss Ashworth

Act 2Remount Camp, Salonika (D'Arcy Hall )

General Lord Sent Homer Jem TaskerHimself Pte BraithwaiteA .999 W. D . Hall, A . C . MaclntyreRemount Officer Harry Baile ySgt Browne Bert WheelerThe Old Soldier Ben Jorda nHoneanias (a Greek) Bob Razzel l

CASINO DE SP A

Sunday January 12th 191 9

PROGRAMMEOF

Grand Military Boxing Contes t

AN D

GREAT EVENING CONCER T

au profit des oeuvres de guerre

THE BAND oF THE 20th HUSSAR S(By kind permission of the o. C. )

Conductor : Sergeant F. J . DODD .

Commissaire des Fetes : Lieut. GALLACHER, R .F .A .

Assistants : int . J . FLAHAUTet Mission Belge Cav. Corps .

Prix : 30 cent .

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added a euphonium and a side-drum, so that, includin gmyself as conductor, we now number 18 performers, an dplay anything we can get hold of, from a two-step to asymphony. The programme is of a concert we had duringthe winter . You will perceive we are quite up-to-date inour revues . Pleased to say I receive the monthly Reportquite safely, and am extremely obliged to you . With al lgood wishes, I am yours sincerely, Fredk . J . Dodd ,L-Cpl (`Cello, etc .) . "

When the war was over, he was billeted in Sart-Lez -Spa. As he says on one of his postcards, this is "a totallydifferent war now" . His OC, Maj Mangles, wrote ofhim : "A thoroughly hard-working and reliable NCO .Has organised and conducted the Regimental Band

during the war with great success . Is an excellen tmusician". One of his relics handed to me is a sleev ebadge, with one red and four blue chevrons . The redstripe was for all soldiers who served in Germany befor eDecember 1914 and the blue was for each year thereafte rspent in Germany . Soldiers were allowed to wear thes eon their civilian clothing until 1919 .

In 1919, Sgt Dodd returned with 20th Hussars toColchester, the town which he had left in August 1914 ,and was demobbed . The Regiment had left 580-strong ,and only about 30 of the original men returned. Ofthese, three NCOs gained the DCM, and many othe rdistinctions were won . Not one of the four Regimenta lSergeant-Majors who left in 1914 survived the war .

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Medal of Pte Longman—20th Light Dragoons

Mr Derrick Longman, who lives at Bartley, Southampton ,has kindly shown me a Regimental-type medal awarde dto his ancestor, Pte Jacob Longman, 20th Light Dragoons ,during the Napoleonic War . The award was made byGeneral Sir John Stuart, Commanding British troops i nSicily in 1810, when French troops tried to invade th eisland from Italy .

From 1805 to 1808, the 20th were split into tw owings—plus a Depot Squadron in England . If theRegiment used recruiting posters in those days—as the14th did—they might have been captioned "Join the20th and see the world" . Operations involving the 20t hoccurred in South Africa, South America, Italy, Egypt ,Sicily, Spain and Portugal . Part of the Regiment greatlydistinguished itself at the Battle of Vimiera, the Com-manding Officer being Lt Col Charles Taylor, who waskilled in action . The 20th was the only British CavalryRegiment present, and they received the order to charg epersonally from Sir Arthur Wellesley (afterwards Duk eof Wellington) . Vimiera was the first battle honou rawarded to the 20th and 14th/20th King's Hussars .

In late 1809, the 20th in Portugal joined other element sof the Regiment in Sicily . This must have been a bit of acome-down after the excitement of the Peninsular War .However, Sicily was an important military and nava lbase, playing its part in the blockade of French-heldSouthern Europe . It was also from here that, making useof British seapower, amphibious operations were carrie dout against mainland Italy and islands in the Tyrrhenia nSea (north of Sicily), and, later, major operations againstthe eastern coast of Spain .

The commander of our forces in Sicily was a genia lGuardsman named General Sir John Stuart . He realisedthat, apart from making raids on enemy-held territory,

his main responsibility was to hold the island base agains tthe possibility of a major French attack launched fro mthe toe of Italy, employing the substantial land force savailable to them . Given that their naval forces wereweak, a crossing of the narrow Straits of Messina fromReggio to the Messina area would have the best prospec tof success .

Accordingly, Stuart deployed the bulk of his troopsbetween Messina and Mount Etna, including the townof St Stefano . His troops in this area included part ofthe 20th Light Dragoons, four infantry battalions—tw oof which were King's German Legion—some mobil egunners and heavy coastal artillery . Added to this, th eRoyal Navy were extremely active, carrying out patrol sin the Straits .

On 18th September, 1810, during the hours of darkness ,the expected invasion from Italy took place . The Frenchplan was to be carried out in two phases . Four brigadesof Neopolitan and Corsican troops were to cross in boatsand seize the high ground behind the British position .When this had been completed, the French main bodywould embark, defeat the British and then advanceinland .

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This plan might possibly have worked, had it not bee nfor the alertness of a standing patrol of the 20th well -sited on the coast, near St Stefano . They saw (andprobably heard) the enemy approach just as it wasgetting light . Private Longman immediately went to theHeadquarters with a message and the coastal artiller ywas also warned .

General Stuart reacted immediately, and despatche dtroops to meet the enemy and secure the mountain pathsin the British rear . By just after first light, the enemy hadbeen repulsed. A complete enemy battalion was take nprisoner, and many of those who tried to re-embark an descape became the victims of heavy fire from the Nav yand coastal artillery .

When the French Army commander realised ho wmatters stood, he cancelled the rest of the operation andordered his main body to disembark from the boat swhich were waiting to cross the straits . So the enemy ' spurpose was frustrated, and, realising that the timel ywarning from the 20th Light Dragoons had been decisive ,the Army commander awarded a medal to Pte Longman .

This was specially struck for the occasion . The citatio nwas as follows :

Obverse :SicilyFrom Lieut Gen'l Sir John Stuart Comd of th eforcesToJacob Longman of the 20th Lt Dgn s

Reverse :ForBrave and active Vigilance displayed at the landin gof the Enemy at St Stefano near Messina on the 18t hSept 181 0

Very little is known about Pte Longman . It appears ,however, that on old documents he signed himself b ymaking a cross . His wife, however, was more erudite .

According to the 14th/20th Short History, published in1951, there were two members of Longman's patrol .Presumably Longman's companion would have bee nhonoured also .

Unofficial and Other Medals

Unofficial medals like the one awarded to Longmanwere awarded to members of the 14th and 20th LightDragoons during the Napoleonic War . Perhaps the best-known was to Cpl Hanley of the 14th, in 1812, for ahighly-successful patrol action. The medal was paid fo rby the officers of the Regiment .

The reason for having Regimental Medals was thatno official awards for valour existed until the institutionof the Victoria Cross during the Crimean War . InNapoleonic times, senior officers received the Gold o rSilver Cross following a major victory, or perhaps a C Bor knighthood, but junior officers and men in the rank sreceived no official awards .

The first universal campaign medal resulted from anorder given by the Prince Regent in 1816 for a medal t obe issued for all those—regardless of rank—who fough tat Waterloo . Lt Col Bathhurst Hervey and Major Percyof the 14th would have received this .

In 1847, 33 years after the end of the Peninsular War ,a General Service Medal was belatedly authorised t ocover the Napoleonic War (except Waterloo) . It is calledthe "Military General Service Medal 1793-1814" . Up t o15 "bars" were actually issued, including, of course, forthose great victories in the Peninsular War . (The barswere fixed to the medal ribbon) .

It is a sad thought that if Lt Col Havelock, who haddistinguished himself as a very young officer in thePeninsular War, had actually received his medal, hewould not have had long to enjoy it . He was killedleading the 14th at Ramnuggur in 1848, and his medal i snow in our Museum .

MAU- S

Foreword 195 1The following Foreword was written by the CommandingOfficer as the Regiment was about to leave Catterick i n

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By Lieutenant-Colonel R . J . Stephen . MBE

Although the Regiment has progressed satisfactorily i nall respects, there have been several highlights duringthe past year . It started well, with our victory in th eCavalry Cup : let us hope this will be the first of man ywins .

Then came the Trooping of the Guidons . It was aprofoundly moving ceremony, carried out with machine -like precision . There is no doubt whatever that ceremonia ldrill has a tremendous effect on morale . 1 only wish tha tall Old Comrades could have been present on thi soccasion ; they would have been really proud of thei rRegiment .

Intimation has been received that official approval ha sbeen given for us to wear the Crossed Kukris emblem o nour dress . As far as is known this is a unique distinctio nand one that is especially gratifying to all who servedwith the 43rd Gurkha Lorried Infantry Brigade . Althoug h

I have nothing to go on, I am certain that we are largel yindebted to the CIGS, Field-Marshal Sir William Slim.for this signal honour .

By the time this is published, I hope that the days o four time as a Training Regiment will be numbered . 1know that the Regiment has acquitted itself well in thi srole, but it is high time that we got back to activ esoldiering . Some will unfortunately have to be left behind .to form the core of the new Training Regiment . Theywill not be forgotten ; their opportunity to rejoin theRegiment will come later .

If our home should be in the South, I hope it will mea nthat many more Old Comrades will visit the Regiment .

Ramnuggur . 1951, must be a bumper reunion, wit hthe first really full house since 1930 .

For those to whom the Army List is not readil yavailable, it may be of interest that, in mid-Novembe r1950, the Regimental List of Officers included on eColonel and no fewer than five Lieutenant Colonels .This number must almost constitute a record in Cavalr yRegiments .


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Regimental Associatio n

THE SCOTTISH REUNIO NBack Row, left to right: Joe Honeyman, Jimmy Burns, Jim MacMaster, Bob Moffatt, Bob Burnett, John Purdie and Alec Harve y

Front Row, left to right : Tom Wilson, Jimmy Wayte, Bill Hainey, Keith Alcock and Jim Eadie

We have had yet another very successful year . Ourmembership has increased by over 90, and our reunion sseem to be more enjoyable than ever . Many membershave found new friends through the Association, whichis most gratifying .

Over 600 members came to the Annual Reunion whic hwas held at Preston in November, of whom 450 sat dow nto an excellent dinner, whilst the remaining 150 or s odecided that liquid refreshment would suffice . The discowas again most popular, and kept the younger onesgoing for most of the night (and a few older ones as well) .The Regimental Band was also present, and entertainedus during the early part of the evening with their usua lgusto and enthusiasm . Next morning (Armistice Sunday) ,we marched proudly to church behind the Band, withthe Guidon on parade . The Colonel of the Regimen ttook the salute . The wreath of remembrance was laid b ySgt Ivor Williams (our only surviving Chelsea Pensioner) ,in memory of all those who are no longer with us . Theservice was followed by a curry lunch, before fina lfarewells were said .We were also fortunate in having a very large turn-out a tthe Combined Cavalry and Remembrance Servic eParade, which was held in London on 3rd May—a factthat did not go unnoticed by members of the Combine dCavalry Committee (see Letters) . "Babs" Burnett, ou rStandard Bearer, had to stand down, as his shoulder wa splaying up, and we were very lucky in having MauriceDrury "volunteer" to take his place . It is not often thatthe Vice Chairman of an Association has to carry aStandard .

After the service, we went to the Inter-Continenta lHotel, where we sat down to a first-class lunch, whic hended about 4 pm. We were again most fortunate in

having the Regimental Band play for us .Various other reunions have been, or are about to

be, held at the various branch areas, of which ful lreports will be published in the Newsletter . In themeantime, congratulations are in order to Henry Gant ,Keith Alcock and Capt Neil Polley, for organisin gsplendid get-togethers in Bath, Glasgow and Dorse trespectively. At the time of writing this article, we lookforward to the results of the Midlands reunion (Ke nTaylor) and North Eastern reunion ("Tiny" Hill), whichare both being held in September .

We are also very much looking forward to our trip toBerlin : 42 Old Comrades are going, and we are gratefu lto all in "Battling B" for agreeing to put us up and put u pwith us . Interest is also being shown by many member sof the Association in our proposed trip to Medicina nex tApril .

The Commanding Officer's speech

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Brodie Williams and Easto

The Medicina Boys . Left to right: Charlie Braithwaite, Les Tri mby, Eric Scott, Eddie Ward, Duggie Fergusson and George ("Toppe r" ) Brown

9 1JOURNAL OF THE 14th/20th KING'S HUSSARS

Letters

Dear Major Williams ,I am writing on behalf of my mother (who is 94), to

thank you for the diary she received in January .She was most interested and pleased to have a

memento of my father ' s old regiment .Madeline Stonehouse (nee Heath )

Dear Sir ,On behalf of Mrs Kirk, I thank you for the Christma s

card and £30 gift, and also for your best wishes .To this 1 add her thanks for the £4 a week allowance ,

as per your letter dated 2 Feb .Mrs Kirk is now 97 years young and, except for bein g

handicapped by failing eyesight, she is remarkably wel land is being well cared for .

Dear Sir ,I extend to you our most sincere thanks for you r

contribution to the Poppy Appeal .Memories of former conflicts fade, but the tragic

aftermath in terms of human suffering goes on . Since theend of World War II, there have been over 70 so-called"peacetime conflicts", in which more than 4,000 Britis hservicemen and women have been killed and over 16,000injured. Many suffer to this day .

All ex-Service people in need rely on us for help . TheRoyal British Legion cares for all who turn to us . Noneof our benevolent work would be possible were it not fo rgenerosity such as yours . We are most grateful .

Appeals Secretar y

Dear Sir ,Received the Hawk journal last week . I served wit h

the Regiment from 1941-45, and it is great to see somany old faces .

On page 110, the Hawk and Elephant saying goodbye .This was drawn by Frank Lindley and photographed ,and I have one .

I am not well enough to attend reunions, so the journa lgives me great pleasure .

J . C. Tippett

Dear Sir ,May I take this opportunity to thank the Regimental

Association for the help I received from the Associationin my time of need after my accident at work in Januar ythis year .

At the moment I am still off work, and not likely t oreturn for some time, as recovery takes time and at th emoment is very slow .

Once again thank you very much .Ex-Cp l

Dear Major Williams ,I write to thank you for your letter which enclosed a

very generous donation of £ ps,400 to the Army Benevolen tFund from the 14th/20th King's Hussars .

I know that my Trustees would wish me to ask you t opass on their thanks to the Colonel and all Members o fthe Regiment for this wonderful gift to Army benevo-lence. In these times when more and more ex-soldiers ,soldiers and their dependants are requesting our assist -ance, gifts such as this are very much appreciated .

We send you and your Regiment our best wishes .Appeals Secretary

Dear Major Williams ,I am writing to thank you very much for the Regimenta l

Journal with the splendid photograph and write-up aboutmy late husband, George Brooksbank—you could no thave paid him a better tribute, for which I am mos tgrateful . This Journal will be treasured for ever, so, onc eagain, I must thank you and the Regiment .

He was very proud to have served with the 14/20 Hand had very happy memories and a good life whil eserving with them .

Thank you once again for the tribute to him .J . C . Brooksban k

Dear Sir ,Thank you very much for sending me the Hawk . It i s

very strange how I miss the Regiment, and now readin gthe Hawk and all the names of my friends is very good .

G . C. Lewi s

Dear Major Williams ,Thank you for sending me a copy of the 1986 Hawk

containing the obituary of my mother, Mrs Pat Robinson .It was very nice to see the scenes from the Norther n

Reunion, as I had accompanied my mother to this, he rlast reunion before her death .

Being aware of the pleasure my mother received fro mher connections with the Regiment, I would like t othank you for the support and comradeship she received ,especially since my father's death .

L . A . North (Mrs )

Dear Sir ,On behalf of the President and all members of the

Committee, I am writing to thank you for the services ofyour Regimental Band at our Annual Parade and Serviceyesterday .

