September 1973

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The Journal of
THE QUEEN~ S REGIMENT

UNCONQUERED I SERVE

Vol. 7, No. 2 September, 1973

Battle Honours borne on The Colours

Th e R egimemal Colour :
"Tangier, 1662-80," "Namur, 1695," "Gibraltar, 1704-5," "Blenheim," "Ramillies,, "Malplaquct," "Detingen:'
"Louisburg," "Guadaloupe, 1759," "Quebec, 1759," "Martinique, 1762," "St. Lucia, 1778," "Seringapatam,''
"Maida," "Vimiera," "Corunna," "Douro," "Talavera," "Albuhera," "Almaraz," "Badajoz," "Salamanca,''
"Vittoria," "Affghanistan, 1839," "Punniar," "Moodkee," "Sobraon," "Inkerman," "Sevastopol," "Lucknow,"
"Taku Forts," "New Zealand," "South Africa, 1879," " Nile, 1884-85," "Bunna, 1885-87," "Cbitra1," "Relief
of Ladysmith," "Relief of Kimberley," "South Africa, 1899-1902," "Korea 1950-51."

Th e Queen' s Colo ur:
"Mons," "Mame, 1914-18," "Aisne, 1914," "Ypres, 1914-15-17-18," " Hill 60," "Festubert, 1915," "Somme,
1916, 18," "Albert, 1916, 18," "Vimy, 1917," "Cambrai, 1917, 18," "Hindenburg Line," "Italy, 1917-18," "Mace-
donia, 1915-18," "Gallipoli, 1915," "Gaza," "Jerusalem," "Palestine, 1917-18," "Defence of Kut a1 Amara,"
"Mesopotamia, 1915-18," "N.W. Frontier India, 1915, 1916-17," "Dunkirk, 1940," "Normandy Landing,"
"North West Europe, 1940, 44-45," "Abyssinia, 1941," "Omars," "Alam el Halfa," "El Alamein," "Longstop
Hill, 1943," "North Africa, 194043," "Sicily, 1943," "Saogro," "Salemo," "Anzio," "Cassino," "Italy, 1943-
45," "Malta, 1940-42," "Malaya, 1941-42," "Hong Kong," "Defence of Kohima," "Bunna, 1943-45."

Allied Co louels-in-C hief
HER MAJESTY QUEEN JULIANA, Queen of the Netherlands

HER MAJESTY QUEEN MARGRETHE 11 of Denmark

Colonel of Th e R egimen r: Lieutenant General SIR RICHARD CRADDO C K, KBE, CB, D SO

D epury Colo uels of Th e R egimeut
S urrey: M ajor General F . A. H. LIN G, CB, CBE, DSO, DL

K em: Co lonel D . A. WILLOWS , DL
S ussex: Bri gadier R. E. LODER, CBE, DL
M iddlesex: Colonel A. S. J . de S. CLAYTON, DL

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REGIMENTAL HEADQUARTERS

RHQ The Queen's Regiment

Howe Barracks, Canterbury. (T el. : 65281)
R egimen tal S ecretary : Maj. G . U. Weymouth, MBE (Ext. I )
R egimen tal Association Secretary: Maj. E. A. McCar thy (Ext. I )

R egimemal Careers Officer: Maj . M . / . D . Brady (Ext. 3)

COUNTY OFFICES

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Queen's Surreys Office: Queen's Own Buffs Office: Royal Sussex Office : Middlesex Office :
T & AVR Centre,
Portsmouth Road, Leros T & AVR Centre, Roussillon Barracks, D eansbrook Road, Edgware.
Kingston upon Thames. Sturry Road, Canterbury. Chichester.
Maj. A . E. F . Waldron, MBE .
Secretaries: M aj. F . f . R eed & Col. H . R . Grace, OBE, DL, JP & Lt.- Col. E . G. H ol/ist. ( T el.: Edgware 2625) .

M aj. P. G. E. Hill . Maj. G . T . Faulkner. ( T el.: Chichester 863 II. Ext. 28).
( T el.: Kingston 6248 ).
( T el.: Canterbury 6528 I. Ext. 4 ).

REGULAR UNITS

1st Bn. 2nd Bn. 3rd Bn. 4 QUEENS Coy. QUEENS RIT

Kiwi Barracks, Albuhera Barracks, L athbury Barracks, Howe Barracks, Guildford,
Bulford, W erl, Gibralter,
Wilts. BFPO 106. BFPO 52 Canterbury. C a n te r b u r y,

(Di sbanding 1st November '73) Brighton,

T & AVR BATrALIONS M aidstone

& Edgeware

5th (V) Bn. 6th (V) Bn. 7th (V) Bn.
Bn. HQ & HQ Coy: Bn. HQ : Brander House, Bn. HQ : T & A VR Centre,
L eros T & AVR Centre, Broomhill Road, D enne R oad,
Sturry Road, Wandsworth, Horsham, Sussex.
Canterbury. SW18.
Brig. A. C. Tyler, CBE, MC, DL.
Honorary Colonels: Col. D . A. H . Sime, OBE, MC, TD .
Maj . ( Hon . Col.) The Duke of Norfo lk,
KG, PC, GCVO, GEE, TD .

DIVISIONAL DEPO T-B assingbourne Barracks, Royston, Herts. Senior R egiment R epresentative Maj. ] . Langhorne ( Oct-Dec 73),
M aj ] . N. Shephard (from Dec 73 )

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Co mmandin g Officers

1st Bau ali on- Lt.-Col. M . V. H AYWARD , MBE
2nd Bau aliou- L t.-Co l. M . R . M . NEWALL
J rd Baualion- Lt.-Co l. C . L. TARVER, MBE

4th Bn . A lbu hera Co mpany- M aj G. GOR ING
S lit ( V o/waeer) Baualion-Lt. -Co l. ] . R . STEPHENSON
6th ( V olun teer) Bau alion- Lt. -Col. D . G . WILSON, TD
71h ( V olun teer) Battalion-Lt.-Co l. ] . B . OG ILVI E, T D

AFFILIATED UNITS OF THE CADET FORCE

C.C.F . S chool Con ti11 gen ts

Ardingly College; Brighton College; Collyers School, (Horsham) ; Cranbrook School; Cranleigh School;
Dover College; Eastbourne College; Haberdashers' Aske's School (Elstree) ; Hampton Grammar School; Highgate
School; Hurstpierpoint College; The John Lyon School; The Judd School; The King's School, Canterbury;
Kingston Grammar School; Mill Hill School; Ottershaw School; Reeds School; Reigate Grammar School; Royal
Grammar School (Guildford); Sir Roger Manwood's School (Sandwich); St. Edmund's School (Canterbury); St.
John's School (Leatherhead); St. Lawrence College (Ramsgate); The Skinners School (Tunbridge Wells);
Tonbridge School; Whitgift School; William Ellis School; Wilsons Grammar School.

A.C.F . Units/ Sub-Units

Greater London: Cadet Coys . Nos. 25 and 26.
N .E. London Sector Cadet Coys.
Nos. 194 ( Hounslow ), 195 ( Staines), 205 (Willesden ), 211 ( Edg-
N.W. London Sector ware), 225 (Tottenham ), 226 (Hornsey).

S.W. London Sector Cadet Coys. N os. 141 , 143, 144, 146, 147, 151 to 156, 161 to 166.
Cadet Bns. 1st, 2nd and 5th Cadet Bns., The Queen's Regiment (Surrey A.C.F .).
Surrey: Cadet Bns. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Cadet Bns., The Queen's Regiment (Kent A .C .F .).
Kent: Cadet Coys. No. 6 ( Crawley) and Mayfi eld College.
Sussex: Cadet Pis. Nos. 2 ( Seaford and N ewhaven ), 3 (Hastings), 4 ( Lewes ) , 7
(Chichester ), 8 ( Crowborough ), 10 (Eastbourne ) , 11 ( Horsham ), 13
( Shoreham ), 14 ( Bexhill ) , 15 ( Brighton ) , 17 (Bognor ), 18 ( L ittle-
hampton) .

ALLIED REGIMENTS

T he Canadian Army-

The Queen's York R angers (RC AC)
The South Alberta Light H orse*

The Queen's Own Rifl es of Canada
The H astings and Prince E dward Regiment
1st Battalion The Royal New Brunswi ck Regiment (Carleton & Y ork)

The E ssex and K ent S cottish
*Not yet confirmed by MOD

Th e Australian A rmy-

The R oyal New South W ales Regiment
The University of N ew South W ales Regiment

The Royal Western Australia R egiment

Th e New Zealand A rmy-

2nd Battalion (C anterbur y, N elson, M arlborough and \:Vest Coast )
The Roya l N ew Zealand Infantry R egiment

5th Battalion (Wellington W est Coast and T ar anaki) The Royal New
Zealand Infantry Regiment

The Pakistan A rmy-

12th, 14th, 15th and 17th Battalions, The Pun jab Regiment

Sierra L coue-
The Roya l Sierra Leone Military F orce

H ong K ong-
The Roya l H ong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers)

AFFILIATED HM SHIPS
HMS Excellent, HMS K ent, HMS C hichester and HMS B.-igh to11

EDITOR-M ajor G. U . WEYMOUTH, MBE

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Editor: c on t e n t s

Major G. U . Weymouth,
M.B.E. (Ret'd.)

Regimental Headquarters,
Howe Barracks.
Canterbury, Kent.