The Bands were an impressive sight and were muc happreciated by those attending ; they were a credit totheir Regiments .

May I also thank you for the efforts put in to producin ga good strong contingent who marched extremely wel land earned some very favourable comments from thedais .

Thank you very much for your support in this, m y firstyear as Chairman of the Association, which has mad emy task that much easier .

B . Lan eCombined Cavalry "Old Comrades "

Dear Major Williams ,I am writing to thank the Regiment for the wonderfu l

help I have been given in tracing my great-uncle, wh oserved with the 14th/20th Hussars for 20 years .

Mr Douglas Hill has been very kind to me, and writte nto many places, researching records, etc ., and going toso much trouble . It has meant such a lot to me and m yfamily in general, as we have his medals, but he die dwithout really telling anyone about his life, except w eknew he was a Hussar and very proud of it .

Now I have his medals framed, along with the Regi-mental Badge, and a photograph of what he would hav elooked like on his horse with uniform, and 1 must sa yalmost every visitor comments on the medals and Badge .

It means an awful lot to us Aussies to know about ou rancestors, as most of us left our heritage behind in you rcountry .

Again thank you .

Mrs Patricia Well s

C. M . WesterbyRBL

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Dear Sir ,I wish to thank you for the kind donation you sent for

my wife and I . I would also like to thank you for the boo k(Hawk) . It was lovely to read about my old Regiment ,and to read about Major Browne ; he was my SquadronLeader and I served under him in Iraq, Persia, Middl eEast, Palestine, Italy and Germany .

The happiest days of my life were spent with 14/20 H .Once again, thank you .

Dear Colonel Ross ,On behalf of The Princess I am writing to convey He r

Royal Highness's sincere thanks and appreciation to Al lRanks of the 14th/20th King's Hussars Association fo rtheir kind message of congratulations on becoming Th ePrincess Royal .

(Signed) Lieutenant Colonel Peter Gibb sPrivate Secretary to

HRH The Princess Royal

Derby Sweepstake and 142–0 Clu b

Thank you very much to all those who generousl ysupported these two schemes . Other than donations ,they are our only money-raising projects and, withoutyour support, we could not possibly hope to keep thecost of reunions down to the level which they are, or giv efinancial assistance to those in need . Please continue togive your support, it is most appreciated .

Regimental Museu m

The construction work on our new Museum in Preston i sgoing well . The structural alterations are now complet eand the lighting has been installed . Over the next fewmonths, cases will be made to fit our various displays ,and carpets will be laid . We are planning to arrange atour of the Museum sometime during the Reunio nWeekend in November, and a Grand Opening in May1988 . Any item of historical interest that you may hav ewould be most welcome should you wish to donate it t othe Museum .

Ex-Sg t

Buckingham Palace17th June 198 7

Welfare

We offer sincere thanks to all serving members of th eRegiment for giving up a day's pay each year to th eWelfare Fund and, as can be seen by the summary of th eaccounts shown below, it is still very much needed toassist those who are not so well off, or who have had the

misfortune to fall on hard times . We have had over 50appeals for individual grants so far this year, most o fwhich are well and truly backed up by SSAFA reports ,and all those whom we have helped are very grateful .

The audited accounts are as follows :

Welfare Fund (31st March 1987 )

Income£

Donations and Subscriptions 11945Investment Income 3395Tax Received One Day's Pay 3544Interest from Deposit 1083Grants ABF 3388

£23355

Income over Expenditure £5650

Expenditure

Grants—General 595 8Grants—ABF 140 0Subscriptions and Donations 76 0Regimental Museum 2000Working Expenses 70 5Printing and Stationery 147 7Sundries 62 7Accountant's Fees 117 7Computer Depreciation 120 1Regimental Journal 2400

£17705

Regimental Association Fund (31st March 1987 )

ExpenditureIncome£

Shop

Profit

467 .30Building Society Interest 515 .69Donations 1601 .1 4Postage 69 .1 3142-0 Club 692 .00Derby Sweep 1056 .49Adjustment 3 .68

£4405 .43

Income over Expenditure £2876.95

£Postage 242 .7 8Presentations 130 .6 1Stationery 71 .4 8Reunions 38 .3 0Working Expenses 174 .4 2Grants 693 .6 0Public Relations 58 .7 9Adjustment 39 .00Derby Sweep 50 .00Bank Charge 29 .50

£1528 .48

Balance as per last Balance Sheet £ 14454 .49Add Excess of Income 2876.95

Net Capital and Fixed Assets £ 1733 1 .44


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ObituaryListed below are obituaries of ex members of the Regiment who have died this year . Many members o f

the Association take time to attend the funerals of those who have died . We would dearly like to publish th enames of those who have attended but space does not allow . However, we are most grateful to all thos ewho manage to represent us both as friends and as members of the Association at the funerals of those whohave passed away.

Mrs Yvonne Allen ("Vonnie" )

This picture tells the story of Vonnie's life since shemarried the then Major Forty Allen on 7th Septembe r1946 . From that day until her tragic death in Scotland i nMay 1987, they were inseparable . Forty's interests wereVonnie's interests ; Forty's friends were Vonnie's friends .It is not therefore surprising that Forty's Regiment wasVonnie's Regiment . We all have recent memories of he rat reunions, inquiring with genuine concern and interes tabout our wives, children and even grandchildren ; of he ralmost childlike excitement if we were winning a pol omatch ; of the sheer fun of just being with Vonnie .

Her identification with Forty and his interests tended tohide her own strong character . She could be forthright i nexpressing her views, particularly those whose behaviou rdid not match up to her own high standard, yet she wa snever unkind to anyone . She always had a sympatheti cear for the problems of others and was a ready source o fstrength, comfort and support to those who needed it .

A measure of the affection in which she was held in the

Regiment was the number who came to the Thanksgivin gService in the City . To describe what Vonnie meant to s omany people, I can do no better than quote from theBidding Prayer used on this occasion : "We remembe rVonnie for her infectious enthusiasm and zest for life ;for her concern and affection, and loyalty to her man yfriends ; her friends of many generations and all ranks i nColonel Forty's Regiment, of which she was so proud ;her friends and neighbours, particularly in Sussex an dSuffolk ; her friends who are her relations and godchildren .All of us are the better for having been members o fVonnie's large family . But, above all, we remembe rVonnie for her unswerving support and devotion t oForty, over 40 years of friendship and supremely happ ymarriage" .

The knowledge that he has the profound sympath yand affection of many generations of Hawks may help t osustain Colonel Forty in his tragic loss, a loss which i sshared by the whole family of his Regiment .

Those who attended the Thanksgiving Service may lik eto know that a splendid donation was sent to the Roya lCommonwealth Society for the Blind, thanks to theirgenerosity. The National Appeals Administrator, in herletter of thanks, said that "this magnificent gift" will beused in the Society's eye-care programme in Asia . Sheadds the hope that all who contributed may agree that thi srelief of human suffering represents a fitting memorial .

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Mrs Edith Winifred NaltyWe regret to announce the death of Mrs Edith Natty ,who died on 19th September 1986 . Edith was the wido wof the late Edward Nalty . She was a staunch member o fthe Regimental Association and was kind enough t oleave £ 1,000 to the Old Comrades' Fund in her will .

Ex-Sgt D . J. HirstDouglas Hirst died on 19th October 1986 in Somerset .He served in the Regiment throughout the war, enlistingin August 1940, and was discharged in January 1946 .

He leaves a widow . Eileen, to whom we offer ou rsympathy .

Joseph LeeJoe Lee died in Kirkham, near Preston, on 3rd Novembe r1986 . He enlisted into the REME in 1942, and serve dwith 47 RTR, transferring to the Hawks in 1943, wher ehe served until his demob in 1946 . Our condolences ar eextended to his wife Dorothy .

John Nestl eFrom the end of the war years until the late 1960s, whe nhe retired to Cyprus, John Nestle's somewhat portl yfigure, bestrung with camera, was a familiar sight a tBritish equestrian events . He was the prototype of th eequestrian writer/photographer, and he became an exper tat the now-declining art of the "equestrian portrait" .

As a writer, he was nothing if not versatile, turning hi spen to all sorts of subjects, from hunting to pony-breeding .to travel features, to show-jumping .

He died peacefully at his home in Cyprus and . inaccordance with his wishes, he was buried in the famil ytomb in Sutton, Surrey .

Originally commissioned in the 14th/20th King' sHussars . John Francis Nestle was a very confident horse -man and for many years hunted in the Shires . He wasalso a sound and perhaps under-rated judge of horse sand ponies, being possessed of a natural eye .

A frequent visitor to South Africa, he was somethin gof a pioneer in the tradition of English judges . beinginvited to officiate at that country's principal shows .

With Phyllis Hinton, who was editor of Ridingmagazine until 1965, he was largely responsible for muc hof that magazine's content and played a major part in it ssuccess .

His was an innovatory talent and he made a rea lcontribution to the horse world . That he did not receiv efull recognition was perhaps as much due to the abrasiv echaracter which he occasionally effected as to anythin gelse .

But, beneath, there was an intensely likeable . some-what vulnerable man, capable of great generosity an dkindness .

Sydney Arthur NichollsEx-Cpl Sydney Nicholls sadly passed away on 30t hDecember 1986 . He joined the Regiment in India i n1936 and was medically discharged in 1944 . He was avery good member of the Regimental Association .

Our sympathy is sent to his wife Daphne .

Mrs V. ThurgoodWe regret to announce the death of Mrs Valeri eThurgood, who died on 21st June 1987 . Our condolence sare extended to her husband, Charles Thurgood .

William Francis Casey (Stockwell )We regret to announce the death of ex-Trooper Willia mCasey, who died in Scotland on 7th March 1987, aged 70 .

William joined the Regiment in June 1935 and worke din C Squadron and B Echelon . He was later seconde dfrom Poona to Recce with the Chindits, before Wingat e 'sadvance. He finally left the Army in 1944 . Afterwards h ebecame a show-jumping instructor and a very activ emember of the Fort William Rifle Club, where he coache dthe 51st Highland Division, Army Cadets and Police . Healso did some time at university, where he obtaine dthree degrees . Our condolences are extended to hi swife, Mrs Jean Stockwell .

Lt Charles Frederick Smith, MBE, 20 H

We very much regret the death of one of our old 20t hHussars, Lt Charles Smith, who died in Somerset on 8t hApril 1987 . Charles was born on st August 1897 an dserved in the 20th Hussars from 1916 until we don' tknow quite when! We are told that he was certainly on eof the oldest living Army officers trained at Sandhurs tand the oldest member of the Regiment .

He was awarded the MBE 67 years ago for his servic eto the Deputy Assistant to the Adjutant General inRussia during the First World War . He was frequentl yvisited by Audrey and Jack Randall, and was mostpleased when Capt Polley went to see him . He was a veryproud member of the Regiment .

Captain John Trevor Williams

John died in hospital on 23rd August 1987, after severa lmonths of declining health . It was typical of him that ,despite his own poor state of health, he managed toattend the Thanksgiving Service held on 14th July 198 7for the wife of Colonel Forty Allen, who had died after atraffic accident . Although in reply to questions he sai dthat he felt fine, it was evident to those who knew hi mthat he was far from well . He realised just how ill he was ,but never complained .

John was educated at St Paul's School and Jesu sCollege . Oxford . After his first year at Oxford, he joine dthe Royal Armoured Corps in 1941, and was commis-sioned into the 1st Northants Yeomanry . Subsequently . i ncompany with George Camburn, he joined the 14th/20t hHussars at Shaiba (Iraq), where he came under th efatherly care of Maj George Swallow, commanding H QSquadron . John remained with the Regiment until h eleft the Army in 1945, serving in Egypt, Syria, Lebano nand, of course . Italy . Late in 1945 . he returned to Oxfor dfor two years to complete his MA in law .

In 1947 he joined the senior branch of the Home Civi lService, working at various times in four Ministries ,including Defence . Then, in 1967, he transferred to theDiplomatic Service, with postings to New Zealand, th eNATO Defence College in Rome, the British Embassy ,Dublin, the Northern Ireland Office, and elsewhere ,until he retired in 1976 . Whilst in New Zealand, h evisited our affiliated Squadron, Queen Alexandra' sSquadron, RNZAC, and sent an interesting account toThe Hawk .

During his time as Deputy Head of the British Missio nin Dublin, the embassy building was attacked wit hpetrol-bombs by IRA sympathisers on the night of 2ndFebruary 1972. As the IRA men were breaking in at th efront of the building, the Irish Police were trying to hurry


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the remaining British staff out through the back door .The Special Branch officer detailed to look after John —one of the last to leave—was worried by John's lack ofconcern for his own safety . In an effort to get him t oincrease his pace, he was heard to call out in his broadKerry accent : "Come on, Sur-r, sur-r-ely you can ru nfaster than that!" . John escaped harm, but the buildin gwas burnt to the ground .

In 1974, John's life was blighted by the death of hi swife, Ena . Without her he found that he could no tproperly look after his two daughters ; so, in 1976, hetook early retirement . It is a tragedy that he too has no wgone . His elder daughter, Ariane, is teaching, but th eyounger daughter, Christiane, still has two years of studyto complete a degree in International Law .

John was modest and unselfish, yet very intelligent ; aman of high standards and achievement ; a steadfastfriend ; a loyal supporter of the Regiment at all times ,with a keen sense of humour and a kindness that neve rfailed . He was a valued friend, who will be sadly misse dby all those who knew him .

The Regiment was represented at the funeral by Ma jJ . M . D . Moger, Capt G. Camburn and Lt J . D .Cunningham. Our sympathy goes out to Ariane an dChristiane .

JDC

Ex-WO2 John Taylo rIt is with deep regret that we announce the death of Joh nTaylor, who was tragically killed by gunmen whilst

carrying out security duties in Paderborn, Germany, o n2nd July 1987 . John joined the Regiment at Tidworth i n1970, and spent most of his early career with C Squadron .Having completed various stints at ERE, he then becam ea first-class signals instructor and spent his last few year swith RHQ Troop and 'HQ Squadron .

He was a very loyal and proud Mess member an dmany members of the Sergeants' Mess will recall hisplace at the bar . He was discharged in March 1982 . andtook up employment in Paderborn as a security guard .Our condolences are extended to his widow .

Joseph William SpoonerEx-SSgt (Farrier) Joe Spooner died after a long illnes son 3rd July 1987, aged 76 . Joe joined the Regimen twhilst they were in Aldershot on 27th August 1930 . H ewas a Farrier Corporal with A Squadron in Egypt an dIndia . He was a first-class sportsman who travelle dextensively with the Regimental polo team, taking car eof the horses, and also represented the Regiment a tboxing and water polo . He later saw wartime service i nItaly with the Yorkshire Hussars and RA (PACK) .

Joe was a very good member of the Regimenta lAssociation, which he joined in 1946 . He attendedalmost all of our reunions and visited the Regiment i nGermany twice . He loved the Regiment and the man yfriends with whom he served . He will be sadly missed ,and our sympathy is sent to his wife, Win, and his twodaughters, Vicki and Val .

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Address ListRETIRED OFFICERS, OLD COMRADES AND WIDOW S

This list includes those who have kept in touch with the Regimental Association since they retired and, in particular ,during the last decade .

If any reader knows the address of anyone else who should be included, pray let Home HQ know . Any informationabout changes of address will also be most welcome . Included also is a list of ex-26th Hussars .

RETIRED OFFICERS

Allen, J . A . Esq .Allen, Col R . P . D . F ., MBEAllison, W . A . Esq .Armstrong-Wilson, Maj T . C . R .Astley-Birtwistle, C . P . A . Esq .Athill, W . R . C . Esq .

Baines, Capt J . F . T .Barrow, Capt J . J . D .Baxter, Capt R . D .Beart, Maj G . R . D ., MB EBell-Irving, Capt J .Bentley, Maj W . H ., MBEBird, Maj D . H .Blease, C . J . T . Esq .Boddington, R . S . Esq .Bowes-Lyon, Capt D . J .Bowman, Maj M . F . (REME )Bridges, Capt A . H . I .Brocket, Rt Hon LordBromley, L . P . J . S . Esq .Browning, P . C . Esq .Brunton, Lt Col D . J ., MBEBurt, D . L . Esq .Byrde, Capt A . W .

Camburn, Capt G . A .Cameron, N . St C. Esq .Cameron-Hayes, J . C . Esq .Cavendish, Maj Gen P . B ., CB , OBEChancellor, Maj J . L . M .Charlton, Maj L . R .Clarke, Maj P . C ., CV OClifford, Lt Col P. R . H .Codrington, S . M . Esq .Colbourne, Capt V . L .Colquhoun, Maj T . A .

Cornish, Capt R . F ., MV OCrocker, Maj H . J ., BEM (R SIGS )Cunningham, J . D . Esq.

Dalzell-Piper, L . D . Esq ., B ADashwood, Maj Sir Richard, B tDavis, Maj M . G . S .Dixon, Capt H . M .Donovan-Anne, Maj J . S. A .Dromgoole, Capt J .

Escott, Maj J . J .Evans, Capt A . J . C . H .Eyre, Maj J . V .

Fenwick, Capt P . T .Fernsby, Capt R . F .Finneron, J . Esq .Fooks, M . O . J . Esq .Fradgley, A . P . H . Esq .Frazer, Lt Col S . R . M .

Garnett, C . P . Esq .Giddins, G . E . B . Esq .Gimlette, M . C . D . Esq .Giuseppi, G . St A . Esq .Good, Col A . B .Goodhart, J . H . Esq .Goodhart, Lt Col M . H.Gordon, J . B . M . Esq .Gould, Dr . P . C . E .Gowlett, Maj J . D .Grieve, Capt A . T.Groundes-Peace, Dr . J . V ., MB EGroves, J . F . Esq .Groves, Capt P . L . J .

Hamilton, Capt B . R .Harris, Maj R . E . D ., MBE, MCHarrison, Capt S . H . J .Hay, Maj M . (REME )Heath, Lt Col D . A., MC.Henderson, J . A . Esq .

66 Eccles Road, London S W 11Easton House, Easton, Near Woodbridge, Suffolk IP130EEThe Brake, Easter Compton, Bristol, Avon BS12 3RJBruntshielbog, Canonbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotlan d62 Beaumont Road, London W4 5A PScaldbeck Cottage, Morston, Holt, Norfol k

57 Hazelwell Road, Putney, London SW 15 6UTCamp Farm, Farmington, Northleach, Glos GL54 3NGLongburton House, Near Sherborne, Dorse tYearlstone House, Bickleigh, Tiverton, Devon EX16 8RLWhite Hill, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, ScotlandRAC Ranges, Castle Martin, Merrion, Pembroke, Dyfed, South Wales SA71 5E BRussetts, 24 Whitby Road, Milford-on-Sea, Hants So40N D141 Lichfield Road, Four oaks, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands B74 2R YOakfield House, Cholmondeston, Winsford, Cheshire CW7 4D PHeriot Water, Heriot, Midlothian, Scotlan dCommanding, 11 Armd Wksp, REME, BFPo 106Shimplingthorne, Shimpling, Bury St Edmunds, Suffol kBrocket Hall, Welwyn, Herts AL8 7X GThe Little House, Hurst, Reading, Berks RG10OBFEggardon Hill Farm House, West Compton, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 OE YBadgers Holt, The Firs, odiham, Hampshire RG25 1P PSilton, Peaslake, Surrey GU5 9SRStonefield, Kimmeridge, Near Wareham, Dorset BH2O5PE

29 Thames Crescent, Maidenhead, Berks SL6 8EY8 Denny Street, Kennington, London SEll 4UXThe Mushroom Cottage, 450 North County Road, Palm Beach, Florida, USA 3348 0The Rock Cottage, Middleton-by-Youlgrave, Bakewell, Derbyshire DE4 1 LSHolt Farm, North Cheriton, Near Templecombe, Somerse t4 Ebbes Lane, East Hannay, Near Wantage, oxon OX12 OH LPark Stream Cottage, Horsebridge, Stockbridge, Hants S020 6PUManor Farm, Frampton-on-Severn, Glos GL2 7E PYamato Seimei Buildings, 1–7 Uchisaiwai-Cho, 1-Chome, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo 100, Japan97 South Road, Bretherton, Near Preston, Lanes PR5 7A THigher Norris Mill, Bockhampton, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 8QLWashington, Foreign & Commonwealth office, King Charles Street, London SW 1Go Loc Gar House, 12 Queen Elizabeth Close, Shefford, Beds SG 17 5L E18 Leopold Avenue, Wimbledon, London SW19

48 Cathles Road, Balham, London SW 1 212 Spencer Mansions, Queens Club Gardens, London W I4 9L THighland, Southstoke, Bath, Avon BA2 5s HHawthorn View, Horest Lane, Denshaw, Saddleworth, Lanc s3 Manor View, Oswaldkirk, Hemsley, Yorks42 Upper Montague Street, London W1H 1FP

5 Mythop Avenue, Lytham St Annes, Lanes FY8 4H ZFlat 4, 7 Egerton Gardens, Knightsbridge, London SW3 2BPCromwell House, Haresfield, Stonehouse, Glo s

The Court House, Chipping Warden, Near Banbury, Oxon OX17 1J ZThe Lane House, Patmore Heath, Albury, Ware, Herts SG11 2LVSantiani, Mallorca, Spain .Lindwood, Dane Hill, Haywards Heath, Sussex RH17 7H EApplegarth, Waterden Close, Guildford, Surrey GUI 2B AFergwm Farm, Cwmdauddwr, Rhayader, Powys LD6 5HA

Quakers Orchard, Peaslake, SurreyFlat 4, 120 Cambridge Street, London SW 17 Ashcombe Street, London SW6PO Box 132, Gosford, NSW, Australia 225 0Sumersbury Cottage, Shalford Common, Guildford, Surre yGreat Givendale, Pocklington, York, YO4 2T TThe Barn House, Hurstbourne Priors, Whitchurch, Hants RG28 7RU227 Stephendale Road, Fulham, London SW6Alderley, 3 Bishops Close, Ilsham, Marine Drive, Torquay, Devo nThe old Rectory, Much Hadham, HertsBrimpton House, Brimpton, Near Reading, Berks .Filkins Moor House, Filkins, Lechlade, Glos GL7 3JJ1 Stanhope Place, London W2The Old Rectory, Great Langton, Northallerton, North Yorks DL7 OTE

285 Dunham Place, Glen Rock, New Jersey 07452, US AEden Croft, Wetheral, Carlisle, Cumbria CA4 8H A11 Girton Close, Mildenhall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP28 7P THQ 12 Armd Bde, BFPo 36RRI, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 4V 1Holly Hill, Well, Near Bedale . North Yorks


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Hewitt, Dr . H . B ., M DHews, Capt R . G .Heyer-Lyford . Maj M .Hicks, E . J . N . Esq .Hicks, T . P . Esq .Hill, Maj M . E . RAPCHill, Capt M . N .Hinton, D . A . Esq .Hoare, Maj P. A .Holderness-Roddam, T . D . Esq .Hope, Capt M . L . A .Huelin, L. P . Esq .Hughes, M . C . Esq .

Inchiquin, Rt Hon Lord

Jarrett, Capt C . T .Johnston, Maj C . F .Joynson, Lt Col H . C . W . G .

Keith, J . R . C . Esq .

Lambert, M . De G . Esq .Lawrence, P . G . Esq .Ling . R . G . Esq .Long, R . C . Esq .Longstaff, Capt C . C .Lynch, Capt P . G .

MacGregor, Maj J . C . W .MacKereth . Maj N . A . (RAPC )MacPherson, F . E . C . Esq .Maitland, Capt J . R . B .Mann, C . J . Esq .Mann, Capt R . J .Marnham, Maj P . H .Mathews, Dr . J .McClure, Capt R . A .McFarlane, Capt A . C . S .Melitus, Capt P .Micklem . Maj E . J .Miller, Lt Col H . D . T .Milne, P . A . F . Esq .Mitchell, Maj G . J .Moffatt, Capt P . H . H .Moore, Maj B . E .Mosse, Capt P . S .Musker, R . J . M . Esq .Mylchreest . Capt M . D .

Oakshott, The Hon . Ma jOliver, Capt R . W .

Palmer . J . D . F . Esq .Palmer, Maj Gen Sir Michael, KCVOPark, Maj C . A .Patrick, R . A . Esq .Paul . Capt C . E . . M CPearson, Maj J . P . S .Pemberton . Maj C . A .Pharo-Tomlin . Col J . A .Pike . Capt G . E .Pownall-Gray, D . Esq .Prevett, Maj A . F . . J P

Ramsay, A . G . P. Esq .Reid . Maj W . A . L . . M CRoberts, Lt Col R . M ., OBERoss . Lt Col C . C . G .Ross . C . P . Esq .Russell . R . G . Esq .

Sadler, Maj D . A .Sanford, Capt A ., MiSM RAMCScarr, Maj D . E . R ., CB EScott-Dickins, Maj G . L .Sheen, Maj E ., MB EShipton . A . A . Esq .Smith . I . D . Esq .Steil, L . V . EsqStockton, Lt Col W . J . . OB EStoddart . D . R . Esq .Stoddart, P . L . B . Esq .Stopford-Sackville . L . G . Esq .Stratton, J . Esq .Sturt, Maj A . R .Sullivan . Maj G . L . . MBE M CSumner . Capt D . D .Swallow . Maj G . H .Symons, Maj J . N .

Talbot . Lt Col G . A . L . C .Tayleur . Col B . C . L . . OB ETaylor, M . A . B . Esq .Tilney . The Rev Col H . A . R . . OB ETrueman, Lt Col L . E . . MBE M MTubbs . Maj V . J .

16 Arnett Way, Rickmansworth, Herts WD3 4DA4 Kilmaine Road, London SW 6Rye Farm, Barns Green, Sussex2 Old School Close, Hartley Witney, Hants RG27 8H Qt3 Woodend Drive, South Ascot, Berk sGarrison Paymaster, HQ Rheindahlen Garrison, BFP o 40The old Mill, Hoarwithy, Hereford HR2 60H .c/o Hintons Ltd, Po Box 24, Master Road . Thornaby . Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland . 'FA 17 9A DGyleburn, By Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire . Scotland . DG11 I I B YChurch Farm, West Kington, Chippenham . Wilts SN 14 7J E3O Steep Hill . Lincoln, Lincolnshire LN2 iLU48 Cathles Road . London SW 1 29 Park Place, St James ' s Street . London, SW IA I L X

Thomond House, Dromoland . Newmarket-on-Fergus . Co Clare . irelan d

Hamfield, Painswick, GloucestershirePriors Meadow, Peasmore, Near Newbury . Berks RG I6 OJ JCalverlei House . Chawleigh . Chumleigh, North Devon EXIS 7H L.

Manor Farm Cottage . Michelmersh, Near Romsey, Hampshire

Barkham Manor, Piltdown, East Sussex TN22 3X ESerens Hall, Milder) . Near ipswich, Suffol kRockhampton Riding Establishment, Berkeley . GlosAshton Place, Ashton, Bishops Waltham, Hants So3 I F QKeepers Cottage, Lockington . Driffield, East Yorkshire Yo25 9S LThe old Vicarage, Lyminster, Littlehampton, West Susse x

38 Pickards Way, Wishech, Cambridgeshire PEI3 iS DCroft House, Garmancarr . Wistow, Near Selby, North Yorks YOS OU WFlat 2, f Harbut Road, London SW I I iRAPenguelle, Hids Copse Road, Cumnor Hill . Oxford OX 2oxleaze Farm, Filkins, Lechlade, Glo sHartwell Farm . Ready Token, Cirencester . Glos GL7 5S YGarden Cottage, Encombe, Wareham, Dorset BH2O5LW3 Succoth Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland EH f2 6B R33 Ennismore Gardens, London, SW7 IAEI D and D . BFPo 80 5Pipers Ash, 46a Southampton Road, Lymington, Hants So4 9PGMoses Cottage, ivinghoe Aston Farm, Leighton Buzzard . BedsWaterhouse Farm . Layham . Near Hadleigh, Ipswich . Suffolk iP7 5R ADeverel House, Milborne St Andrew, Blandford . Dorset DTI I OL ALendor House, 47 Hampton Dene Road . Tupsley, Herefor d211 Stewarton Road, Dunlop, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire KAo3 4A D2 Wentworth Court . Southlands, Kirkham, Lancs PR4 2U RThe Orchard, Bishops Caundle, Near Sherborne . Dorset DT9 5N FSouth Orchards, Hurst, Reading. Berk sBowcombe Cottage, Kingshridge . South Devon

Barwhinnock . Twynholm, Kirkudbright, Scotlan dThe White House . Main Street, Alne, North Yorks Yo62L B

Flat 14, 15a Courtfield Road, London SW 5Talbothays Lodge, West Stafford, Dorchester, Dorset D12 8A LMill House . Mill Lane, Broadfield, Manningtree, Essex CoI 12U/ 1Kencot House, Lechlade, Glos28 Henderson Road, Wandsworth, London, SWI8 3R RCourtney House, Courtney Road, Winchester . Hants57 Elsynge Road . London SWI 8Peverel, Leigh, Near Reigate . Surrey RH2 8N XBarclays Bank international, Staff Dept . Barclays House, Poole . Dorset BH I5 2B BThe Manor, Abbots Ann, Andover . HantsGreys . 35 Chaplin Close, Galleywood. ChelmsfordRoecliffe Lodge, Corbridge . Northumberland2510 Divisadero Street, San Francisco . California . USA 9411 523 Lugano Close, Westlands, Newcastle . StaffsWishford House . Near Salisbury . Wilts SP2 OP QEast Combe Farm, Bishops Lydeard . Taunton . Somerset TA4 3A VChurch Farm . Farthingstone . Near Towcester. Northants .

37 Gosling Stteet, Emu Heights 2750, New South Wales . Australi aPersonnel officer . British Military Hospital . Berlin . BFPo 452 Malvern Lodge, Malvern Place, Cheltenham, Glos GLSO 2J NEnfield, Risbury, Near Leominster, Herefordshire HR6ON W93 Blackgate Lane . Tarleton, Preston . Lancs PR46U TThe Old Rectory, Alderley, Wotton-under-Edge . Glos (IL 12 7O T17 Wood Street . Swanbourne, 61)10 Western Australi a132 Loudoun Road, London NW8ON DWindrush House, Park Road, Hook Norton . Banbury, oxon oX I5 5P XThe old Rectory, Hoggeston . Bletchley . Buck sNorth Rye House, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos GL56OX UDrayton House . Lowick, Kettering . Northant sArchway, School Lane, Lower Brailes . Near Banbury . oxonTurret House, I Brassey Road, Bexhill-on-Sea . Sussex TM40 I D LCoin Varin House, St Peter . Jersey . C iThe Glebe House . Barrington . Near ilminster. Somerset3 Lautel Drive, Southmoor . Abingdon . oxon oX I3 5DGYew Tree Cottage . Rectory Lane, itchen Abbas . Winchester . Hant s

Pleasant Cottage . Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Wallingford . oxon OX I)) OR JPo Box f4847, Westlands, Nairobi, Keny aFasigtipton . 4O Elmont Road, Box 36 . Elmont, New York 1100 3Old Victoria House . Burnham Market, Kings Lynn, Norfol k16 Mount Road . West Kirby . Wirral, Merseyside L48 2H LThe old Rectory . Ullingswick, Near Hereford HRI 3JQ

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Tunnicliffe, Capt D .Turnbull, M . Esq .Tyers, Maj R . F .