Cap Badge Page
Collar Oadce
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Button
A Farewell Message from the Colonel of the Regiment 7

Forecast of Events 8

The 1st Battalion 10

The 2nd Battalion .. 19

The 3rd Battalion 29

The 4th Bn. Albuhera Coy. 36

Tge Regiment~ Information Team 37

"Guildford, 30th May 1973" 38

Depot, The Queen's Division 41

RHQ Jottings 43

Regimental Christmas Card 45

Albuhera Day in Copenhagen 47

The Regimental Association and Benevolent Fund 49

Alliances 53

The London Gazette 55

Binh, Marriages and Deaths 57

Obituaries 61

Officers Location List 67

WOs and Sgts Location List ... 71

The Queen's Cadets 77

The 5th (Volunteer) Battalion 78

The 6th (Volunteer) Batt~ion ... 85

The 7th (Volunteer) Battalion 89

The County Offices 93

Talavera-by Capt. K. W. Brooks 106

The Regimental Shop Order Form 111

Journal Order Form back page

Prlnten : COVER PICTURE

Kent County Printers The Colonel of the Regiment talking to one of the
Canterbury and Herne Bay Junior soldiers of The Junior Infantrymen's \Ving at
Canterbury, during his farewell visit to 4 QUEENS
Kent
Albuhera Company on the 11th of July.
Picwre by Mr. Arrhur Palmer, K emish Gazette

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EDITORIAL

This is the first publication of our new half-yearl y series and I should like
to congratulate all sub-editors on their fine achievement in reporting their activities
over such a long period so concisely ; and to thank them, too, for getting their copy to
me on time.

On 15th October we shall be sayi ng farewell to our Colonel and on page 7
is General Craddock's personal message to the Regiment.

For all of us this will be a very sad day. Those who have had the privilege
and pleasure of working with him closely already appreciate the tremendous amount
he has contributed to the well being of the Regiment during its formative years. Many
more have also come to regard him with deep affection and with a sense of pride; indeed
we have been very forrunate in having such a distinguished soldier at the head of our
affairs for nearly seven years.

General " Dick", as he will always be affectionately known, is essentially a
soldiers' General. Never was he more happy than when he had an opportunity to chat
informally with the rank and file (a study of expressions in the picture on our cover
page is eloquent testimony to thi s) and serving soldiers will remember him, not only
for his rather brusque manner of speaking, but also for the rwinkle in his eye and the
sincerity of his concern for their welfare.

To General Dick and Lady Craddock go our most grateful thanks and our
warmest good wishes for their future happiness.

A warm welcome to Major General Ling when he assumes the Colonelcy.
Having sen•ed as Deputy Colonel (Surrey) since March 1969, General Ling is fully
conversant with the various aspects of our Regimental affairs and is already well-known
to many.

We wish him joy and every success and we know he will be made most wel-
come when he pays his first official 1·isit to the 3rd Battalion in November.

As Deputy Colonel (Surrey), in succession to General Ling, we shall be very
glad to welcome Maj General R. S. N . Mans, CBE, our most senior sen•ing officer,
who is currently Director of the Military Assistance Office at the Ministry of Defence.

Whilst on the subject of ''changes at the top" , our best wishes to Lieut.
Colonel Mike Newall who has recently taken over command of the 2nd Battalion from
Col. Mike Reynolds, now GSOI (Ops) at HQ Northern Ireland.

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A Farewell Message from The Colonel of the Regiment

After nearly seven yea rs, a change is overdue in the Colonelcy of The
Regiment and within a few days of the publication of this issue of The Journal, General
Ling will have taken over from me. He is not only admirably suited to do so but he
deserves, and I am sure will be gi ven, the unqualified support of everyone, serving and
retired, in any way connected with The Regi ment; he will most certainly be given mine.

The larger part of these seven years has been dominated by events in Northern
Ireland and the problem of recruiting, now believed to be inter-related . All three
Regul ar Battalions have had several tours in Ulster and two of them will be back there
before the end of the year. It is a continuing problem and one that has to be faced with
courage and resoluti on by both those who govern and those who serve. With the spread
of violence to England, is it too much to hope that the public will more readily under-
stand the problem and that more men will be forthcoming to help the Army, in particu-
lar, in maintaining order and ensuring that peace is preserved? For thi s is surely one
of the Army's main roles. Be that as it may, I am very proud of the achievements of
The Regiment in Northern Ireland and elsewhere and would like to record my thanks
and congratulations to All Ranks.

I should like, too, to thank the Deputy Colonels; the Regimental Trustees ;
all members of our six Battalions; all those who have served with 4 QUEENS Com-
pany and at the Depot, and all in the Recruiting organisation. And finally, the staffs
-not very large! -of Regimental Headquarters and the County Offices. To them all,
my most grateful thanks for their support and considerable kindness to me personally
throughout my time as Colonel. I wish I could have repaid them better for all they have
done.

Lastly, the four Deputy Colonels and the members of the Officers' Oub have
presented me with two gifts: the Regimental badge most beautifully carved in wood,
and an exquisite silver cigarette box with the five badges on it and a charming inscrip-
tion. Both are splendid examples of the craftsman's art. I should like to thank every-
one very much indeed for them ; they will always be treasured as marks of the friend-
ship shown to me and which I have so greatly appreciated.

R. W. CRADDOCK
Lieutenant General

Colonel, The Queen's Regiment

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Forecast of Events

1973 1974

September January

Scvastopol Day-2nd Bn. 19 Royal Sussex Assn. Brighton Branch Dinner
23 Managing Trustees Meeting, London
9 Salemo Day-1st Bn.
Regt'l. Assn. London ( Buffs) Annual Scr· February
vice, Tower of London
10 Sobraon Day-1st Bn.
13 Quebec Day-3rd Bn. 23 Roya l Sussex Assn. L ondon Branch Dinner,

15 Royal S ussex Cinque P orts Assn. Dinner The Pillbox, W estminster

18 Royal Sussex- Goodwood R aces (Royal March Royal Sussex All Officers' Cocktail P art y,
Sussex Stakes ) 23 London

22 ! / 4th Buffs R eunion, County H otel, Cant- Ro ya l Sussex Assn. Executive Committee
erbury ( 6 for 6-30 p.m. ) . Tickets ( 75 p ) M eeting
from Local Sec. or Lt.-Col. H . L. C remer

October April Roya l Sussex Officers' Dinner Club, Arundel
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4/ 5 Queen's Surreys Golf Society Autumn Birthday of HM Queen Margrethe
M eeting, Richmond 16
20/ 21 Queen's Own Buffs Golfing Society Spring
Queen's Surreys Officers' Club Annual Din- 20 M eeting
ner, London 23
2/7th Middlesex ( 1939-45 ) Annual Dinner, Queen's Own Buffs Golfing Society Annual
Victory Ex-Services Club, London 27 Dinner and AGM
30
6 Queen's Surreys Assn. Annual Reunion, Ypres Day-1st Bn.
Kingston Ro yal Sussex Assn . St. George's Day Ser-
11th Queen's Own Roya l W est K ent Regt. vice, C hichester Ca thedral, followed by Re-
(Corfe's Irregulars) Annual Reunion Lunch, ception, Dolphin Hotel
National Liberal Club, London ( 12.3 0 for
I p.m. ) Ro yal Sussex O ld Comrades' Dinner, L cwes
( 6 p .m .)
12 Middlesex Regt. Autumn Golf Meeting,
North Hants C.C. Fleet Birthday of HM Queen Juliana

13 Queen's Surreys WOs' and Sgts' Assn. May
Ladies Dinner/ Dance, Kingston 4/ 5

20 Royal Sussex A ssn. Mid Sussex Branch 6-10
Dinner 16
22/23
November Queen's Own Buff s Golfing Society v R ye
G.C.
8 4 QUEENS Albuhera Coy. disband
10 Roya l Sussex Assn. Aubers Ridge/ Dunkirk
Royal Sussex A ssn. Field of R emembrance, Parade and Service, E astbourne
11 W estminster Abbey
Army Golfing Society Spring Meeting,
13 Royal Sussex A ssn . Arundel/Bognor Regis/ Sandwich
14/ 15 Littlehampton Branch Dinner
Middlesex Assn. Ceremony, Field of Re- ALBUHERA DAY
membrance, Westminster Abbey
Royal Sussex-Goodwood Races (1 st Meet-
Middlesex Assn. Remembrance D ay Service, ing )
Inglis Barracks, Mill Hill, followed by Re-
union at T & AVR Centre, Edgewarc June
Queen's Surreys Remembrance D ay Parades,
Kingston and Guildford Glorious First of June-lst Bn.
Cricket match and Celebration with HMS
Regimental Committee Meeting
Excel/ell£ (dates and place to be decided)
Divisional Postings Meeting, Bassingboum
July
December Assn . C hichester Branch 27 Queen 's Own Buff s Golfing Society v North
Assn. E a stb ou r n e Branch
Ro yal Sussex Hants G.C., Fleet
Dinner 30-3 Aug Roya l Sussex- Goodwood R aces

29 Royal Sussex August
Dinner
23/ 24 Ro yal Sussex- Goodwood Races

Mainly About People 9

Col. D. R. Bishop, MBE was appoi nted D eputy BEM for Gallantry:
Commander 3 In f. Bde. on 13th M arch and is to
he Col. GS Dl2 , MOD, in September 1973. C / Sgt. M . D . Maloney

} ! CSM Harrington who passed out on 7th April Mentioned in D espatches:
from The Junior Infantrymens Bn, Shorncliffe was
promoted to Junior R SM before doing so; he has Maj. P . Mallalieu
si nce been posted to I QUEENS .
C/ Sgt. J. H . W . Pearson
Maj. Gen. R. S. N. Mans, CBE was appointed
Director, Milita r y Assistance Office, M OD on 20th Sgt. J . Hendrie i• one of 28 member> of th e
Jul y in the ac ting rank of M ajor Gene ral. Army M ountaineering A s~oc iation from whom a tea m
of 25 is to be ;elected to climb M ount Everest by the
Lt.-Col. N. B. Knocker is to be GSO I (Chief South Col route during the pre-monsoon period of
Instructor ) a t the D efence Nuclear Biologica l an d 1976.
C hem ical ( D NBC) School W interbourn Gu nner. H e
ass umes the appointment (app ropriately enough !) on Maj . C . L. Lawrence, MC assumed the appoint-
5th November 1973. ment of DAAG ( Recruiting ) at HQ Queen's Div in
June 1973.
Lt.-Col. P . D. Johnson assumed the appointment
of GSO I DPS A T eam at the M OD on 7th J une W02 G. A . Simmons has been selected for the
19 73. grant of a Short Service Commission.