Urban-Smith, Maj M . A ., MC

Valdes-Scott, Maj F . J . A .Vale, Maj T ., MB EVaughan, D . A . J . Esq ., Q CVickers, Lt Col J . W . C . (REME )Vickery, Capt P . R . G .Villiers-Smith, T . F. Esq .

Walsh, Lt Col E . G . W . T .Wates, P . C . R . Esq .Webb, G . H . Esq ., CMG , OBEWheaton, R . H . S . Esq .Whittington, Capt P . J .Williams, Maj D . A . J . . MBE, J PWilly, C . D . C . Esq .Winterton, N . Esq ., M PWinterton, R . N . Esq .Wise, Capt R . H . D . St G .Wood, R . T. F . Esq .Wood, Lt Col W . H . D .Woodd, Capt A . R . B .Workman, P. J . Esq .

Brailey, Mrs B .

Cheyne, Mrs E . M .Clayton, Mrs S .Clifford, Mrs P .Craig, Mrs E .Crowshaw, Mrs

Drew, Miss P .

Easton, Mrs L .

Garbutt, Mrs A .Giles, Mrs V . M .

Gillard, Miss L . M .Gordon, Mrs F .

Hare, Mrs G . T.

Hibbert, Mrs J .

James, Mrs S .

Jude, Mrs B .

Kershaw, Mrs W .

Lane, Mrs E .Lloyd, MrsLoraine-Smith, Mrs M . N .

Mann, Mrs J . J .Moore . Mrs P .Munro, Mrs R .

Nadin, Mrs H .Naylor, Mrs J . E .

Pemberton, Mrs J . B .Plunkett, Mrs E . M .Potts, Miss K .

Reed, Mrs P .

Shepherd, Mrs J .Sherwood, Mrs N . B .Spooner, Mrs W .Stephen, Mrs R . J .Studd . Mrs E . B .

Terrey, Mrs J .Thomas, Mrs N .

Williams, Mrs A . J .Woodd, Mrs D .Wootton . Mrs E .

Abbott . A .Adamson, J . S .Aindow, D . B .Ainscow . R .

Alcock, K .Alcock, R . T .Allen . S .Allsopp . D . A .Alvin . F .Angel . A . E .Annis . D . W .Argent . S .Ash, W . E .Ashton, J .Ashwell . M . B .


Officer Commanding, 9 PLSU RPC, Minden, BFPo 2 9277 Kennington Road, London SE1 1PO Box 79, Naivasha, Kenya

23 Sunnyside Park, St Ives, Ringwood, Hants BH24 2N W

Woodwalls House, Corscombe, Dorchester DT2 ONT26 Glebe Close, Southwick, Brighton, East Sussex BN4 4T F50 Oxford Gardens, London W l0 5U N75 The Drove, Andover, Hants SPIO 3P AGut Schaferhof, 3492 Brakel, West GermanyManor Cottage, Stonegate, Near Wadhurst, East Sussex TN5 TE L

Victoria House, Akeley, Buckingham . MK18 5H RBellasis House, Dorking, Surrey RH4 6E JWeavers, Danes Hill, Woking, Surrey GU22 7H QThe Maltings, Harpers Hill, Northlew, okehampton, Devo nBarns oak, Waldron, West Heathfield, Sussex120 Greencroft, Penwortham, Preston, Lanc s2 Currie Hill Close, Wimbledon, London SW 19 7D XWhitehall Farm, Newbold Astbury, Congleton, CheshireFlat A, 23 Varna Road, Fulham, London SW6 7LBAshfold Cottage, Rusper, Horsha, Susse x53 Stapleton Road, London SW1 7Frog Hall, Felsham, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk10 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh, Scotland EH7 5B NBarn Lodge, 24 Cherrington, Tetbury, Glo s

WIDoWS AND LADIE S

Tadhill, Ventnor Road, Kenilworth, Capetown 7700, South Afric a

Esslemont, 8 Bramley Garth . Appletree Village, York Yo3 ON G18B Castlemaine Road, Littlemoor, Weymouth, Dorse tFrampton Court . Frampton-on-Severn, Glo s80 Rossall Road, Cleveley s2 Manor Avenue, Little Lever . Bolton, Lancs .

Flat 17, The Reldas, oyster Street, old Portsmouth, Hants Po1 2J B

t05 Mansfield Crescent, Armthorpe, Near Doncaster DN3 2A R

West Garth, Tollerton, North Yorks Yo6 2E AThe Lawns, 52 Salterton Road, Exmouth, DevonSt Clare, 1t3 Beech Lane, Earley . Reading, Berks RG6 20DMilton Mills, Milton Abbas, Blandford, Dorse t

Lal Oda, 96 Langton Road, Norton, Malton, North York s59 Eddleston Drive . Clifton Estate, Nottingha m

Montpelier Cottage, High Street, Hindon, Salisbury, Wilt s15 Clements Street, Birkby, Huddersfield, York s

I Eton Road, Trusthorpe, Mablethorpe, Lincs LNI2 2P X

28 Abingdon Road, Melton Mowbray, Leics LEI3OS B53 Bedford Road, Bootle, Merseysid eHounds Leap, 108a The Common . Broughton Gifford, Wilts SN 12 8L Y

16 Church Street, Meysey Hampton, Cirencester, Glos GL7 5J X15 Heather Close, Whitehall, Bordon, Hampshir e49 Prenton Road West, Prenton, Birkenhead, Merseyside

23 Central Drive, Walmersley, Bury, Lanes BL96RP9 Lambton Street, Pemberton, Wigan, Lancs WN5 8B J

8 Back Lane, Cerne Abbas, Dorset DT2 7J W8 Meon Road, Ashe Hill Park, East oakley, Near Basingstoke, Hants RG23 7A L1 Orchard Way, Orchard Lane . Guiseley, Leeds, York s

Greenhill Cottage . Mill Brow, Marple Bridge, Cheshir e

71 Carlton Road, Glouceste rt3 New Road . Hornsey, London N8 8TAFlat 9 . Welland Court . Stamford Close, Market Harborough, Leics .Chantry, Cap Verde, St Peter ' s Valley, Jersey, C iUpper Hillside Cottage, Little Rissington, Cheltenham . Glos GL54 2N D

2 Greenfield Road, Devizes, Wilts SN l0 5BP21 Moss Lane . Cuddington, Northwich, Cheshir e

14 Gladys Street, Coed Ely, Tonyrefail, Mid Glamorgan, South Wales CF39 8B NBull Farm House, Rolvenden, Cranbrook, Kent TH 17 4N E18 Devon Road, County Bridge Estate, Willenhall, Staffs W V I3 2R R

OLD COMRADES

52 Rathlyn Avenue, Layton, Blackpool, Lanes FY3 8E D41 Ryecroft House, Ashton-under-Lyne . Lancs OL7 OS GBrambles Chine Club, Monks Lane . Freshwater, IOW PO409SX18 Bowgreave Avenue, Brieghtmet, Bolton . Lanc s17 Skelladale, Brae, Shetland, ZE2 9QQ

41 Ashery Drive, Hooe, Plymouth, Devon3 Meadowfield, Fulwood, Preston, Lanes24a Dahlia Road, Kettering, Northants NN 169N Y56 Chetnole Close . Canford Heath . Poole . Dorset BH I7 8B E29 Crowborough Road, Southend-on-Sea, Esse x4 Larup Avenue, Canvey island . Esse x5 Eskdale House, Hough Green, Widnes, Cheshir e50 Threefields, ingol . Preston PR2 7B H50 Wheeler Street, Higher Openshaw, Manchester Mi I24 Sunny Brow Road . Archer Park . Middleton . Manchester M244AE


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Askins . B .Askins, M . A .Aspden, P .Atkinson . A . R .Atkinson . S . K .

Baggallay . C' . R .Bailey, C . A .Baillie . W . O .Baker . F . J .Baker . T. E .Ball . J .Balmer . J .Barber . C . A . H .Barber . D .Barber . P .Barnes . J . L .Barton . S .Bate . G . A .Bateman . D .Bean . F . G .Beckett, W . J .Bell . A . E .Bellinger . D . G .Bennett, A . A .Benson . J .Bentley . B .Bewley . B . F . W .Bingham . G .Bingham . W . J .Birchnell . B . F .Blackwell, F .Blake . F .Blakey . M . C .Blaylock. W . W .Blocke, D . J .Boardman, K .Booth, R . F.Bosher . D .Bostock, M . S . . BE MBowden . L . K .Bowker, M .Bracewell . K . A .Bradbury, B . A .Braithwaite . C . J .Briercliffe, P .Brierley. F . L .Brock . A . F .Brodie . H . M .Brown . A .Brown . B . J .Brown, G .Brown . W . H .Bruniges . E . G .Bryan . K .Buccilli . S .Burge, D . W .Burke . H . W .Burnett, J . R .Burnett . R .Burnham . C . J .Burns, H .Burns . J . A .Burns, W . W .Burrill, L .Bush . M .Butcher. W . M .Butler . R .

Cairns . T .Callaway . W . A .Campbell . E . C .Campling . F . E .Cannell, A . A . L .Carter .] I . K .Chapman, D . R .Chapman, P . A .Charman . C .Chase . R . J .Chedzoy . E . W .Childs . M . D .Chisholm . A .Clark . R .Clarke . D . W .Clarke . J . V .Clarkson . M . H .Clements . J .Cline . P .Clitheroe, R .Cobbin . A . H . M .Cole. G.C.T.

8 Magdalen Way, Worle . Weston-super-Mare . Avon BS22 ((PG29 Whintell Drive . Sandylands . Kendal . Cumbria LA96J"1 '107 Jubilee Road, Middleton . Manchester31 Dinmore Avenue, Grange Park, Blackpool, Lanc s31 Dinmore Avenue . Grange Park, Blaekpool . Lancs

48 Grange Road, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex SS9 2HS .3 Milton Close . Palsrey, Walsall, West Midland s7 Elizabeth Avenue, Bickershaw, Wigan WN2 5T P86 Beamish Road, Cantord Heath, Poole, Dorse t3 School Lane, Lostock Hall, Preston . PR5 5J S7 Knighton Heath Close, Bournemouth . BH 119P P7 Daresbury Avenue, Altrincham, Cheshir e886 Stockport Road, Levenshulme, Manchester M I9 3A E37 Unity Walk, Glossop, Derbyshir e83 High Street, West Glossop, Derbyshire SKI3 8A Z37a Woodville Road, Penwortham, Preston, Lanc s171 Chester Close . Blackburn, Lancs BB I I R E88 Knowsley Crescent . Shawfort, Near Rochdale, Lancs79 Highways Avenue, Euxton, Near Chorley, Lane s6 Spittal Terrace, Gostorth, Newcastle-on-Tyne NE3 IUfI Sandpit Cottage, Ewshott, Near Farnham, Surre y49 Grasmere Road, Freehold, Lancaste r19 overdown Road, Catford, London SE6 3E R49 Congreve Road, Worthing . Susse x21 Martindale Avenue, Fleetwood . Lanesc/o Home HQ . 14/20 H . Fulwood Barracks, Preston . Lancs PR2 4A A12 Burns Avenue, Church Crookham, Aldershot . Hants GU 13(IB N24 Hunter Road, Willesbrough, Ashford . Kent TN24OR Y17 Waddington Close, Lower Croft . Bury, Greater Manchester BL8 2J B10 Cheyne Hill . Surbiton, Surrey KT5 8B N4 Peplow Road, South Yardley, Birmingham 3 3Chanick, Westlands Avenue, Weston-on-the-Green . Bicester, oxon OX68R D63 School Lane, Didsbury, Manchester M20 ()SA10 Fern Croft, Casterton . Carnforth, Lancs4-1 Folding Grove, Scholes . Cleekeaton, West Yorks BD 19 6DQ4 Mallory Drive . Leigh, Lanc s3 Holybush Road, Portway . Warminster, Wilts BAl28K F46 Brookway, Lees, oldham . Lancs 0t .4 5B E3 Waterloo Block, HM Tower of London, London EC3N 4A B17 Malmsmead Road, Llanrumney, Cardiff, South Glam . Wales CF3 90G193 Wigan Lower Road, Standish, Lower Ground, Near Wigan . Lancs WN6 8LD3557 Marshall Street, Vancouver, BC' . Canada . V5N I V 755 Brambleside, Kettering . Northants NN 16 9B P7 Priory Path . Romford, Essex RM3 9A R14 Briercliffe Road, Deane, Bolton, Lanc s5 Spruce Close . Lone Meadow, Creek Moor . Poole, Dorset BH 17 7Y T28 Manor Road, Cheam, SurreyThe Glade, Park Avenue, Farnborough Park . orpington . Ken t14 Croft Field, Belford . Northumberland NE70 7E R66 Anderson Close . Longbarn . Warrington, Cheshirela Woodside Road, Blacon . Chester CHi 5A A113 Kensington Gardens, Darlington, Co Durham Dl .l 4N H5 Kennet Court, oxford Street, Eddington, Hungerford, Berks RG 17 ()E X42 Purslow Close, Beswick . Manchester M I2 6PR18 Boggart Hill Drive, Seacroft. Leeds LS I 494 Summer Street, Stroud Glos GL5 I P E104 Mount Wise, Newquay, Cornwall TR7 IQ P45 Church Road, Basildon, Essex SS164AG3 Holly Terrace, Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, Scotland21 Polwell Lane, Barton, Seagrave . Kettering, Northants5/53 30 Petershill Court, Glasgow . Scotland G21 4Q D30 Eastfield Park Road, Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland EH26 8E XBibbington Hall, Dove Holes . Derbyshire SKI7 8D W4The Elms, Dearnley, Littlehorough, Lancs45 Church Lane, Walney island . Barrow-in-Furness . Cumbria LA 14 3A D50 Manor Road, Blackpool, Lancs FYI 4E BHussar House, 27 St Marys Close, Preston . Lanes PRi 4X N

c/o MaeRea . 26 Rozzelle Avenue, Drumchapel, Glasgow . Scotlan d31 Station Road, Holton Heath . Poole, Dorset BH I6 6J T204 Queens Road, Nuneaton, Warwickshire CV]] 5N D22 Walpole Gardens, Chapelfield Road . Norwich NR2 I R U83 Bramble Drive, Hailsham . East Sussex BN27 3WI Grange Park, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol . Avon BS9 4B U25 Stoneleigh Crescent . Stoneleigh, Ewell . Surrey K1'19(IR T36 New Drake Green, Daisy Hill . Westhoughton, Bolton . Lancs BLS 2R F76 Cremer House, Eccles, Mancheste r119 Bramhall Lane . Cale Green . Stockport . Cheshire SK2 6H Z28 Coombe Dale, Sea Mills, Bristol, Avon BS92J 178 West Coker Road, Yeovil . Somerset BA20 2J AFernlea, Kirkhill, inverness-shire, Scotland3 Egilsay Street . Glasgow, 622 7N T14 Broken Cross . Charminster. Near Dorehester . Dorset DT2 9Q B25 Beechcroft Court, Crowthorne Road, Bracknell . Berks RG 12 4D PCharnwood . Garths Head Road, Appleby . Cumbria (/A I66IR371 Grasmere Avenue . orford . Warrington . Cheshire WA2 ()L A22 Roch Way . Whitefield, Mancheste r50 Mead Avenue, Leyland . Near Preston . Lanes PR5 2F H36 Southside . Clapham Common, London SW4 9B S4 Sunnyside Road . Teddington . Middlesex TW11OIRT

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Coleman . J .Collins . H .Collinson . B . G .Constantine . C .Cooke . B . J .Corbett. A .Corbett . T. W .Corbould . N . B .Cornes . A . F .Cosgrove, I .Cox . J . W .Craig, D .Crawford . R .Crompton . G1 . A .Cubbon, R . J .Cullen. M . J .Cundy, A . E .Cunliffe . C .Cunliffe . P .Cunningham . A .

Danvers . CpI R . J .Daubney. C . M .Davies . E . L .Davies, R .Dawson . J . W .Devine, J .Dickinson . N . F . C .Dimitrov . C .Diver . L . A .Dixon . W . F .Docherty . J . W .Docking . T . W . G .Doodson . C .Dormer . J . C .Douch . A . A .Dowding . K . S .Drake . B . (ACC )Drury . M . H . G .Dunford . R . P .Du Rose . S .

Eadsforth . J . (W02 )Eadie . J .Eames . L . G .Easto, R . W .Easton . K . J .Elding . M . A .Elgie . F . M . G .Elgie . S .Ellender . G . H .Ellison . G .Entwistle . F .Escott . R . S .Essington . F . R .Eyles . E . M .

Fanthorpe . L . G . L .Farrell, A . P .Fergusson . D . J .Fielding . J . K .Fincham . A . H .Fine . J . C .Finlay . R .Finnigan . P . J .Fitzpatrick, D . M .Fleming . J .Fletcher . G . S .Flowers, D . C . (Ron )Flowers . D . J .Flowers . M.T .Flux . R . G .Foster . A . J .Foster . T . J .Fox . D . A .Foxcroft . I . . A .Fraser . J . A .Frost . W .Furlong . R . H .Fury . E . F .

Gant . F . T .Gant . H . S .Gardner . T . A .Gartland . A . J . M .Gates . M . B .Gatward, H . C .Glaze . D . V .Gleadhill . A .Glossop. S . D .Glover . A . M .Graham . J . H .

I I Downside Close . Blandford, Dorse t DT11 7SD78 Linosa Close, Shiel Park . Liverpool L63A Y49 Limetree Road, Croftsland Estate . Ulverston . Cumbria LA I2 9E L2 Fleming Gardens . Clifton Estate . Nottingham NG I I SR II Finch Close, Bold . St Helens . Merseyside WA94U U19 Haylands Avenue . Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria LA 1 420 Highfields Road, East Dereham, Norfolk NRI92E Y23 Tuscany Way . Cowplain, Portsmouth . Hants PO7 8S J13 Brixey Close . Parkstone, Poole . Dotset BH I2 3PE9 Cleaver Road, Southam . Basingstoke . Hants RG22 6S N77 Dursley Road . Kidbrooke. London, SE3 8P G12 Richmond Way . Heswall . Wirral . Merseyside L61 6X H13 Hardwicke Street, Rochdale . Lancs59 Daley Road . Litherland . Merseyside L205 Kirkway Harbour Road, Onchan . isle of Man513 Clonmean, Craigavon . Co Armagh, Northern ireland BT65 4A T17 Stovolds Way . Aldershot . Hants GU 113L R72 Park Avenue, Clitheroe . Lancs BB7 2H W110 Miles Lane, Shevington . Near Wigan . Lancs WN68E Y31 Kilnside Road . Paisley . Scotlan d

D Coy . 2 Para . Bruneval Bks . Aldershot . Hants GUI 12AZ48 Tryfan Close . Redbridge . ilford. Essex 1G4 5J Y55 Eastland Road, Neath, Glamorgan . West Wales SA II IH Y9 Stanbridge Court, Galley Hill . Stony Strafford . Bucks MK11 1N XAppletree Cottage . Little Green . Warmington, Near Peterborough, Northants PG8 6I S4 Stanford Crescent, Liverpool L25 9P N7 Poncoster Court . Dover . Kent CT6 I P G14 Cemetery Road . Ramsbottom . Lancs BLO9P U71 Blaisdon . Yate . Bristol . Avon BSI74TL96 Droylsden Road, Newton Heath, Manchester M 10 6W TLuhnischer Strasse 7 . 3000 Hannover 91 . West German y

Limberlost, 93 Kennilworth Road, Fleet, Hants GU I3 9A Y19 South Parade . Weston Point . Runcorn . Cheshire WA7 4H Z

24 Manor Road . West Wickham, Kent BR4 9P SLyserry Cottage, 28 Lansdown Lane . Charlton Village . London SE7 87 7Sharisend . 493a Semington Road, Melksham . Wiltshire SNI2 6D X17 Victoria Road, Higher Bebington, Wirral . Merseyside

30 Holmoaks . Rainham, Gillingham . Ken t2 Hawkins Road . Springlands. Sudbury . Suffolk CO 1061 BI I Woodside Terrace . Leftwich . Northwich, Cheshire CW98D A

Estate Wardens Office . Stanley Fort, Hong Kong BFPO I15 Park Avenue . Carstairs Junction, Lanarkshire . Scotlan d207 ewit Hall Gardens, illingworth, Halifax . West Yorks HX2 9RJ56(A) Lower Road . Chalfont Saint Peter . Bucks SL9 9A A29 Marshall Close, London N I I iT D45 Walton Avenue, Penwortham, Preston PRi OX RWoodside . ill Cologne Road . Bovington, Wareham . Dorset BH206 NWoodside, f0 Cologne Road . Bovington . Wareham, Dorset BH206 N .I .80 Maple Grove . Fulford Road . York Y0l 4E H14 Ambleside Road. Lancaster . Lancs69 Branwood Street . Bolton, Lanc s13 Savernake Road, Chelmstord, Essex CM 121 746 Parsons Field . Britannia Street, Safford, Manchester M65A USchool House . Pen Green Lane, Corby, Northants

18 Exmouth Road . Hayes . Middlesex UB48L L25 Hill Mount . Dukinfield . Cheshire SK165HT7 Fraser Road . Mill Lane . Cheshunt . Herts ENSOJ WKrinkelbach 4A . 46f0 Dortmund-Holzen . West German y20 Frampton Road . Pimperne, Blandford Forum . Dorset DTi I SU U92 North Lonsdale Road . Ulverston . Cumbria LAI24A N42 Avondale Road . Chesterfield, Derbyshire63 Orchard Road West, Northenden, Manchester M22 4F D3 Links Road, off Hibbert Lane . Marple . Near Stockport . Cheshire SK6 7N X56 Hannahston Avenue . Drongan . Ayrshire. Scotlan d6 Clegg Street, Kirkham . Lancs PR4 2T L108 Stanley Road . Radcliffe . Near Mancheste r22 Sumner Avenue . Ainsworth, Near Bolton . Lancs BL2 SRO12 Wysall Close . Mansfield . Notts NG 19 6E A18 Ashdene Road, Ashurst . Hampshire SO4 2D Pc/o Box 757, HMP Wandsworth, Heathfield Road, Wandsworth . London SW I S34 Woodside, Oswestry . Shropshire58 Gurney Street, Darlington . Co Durham DLI 2H P35 G illing Crescent . Lascelles Park . Darlington . Co Durham DLI 41 H30 James Street. St Mary's . Southampton . Hants SO1 1P J2 Mendip Drive, Milnrow, Rochdale, Lancs oLI6 3H T4 Calveley Road . Bilborough . Nottingham NUS 3B U14 Campbell Court . Osboldwick Lane . York YO1 3PE

30 Shawsway, Twerton, Bath, Avon36 Springfield Holt Road . Bradford-on-Avon . Wilt s5 Chestnut Walk, Holbeck Estate . Barrow-in-Furness . Cumbria LA 13 0B G104 Ford Towers . Ford Estate . Birkenhead . MerseysideLarkrise, Lytton Road, Basingstoke . Hants RG2I 2B J4 Mill Road Terrace . Nairn . Scotland I V 12 5E G54 Parklands View, Sketty Park . Swansea SA 2 SLTI Blairway Avenue . Layton . Blackpool I- Y3 81 119 Lavender Close . Sale . Cheshire M33 5L l94 Station Road . Croston . Preston . Lanc sBraeside . Deanbrae . Hawick . Scotland


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Gray, J . H .Green, D . J .Greenwood, M . J .Gregory, A .Griffiths, B .Griffiths, W . R .Grundy, M . C .

Hadfield, S .Haines, H . L .Hainey, W .Haley, H . G .Hall, B . H .Hall, G . A .Hall, H . H ., DC MHalliday, A .Halliday, A . L .Hamlin, A . S .Hansen, Z . T .Hanson, P . R .Harding, D . S . J .Harding, P . B .Harding, W .Hardwidge, W . T .Harley, M . R .Harman, J .Harris . J .Harrison, A .Harrison, J . A .Harvie, A .Haslam, M . R .Hatton, J . C .Havron, S .Hay, C .Haynes, R . A .Hayter, R . B .Heath, I . C . (WOl(ASM) )Higgs, B . L .Higgs, R . F.Higgins, J . M .Hill . D . J .Hill . E . D .Hobbs, J . M .Hocking . J .Holdaway . E . A . M .Holden, G .Holland, M . R .Holland, R . Y .Holt, D . G .Honeybone, A . S .Hooper, E .Horobin, S .Horsfall, D .Horsfall, J . E .Houghton, S . F .Houldsworth, R . A .Howard . P . A .Humphries, K . A .Hurst, G .Hutchinson . J .Hutton, R . F .

Ingham . D . S .Iredale, J . L .

Jackson, E .Jennings, N . D . C .Johnstone, D . W .Jolly, T . A . (3 H )Jones . E . P .Jones, G . E .Jones, G . T .Jones, Grill T .Jones, H .Jones, R .Jones, R . A .Jones, S .Joyce, G . A .

Kelly, J . M .Kelly, W .Kelsall, T.Kendall, K . J .Kenna, M .Kerr, J . B .King, C . A .Kingston, S . A . R .Kirk, G . V .Kirkham . A .Kirkham . D . J .Knight, B . T .Knowles . G .

60 Abbotts Walk, Fleetwood . Lancs FY7 6QG20 Ellesmere Drive, Cheadle, Cheshire SK8 2J B199 Lees Road, Clarksfield, Oldham, Lancs oL4 iL S12 Great Oven Drive, Northmoor Park, Wareham, Dorse t111 Talbot Road, Blackpool, Lancs FY1 3QX80 Littlebourne Park, Preston Brook, Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 6E Xt3 Hunt Street, Atherton, Lancs M29 9W H

57 Blackshaw House, Bolton, LanesYewgarth, Lyndene Drive . Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria LA I l 7Q P50 Kilnside Road, Paisley PA I I RL, ScotlandWoodside, Ferry View, Horning, Norwich NR128 P33 Bruton Road, Morden, Surrey SM4 5R Y22 Claremont Drive, Mountskip, Little Hulton, Worsley . Mancheste r15 Dudley Avenue, Blackpool, Lancs FY2 OTU27 Ferniehill Square, Edinburgh, Scotland EH I7 7A P10b Forrester Park Grove, Edinburgh, Scotland EH 12 9A J57 Bushfield Road, Crewkerne, Somerset TAI88H W34 Range Road, Whalley Range, Manchester Mt6 8E S124 St Mary's Street, Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire WA4 IE W66 Priory Close, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilt s35 Florence Court, Maida Vale, London W9 iT B31 Clevedon Road, ingol, Preston, Lancs .11 Highbridge Close, Brieghtmet, Bolton, Lanc s52 Stourport Road, Bewdley, Worceste r30 Linaker Street, Southport, Merseyside PR8 6R P703 Foxhall Road, Rushmere St Andrew, ipswich, Suffol k74 Spa Crescent, Little Hulton, Worsley, Manchester M28 6S C105 Spring Lane, Radcliffe, Manchester M26 9S Z

4 Lenzie Road, Stepps, Glasgow, ScotlandI The Beeches, Wendover, Bucks HP22 6P A237 Galahad Close, King Arthurs Way, Andover, Hampshire SP10 4R B33 Cranbrook Road, York YO2 5J BRidgemount, Ovington-on-Tyne, Prudhoe Station, Northumberland NE42 6E DBelmont Lodge, Woodspeen, Newbury, Berks RG148B WBeechcroft, Gipsy Lane . Knebworth, Herts SG3 6DJI I Montgomery Road, Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire DL9 3A Jt1 Cortonwood House, Bond Close, Doncaster, South Yorks DN 1 3S ASparrows, Newbarn Lane, Seer Green, Near Beaconstield . Bucks HP9 2O ZAsst Div offr, Fire Service College, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos GL56 OR H39 Elmfield Avenue, York Yo3 9LX80 The Brambles, Bar Hill, Near Cambridge CB3 8TA310 Lever Street, Radcliffe, Manchester M26 OP T214 Deepdale Road, Deepdale, Preston, Lancs PRi 6LN54 Stepney Green Court, Stepney Green, London El 3LL7 Cromwell Road, Blackpool, Lancs FYI 2RG8 Hillside, Welwyn Garden City, Hert s42 Ashley Gardens, Blandford Forum, Dorset264 Hamilton Street, Atherton, Lancs M29OBB16 Parkhill Road, Barnbydun, Doncaster, South Yorks DN3 1 D P11 Egerton Drive, London SE108J S58 Green Street, Spalding, Geraldton 6530, Western Australi a4O Handforth Lane, Halton Lodge, Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 5X Y416 Grasmere Avenue, Houghton Green, Warrington, Cheshire WA2 OL H23 Whitstable Close, Chadderton, Near oldham, Mancheste r38 Sefton Avenue, Poulton-le-Fylde, Near Blackpool, Lanc sI Robertshaw Avenue, Chorlton, Manchester M2l 2E TValley View, Asterley, Near Minsterley, ShropshireSchubert Weg 4, 3163 Sehnde 1, West German y2t Hunters Hill, Unsworth . Bury, Mancheste rSilverleigh, Main Road West, Kingsdown, Near Sevenoaks, Ken t

32 Cranbrook Avenue, Bispham, Blackpool, LancsHouse-'o'-Hill, Drumblane Strand, Kirkcudbright, Scotland DG6 4E X

35 Seffon Gardens, Aughton, Near Ormskirk, Lancs L39 6R Y15 Lyddon Way, Greenmeadow, Swindon, Wilts SN2 3P E53 Glentrool Road, Lochside, Dumfries, Scotlan d22 Melville Road, Bispham, Blackpool FY2 9J F51 Woodvale Road, Southport, Merseyside26 Pool Rise, Springfield Estate, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY2 6E P25 Yew Tree Crescent, Melton Mowbray, Leicester LE 13 I L N31 Windsor Road, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8OP Y20 Eastfield Road, Armthorpe, Doncaster, Yorks DN3 3L D12 Ash Croft, Catterick, Richmond, North Yorkshire DL10 7PA6t Easton Road, Droylsden, Mancheste r53 Doren Avenue, Rhyl, North Wales1 Constantine Grove, Colburn, Catterick Garrison, North Yorks DL9 4A E

Westphal, Sandy Bank, New York, Near Boston, Lincs LN44Y E5 Derby Avenue, Claregate, Wolverhampton . West Midlands WV69T RPo Box 47279, Nairob iFarthings, 18 Abbotsfield Crescent, Tavistock, Devon PL19 8E Y13 Bleak Street, Tonge Moor, Bolton, Lancs37 Rippleside, Portshead, Avon BS2O9N D9 Ansell Close, Hadleigh, Suffol k4 Pyrus Close, Peel Green, Manchester M30 7QEt3 Milldale Road, Leigh, Lanes WN7 3PP

2O Merton Road, Sale, Cheshire M33 I N A2O Merton Road . Sale, Cheshire, M33 [H A88 Seddon Avenue, Radcliffe . Mancheste r36 Kingash Drive, Yeading, Hayes, Middlesex

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Knowles . J . E .Kyle . A . J .Lander . F . F .Lawless, E .Lawton, R .Layhe . B .Leadbetter . K . H .Leeming . I . K .Lees . C . N .Lemond, J .Leslie, D .Lewis . G . C . J .Lindley, F .Lockwood . J .Lofthouse, A .Lomas, P .Lowden, E . G .Luck, R . E .MacMaster, J .MacSwaw, D . C .MacTaggart . A . G . K .Maddock . J . T .Maggs . Dr D . G . H .Maitland, A . C .Marcelle, J . M .Martland . T.Mason . H .Mason . R .Mather . G .Mather . G . D .Mathews . W . P .Matthews . A . D .Maxfield . T. I .Mayall . A . J .Mayes . D . E .McCarthy . R .McGoldrick . M . T . A .McGowan . M . G .McGuinness . D . M .McKeen. R . I . J .McMullen . J . H .McMullen . I . J .Meehan . C . M .Midgley . P .Millward, A .Millward . E .Moffat . R . M .Molloy . J .Monaghan . J . B . P .Morgan . W . R .Morris . W . T. S.Morton . B . E .Moss . H . E .Moulton . B .Mulholland . J .Mullen. HMullen. R .Naylor . M . R .Nelis . J .Nelson . D . H .New . C . . G1 .Newey . L . J .Niblett . B . K .Nicholls . G .Nicholls . J . C .Nolan . J . J .Nuesink . N .Oakes . S . G .O ' Meara . M . J .Osborn . S . B . . MB EOsborne . C .Osborne . E . L .Padfield . P . B .Parkin . G . J .Parkinson . D . L .Parr . H .Passam . C .Patterson . G . P .Paveley . F . R . D .