Col. J. N. Shipstcr, CBE DSO is to be Com- The following Captains who sat the Staff Pro-
mandent a t the DNBC School in M ay 1974. motion Written Examination on 5th & 6th D ecember
1972 h ave qualifi ed for Staff t raining:
Lt.-Col. M. P. St. F. Dracopoli was gran ted M A,
Phnom P enh on 18th June 1973. Capts: I . G. Baillie ( to RMCS October 1973, then
Staff College J anua r y 1975 ), M . R. I. Constantine,
AWARDS P. P. B. C ritchley, A. C . Dawson and C. St. John
Perry ( to RM CS September 1974, then Staff College
W e congratulate Sgt. J . Blanchette who received J anua ry 1975 ), M. B. Montgomery, P . V. Panton ( to
a M ention in D espatches for M eritorious Service in Canadian Commd. Staff Course August 1974 to
N. Ireland wh ilst serving with 2 QUEENS. Jul y 1975 ).

We also congratulate the following Officers wh o The following Lt.-Cols. h ave been selected for
rece ived Awards as shown, in the Birthday H onou rs p romotion to substantive Colon el in 19 74:
List June 1973:
R. G. }ones, B . H. Marciandi, H . J. A. Moore OBE,
C BE:
Col. J . N. Shipster, DSO; M . F. Reynolds and G. G. Strong.
A. F. J . Doulton, TD (formerly Mi ddlesex).
MBE: Lt. -Col. G. H . W . (Geo ffrey ) H owlctt, OBE
Maj. R. Lea M C, P ara, (formerl y RWK ) ha s a lso been selected
for simila r p romotion.
W e congratulate also the following Officers who
received awards as shown from H .M . The Sultan Lt.-Col. (A / Col ) H . C. Millman, OBE is to be
of Oman: Col. AQ HQ 4 Div on 17th J anuary 1974.

Lt.-Cols. } . B. Ray, MBE and N . B . Knocker-The Lt.-Col. J . G . W. Davidson successfull y com-
Disting uished Service M edal. pleted No. 52 Course at the United States Armed
Capt. P. A. TaweU-The Sultan 's Commendat ion. Forces College, Norfolk, Virginia ( 21 August 1972
to 19 J a nua ry 1973) and is entitled to the symbol
We congratulate the following who rece ived ((Ode(US)" agai n st his n ame in militar y records.
Awards as shown, for service in Northern Ireland
between 1st Novembe r 1972 a nd 3 1st J anuary 1973: Lt.-Col. J. R. Stephenson successfull y completed

OBE No. 2/ 72 Senior Officers War Course at the R oyal
Lt.-Col. R. H . Chappell Naval War College ( 19th September 1972 to 23 rd
F ebru ar y 1973 ) and is entitled to the symbol "sowe"
MBE: against his name in military records.
Maj. G. Bulloch
Col. B. A. M . Pielow was appointed M A, Bel -
MC: grade on 14th Jul y 73.
Maj. S. T. W . Anderson
The following M a jors have been provisionall y
MM: selected for promotion to substantive Lieut Colonel
Sgt. P. P . M . Ryan in 1974.

R. Lea, MBE, J. M. Hewson , MC and R. D .

Fisher

W e congratulate Capt. B. M. Sidwell of 6
QUEENS ( V ) on his award of the T erritor ia l D e-
co r a t i o n

Brig. B. R . Colem an retired on retired pay, 6th
J uly 73

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N OHTHERN IRELAND A WARDS

NORTHERN IRELAND AWARDS (Top left) : Maj S. T . W . Anderson-MC (Top right) : Sgt. P. P.

M. Ryan-MM ( Lower left ): WOII M. D. Maloney-BEM. (Lower centre): WO 11 J. H . W. Pearson-

Mention in Dispatches. (Lower right) : Maj . P . Mallalieu-Mention in Dispatches-all members of the 1st Bn.

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AN APPRECIATION FROM THE I am sorr y that it h as been necessary for mem-
bers of the B attalion to r equire hospital treatment and
ROYAL V ICTORIA HOSPITAL-BELFAST we look forward to the day when we wi ll no longer be
receiving cas ualties r esul ting fro m t he civi l disturb-
Th e fo llowin g is th e text of a letter received f ro m the ances.
M atro n at th e R oyal Vi ctoria H ospital, B elfast, a
lit tle while ago. I wou ld like yo u to know how m uch we have
admi red the exemplary m anner in which t he troops
" D ear Colonel H ayward, have carried out their task whi ch we know h as been
difficu lt in t hi s province.
P lease convey m y thanks to the members of the
1st Bn. The Queen's R egimen t for their offici al p laque With best wishes for the fut ure"
whi ch it will be m y p leasure to h ang in m y office.

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The lst Battalion

JTE ditorial operat ional awa rds (announced in J une ) made to
was six months ago, towards the end of our M aj. Anderson, M aj. M allalicu, W02 M aloney, W02
P earson and Sgt. R ya n for their service in Belfast last
last tour in Belfast, that we were naive enough
wi nt er.
to announce in our last Jou m al notes that we
W e all had three weeks most welcome leave in
were looking forward to basking in the tranquil- M arch and since then h ave been working hard to
icy and normality of life in Bulford. Much water make up for lost train ing time. Much of the emphasis
has been on the individual variety and very few mem-
has flowed under the bridge since then and al- bers of the Battalion ha ve not been either away on
courses or put through specialist and upgrading cad-
though in general we have managed to paddle res and educational courses in Bulford.
with the current, avoiding most of the effluent,
Such training has taken place of course amid a
we have done precious little basking and are still host of other activities.

striving frantically after tranquility and normal- Ceremonial

ity. There were two important parades in the past
six months. On 30th M ay the Battalion exercised
Not that we are complaining. W e were thank- the Regiment's Freedom of the Borough of Guild -
fu l that we were able to complete our final two weeks ford . The parade-consisting of the Band and Drums,
in Belfa st without serious casualties, especially in view H olland Coy. under the command of M aj. Acworth,
of the spirit of revenge which prevailed in Provisional and vehicl es of Quebec Coy- was extremely well
circles as a result of our successful gun battle in the received by the citi zens of Guildford who lined the
New Lodge during the night of 3rd/ 4th February. In streets in large, enthusiast ic numbers. Further details
fact, danger threatened from a most unexpected are g iven in a separate article.
quarter in the form of a barbed thrust by "Public
R elations" in retaliation for having dared to hint to M a j. Acworth was soon called upon again, this
the news media that gunmen we had shot that night time at very short notice, to command a Gua rd of H on-
were more likely to have been Provisionals than Pil- our to rece ive H .E . G en. G holam Ali O veisi, Com-
grim Fathers! Still, we took the point (you can never manding G eneral Imperial Iranian G round Forces
be sure, ca n you !?) and we re relieved to find after a at the Min ist ry of D efence on the occasion of hi s
little research that the M ayflower h adn' t been an y- official visit on 4th J une. M any favo urable comments
where near Belfa st that day (she was in dry dock at were made on the high standard of the Guard of
Millwall ) and that we were probably right a fter all. H onour, not least on the remarkably fluent P ersian
rendered by the Guard Commander!
Of course we are off to Belfast aga in very soon,
this time with the fin e inspiration to us all of the

The Guard of Honour for the Commanding General, Imperial Iranian G round Forces

12 On e of the difficulties is that of limiting the
tea ms to 57 a side; as one team is eliminated, it tends
Regimental Days to append itself to another in succeeding rounds.
Thus 180 men of S evastopol Coy. defeated the 120
Albuhera D ay celebrations were beg un with of Quebec Coy. in the final of the 57 tug-o' -wa r .
inter-company 57-a-side footba ll and tug-o'-wa r
compet itions. The former is our own undisciplined The "S il ent T oast" ceremony in the evening in
version of the Eton Wall Game and this yea r the the W .O.s' and Sgts.' M ess was extremely well
competition, won by Kirke's Coy., was surpri singly attended with many r eg imental guests coming from
free of serious injury, no doubt due to the "get tough" all over th e South and South-West. W e were very
orders recentl y issued to the referees by the FA pleased th at the Colonel of The R egiment was able
Disciplinary Committee ! to attend and dine with us afte rwards.

ALBUHERA DAY (Left): 57-a-side T ug-o'-War (right): T he 57-a-side Football

SACCONE & SPEED The emphas is in our celebration of the ! 79th

ARE ABOUT lOOYEARS anni versary of the Battle of The Glorious First of
June was placed on events at Whale I sland since it
BEHIND THE TIMES. was the turn, thi s yea r, of HMS E xcellent to stage
the annual cricket match. M any of us made the trip

to Portsmouth to attend va rious M ess functions

which were preceded by a very good Beating R etreat

Since we started serving the military by our Band and Drums. It goes without saying that
the Roya l Navy's hospi tality was immensely generous,

tn 1839 , o ur attitudes have n ' t c h an ged a bit. and it was a somewhat wea ry regimental cricket team
Nor have o ur wines. th at dragged itself onto the fi eld next day to gain a
Wh en you com e to o rd e r fr o m us yo u ' 11 handsome victory.

find tha t w e s till keep a n exce ll e nt ce ll ar. Back at Bulford the Band and Drums had al-
Stocked to the brim with superb burgundies, rea dy treated our families to a Beating R etreat on the
31 st M ay, and inspite of unkind weather this had

clarets and hocks. Not to m enti o n a wide been very well attended.

range of sp irits, liqu eurs and ciga rs . Shooting
But und erstand a bl y, th er e's at least one
Shooting wa s given a very high priority during
thing that w e've changed since 18 39. M ay and June, in prepa ration for the 5 Airportable
Our service. Bde. Skill at Arms M eeting on 19th and 20th June.

Thanks to th e h o rs eless ca rriage, W e held our own meeting in glorious weather on
we can n ow d eliver your orders in about Bullford ranges when Sevastopol/Albuhera Coy.
48 h o urs, which just happens to be the emerged as overall winners of a hard-fought series
of matches. The 5 Bde. meeting wa s a strictly inter-

quickest service in the business. company competition and all companies performed

most creditably despite incessant rain-none more so

SACCONE &SPEED LTD. than Kirke's Coy. which won the Section M atch and
the overall C hampion Award.

10 L.'l'MHEHL.-\K l l A\'EKUE. L ONDOK :--J\\'10.

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(Top left): Sevastopol & Albuhera Coy. Team-winners of the Bn. Rifle Meeting. (Top right): The Command-
ing Officer presents the Brigade Match C up to Sgt. Maye (Tangier Coy. ) at the Bn. Rifle Meeting. ( Lower
left) : W02 Whittle ( Sevastopol Coy.) receives the C hampion SMG Shot prize from the Commanding Officer.
(Lower right): Kirke's Coy., winners of the Section Match Competition and overall C hampion Company Award

at the 5 Airportable Bde. Meeting

Miscellaneous Commander, Brig. R . B. Trant, appeared to have no
say in the pl anning of the programme, hav ing merely
Our FFR inspection this yea r took place on Z2nd been invited to turn up and be surprised.
M ay and was slightly un usual in that our Brigade

(Left): New Quarter Guard provided by Kirke's Coy., for the Commander, 5 Airportable Bde. ( Right ): Brig.
R. B. Trant presents Cpl. Sloan (Aibuhera Coy.) with the Safe Driving Award during the FFR inspection

14 come three Bangladesh offi cers for a ten day stay; we
rather excelled ourselves in marking the arrival of
We have also been tested in our role as Spearhead the latter with gamon steaks for lunch and roast pork
Battalion in August and had an uneventful but suc- for dinner!
cessful trial run-through at AMC South Cerney.
Cpl. O 'M ea ra and P yper obtained permission to
In June, Holland Coy., to prove their versatility, attempt to visit one of our allied regiments in Canada
switched from the drill square to Larkhill ranges to and return to Bulford, all within the space of a W eek-
organise and take part in Exercise "Black Triad~~, a end. In fact they took ten days to get to Nigeria (or
demonstration of infantry fire power and heliborne was it K enya?) and back, which speaks vo lumes
assault tactics in honour of the retiring CGS, Gen. for our gullibility and their initiative!
(now Field Marshal ) Sir Michael Carver.
The Battalion as a whole has no such ambitious
The Band and Drums have also been keeping travel plans. We do not manage a mention in the
their hand in, taking part in the Tidworth Tattoo Arms Plot for 1974 so we content ourselves with our
in June and the Colchester Tattoo in August. impendng ten days' training at Lydd and H ythe prior
to our return to N. Ireland in mid October.
We have had visits from 'potential' officers (of
varying degrees of potential ) and were pleased to wel-

33 Years Service with The Queen's-
-A Profile of Pte. Tom Lawless

The Quartermaster's store is of course legend- Pte. Tom Lawless
ary, immortalised in music, its contents so utterly
unobtainable to mere mortals in khaki that only (Top left): A tense moment during Kirke's Coy. ~
magical P1954s can grant one access to worship at its Basketball Competition
shrine and gaze in awe at its untouchable treasures.
In most aspects the stores in the 1st Bn. conform to (Top right) : Pte. Hyde, Quebec Coy., Army 100
the general pattern, but our G 1098 stores are quite Metre Champion
distinctive, tended as they are by Pte. Tom Lawless.
(Lower left): Inter-Coy. Rugby "Sevens". C/ Sgt.
Tom has served a total of eight Quartermasters Waters (Aibuhera Coy.) scores a try despite the at-
as G1098 Storeman, and it shows! No-one entering
his store can fail to be impressed by the neat rows of tention of three Tangier Coy. players
gleaming instruments, the order and efficiency which
radiate from all corners. And what of the man behind (Lower right): Tangier Coy. Swimming Team (L to
the counter? r) Ptes. Booker and Kinnard, L / Cpl. Weaver, Ptes.
Weaver and Pollitt, L / Cpl. Johnston, Ptes. Keenor
Tom L awless first enlisted in March 1940, join-
ing 2nd Bn. The Queen's Royal Regiment in Palestine. and Lee
He served for two eventful years in the Middle East
and North Africa, soon achieving the rare distinction
of being taken prisoner by the French Foreign Legion
in Syria in early 1941. Happily, his detention in a
POW camp near the Turkish border was not too un-
pleasant and lasted but two weeks, but even so, such
an experience must have been exciting for a young
recruit. Tom soon found himself in North Africa and
took part in the siege of Tobruk in 1941. His mem-
ories of this campaign are many but he recalls with
particular clarity two attempts to leave Alexandria,
for the reinforcement of Crete, both frustrated by
German bombing of his ship .

He left North Africa in March 1942 and headed
for Ceylon and India before finally marching into
Burma with the 2nd Chindit expedition in 1943. He
remained in Burma till the end of 1944 and now
looks back on his time with the Chindits as perhaps
the most exciting and dramatic experience of his long
career. He also fondly remembers a well-earned leave
in Bangalore and the long sea voyage home with New
Years Eve 1944/ 45 being celebrated in Gibraltar. He
was to spend the remaining months of the war with
the 13th Holding Bn. at Gravesend, training for the
war in Europe. He was demobbed in early 1946 but
re-enlisted within three months, a natural course to
take for someone whose father had himself served
for 24 years in the Royal Horse Artillery.

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Back with the 13th H olding Bn. and expecting to (now Capt. Adkins of 3 QUEENS), Germany 1957-
59, Aden 196 1-62, Hong Kong 1962-63, Germany
rejoin 2nd Bn. The Queen's Royal R egt., he was, in again 1963-67, Bahrain 1969 and Berlin 1970-72. H e
fact, drafted to the 1st Bn. in Singapore, thus begin- is now spending perhaps the last year of his service
ning an association with the Regiment a nd this Bat- at Bulford and hopes to retire to a storeman's ap-
pointment at the Staff College, Camberley, his home
talion which has las ted, with one sho rt interruption,
town .
for 26 years. H e remained in Singapore and M alaya H e can look back on 33 years of loyal service
until M ay 1950 when he moved with the Battalion to
I serlohn in Germany. In September of that year he which have in part been recognised by the award of
was a member of the draft which reinforced I st Bn.
The Middlesex Regt. in Korea where he served until no less than nine medals; 1939/ 45, Africa and Burma
M ay 195 1. H e remained with I MX in Hong Kong Stars, D efen ce, Victory, Korea, M alaya, Coronation
and then at their depot at Mill Hill before rejoining
1 QUEENS in Iserlohn in 1952. Since then, through and LSGC.
the evolution of his former Regiment to the Queen's This quiet, retiring man has won, in addition,
Roya l Surrey Regt. and now to the Queen's Regt.,
his travels have taken him to Malaya ( 1954-57) the respect of all those who have been privileged to
where he was A Coy. storeman under C QMS Adkins, know him and serve with him, and when he leaves us
it will be with ou r sincere best wishes for a h appy

retirement.

***

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SPORTS ROUND UP

T he comparitively short amo un t of time between
N. Ireland tours has resu lted in a yea r's worth of
sport being condensed into a mere fo ur months. On
top of this, our winter tour of Belfast effectively de-
prived us of our rugby, soccer and hockey seasons
with the result that cricket is the onl y sport to have
been played at Battalion level in the last year.

Aga inst all expectations we h ave done rather
well at cricket, winning all our games save one, that
being the 3rd round of the Arm y C up where the two
Army players of 2 R Irish were the decis ive factors in
our defeat.

Our strongest point has been our bowling, with
Pte. C rawford doing exceptionally well ; our batting
has been brittle, however, with the result that all our
matche have been low-scoring aff airs.

At the time of writing, the Battalion athlet ics
meeting has still to take place, but alrea dy Pte. H yde
of Quebec Coy. has made his mark by easil y winning
the Army 100 metre individual championship and is
now the proud possessor of a h andsome cup.

L/ C pl Buckle h as done well in the canoe ing
world, being selected once again to represent the
Army in the Inter Services match which takes place
in September . It was good news to hea r that Ca pt .
Pratt, our Padre in Berlin and the man responsible for
arousing interest in ca noeing within the Battalion, has
also been selected for the same championsh ips.

The remainder of our sporting endeavour has
been channelled into Kirke's Coy. competitions, all of
which have been fi ercely contested and also supported
by highl y partisan spectators.

The football competition was won by Quebec
Coy. and the old lags of Albuhera Coy. then went on
to prove their stamina by taking the basketball shield.
Youth fin ally had its say, however, when Kirke's
narrowly won the rugby 7-a-side trophy a ft er two
da ys of exhausting competition. Kirke's Coy. also did
well in the orienteering match ; they won by a large
margin and C pl. Camille was quite outstanding.

The swimming shield went to T angier Coy.,
worthy winners in spite of very good individual per-
form ances by Cpl. Dunning of Holland Coy.

At the end of these few months of frenzied
activity, he final Kirke's Coy. Competition position
for 1973 was:

1st Kirke's ( Sobraon ) Coy. 82 points; 2nd T an-
gier Coy. 62 points; Equal 3rd Sevastopol Coy./
Holland Coy. 52 points; 5th Albuhera Coy. 4 8
points; 6th Quebec Coy. 46 points.

(Top): Men of Holland Coy. on Ex "Black Triad"

Picture by PR HQ UKLF

(Lower): RSM Rippon-flapping as usual!