Payne . R . NI .Pearce . B . L . R .Pearson . L . M .Peck . ( .C .Peck . M .

Peckham . NI . R . ( .Petherham, C . .1 .Phillips . G . F . D .Plant . D . S .Platt . G . .1 .

12 Lawson Street . Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria LAI42N U373 Manchester Road . Bury . Lancs20 Barbara Road, Hall Green . Birmingham 2800 024 Stoneleigh Road . Springhead. Oldham . Lancs 0L44B H205 Heath Road, Sandhach, Cheshire CW I I TIL E79 Raines Avenue . Worksop . Notts10 Crossfield Drive . Swinton . Manchester M27 3/I N13 St Helens Road . Dorchester, Dorse t44 Abingdon Road . Davyhulme . Manchester M31 IG N56 Keystone Road . Milngavie . Scotland45 Laburnum Grove, Marsh, LancasterBergen 3103 . Diesten 14, Bergen 2, West German y23 Sunnyhill Crescent, Wrenthorpe . Wakefield . West Yorks WF2 ()P R92 Lakeway, Layton . Blackpool, Lancs FY3 8PF27 Clarkson Avenue, Heckmondwike . West Yorkshire WFI69L X16 Wolsley Road, South Shore, Blackpool, Lanc s61 Babis Farm Way, Saltash, Cornwall PLf2 4TA11 Sencler House, Woolwich Road, Abbey Wood, London SE2 OA P

17 Balbeg Street, West Drumoyne, Glasgow, Scotlan dLarachmor Corpach, Fort William, Scotland PH33 L7L Rt Pickering Road, Bently, Doncaster, South Yorks DN5 OH D15 Bradshaw Drive, Honley, Near Huddersfield, Yorks HD7 2E U44 Zeals Rise, Zeals, Warminster, Wiltshire77 Harefield Drive, Glasgow, Scotland G14 9A W16 Stewart Road, Leyton, London E15 2B B14 Sturminster Close, Penwortham, Preston, Lanes PRi 9U PRutledge, 29 Main Road, Littleton, Winchester, Hants S022 6Q Q13 Castle House Lane, Adlington, Chorley, Lane s35 Hamer Street, Radcliffe, Manchester M26 9RS41 Kipling Road . Derker, Oldham, Lanes OL t 4L TTerestyn, Southend Road, Southend, Reading, Berks RG7 6E SLavender Cottage, Willoughby Road . Sutton-on-Sea . Lincs LN I2 2N F49 Anchor Grove . Datwen, Lanes BB3 oBA22 Garthwaite Avenue, oldham, Lancs OL8 4H S43 Otley Road . St Annes-on-Sea . Lancs84 Meredith Road . Stevenage . Herts SG 15Q S70 William Road . Ashford . Kent TN23 IO U(09 Cambridge Street . Atherton . Lancs M29 ()A LLinter Den Birken 7 . 3016 Seelze 3 . Dedensen . West German y16 Woodcroft Avenue . Richhill . Co Armagh . Northern ireland BT61 9J Vv'21 Wilbraham Road . Worsley . Manchester M28 5LJ108 Sealand Road . Chester CHi 4LG7 Birch Avenue . Cadishead . Near Mancheste r9a Oaktree Road . Marlow . Bucks78 Katrina Grove . Purston, Featherstone . Yorks WF7 5LW41 Acacia Drive . Townville . Castleford . West Yorkshire W F I03P FPossilpark Secondary School . 32 Carbett Street . Glasgow G22 5PT20 Conder Road . Grasshoppers Park, Ashton . Preston . Lancs PR2 IP E18 Wordsworth Avenue . Atherton . Manchester M29 9W W18 Undergreens Road . Barrow-in-Furness . Cumbria LA144H N

27 Northcote Walk, Sheepy Meadows . Atherstone . Warwickshire17 Speycourt . Riverway . Andover, Hants SP I() 5H A72 Manor Road North, Hinchley Wood . Esher, Surrey KTIIJIIA D6 Holme Crescent . Royton, Oldham . Lancs oL2 5BI33 Paddington Grove, Bournemouth BH 118N P91 Saxonfield, Coulby . Newham, Middlesbrough, Cleveland IS8 (IS NI I I Saltwells Road . Longsands . Middlesbrough, Clevelan d

10 Grange Road . Mosley Common . Worsley . Manchester M28-1AT6 Dalton Avenue . South Shore . Blackpool FY4 2QFFlat 19 . Burnleigh Court . St Helens Road (Four Lane Ends), Over Hulton . Bolton . Lancs BW5 IL A37 Circle Court . Stretford . Mancheste r3 Springhill Avenue . Penn . Wolverhampton . West Midlands WY/4 4 S

I46a Shevington Lane . Shevington . Wigan . Lancs WN6 8A E21 Addington Road . Buckingham MKI8 iP B4 Forest Range . Levenshulme . Manchester M I9 2E T

8 Ruislip Avenue . Miles Platting . Manchester Ml() 8D G28 The Rise . Darras Hall . Ponteland . Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE209L HClova Cottage . Stoford . Yeovil . Somerset EA22 9U H4 Leslie Avenue . Chadderton . Oldham . Lancs 0L9 7H F41 Anchor Road . Bear Cross . Bournemouth . Dorset BH 119H R14 Glen View . Hollbrook Road . Belper . Derbyshire DE5 I P E

2 8 Thorne Road . Eldene . Swindon, Wilts SN3 6D L

56 Matsden Road . Bath, Avo nIll Oribi Avenue . Leondale, Germiston . 1401 . Transvaal . R South Afric a07 Market Street, Hollingworth . Near Hyde, Cheshire SKI4 SH Y

Hat 90 .90 Orpen Road . Scholing . Southampto n177 Fellows Court, Appleby Street . London E210 The Mount . Tandrager . Co Armagh . Northern irelan d5 Leas Garden, Westcliff-on-Sea . Essex SS() 8J L4 Carr Bank Road . Ramsbottom . Bury . Lanc s41 Bwlch Road . Cimla . Neath, West Glamorgan . Wales SA 113R U

7 Netherfarm Road, Heworth Lane Estate . Heworth . 'I yne and Wear NEl()

R1 1No 4 Hat . Seckford Alms House . Seckford Street . Woodbridge . Sufi ilk 1P12 4N B81 Elson Lane . Gosport . Hampshire PU12 4E L27 Fairlawns . Newmarket . Suffolk CB89J S15 Redwood Road . Upton . Dorset BH It, 5Q A19 New Barn Close . Fleet . Hants GU 13 8H U53a Manor Lane . Penwortham . Preston . Lancs PR I (Ii Ah Brunswick Avenue . Norwich . Bolton . Lancs


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Plumb . D . E .Pomfret, D . A .

Pothecary . R . A .Power, P .Preece, N .Pritchard . P . L . M .Proctor . J . W .

Prunty, D . J .Pulford . D .

Ralphs, G . J .Randall . H . J .Redmond . D . L .Rhodes . R . W .Richards . P . S .Richardson, J . H .Riches . G .Riley . J . S .Riley . R . M .Roache, C .Roadnight . A . K .Roadnight . J . R . K .Roadnight . R . W . K .Robertson, A .Robertson, G . W . M .Robinson . J .Robinson, T . P .Robson . N . R .Rogers . D .Rooke . H . W . S .Rothwell, J . W .(DLOY )Rumble . I . R . . BE MRushton . J . F .Russell, L . E .Rycroft, T. N .

Sakalas-Falcon, R . R .Sands, A . W .Sands, T . E .Scaife, D . H .Scott . E .

Scott, J .Scriven, K . C .

Shadbolt . W . G . (REME)Shakespeare . G . P .Sharp . J .Shaw . M .Shaw . T .

Shirley . I . R . F.Shore, S . G .Sibley . G . C .Simper . D .Simper, G . W .Simpson, A . D .Skelly, T . E . M .Slamon . J . P .Smalley, D .Smith, Barr ySmith, F . H . C .Smith, G .Smith, J . A .Smith . P . D .Smith . R . T .Smith . R . W .Smith, S . G .Souther . G . A .Speakman, P . J .Spencer . A . P .Spring, V . G .Squires-Riley . R . J .Standish . R .Staniford, D . R .Stanton, D . S .Steele . K .Stevens . W . G .Stilwell . G .Stockdale . P .Stokes . R . E .Stokes . R . J .Stokes . S . F.Stone . V . M .

Stuffins, P . J .Sudall, N . G .Sutherland . Wilfred A .Sutherland, William A .Swales . J . H .Symes . W . H .Syms . L . P .

Taberner . A . W .l Taberner . H .I Tasker . G . W .

113 Downton Road . Salisbury, Wilts SP2 8A T6 Swythamley Road . Cheadle Heath, Stockport . Cheshire SK30N E23 Rippon Road . Ansdell, Lytham St Annes . Lancs5050 Salem Court . Colonial Heights . VA 23834, USA27 Upper Street . Maesteg, Glamorgan . South Wales CF34 9D U12 Martin Close, Soham, Ely, Cambs CB7 5EJI I Green Lane . New Eltham, London SE9 2A F175 Winterburn Green . offerton, Stockport . Cheshire SK2 5P G9 York Drive, Great Eccleston . Near Preston, Lancs PR30X U

86 Chatsworth Avenue . Fleetwood, Lancs FY7 8D SMendisol . I Staddon Road, Appledore, Near Bideford, North Devon EX39 I R BVilla 249, Conway Road . Colwyn Bay, Clwyd, North Wale s134 Sunnybank Crescent, Brinsworth, Rotherham . Yorks S605J J16 Highland Avenue . Penwortham . Preston . Lancs PRI 0TJ138 Stockley Road, Barmston, Washington . Tyne and Wear NE38 8E H22 Lower Lune Street . Fleetwood . Lancs FY7 6B X36 Granville Road . Vale, Lancaster . Lancs LAI 2PE27 Hairbell Close . Shawclough . Rochdale, Lancs OLI2 6X W19 Melbourne Road, Walsden, Todmorden, Lancs 01..14 7QG28 Gravelly Crescent . Lancing . Sussex BN 15 9E Q6 Eastnor Road . Reigate . Surre yc/o 71 Western Road, Sompting . West Susse x7 Romney Way, Great Barr, Birmingham B43 7TL13 Wellstead Road . Northmoor Park . Wareham, Dorset BH2O4E Y75 Grafton Court . old Trafford, Manchester MI5 4A GIOa Church Street, Caerleon . Newport, Gwent NP6 IA W30 Railway Road, Leigh, Greater Manchester WN7 4A URhoslyn . 13 Bronwydd Road . Carmarthen, Dyfed . South Wale s93 Ermine Street . Broughton . Brigg, South Humberside DN20 OA Q4 Honeysuckle Road . Preston, LancsAcheth Ganol . Llansawel . Llandieb, Dyfed . Wales SA I9 7N J9 Colmansmoor Road, Woodley, Reading, Berks RG5 4D L6 Beaumont Court, Epsom Road . Ewell . Epsom . Surrey KTI7 IJ H157 Stonedale Crescent . Croxteth, Liverpool Li 19BZ

Headley Park Club, Bordon, Hants GU35 8T E9 St Edmunds Court, Harwich Road, Colchester . Essex CO4 3B TI Heath Grove, Pudsey . West Yorkshire LS28 8H PRyedale, 21 Garths End . Pocklington . York YO4 2J BTree Tops, Manor Road, Lambourne End, Near Abridge . Essex8 Allscotsway . Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan, Lancs WN48P L8 Green Terrace . Seymour Estate . Trowbridge, Wilts BA 14 8N L62 Brunel Road, Reading, Berks RG3 3J L5 Toplands Grove, Northfield, Birmingham 31 SJ C84 George-a-Green Road . Lupset, Wakefield . Yorks WF2 8E S72 Coleridge Way, Sydney, Crewe, Cheshire C W I I L EHotel Mopan, 55 Regent Street, Belize City . Belize . Central America9 Hirst Grove, Darlington, Co Durha m7 Court Gate Close, Ipplepen . Newton Abbot. Devon TQ I2 SoH61 Crouch Hall Lane, Redbourne, Near St Albans, Herts AL3 7E U60 Queen Victoria Street . Kirkholt, Rochdale, Lancs62 Queen Victoria Street, Rochdale . Lanc s64 Sands Road . Ulverston, Cumbria LA 12 9P W64 Beech Avenue, Warton, Preston, Lancs PR4 iB X3 Lichfield Drive, Swinton, Manchester M27 I P U46 Holden Fold, Royton, Oldham . Lanc sUp and Down . Stock Hill, Biggin Hill . Ken t22 Main Road . Little Hale . Near Sleaford . Lincs N634 9B A7 Saxby Grove, Marton, Blackpool . Lancs401 Fleetwood Road . Fleetwood, Lancs FY7 8H L2 Morefield Lane, Ullapool . Ross-shire, Scotland12 Archway House . Langton Road, Blandford Forum . Dorset DTI 17E N1 Unity Street .Chippenham . Wilts SNI4 OA R27 Cheltenham Drive, Thundersley, Benfleet, Essex SS7 3S B29 Scarisbrick Street, ormskirk, Lancs L39 I o E54 Dean Drive, Wilmslow . Cheshir e8 Thornton Crescent . Church Langton . Market Harborough, Leics LE 16 7T A27 Scott Road, Tilgate, Crawley, Sussex RH I0 5D A61 Collyhurst Avenue, Marton, Blackpool . Lancs FY4 .3N FWestway, 19 Garford Road, Rhyl . Clwyd, North Wale s16 Eaton Crescent- Canongate, Oakengates . Tefford . Shropshire TF2 9D HiS Rectory Drive, Batley . West Yorks NFI70P LIO Mendonte Close, Fleet, Hants GU 13 9N U39 Althorp Road, Northampton NNS 5E R264 Ferndale Road, Swindon . Wilts SN2 iH B2 Westwood Road, East Peckham, Tonbridge, Kent TN 12 SD DLes Arbres, Bon Air, Bellozanne Road . St Helier. Jersey . C i3 Milverton Road, Knowle, Solihull, West Midlands BN3 OH Xl Kingston Row, Kingston, Sturminster Newton, Dorset DTIO2AT15 Fitzroy Street, Millbrook . Stalybridge, Cheshire SKiS 3H G30 St Christines Avenue, Farrington . Near Leyland . Preston . Lancs PRS 2Y SGlovers Cottage, Mart hall, Near Knutsford, Cheshite WA 16 7S A24 Ranworth, William Booth Road, Kings Lynn . Norfolk PE304XDI I Adam Close, Marlborough Park . Kings Lynn . Norfolk PE304U D3 Sherford Drive, Northmoor Park, Wareham . Dorset BH204E N102 Saxon Road, Saxmundham, Suffolk iPI7 IE F21 Lucerne Road, Redcar, Clevelan d

57 Ackers Lane . Carrington . Urmston, Manchester M31 4A WI I Stamford Avenue . oldfield Brow . Altrincham, Cheshire WA144L Pivy Cottage . Courance . Lockerbie . Dumfriesshire . Scotland DG I I ITP

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Taylor . D . M .Taylor, D . P .Taylor, G . R .Taylor, H .Taylor, J .Taylor . J .Taylor . J . A .Taylor, K . J .Taylor . W .Thomas . G . L .Thomas . J .Thompson . D .Thompson . H .Thompson . J . E .Thorington, V . D .Thurgood . C . F .Tippett, J . C .Titterington . J . D .Tottman, C . C .Townsend, D .Travis, G .Trimby, L .

Veness, R . H .Vinson . P . K .Volley, W . A .

Waddington, J . K .Wainwright, J . G .Wall, D . C .Walters, D . A . H .Wanstall, W . H .Ward, E .Wardle, S .Wareham, J .Wareing, D . H .Washington, R .Watton . R . J .Weaver, N . D . D .Webster, I . A .Webster, R . W .Wharfe, L . V .Wheeler, D . J .Whelan, D . H .Whipp . D .Whitchurch, W . H .Whitehead . G .Whitfield, B . L .Whyte, J . K .Wild, D . J .Williams, D .Williams, W . I .Wilson . James W .Wilson, Joseph W .Wilson . T . R .Winder . A .Wise, G .Witney . P . C .Wood . R . E .Woodall, V .Woodcock . W . R .Woods . A . P .Woodward, J .Woolfenden . E . A . (ACF)

Yankey . L . H .

Zbierajewski . W .

Beavis .—/'Brock . P .Burns . W .

Cobb . D . S .Connelly . M .Cuff. V . M .

Dawson . A . T .

Harley . R .Hobson . C . H .Hovel] . F .

Johnston, J .

Mason . H .McDonald . R .McMurtie . C .Moffat, R .Morrall . R . G .

Oatley. R .

Robinson . N .Rolls, F .Ryan . J .

f01 Worcester Road, Marton, Blackpool, Lancs7 Staithes Road, Woodhouse Park, Wythenshawe . Manchester M22 6H A37 Bestwalls Road, Wareham, Dorse t5 Stephenson Street, Chorley, Lancs PR6OR Yf2 Sanstone Close . Lower Farm Estate, Bloxwieh, Walsall WS3 3S E61 Woodstock Road, Moston, Manchester M ill OD U9 Grasmere Avenue, Padiham, Burnley . Lancs BB12 8P G2 Hedley Croff, Castle Vale . Birmingham B35 6P B33 Duckworth Road, Prestwich . Manchester M25 8J Ff1 Cromwell Avenue, Marple, Stockport, Cheshire SK6 6J Q2 Second Avenue, Atherton, Manchester M29 ()J Af08 Lyttleton Road, Stechford, Birmingham B3 341 Park Road, Carr Lane, Windhill . Shipley, York s2 Orchard Road . Birstall, Leicester LE44G A8a Glapthorn Road, Oundle, Peterborough, Northant st3 Moatbrook Avenue, Codsall, Near Wolverhampton, West Midland s10 Greenfield Street, New Tredegar, Gwent, Wales NP2 6LG

8 Andrew Street . Preston, Lancs15 Southern Close, Longridge, Near Preston, Lanc s

42 Rowlands Avenue, Hatch End, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 4B Ht73 Oldham Road . Royton . Oldham, Lancs OL2 6BG323 Barnsley Road, Hoylandswaine PO, Sheffield S306J A9 Elverson Road, Deptford, London SE84J RDorset Cottage, 27 Lewis Road, Sutton, Surrey SM 14E Q304 Chapel Walk, Chapel Road, Sale, Cheshir e22 Carlton Street, Hartlepool . Cleveland TS26 9SEI I Lodge Road, Pudsey, Leeds . Yorks LS28 7L Y89 Rugby Road, Leigh, Lancs WN7 3H B61 Spadesbourne Road, Licky End, Bromsgrove, Worcs B60 I J W35 Albert Road . Bexley . Kent DA5 1 N U31 Isabella Street, Skye . Rochdale, Lancs5 Jodrell Close, Macclesfield . Cheshire SKi l 7A S28 Cambria Crescent, Winton, Eccles . Manchester M308H W21 Oakwell Close, Stevenage, Herts SG2 8U GWitzend, Erpingham, Norfolk NRII 7QB38 Scotton Gardens, Scotton, Richmond, North Yorks DL94H XCamping Platz, 5553 Erden/Mosel . West Germany45 Warbreck Road, New Moston, Manchester M 10 ()L P229 Lower Lime Road, Limeside, Oldham, Lancs OL8 3P A22 Seymour Road, Edmonton, London N9 US E81 Littleton Close, Great Sankey, Warrington . Cheshire WAS iH Bt80 Oldham Road, Springhead, Oldham, Lancs OL45S J174 Whitehall Street, Rochdale, Lanc s21 Moyser Road, Streatham . London SW I6 6R Q40 Park Gate . Chadderton, Oldham, Lancs OL9 OA W355 Darwen Road, Bromley Cross, Bolton, Lancs BL7 9B X57 Corseford Avenue, Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland PA5 UP S3 Hoyle Street, Radcliffe, Manchester M26 9J G9 Barncroft Gardens, Seacroft, Leeds . Yorks LS14 LA YRoyal Hospital Chelsea, London SW3 4L R114 St Peters Road, West Lynn, Kings Lynn, Norfolk PE34 3J L20 Kestrel Avenue, Clifton Green, Swinton, Manchester M27 2J L5 Brunton Close . Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland16 Goad Street . Swathmoor, Ulverston, Cumbria LA 12 UJ A12 Grange Road . Aveley, South Ockendon, Essex RM 15 4B X80 Southbrook Street Extension, Swindon . Wilts SN2 iH GMorpeth Rant, Beckspool Road . Frenchay, Bristol BS16 1N U6 Chorley Wood Avenue, Burnage, Manchester M19 fHE76 Newport Road, Newbury, Berks RG t3 2AS287 Plungington Road, Preston, Lancs112 Randalls Croft Road . Bulbridge . Wilton, Wilts SP2 OE X6 Cliff Grange, Bury New Road, Salford, Manchester M7 OE D

18 Newlands Drive, Lowton, Warrington . Cheshire WA3 2R Y

1 178 NE 158th Street, NM Beach, Fla 33162 . 945 5175, US A

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3 Ashley Hill, Montpelier, Bristol BS6 5J B138 Hollows Close, West Harnham, Salisbury . Wilt s15 Ariot Drive, Monkseaton, Northumberland

12 Brixey Road . Parkstone, Poole, Dorset BH 12 3P D20 Biddesden Lane, Faberstown, Andover . HantsThe Venn, Chadsmanslade, Near Westbury . Wilt s

166 Sitwell Street, Eckington, Derb y

70 Gorse Dene Road, Whitley Bay . Northumberlan d23 Coltsfoot Close, Amesbury, Near Salisbury, Wilts7 Bourne Close, River Way . Andover . Hants

I Fairmont Drive . Hambleton . Blackpool . Lanes FY6 9EF

Rutledge, Littleton, Winchester, Hant s3 Parry Drive, Whitburn . Tyne and Wea r3 Braehead Crescent . Ayr KA8 (IJX, Scotlan dI I Fairfields . Darsham, Near Saxmundham, Suffol k8 Douglas Way, Holly Bank . Hythe, Hant s

Miriville . Upper Coxley . Wells . Somerse t

24 Alder Grove . Poulton-le .Fylde . Blackpool . Lancs51 Greensey . Ragged Appleshaw . Andover . Hants18 Breasley Close . London SW I5


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Tollerfield, W .

Wardle, G . A .Wyatt . D .

Yeowell, J .

17 East Mount, Orrell . Wigan, Lancs WN5 8L RThe Limeburners. Offton . ipswich, Suffolk iP8 4SF

2 Morfon Road . Poole, Dorset

82 Eglesfield Road, South Shields . Tyne and Wear NE33 5P4West Farm, Cudworth, llminster, Somerse t

10 Trinity Green, London E l

Please let the Regimental Secretary know of changes of address

Regimental GazetteHonours and Awards

We congratulate the following :

Long Service and Good Conduct MedalW02 (SSM) Smith

W02 (ORQMS) Woo dSSgt Loine s

SSgt Mallalie uSSgt (SQMS) Rowlett

Sgt McKindlan dSgt WatkinsonCpl BaldwinCpl Bowman

Cpl Grimsha wCpl Hughe s

BAOR ColoursHockey

Tpr Smaj e

MarriagesWe also wish to congratulate the following :

Cpl Duxbury to Miss Jacqueline Burke, on 9th Augus t1986 .

LCpl Graham to Miss Susan Karen Davies, on 9th Augus t1986 .

LCpl Woodford to Miss Angela Marie Cross, on 20t hSeptember 1986 .

Tpr Bartley to Miss Susan Hope, on 25th October 1986 .Tpr Bell to Miss Andrea Bain, on 25th October 1986 .WO2 Wood to Miss Pamela Thompson, on 1st NOvembe r

1986 .LCpI Ward to Miss Gillian Elizabeth Waller, On 13t h

December 1986 .Tpr Pope to Miss Jacqueline Omahony, on 3rd January

1987 .LCpl Woolston to Miss Teresa Anne Gowing, On 28th

February 1987.Tpr Annett to Miss April Dawn Lylle, on 28th Februar y

1987 .Tpr Adesile to Miss Julie Mailer, on 23rd May 1987 .Tpr Taberner tO Miss Sharon Anne Blagborough, o n

29th May 1987 .LCpl SenOgles to Miss Maureen Elizabeth Jenne, on

30th May 1987 .Capt Bradshaw to Miss Sally Lucey, on 6th June 1987 .LCpl Blundell tO Miss Lorraine Staff, on 6th June 1987 .Tpr Hurst tO Miss Susan Brown, on 13th June 1987 .LCpl KeartOn to Mrs Susan Jackson, on 17th June 1987 .Tpr Simm tO Miss Marie Elizabeth Horton, on 27th Jun e

1987 .Capt Polley to Miss Claire Mousley, on 11th July 1987 .Tpr Standish to Miss Christine Bamford, on 4th August

1987 .

Regimental Meda l

Maj S . E . Lan gMaj P . D. W. Garbutt

Capt C . B . ClarkLt G. Hutchinso n

WO1 (RSM) K . Davies

Regimental ColoursHockey

Cpl Hughes2Lt Or r

Sgt Wilso n

AthleticsSgt Chappel l

Tpr Dawson to Miss Sharon Warless, on 18th Augus t1987 .

The marriage took place of Capt Polley to Miss Claire Mousley at S tMichael and All Angels, Pirbright, on 11th July 1987 . Capts Murra yand Milverton were ushers and the guard of honour was made up b y

SSgt Broom and Sgts Knowles, Redhead, Hunt and Wheeler


BirthsSgt and Mrs Harrison, a son (John-Jo), on 9th Februar y

1986 .LCpl and Mrs Mulvaney, a daughter (Lauren Elizabeth) ,

On 28th May 1986 .Cpl and Mrs Smith, a son (Wayne Alan), on 8th Octobe r

1986 .LCpl and Mrs Frankle, a daughter (Sarah Mary), o n

17th October 1986 .Tpr and Mrs Rothwell, a daughter (Kerry Jane), on 28t h

November 1986 .Cpl and Mrs Prendergast, a son (Matthew), on 9t h

December 1986 .Sgt and Mrs Wheeler, a son (Steven John), o n 11th

December 1986 .Sgt and Mrs Taylor, a son (James), on 7th January 1987 .Cpl and Mrs Walton, a daughter (Lauren), on 10th

March 1987 .LCpl and Mrs Chalk, a son (Joe Michael), on 3rd Ma y

1987 .Tpr and Mrs Nodwell, a son (Stewart Edward), on 7th

May 1987 .Sgt and Mrs Entwistle, a son (Matthew), on 13th Ma y

1987 .Sgt and Mrs Whittaker, a son (Andrew James), on 29t h

May 1987 .

In Berlin

Tpr and Mrs Smaje, a daughter (Stacey), on 1st Februar y1986 .

Sgt and Mrs Geraghty, a daughter (Emma Louise), O n30th June 1986 .

Tpr and Mrs Tonge, a daughter (Xenia Nadine), on 8t hAugust 1986 .

Cpl and Mrs Meakin, a daughter (Laura), on 9th August1986 .

Cpl and Mrs McCartney, a son (William), on 3rdSeptember 1986 .

Tpr and Mrs Queen, a son (Marc), on 2nd October 1986 .Tpr and Mrs Ashton-Yamnikar, a son (Martin Luther) ,

on 4th October 1986 .

LCpI and Mrs Taylor, a son (Stuart), on 13th Octobe r1986 .

Tpr and Mrs Duncan, a daughter (Zoe Natasha), o n27th December 1986 .

Tpr and Mrs Simpson, a son (Ben Thomas), on 8t hJanuary 1987 .

LCpl and Mrs Blythe, a son (Paul), on 22nd January1987 .

Regular Forces Employment Associatio n

The Association, together with the Ministry of Defenc eand Manpower Services Commission, is part of th eForces Resettlement Service . Our task is to assist al lnon-commissioned men and women who have serve dwith good character for a minimum of three years, or lessif discharged on medical grounds, to find civil employmen tat the end of their engagements .

Our services are free, and we take a long-term interes tin ex-Regulars, so they are available to them throughouttheir working lives .

Our Employment Officers are situated in Branches

throughout the United Kingdom, and they maintai nclose contact with local employers and Job Centres .Their addresses and telephone numbers can be obtaine dfrom Unit/Ship Resettlement Officers ; Corps, Regimenta land Service Associations ; Post Offices ; Job Centres ; an dlocal telephone directories .

During the period 1st April 1985 to 31st March 1986 .the Association assisted 11,370 men and women wit htheir resettlement and placed 4,648 in employment . O fthose placed, 2,164 were men and women from th eArmy .