Cartoons by Sgt. P. Ryan, MM

FORWARD AIR CONTROLLING 17

by Capt. DPL Hodgetts look for, the attack begins. H avi ng given the pilot an
exact time of flight in a given direction, the FA C
The course which has always held the greatest knows, (or certainly hopes he knows) exactl y where
appeal for me is the one for Forward Air Controllers and when the ai rcraft will arri ve. There arc then onl y
( FAC ). Imagine then my delight- in the midst of our seconds for rapid briefing to ensure that the pilot
la st No rthern Ireland tour-when told that I wa s be- acquires and attacks the target first time.
ing considered for such training. Would I be inter-
ested, bearing in mind it might later invol ve a trip By the end of the week we had attacked many
to Cyprus? Two of us leapt at the opportunity. Much targets with Phantoms, Harriers and Hunters- includ-
to-ing and fro-ing followed as to whether we were ing some live firing of rockets-and consumed many
going on the full course, or on a special one in the doughnuts served by a fair yo ug maid! In addition
Sennybridge Area . The final decision was the special much effort was put into persuading the organisers
course, designed primarily for FA Cs who were out- that we would be invaluabel on the Cyprus trip later
of-date and needed more practice to become what is in the yea r; and that, anyway, we needed it as a con-
firmatory course-the least we could do for our
termed 'current'. countr y! D espite the hardship of having to leave a
Before starting we both received about one hour's cold, wet England and suffer the sun and beaches of
Cyprus, we knew our duty and in due course fl ew
tuition in the office of the RAF officer who, as Pri- out to Cyprus for ten days 'hard work'. In fact, set-
mary FA C in our Brigade, was running the course. ting off at 7 a .m. for some hill top in what can onl y
Armed with this knowledge, we walked to the top of be described as arid desert, and working until 4 .30
our first Welsh hill . There followed a briefing abo ut p.m. in the blazing sun was no joke. A Squadron of
conditions and so on and then we learned that Ph an- Harriers was exercising in Cyprus and we worked
toms would be working with us for the first day. In with them all the time. Trying to indicate a target
a very short time each of us had some obscure target in barren desert is reall y taxing! Having picked up a
pointed out and we began furiou sly planning how suntan we were returned, slowl y but surely, to Eng-
we were going to bring an aeroplane in at 420 knots, land in a Belfast aircraft.
and indicate to the pilot exactly what he was to
attack in time for him to 'acquire' the target-in other Safe in the knowledge that every four months
words to see it. This is done by a very clear briefing we must do some more attacks or we will no longer
whilst the pilot circles some way behind our own be of any use to the Battalion ( as we will be out-of-
lines and when he is quite sure he knows what to date'), we look forward to further trips around the
world-all of course, in the line of duty!

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The 2nd Battalion

It is with regret that we announce the deaths,
as a result of a traffic accident on 11th May 73,
whil st they were on duty in Germany of 24 117980

L /Cpl Neville J ames Woolbert, and 2419196 8 Pte

R aymond 1ames Parris, and extend our deepest

sympathy to their parents and relatives.

Editorial lager, companies successfully fired all the weapons
with which the Battalion is armed. The weather varied
The inspecting otlicer on the Battalion's from warm, balmy and sunny spring da ys to a how-
Fimess For Role (FFR) Inspection on 12th ling gale and blizzard which resu lted in a blow down
March, Maj Gen AH Farrar-Hockley DSO, of trees. In contrast the trai ning at Soltau was
MBE, MC, GOC 4 Di v. warned that he would conducted in a perpetual and intensive heatwave. On
inspect the Battalion with the specific intention the training area tracked vehicles disappeared in their
of finding out whether operations in Northern own dust and bloodthirsty horesfli es assaulted us. How-
Ireland adversely affect us in fulfilling our ever, it was a trul y super fortnight and the standard
NATO role in Germany. After the inspection of training and co-operation with our affiliated armour
he wrote "My inspection showed me that a unit prospered. B Coy and C Sqn 9/ 12 Lancers, (they
of high quality, such as yours, can contend will be training together in Canada shortly) developed
si multaneously with two demanding roles." a near perfect understanding and respect for each
other's capabilities. The two weeks culminated with
It may seem immodest to open these notes with a battle between Bn. HQ, C Coy. and B Sqn . Ro ya l
such a statement but some readers may not be aware Scots Dragoon Guards against RHQ 9/ 12 Lancers
of the conflict in our two roles and the considerable (under command of Lt. Col. David-Maitland-Titter-
effort required of a Battalion to re-adopt its NATO ton), B Coy. and C Sqn. 9/ 12 Lancers. Our Recce
mant le immediately on return from operations in PI., B Bty. I RHA and a troop 2 Armd. Engr. Sqn.
Ulster . Since that FFR inspection we have completed worked for both sides ! This was training at its very
two important training periods; a fortnight of live best and it would be tactless to say anything other
firing on the Sennelager Ranges, and a fortnight of than honours were even !
mechanised training with armour at Soltau. At Senne-
Every single APC was taken to Soltan and every-
one of them "rolled ." Indeed on the morning before

Lt.-Col. M . F. Reynolds,

our former c.o.

(centre) with, left to
right, Capt. P . A. Gwil-
liam, Lt. B. M. Morris,

Capt. N. D. J. Harris

and Lt. Amf Jelf, at
Soltau.

20 WELCOMING THE NEW ARMY
COMMANDER, GENERAL SIR HARRY TUZO
the final phase a photograph was taken from the air
showi ng the might of a modern mech anised infantr y KCB, OBE, MC, 25th APRIL, 1973
batta lion . The fact that all the tracked vehicles were
runners (except one ) reflects great credit on our (Top) : The Guard of Honour consisting of Guards
EME ., Capt. P at Burke and his skilful team. (I to r) from Belgium, Germany, Holland and 2

In addition to the trai ning at Sennclage r and QUEENS outside HQ BAOR
So ltau, each mechanised company h as h ad a special (Centre): Gen. Tuzo inspects 2 QUEENS Guard
task. A Coy. (M aj. G avin Bulloch) r an a flotation (from Sp Coy.) commanded by Lt. P. D . McLelland
camp at H ameln where a creditably high proportion (Lower): The Band and Drums with Bandmaster
of APCs swam the W eser. B Coy. (Maj . Cri s WOI Game and DI M C / Sgt. Lively in the foreground
C hampion) went to Todendorf to teach the rest of the
Corps how to shoot down aircraft (enemy! ) C. Coy. Pictures by PR HQ BAOR
(Maj . P eter Barrow) h ad the most romantic assign-
ment-two weeks training in Florence. The training
area was apparentl y use less, but the company did
achieve some worthwhile training and also had a
marve llous time. Notes on all three companies'

activities appear below.

The various events in the Invi cta Trophy (Inter-
Company Competition) h ave been keenl y competed
for includin g the M arch and Shoot (won individu all y
by the Recce PI. under Lt. Jelf), the ori enteering,
drill, driving, hockey, footb all, 7-a-side ru gger, cri cket,
athleti cs, basketball, volley ball, swimming and tug
of war competitions. The Stretcherbearers competi tion,
the boxing and cross country running ar e sti ll out-
standing.

The cricket competition was parti cul arl y
memorable ; the fin al between Command and Admin
Coys. was not decided until almost the last ball of
the las t over. To the joy of most of the spectators the
unfancied team (one m an dressed in cooks whites and
blue socks) beat the fa vourites, Band of Brothers Cap
and other distingui shed colours notwi thstandin g !

The Invicta Trophy was introduced by the
Commanding Officer, Lt. Col. MF R eynolds, las t
yea r, and the present holders, Support Coy., were
the first winners. A blue silk, silver-em broidered
banner was presented by the Colonel to Support
Company Colour Sergeant, C QMS Spillett, in front
of the whole battalion on 1st D ecember last during
a short Th an ksgiving Service to mark our sa fe r eturn
from operations in Northern Ireland.

B y the time these notes are published, Lt. Co l.
Mike R eynolds will have handed the B attalion over
to Lt. Col. MRM (Mike) Newall, but the highl y
successful competition for the Invicta Trophy will
continue and Co lonel R eynold 's enthusiasm for it will
long be remembered. Under his command, the
Battalion has prospered in Germany and twice been
on operations to Northern Ireland, suffering in credibly
few casualiti es. D espite tours in U lster and the con-
centrated training required for them-not to mention
the rigo urs of BAOR tra ining seasons-the Battalion
under hi s command has found time to play games and
relax too ; in the Briti sh Army of the seventies, this
is not easy. The recent news that he is to be promoted
next year to full colonel was r eceived with great de-
li ght by all r anks. Anne Reynolds too, has done much
for the Battalion by her work for the Wives C lub,
visiting the sick in hospital and supporting so loyally
a vast number of widely varyi ng B attalion activities.

We said farewe ll to the Colonel of the Regiment
on 21 st June when the las t day of positively his las t
visit to the 2nd Bn . ended with a Beating of Retreat
and dinner in the Officers' M ess. By chance his visit
coin cided with the Invicta Trophy Drill Competition
and he was full of praise for the competing compani es

21

and their CS M s, parti cu larl y the winners A Coy. members of our team were young, showing consider-

(CS M D ave Ormcrod). able potenti al for the futur e.
It is impractica l to attempt to say farewell to
O ther visitors included M aj. Goth and three
officers of the R oya l Danish Lifeguards who visited all the many who have left us during the last six
us from I I th to 14th April, and M aj. Sorensen, months ; a word must, however, be said about those
F alsterke R egiment (Royal Danish Army) who visited who have left after a full tour, never to return .
us at Soltau on 26 th/ 27th June. W e enjo yed h aving
them all and grea tl y va lue these contin uing links be- As we ll as the Commanding Officer, Maj . Mike
H are our 2 1C (and, for a year, was the eclitor of these
tween the R egiment and D enm ark. notes) has left on retirement to manage his est ate in
Norfolk. Hi s succi nct and interesting ] ournal notes and
Our good relations with the neighbouring hi s exce llent sense of humour are much mi ssed. Also
Germans in Werl continue. An exce llent Trimm P fad departed (or about to go), for whom our debt is
(a kind of assa ul t/ keep fit course), built by the Assault incalul able, are R ev. P aul Mears (our padre), Capt.
Pioneers under C / Sgt. HIIton, was opened by the Pat Burke ( our EME ) , Capt. Ed P eterson PPCL I,
Burgermeister of Werl and the Commanding Officer our Canadian exchange officer ) and D avid Gardiner,
on 31st M ay. (An acco unt by Capt. H arris appears R Signals. To all these officers we send our best wishes
elsewhere. ) The golf course and C lay Pigeon C lub
both in the Camp continue to be pillars of Anglo- for the future and our grateful thanks.
W e also say a fond farewe ll to our RSM, WOI
German fri endship .
Sid Lea, who has been much respected throughout his
Outsi de the Battalion, the main sporting success tour. Combi ning a fri endl y n ature with that necessary
was in the divisional 6-a-side tournament, when we characteristic of all RSMs-powers of discip line-he
were runners up ( In the later BAOR competition, the has made many fri ends and wi ll be sadly mi ssed ; we
same team qu alified fo r the qu arter finals before wish him and Mrs. Lea every happiness and success
being elimin ated). It was gratifyi ng to see that all
in civi li an life.

***
L.A .D . Lt. P eter McLell and, our goalkeeper, will be intro-
ducing Canadian s to our kind of hockey and I will
Our lates t arri va l is ASM Hunt who came ha ve moved u p the road to Korbecke. However 80%
during the Soltau Training and spent three days of the team will remain and with players of the
"roughing-it" in the echelon area. potenti al of Pte. Proser and L / C pl. Davision the out-
look must be good.
S/ Sgt. Smithers and our resident " G ypsy"
L / C ip. SMITH, managed to attach themselves to C The inter-company competition proved as
Coy. for the duration of a three week excercise in exciting as last yea r and once agam a play-off was
Italy during which wine/ beer consumption com- necessary for first place, this time between B and C
petitions proved disastrous for the local hosts. Coys., the r esult being an exciting win for the latter.

After many weeks of preparation, the FFR in- The following represented the Battalion in one or
spection in March went off succesfully and we must more of the 20 matches played :
compliment ourselves on the success of the SMG
Arms drill, thrust upon us at short notice because of M ajors Butler, and Bulloch, Capt. Cook Lts.
insufficient rifles within the battalion. McLelland, Cann, ] elf, Huskisson and Pratten,
2/ Lts. W ake and Hughes, W02 Boyne, C pls. IGtchen,
The new company fitter sections, under recentl y- Campany, M arsh all, L / Cpls D avison and C larke,
arri ved S / Sgt. Edwards and Mitchell and the Ptes. Prosser, Buddle and Gardiner.
" Veteran" S/ Sgt. M ackey, m anaged to achieve a
high battleworthy st ate during the exercises at Soltau .

Congratul ations to C fn. Bray, Dodd and H an- BASKETBALL-by Lt. Brian Morris
cock on achieving thei r C lass I! trade certificates and
to L / Cpl P aine on his 1st C lass R ecovery M echanic The B attalion only played three m ajor games
Certificate. this season and although two resulted in losses we
acquitted ourselves very well against some extremely
HOCKEY 1973-by Capt. P. C. Cook hard opposition . One of the games lost was against
50 Missile R egt. who became eventual winners of
From our fir st game in ] anu ary through to the BAOR M ajor Units Competition, and runners-up in
las t, played in earl y June, we have h ad one of the the Army C hampionships. For the earl y games the
busiest seasons fo r many yea rs and some very good Battalion played in it's old strip, but as soon as the
results towards the end of the season . When we new R egimental Blue strip was wo rn the t eam seemed
started in ] anu ary we had several months to m ake to discover its form and we began to play some very
up but with a good nucleus of players, we were good Basketball. U nfortun ately, by next season, a
fairly confident. Our intiti al resu lts were poor, but number of this year's team will h ave departed.
by April we were able to send a team strong enough
to become runners up in the 4 Div. 6-a-side tourn a- The Invicta Inter-Company Basketball Com-
ment and then go on the Quarter fin als of the BAOR petition was held on the 16th April with twelve teams,
tournament. Four pl aye rs, Lts. McLelland, Cann. two from each Compan y parti cipating. A very fair
] elf and this writer were selected to play for the standard wns achieved and plenty of enthusiasm
Infantry and Lt. ]elf was later selected to pl ay for shown . The eventual winners were C Coy. 'A' team
BAOR. who beat Command 'B ' in a thrilling fin al by 37
points to 22.
What of the future? U nfortunately next season

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SWEATING IT OUT IN THE STADTWALD- British Unit in Camp in the Stadtwald, after its de-

by Capt. N . D. J . Harris parture in earl y 1975.
The people of W erl have always been ex tremely
Leisurely walks in the Stadcwald will take p lace
on a new dimension for the citi zens of Werl. Since kind to our soldiers and thei r families and in pro-
31st M ay they have h ad a "sweat course" some 3 km. viding the course, the B attalion was able to show its
long with 30 obstacles to tax their muscles. appreci ation . Co l. R eynolds unveiled a plaque bearing
the inscription in both Engli sh and German. "This
The Trimm Pfad was started in mid April and Trimm-Dich-Pfad was constructed by 2nd B attalion
follows the plan provided by the "Vita" Life
Assurance company; it was constructed by the Assault The Queen's R egiment for the C itizens of W erl ."
Pioneer PI. under C / Sgt. Hilton. The Burgermeiste r of W erl, Frau Dokter R ohrer

At 11 a. m. sharp on the opening day, Band- said that she was particularly grateful for the Trimm
master D anny Game r aised hi s baton to the
Fredericus R cx M arch. M an y W erlers had gathered Pfad as it had re-enhanced the value of the S cadwald,
for the opening ceremony when Col. R eynolds, in a recentl y reduced in size by the construction of the
shon speech, said that, by constructing the Trimm new W erl by-pass.
Dich Pfad every citizen would be able to benefit from
a gift which he hoped would remind them of the The Commanding Officer then cut the tape and
the 15-man W erl T eam set off along the course to-
gether with a team from the Battalion.

Thirty minutes later they returned, sweating
profuse ly, and commented: "Grea t-but exhausting."

***

The Burgermeister of
Werl and Lt.-Col. Rey-
nolds open the new
Trim Dich Pfad con-
structed by the Assault

P ioneer Platoon.

Picture by PR H Q4Div.

THE AALLAD CAMP, T ODENDORF 1973- the "Establishment" decided to employ GPMG and
LMG in an All Air Defence Role. In fact it all boiled
by Capt. R oger J ennings down to a I 070 version of the Dunkirk beaches.

What is AALLAD? A grandiose title; " All Ever si nce the British left Todendorf in 1954 the
Arms, Low Level, Air Defence. " I n May 1973, the Camp has been used by NATO forces as an Air
Annual Camp, at which all units of 1 (BR) Corps Defence Firing Camp and is well-known by gunners
participate, (or should participate) was run. 8 R egt. and other breeds. The camp is excellent, one of our
RCT, the administrators in 1972, passed u s a heap better achievements built in the early fifties to house
of files and wished u s luck. 3 R egiments of 7 AGRA.

A few years ago, alarmed at the almost total lack And the targets? Astounding though it may
of Ai r D efence in BOAR- which was a result of the seem in an age where jet attack planes achieve 700
constant pruning of Light Air Defence Regiments- m.p.h. plus, the targets are drogues towed by Fairy

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Fireflies, a Korean War plane that only a few vintage DM 1,000 were removed from thei r pockets within
readers wi ll remember. Its sole attribute is reliability 48 hours by the canteen whi ch even extended its
but not speed, 230 knots being its maximum. Even facilities to roll and pop at I 030 hrs. daily. The
more strange, the pilots arc German Civilians (Pre- various visiting German units also enjo yed the highly
sumab ly "Crab Air" is not too happy abo ut the competiti ve prices in the canteen where most nights
Brown M arksmanship! ) were internation al -Germans playing darts and
English singing G erm an songs!
A reece held in earl y F ebru ary was both
success ful and encourag ing. It revealed a well laidout Surprisingl y enough for such an isolated spot
ca mp with p lenty of facilities, clean and warm and a there was a wealth of local entertai nment. An
Camp Staff who were keen to help. Ameri can Nava l Station extended the hospitality of
their C lub to a limited num ber of the P ermanent
A "Coord Conf" held in M arch at Bielefeld Staff and the " H e>vy G ang" (Etherton, Toon,
when we were hopeful that all our questions (put in Knowles, Drury, H alfiman etc) proved, m any a time,
letter form a month before) would be answered, was that the US navy was no match for the British
a di stinct anti-climax; the lunch, however was good. Soldier when it came to drinking.
After several weeks the various administrative ele-
ments were almost guaranteed-cooks, postmen, the By 2 1st M ay, most Divisional Units had fired at
coppers, armourers, petrol, ammunition and transport; wretched drogue and the staggering total of
we even gained some idea of who would be arriving l
to fire-plus or minus 150!
mi lli on rounds had been fired, 10,000 cigarettes
The advance party set out on 27th April and smoked and 8,000 marks wo rth of " hooch" d runk.
the Main Body on 29th, the arrival of the latter being
uneventful except that, due to a navigational error, The Company then spent a relaxing weekend.
they were four hours late and had to unload POL and A fin al round of farewe ll p arties (G erman and
Ammo in darkness. The CSM arrived by car having American) and on 2 1st, the camp was h anded back
" taken things easy" (a mere twelve hours journey) in good order, thanks to RQMS W ard and IUs
but he did have his TV & Mess Kit! Barrack Room Block Holders.

The weather by now was glorious, fre sh and Back in W erl, we were faced with paper, 'phone
clear, a change from the smog of Werl. OCB arrived calls, upgrading, NCOs Cadres, Invi cta Trophy and
and promptly made two relevant oomments-
AA LLAD was splendid without the students; and Ohr P ark!
that there appeared to be little for him to do.
It had been a relaxi ng and sati sfying three weeks,
The fir st batch of students from 4 Div. arrived entire ly non-military but a lot of people learnt abo ut
on the Sunday and all the carefull y- rehear sed jobs they would not nom1ally h ave practised; more-
arrangements swung into action-smoothly! Some over the comp any were ab le to make donations to all
messes and to the CO's N on-Publi c Fund-to keep the

peace.