20th Hussars Regimental Band


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The Regiment—July 198 7THE OFFICERS

Colonel-in-Chief HRH The Princess Royal, Mrs Mark Phillips, GCVOColonel of the Regiment Maj Gen Sir Michael Palmer, KCVORegimental Secretary Maj (Retd) D. A. J . Williams, MBE JP

RHQ

Commanding Officer Lt Col C . K. PriceSecond-in-Command Maj C. R. K. DeanAdjutant Capt M . P . DodworthTraining Adjutant Capt P . P . O'Neil Donnello nAssistant Adjutant Lt S . R. W . Baxte rOfficers' Mess Secretary Lt A . A. GossageUEO Lt G . Hutchinson

Headquarter Squadron

Squadron Leader Maj H . N . FairmanQuartermaster Capt (QM) M . H. Burges sTechnical Quartermaster Capt (QM) B . J . M . DraperPaymaster Capt K . S . Ayling, RAPCEME Capt J . N . White, REM EPadre The Rev K. M. Cribben, RAChDRecruit Records Officer Lt Col (Retd) D . L . Buckle yMedical Officer Lt Col (Retd) W . Holme sCivil Admin Officer Capt (Retd) M. KeaneERB Officer Mr J . R . FishburnNBC Officer Capt P . J . Nutsford

A Squadron

Squadron Leader Capt N . G. T . Polle ySecond-in-Command Lt A . J . Wagstaff

B Squadron (Berlin )

Squadron Leader Maj The Hon J . F . A. GreySecond-in-Command Capt B. S . WellsAdmin Officer Capt A . OgdenTroop Leader Lt S . R. C. Searigh tTroop Leader Lt E . T. RossTroop Leader 2Lt J . N . N . Or rTroop Leader (Des) Lt A . C. G . Ross

C Squadron

Squadron Leader Maj G. H . R. Tilne ySecond-in-Command Capt C. W . N . BankesOC PO Wing Capt C. J . Reynolds2IC PO Wing 2Lt J . C . V. DenningTroop Leader 2Lt J . A. Fros tTroop Leader Lt M . G. SkinnerTroop Leader Lt D . W. HancockTroop Leader 2Lt J . L . DingleyTroop Leader Lt H . R . D. JoynsonTroop Leader Lt M . K . MilneTroop Leader 2Lt R . Gordon

D Squadron

Squadron Leader Maj D . J . B. Wood dSecond-in-Command Capt N . J . Milverto nOC Gunnery Wing Capt J . H. Beardsal lRGO (Des) Lt A . B . Stuart-Mills

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Officers serving outside the Regimen tBrig T. G . Williams, CBECol D . L . de Beaujeu, OBECol J . R . SmalesLt Col J . R. Clifton-BlighLt Col P . HarmanLt Col M. A . CullinanLt Col J . D. CoombesLt Col W. G . C. Bowles, MBEMaj K. M . HodsonMaj J . P . RawlinsMaj W. R. T. EdgeMaj T. P. ScottMaj J . M . D . MogerMaj M. J . H . VickeryMaj P. N . Eliott-LockhartMaj C. M. I . TennentMaj R . J . L . FellowesMaj S . W. G. SuchanekMaj T . C. TaylerMaj S . E. L . LangMaj J . C. P. HerrtageMaj A . F . B . AshbrookeMaj A . R. D . ShireffMaj P . D . W . GarbuttMaj A . R. E. SingerCapt C . V. ClarkeCapt R. W. H. SutcliffeCapt M . P . St .L HammickCapt M . W . E . WadeCapt A. J . BradshawCapt N . M. MurrayCapt H. A . O . WicksCapt J . R. M. PalmerA/Capt J . SchofieldA/Capt M. A . C . WilliamsLt D . H . Morgan2Lt J . R . Goldie2Lt R. Allinson2Lt S . P. Bryant2Lt N. J . TubbsOCdt E. L . BaxterOCdt S. G . E . BlandOCdt R . A. N . Todd

Soldiers serving outside the Regimen tWO1 Smith, A . H/C RAC Centre Sgt McGahey 40 CCTWOl Young QOMY Sgt Murphy 22 SASW02 Cooper Legal Branch BAOR Sgt Shepherd ACIO PrestonW02 Eadsforth Hong Kong Sgt Smith JLR RACW02 Renshaw ACIO Blackburn Sgt Webb 39 CCTW02 Wainwright SSO Osnabruck Sgt Wheeler JLR SAA

W02 Whitelock RAC Gnry Sch Sgt Woods Gnry RI RACT R

SSgt Briggs ASCT Worthy Down Cpl Billington RACTRSSgt Coleman Y Sqn QOY Cpl Ellis D & M RI RACTRSSgt Collins DLOY Cpl Gannon 2 ADSSSgt Crank SSO Krefeld Cpl Jackson RAC Centr eSSgt Gill Mobile Display Team Cpl Kay 2 ADSSSgt Kennedy RARDE (k) Cpl Piggot JLR RACSSgt Little DLOY Chorley Cpl Roe Sect NCO PS GSSgt Morrow DLOY PrestonSSgt Murphy 998 RAC Gnry Wing LCpl Cottam Int & Sy Gp N ISSgt Stobbart SI D & M Sch LCpl Holroyd Int & Sy Gp N I

LCpl Olsen 4 Regt AA CSgt Ager Gnry RI RACTR LCpl Riley Int & Sy Gp N ISgt Burnett 7 CCT LCpl Woodford RMASSgt Chappell RI Sig JLR LCpl Wyre RMASSgt Crossland 29 Sig RegtSgt Donbavand ACIO Manchester Tpr Butterworth RARDE (k )Sgt Livesey ACIO Preston Tpr Leyland-Jones RARDE (k)

Westbury, WiltshireOIC H Cav & RAC MR OCOS HQ DRA CSO1 (W) RARDES01 CRLS SW Dis tSO1 Pers 3 MO DProj Offr, RAC Centr eChief Instr, RAC Gnry Wing BAO RGLO RAF ColtishallDS RCBSO2 DS (SI) Trg 3 NBC Centr eS02 Controller, BGGT Sennelage rTrg Maj RYSO2 (Armd) Tactics Wing RSAD13 (Army) MOD Main Buildin gSO2 G3 (Ops 0 & D) HQ NW DistMA to Corps Comd HQ 1 BR Corp sSO2 (W) SI P 32A DGGWL MO DSO2 (W) DI60 MODS02 G1 HQ LF Cypru sSO3 G1 HQ 19 Inf Bd eOC D Sqn (RWxY )Staff College Camberle yRMCS Shrivenha mRHG/DRMCS ShrivenhamSqn 2IC SOARSO3 (W) Trials Offr RARD ESqn 2IC, RBAF Brunei3 Flt 7 Regt AACS03 Armd Ops HQ RAC BAO RBATUSRAC Gnry Sch Lulwort hAdjt RARDEAdjt DLOYRHG/DRHG/DRHG/DTroop Leaders' Cours eDurham Universit yStirling UniversityOxfor d PolytechnicEdinburgh Universit y


Nominal Roll as at 1st July 198 7HQ SQUADRON

10N

WO1

K . Davie sW02

T . J . Batchelde r

A . B . Beveridg e

B . DuffyW . J . Lace yD . N . S . Woo d

SSgt

D . A . Drummon dR. F. Tyso nD . J . Winstanle y

Sgt

T . Entwistl e

S. S . Heye s

P . J . Nutte rM . R . Taylo r

J. N . WoodA. Wilde

Cpl D. AshtonD . J . Bach eP . A . Baldwi n

K. J . Claud eJ . C . Grimsha w

S . P . Harriso n

J . A . Row eJ. P . Stafford

K. Whitehea d

A. Winterbur n

W02 W . F . Wype r

SSgt

J . S . Loine s

W . K . Tai t

Sgt

B . T . Craddoc kH . P . J . Ra eR. C . Warre nS. R . Wheeler

Cpl

J . H . Binn sS . T . S . Bon dD . P . CromptonS . DuxburyF . Hewit tK . C . Fletche rM . GrundyA . Nowick iD . M . Prendergas tP . M . PriceG . W . Smit hR . W . Wood

LCpI

M . Beaver

G . J . EntwistleC . A . GrimesP . Holme sD . P . Lavelle

LCpl

A . C . Ange l

N . E . M . Carvel l

S . Gaskel l

T . McArdl eI . C . McGuines s

M . D . Ellershaw

S . MacDonal d

Tpr

A . U . W . Atkinso nU . I . Barlas sM . S . Hurs tJ . ParryC . E . Polli tJ . Taunto nN . Thornle yA . B . Wood s

Ban d

WOIR . Sand s

W02

B . M . Lydiard

SSgt

D . Parkinso nSgt

I . H . Hamilto nA . J . McKindlan d

A (VEHICLE )

A . Leishma n

J . Low eT . McArde lD . G . MulvaneyM . S . RichardsF. Rya nD . A . Slad e

for

W . K . Abbott sG. AdamsonD. Annet tS . Atkinso nM . J . Barbe rJ . Baldwi nM . J . Bartle yC. BillingtonS . Blundel lS . M . BradyD. C . Burk e

J . Conno r

S . W . Corlet t

A . M . DaltonJ . DickinsonC . S . Daubne yA. J . Dawson

Cpl

K . Cric kS . D . G . Forste rS . J . McKindlandP . Wigmor e

LCpI

S . Chal kU . G . Higso nW . A . Laville

AlCpl A . P . Cassid y

LuCpl A . J . Pollard

Bdsm

R . J . Griffiths

G. T . Johnson

P . Jones

D. Walke r

RAMCSgt

D . J . Sidebotto m

RAPCW02

A . J . Smit h

APT CW02

R . G . Garioc h

SQUADRO N

A. Edward sH. J . Eyno n

A . R . FairbankS . G . Farre nP . D . FarthingD . Fazackerl yA . J . FoggR . W . For dA. Garne rR. C . T . Gardene rS. J . Ganno nD . P . Hal lM . L . P . Harri sP . Higgin sD. G . HowardE. How eS . A . Hun tS . Kowebk a

P . Kyt eN . M . LonsdaleS . LythgoeD . P . MacKenzi eA . MackieM . D . Maran

AC C

W02

B . S . Foste rSgt

D . Ricket tS . L . DonnellyG . J . Sinnot t

Cpl

R . K . Malle t

I . P . Harwoo dH . T . Humphries

LCpl

D . W . Fole yM . C . T . Gardene rM . Garnha mG . E . Gil lI . Ker rE . K . McGrego rD. A . Wilso n

Pte A. D. BrewisM . C . Clyn eA . S . Corn sA. DuffyD. Harriso nW . A . Heighto n

M . K . PantonW/Pte C. A . Kaye

M . Page tK . T . Duffiel d

M . J . McGowanJ . McGuinnes s

G . S . Morri s

R . M . Myer sA . Nodwel lM . W . Parki nJ . K . PendleburyJ . PopeS . R . J . Redgrav eG. M . RileyS . R . Robert sD . RossP . A . Rothwel lD . G . SeagerS . Schofiel dH. B . Scot tC . E . SimmM . J . A . Slate r

R . T . Store yK . A . WardM. F . WeardenP . WilesN. A . William sD . Wood s

B (BERLIN) SQUADRO N

D . M . Duke s

D . J . Bellam yJ . Mallalie uJ . Pitt

Sgt

M . D . Geraght yA. Horrock sD . LeeC . SutcliffeK . Watkinso nG . P . Wilson

Cpl

A . Beave rD . Blackbur nT . D . BowmanG. DuxburyG. Greenwoo dD. G . Hawkin sG . HebblethwaiteK . R . HughesS . Leaver

N . Marshal lK . R . Meaki nG . J . SweeneyA . J . Tobi n

LCpl M . J . Blyth eK . E . Brow nJ . Fishe rM. R . Hamilto n

J . Ingha m

D. A . Masse y

A . B . Sherwood

N. Smit h

T . A . Stenso n

G . P . Sutherland

P . TaylorG. D . A . Tinnio n

G . J . Walli sM . Wheele r

Tpr

J . M . ArtsP . H . Ashton-Yamnikar

P . W . Bake rD . A . Becket tM . J . Belche rP . Benso nC . Billingto n

I . J . Blakebrough

E . Bradle yS . A . Bradle yM . Collin sJ. F . W . CopestakeK. J . DacreC. J . Docker yD. C . Dunca nB . A . EpsieG . Fos sF . P . Hawke rG. J . HirdR . A. HorsfieldN . HowlandW . Hurst

P . G . Jone s

S . Latha m

L. M . Lewi sP . M . Lofthouse

G. MacKinno n

J . P . MaloneM. H. McArdl eA. R . MedleyG. MerryP . Mitchel lJ . A . Pinkerto nD. Pit tP . D . PruntyD. A . Quee nS . J . Randal lM . P . Rodmel lP . T. ShawA . M . ShawP . ShrimptonI . Simpson

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B (BERLIN) SQUADRON—continued

J . W . Smaj eN . P . StandishD . Taylor

C (BMT) SQUADRON

M . R . Thoma sA. TongeI . H . Walker

R . C . WardM . G . Wigmor eW . Wiles

M . A . WhitfieldB . J . Wittake rA . Wood s

W02 F. M . Smit hJ . Morri s

SSgt

T . T . Gil l

Sgt

S . P . Garne rP . A . R . Hun tS . Redhead

S . RodowiczD . A . Sloa nJ . Whittake rR . P . WinchF . H . Wood s

W02 H . BestJ . C . Cornis hJ . Well s

SSgt

J . BroomT. P . MurphyS . Rowlett

Sgt

J . F . Atki nL . A . Critchlow

B . A . Web bCpl

P . Atkin sD . J . Bradle yA. Coope rG . J . E . EwenM . D . FrankleS . W . LaurieB . LythgoeD . Milne rP . P . O'ConnorC . P . Sawdo nC . Smit hJ . R . E . Walters

D (TRADES)M . FoggB . W . Franc eG . A . GleadhillM . Harriso nT . A . JonesA . KnowlesA . A . MetcalfeI . Whitehead

J . C . Walto nS . M . Wheele rJ. D . Woodruff

Tp r

LCpI

T. BinghamR . J . FordB . A . Hollan dR . A . HoltK. L . KeartonJ . Polli tJ. Richardso nK. RobinsonE . Senogle s

SQUADRONCpl

A . Bevi sP . G . BowmanJ . BoydellI. J . Hardbattle

TprR . W . McMullenJ. A . Wiffin

LCpI

P . S . E . CottonD. Hiam

W . G . StopfordP . A . WoolstonD. A . AdesileA . T . Birc hG . Crompto nJ . DickinsonR. Y . GrahamM . PearsonA. P . Prunt yC. E . Simpso nC. SymC. P . Woodfor dD. W . Workma n

J . J . Kell yA . J . McCormac kM . A . Smit hM . J . BarberR. A . Bel lP . B . BrownS. T . Golightl yJ . L . Walke r

LINK INSTRUCTOR S

W02 D. C . Boylan 5 Innis D G

Sgt

R . S . Ager 14/20 H

F . Bailey 14/20 HL. A . Beard 15/ 19 HP . B . Beaumont 4/7 D GM . Beenham QO HE. F . Bird RHL. A . Blunt LGD . I . Boot I RTRD. T . Clark Scots DG

K . M . Cowton RHG/ DJ. R . Crowther 13/18 HM . P . Dangerfield LGR . N . Dixon QOHB . J . Gratton LGD . C . Jackson 2 RTRR . K . Longhurst QRI HK. R . MacGruer 4 RTRR. A . Martin 2 RTR

I . J . Massey I RT RG . S . Moffitt t RTR

G . A . Nuttall Scots D GD. Stevenson QRI HD . J . Taylor 3 RT RJ . H . Zelinka QDG

Cpl

J . A . M . Archer 5InnisD GD. Billington 14/20 HP . D . Burrows 5 Innis DGM . D . Coghill 4 RT RS . P . Cordingley 5 Innis D GM . J . Crisp 17/21 LS . Ellis 14/20 H

F. R . Hadfield 16/5 LG. D . Jugoo 1 RTRS . P . Keenan QDGA.W .M . MackieScotsDGE. S . Patterson 9/12 LF. D . Pawley t5/19 HS . A . W . Plumridge QO HD. Powell 2 RT RB . Ryder 16/5 LS . R . Sheppard QRIHN . G . Whitaker 4/7 D G

RAC TRG REGTHELD STRENGTH

E. Pearce 1 RT RI Crawford 4 RTRR . J . Jefferies 4/7 D GG . Dolan 4/7 D GG . Hunter 1 RTR

Recce Troop (RHQ) Lebanon, 194 3

Cpl

LCpl

Tpr

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