BATTALION ATill.ETICS-by Lt. Nicholas Cann

An Athletics Meeting took place at Werl Ba ys ting of Sp . Coy. who was under fi erce pressure
Stadium on 4th June. The amo unt of paper by his OC, Capt. Shephard, but managed to beat
distributed by the Athletics Officer, put the whole him by six inches. Cpl. Mills of Sp. Coy. m ade the
show on a par with a Battalion move and everyone Shot Putt a little embarrassi ng for the other com-
became involved in one capacity or another. Coys. petitors when, with an injured throwing arm, he
searched for their pennants while the QM sought the fini shed five feet ahead of his nearest rival; he was
vast amount of tentage required. Capt. Roy Benson, also a close second in the Discus.
the st arter, scoured Werl for a red cap and matching
blazer and W02 Prudence produced a starting pistol The 800 m. was won by Pte. Wakeling. His
-the one he normall y uses for training his dog, Bella, Company (Comd) also wo n thl s as a team event. A
to the gun. Other bits and pieces were assembled or Coy. took the hu rdles and 5000 m . team prizes, while
made with the assist ance of the Unit Pioneers, WOII B won the 1500 m. L / Cpl. Davidson won the latter
Baxter and his Gymnasium staff, and the German in 4 min . 42.5 while Pte. Fermon (a lso B Coy) r an
Officials who run the Werl Stadium . Thus the Sports very well in the 5000 m. to wi n by nearly 30 seconds,
day began. in a time of 17 min . 50 sec.

There were fourteen events-eight track and six Of the rela ys, the medley was won b y C Coy.
field. The former included four relays, the 1500, 5000 and the 200 m . by Sp. Coy.-two full seconds clear
and 800 metre events, and the High Hurdles. All of their rivals.
were run on a team basis with two or four com-
petitors per event from each company, whose com- As the meeting progressed, it became a battle
bi ned results were, in each case, added together. for first place between the three rifle Coys. and Sp.
D espite very littl e practice, some surprisingly good Coy. The excitement built up, with the result
performances were recorded in thi s, the Battalion 's traditionally hinging on the last three track events
first ath letics meeting for about six yea rs. of the day-the 1500 m. , 4 x 100 m . and 4 x 400 m.
relays. B Coy won the 1500 m and the first of the
2/ Lt. C hapma n was 2! clear seconds ahead of relays but only after Sp Coy were disqualified for a
his nearest ri val in the !I Om Hurdles, producing a fault y baton change. Comd Coy won the 4 x 400 m
time of 16.5 seconds; he also won the triple jump relay. The overall fini shing posiitions were first B
with a jump of nearl y 41 feet. Pte. Birdsall of C Coy. Coy, seoond A Coy and third C Coy.
won the High Jump with 5ft. 8 ins. and 2/Lt.
Dawson used hi s brawn to good advan tage in the T o round off a good day, Mrs. R eynolds very
J ave lin and Discus. The long jump fell to L / Cpl. kindl y presented the prizes and everybody went away
well satisfied, except perhaps those with pulled h am-
strings !

24 spotted and we hope these players wi ll turn ou t for
training and m ake themeselves avai lable for selection
FLOTATION AT OHR PARK- by Maj. Gavin next season.
Bulloch
Much as we hope to continue this encouragi ng
From 2 1st-2 5th May, A Coy. was responsible rugby revi va l we will be much restricted by the next
for the flotation training of drivers and commanders " Op Banner" tour which fall s slap in the middle of
on the W eser at Ohr P ark near H ameln- a strenuous the coming season. However we intend to enter the
test for most APCs, which had not moved far since Arm y Cup for 1973/ 74 for the first time in ten years.
Jul y last year. Despite one or two road casua lties, Win or lose this wi ll be an achi evement in itself.
dipping and flotation started on 2 1st May and carried
on without a hitch until late on the 24th. During A DRIVERS LIFE IN A MECHANISED
thi s time over 300 separate crossings were made with-
out so much as a track coming adrift (althou gh 2/ Lt. BATTALION-by W02 F. R. Potts
Hughes tried hard enough! ) The doubtful pleasure
of duty in the safety boat was sought after by many, To many of our readers the Mechanised
so much so that CS M Ormerod began to wonder Battalion brings to mind memories of the old t ype
what the attraction was. The use of a pai r of Bren Gun Carr ier U ni versal, (Lloyd and the like,)
binoculars from the control tower would h ave pro- and the fairly simp le maintenance required to keep
vided the answer! it going; this was invarariably performed by the driver
using the old 30 min ute morning task system.
As always the REME were well represented;
S/ Sgt. Mckay and a team of fitters provided the A driver in the Army of today who has on
technical expertise to enable our crossin gs to be con- charge a very expensive AFV 432 (APC) has a far
ducted without event. more complex task. Driver training is much longer
by necessity bu t a far better driver is produced . H e
RUGBY FOOTBALL-by Capt. D. H. A. Shephard not onl y learns basic road and C ross Country driving
but is also taught advanced Cross Countr y driving
On our return from Ulster and block leave in techniques and flotation traini ng (for the ve hicle is
J anuary, the battalion undertook the almost impossible completely am phibious). H e must know how every
task of attempting to fit one years' sport into six mechanised p art o f the engine, gearbox, and steerin g
months. To add to the problems of the new Rugby unit works, so that he can service and m ai ntai n it to
Football officer, we had not fielded a rugby side for the degree required. Every student driver during hi s
some two years and the barracks had no ru gby pitch. training undergoes a minumum of 180 x 40 Minute
However, after an initial scout around a nd a couple of periods of instru ction to cover every as pect of the
ill-fated tri al games (one taki ng place on a soccer vehicles' capabilities. Each type of driving, ie C ross
pitch in a blizzard!) it soon became apparent that Countr y and Flotation , requires a specialised type of
there were plenty of talented and enthusiastic players. servicin g undertaken not onl y by the driver, but b y
the Comm ander and the crew as well.
Some of the old faces (and even a few older
looking bodies) were sti ll around-namely Capts. Once the driver has completed his course and
P eter Cook and Chris Grove, Lts. P eter McLelland, passed hi s driving test he is alloca ted his vehicle and
John Huskinson, Nick Cann and la tterl y J ohn Mac- it becomes " home" to a comp lete section consisting
William, Sgts. Mick Rowney a nd Sammy Linscott, of the driver, it's commander and eight men. Whilst
Cpls. Jumbo Harris, 'Dorse' Dorsett and L / C pl. P aul they cannot sleep in the ve hicle, the ve hicle h as the
Glanville. This experience was well balanced with means to cook their food, supply them with hot water
the excellent crop of new talent, in the persons of for washing and shaving and keep constant boiling
Ptes. Frank Townsend, Roger J ones, P aul C handler, water for as many brew-ups as they require; it can
Cpl. Mick Barrett, P ay Cpls. Allan F ear, Jock Young also be completely closed down in the event o f a gas
and Georj!:e Drury, 2/ Lts. John D awso n, Dick White- attack. It keeps the section supplied with fresh air
house and D avid Wake. for as long as is required, and it's r adios enable the
section to keep in contact throughout any phase of
The first two matches agains t 50 M sl. Regt. and war.
26 Engr. R egt. were virtually tri al games and we duly
lost narrowly on each occassion (1 1-14 and 4-6); Once full y trained , the driver is capab le of t aking
it was an encouraging start however, since both sides his vehicle almost an yw here. Much of his training
were strong. The first game was especially heartening in BAOR is done with our affiliated armoured units
since we came back from 3-14 down to score twice and the infantry driver is often called upon to follow
in the last five minutes. We then entered an unbeaten the tanks. To be able to do that he must be able to
run of four games which started with an excellent read the ground a long way in front to enable him
26-0 win over our rivals in 6 Armd. Bde., 1 R oya l to change course where necessary and this is where
Irish, to everyones delight. Other triumphs were the close co-operation of APC d river and Comm ander
against our old enemies-4/ 7 RDG-whilst at Senne- is so essentiaJ: The comma nder, who m ap reads, can
lager, 5 Wksp and 2 Fd R egt. RA. see much further than the dri ve r and can pi ck out the
best route to follow. Both driver and commander mu st
The season finished with a lost match against have complete faith in each others capabilities.
26 Engr. R egt. on our own newly-prepared pitch in
the barracks. It was however a joy to play here (it After an exerci se, a couple of d ays of servicing
had been constructed by stalwarts of the team on and checks by the driver and crew brings the vehicle
odd evenings) in front of our own derisive and critical back into absolute top line efficiency. They also spend
crowd! an average of at least one day a week keeping their
vehicle in trim . It can be seen therefore that the dr iver
The season fini shed on 30th May with a most of an APC in a Mechanised Battalion is highl y
successful Inter Coy. 7-a-side competition played in specia lised in his own sphere.
true rugby weather-pouring rain all afternoon-and
was won by a strong A Coy. side. New talent was

QUEENSMEN IN ITALY- by M aj. Peter Barrow 25

The wo rd I taly first en tered C Coy's. vocabu lary (Top) : Col. Orazi toasts our Football team {L/ Cpl.
in Febru ary though certain members heard it Marsh and Cpl. Cullen look somewhat bewildered! )
men ti oned las t year in Londonderry w here it w as (Lower) : Maj. Barrow and Tenente Bambici (78th
considered an ill- timed jest. It was ver y nearl y proved
correct for the recce party departed as the Battalion Regt.) discuss range practices
was placed on 24 hrs. standby for Northern I reland.
However we were still present (albeit at Sennelager)
when they returned and detailed pl anning bega n,
although the lists of regi stered num bers required by
the Italian C ustoms cost C SM Boyne mu ch h air sin ce
most of the equipment was loaded on 4 tonners in
Werl ready to move to Ireland .

The road part y, ably led by Capt. P eterson, fed
by C / Sgt. Hamilton and nursed by S/ Sgt. Smithers
had a virtually trouble-free dri ve through Germany
and France and over the Alps into Italy. The journey
took four days d uring whi ch they stayed in Canadi an,
French and Italian barracks. The mai n problem
seemed to be keeping up with the Itali an Carabinierie
escort espeda lly through large towns. The main bod y
fl ew by RAF Britanni a from Gutcrsloh to Pisa on 7th
M ay where it was met by the road party and take n to
our host Unit's barracks from which we were to carr y
out dismounted Infantr y training for the next seven-
teen days.

Our hosts were 78 R eggimente F anteri a, " Lupi
di T oscana" (The Wolves of T oscana) whose barracks
in the Commune of Scandicci we re some 2 Kms from
the centre of Florence. They did all that was in their
power to make our visit a success, though squid fo r
our first meal was not, in gener al, well received. The
title "Lupi di T oscana" comes f rom a battle against
the Austri ans in which the Itali ans are said to h ave
fought like wolves. There is a cage containing fi ve
of these ferocious beasts just inside the main gate
which are given a wide berth by everyone. They say
that there is a sixth-ca lled " the Colonel" ! W e h ad
two interpreters from the R egiment to ease the
language problem though it is noted that one,
P etroni , a private soldier, used mannerisms way above
his r ank and station on our behalf.

Training began on the morning after our arri val
with a muster par ade that had most of the Itali an
sold iers watching in awe, and then incredulity, as we
marched out of the barracks to the trai ning area. W e
were to understand their in credulity an hour later
h aving climbed I ,000 ft . under a scorchin g sun before
stumbling on an excellent pub I 0 Kms out. For the
rest, time passed quickl y with ubandito" type exercises
between pl atoons whi ch sent the locals diving for
cover. It was during these that S/ Sgt. Smithers,
REME, built a " basha " and slept on the deck for the
first time in 22 years service. C pl. Wild, O 'N eill and
H enson did not approve of walking bare foot-the
punishment for being caught. Pl atoons also u sed an
Italian range literall y carved out of the hills with the
firing point on one side of the valley and the butts on
the other. It w as here that another ccfirst" w as
acheived by S/ Sgt. Smithers-firing the SM G 1
Plattoons ca mped by the range next to a cold clear
mountain stream (thou gh no M enthol damsels graced
the scene) and several swimming pools we re fashioned
by tacti call y sited dams. Training ended with a two-
day defence and withdrawal exerci se across the hills.
D igging-in was no joke with rock a foot down and so
the ancient art of "sanger building " w as revi ved

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though many efforts were looked upon with scorn by
the o lder hands. Throughout out stay the weather re-
mained sunny and hot though there was a tendency
to cloud over at weekends.

With the aid of an Itali an Army coach we
managed to get forty soldiers to Pisa on the fir st
weekend to see the famou s leaning tower and have a
day by the sea. Less luxurious transport repeated the
performan ce the following weekend thou gh the hard-
ness of the seats reduced the number to twenty! The
remainder of the Com pan y, heavily disguised as
tourists, followed the trai ls of cu lture vultures around
Florence, avoiding those who were not what they
appea red to be and trying to be the first to find a
Disco. The most patronized went by the name of the
" Queen Victoria " (which we recommend) along wi th
the Lu pi Pizzeria just outside the barrack gates.
F lorence, regrettab ly, requires a considerable amount
o f money and, if you are a hardened Phili stine to
C ulture, has little else to offer. However ever yone
managed to enjoy himse lf and b rin g back some-
thing though in many cases it was only a suntan.

The return on 28 th May by RAF Britannia and
by road went smoothly, the ve hicles havin g covered
30,000 miles. There was however one glum f ace (C pl.
Reynolds) on the square at W erl when it was dis-
covered that money converted to wine had evaporated.
M emories and stories now get longer in the telling
(who was chri stened "the Leaning Tower") as we
rejoin the hecti c life of BOAR. The OC peers over
piles of paper muttering "Dom ani! D omani! "

***

Funeral of the late Pte. R. J. Parris (Top) : L / Cpl. Boxall with an Italian soldier
(Lower): Cpl. Stickles poses beneath the statue
A funeral service for Pte. P a rris was held in t he
Salvation Army C itadel, Snodland, followed by a of the 78th Regimente
burial in the Snodland cemetary. M aj. G . Goring and
CSM Scott o f 4 QUEENS Coy. represented the 2nd
Bn. and M aj. E. A. McCa rth y, from R eg imenta l
H eadquarters, represented the Colonel of the R eg i-
ment . Lt. }. N. Pratten (J.I.B. Shorncliffe) and Lt.
R . M. J ackson (2nd Bn .) we re also present.

L / Cpl. Ca lcott of 5 QUEENS ( V ) sounded the
bugle and Ca pt. F. P a rkinson, R . A. C hD from
D over/ Shorncliffe Garrison officiated.

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The Colonel of the Regiment with, top, his Officersand, below, h is Warrant Officers and Sergeants of the
2nd Battalion
Pictures by H elmuth Euler, W erl

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The 3rd Battalion

Editorial (Top): The Band and Drums playing at the close
(Centre): Mr. O ssorio Taffal, accompanied by the
D U RING the past six months the Battalion Commanding Officer, Maj. C ourtenay and Capt. Ross,

has brought the UNFICYP tour to a suc- inspecting the Sp. Coy. Guard

cessful conclusion . The ceremoni al highlight of ( Lower ): Mr. Taffal presents C pl. Williams with
h is UN medal
the tour came on 6th April, when the Secretary

General's Special Representati ve in Cyprus, Mr.

Ossorio Taffal presented a representative party

from the Battalion with the United Nations

Medal; Cpl. Williams of E Coy. received hi s

Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on the

sa me parade.

Mr. T alfal inspected the four Gua rds on parade
and took the salute as they marched past in slow and
quick time . M any flattering messages were received
following the M eda l P arade, which was the first major
ceremonia l event in Battalion life since the Trooping
in L emgo in 1969.

During April we started to pack, and prepare to
hand over to 1st Bn. The Parachute Regt.; towards
the end of the month their Advance Party arrived and
by lOth M ay the handove r was complete and our
final chalk emp laned. Leave was taken du ri ng the
rest of M ay, and the Battalion reformed at Tidworth
by 4th June.

O ur return to 5 Airportable Bde. was marked
by a series of inspections of all facets of Batta lion
activity, a Brigade Sports M eeting and a Brigade
Skill-at-Arms M eeting. The inspection reports were
generall y good and reflected a great deal of work,
particularl y by the less glamou rous departments of
the Battalion.

The Brigade Sports M eet ing, coming as it did
only four days after the Battalion reformed and re-
orga nised in Tidworth, was not expected to bring
great glory. H owever, in the event, it proved a very
enjoyable day, with wi ns for the Battalion in the
Tug-of-W ar by B Coy., and the Seven-a-side Rugby
by C Coy.

The Brigade Skill-at-Arms M eeting came as the
culmi nation of an all too short cla ssification period
in the first half of June. We did not win many prizes,
but there is no doubt that Battalion shooting is great-
ly improved, as a result of our fi rst opportunity for
intensive small arms training in three years.

Against a background of visits and inspection
teams we also managed to complete Battalion Ath-
letics and Swimming meetings, as well as packing
persona l baggage and Battalion freight for shipment
to Gibraltar. The situatio n, at times, ha s been nicely
caught by Cpl. Faulkner's cartoon- " June 1973 ".

(see over )

Fi nally, after embarcation leave, the Battalion
M ain Body moved in mid- Jul y to Gibraltar for a
"normal tour" and our life there should form the
substance of our next report.

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Brigade Sports Meeting

(Top left): Capt. Constantine and
W02 Panerson, members of C C oy.
7-a-side Rugby team. (Lower left) :
Sgt. Kaye-Lesscr and stalwarts of B
Coy ., winners of the Inter-Coy. Tug-
o-War. (Top right) : Pte. Delaney of
C Coy. first home in the Inter-C oy.

Cross-Country race.

1/AN~ ON A M•l'iu-r-.Z, U..lERi= y..,.,,- WPIT•I'iG -;to. SC€. A CYPRUS POSTSCRIPT

<.)litrrr.Ef'i: WE: '11vE. liif WINDOWS of'EH FOR THE':. On 14th June the Commanding Officer and a
party from the Battalion gave a "Presentation" to
kYG,<NE iNSPE:<..-noN, O R CLOS~D r-o.z f•E F•li£ /I'<SPKr,or{ students of the Staff College in the A lanbrooke
Theatre at Camberley. The first and greater pan of
the presentation, complete with slides and "vufoils"
gave a full picture of the Battalion's tasks and deploy-
ment in Cyprus. In conclusion, one wo rldl y-wise Com-
pany Commander remarked: "In every incident which
I investigated there were five versions. There was the
Turkish version and the Greek version; somewhere
between the two was the truth-if you could establish
it. Founhly was the version I gave to Bn. HQ to
ensure peace in the Sector for m yself. Finally, I
noticed the fifth version-that given by Bn. HQ to
HQ UNFICYP to create the right impression. Dip-
lomacy, if that is the right word-like a protest-be-
gins with the OP Commander and improves at all
levels right up to the Security Council".

"June 73,

Cartoon by Cpl. Faulkner

The {i11alc of the presentation, given by Sgt. 31
K aye-Lesser was however the totally definitive version
of life in one of the OPs-definitive, m pnnc1ple of to monkeys he d1dn 't ask me. M y genius says " It is
course ! In fairness to Sgt. Kaye-Lesser, who may yet not a breach of the Status Quo, if the tank 'as no
pass his advanced Education Certificate, it is noted gun and the Commander takes 'is 'at off--otherwise
that the script is by M aj. Gordon C rumley. it'll 'ave to drive under the bridge."

" Blaekbridge OP" "Quite right", says the eo, "though it would

Gentlemen, my name is Sgt. K aye-Lesser known certainl y start a war."
in my platoon as "nosey"- 'an that 'ai nt because Apart from achieving the UN mission, there's

I'm inquisitive. a lot to do. Administration takes a bit of time since
I'm goin' to tell yo u abou t life in an OP. M y the water, plumbing and electricity we re installed by
Coeur de Lion. Vi llagers attend for sick pa rade most
style of lecturing m ight be a bit below the standa rd days, and old grandma comes in with a cut finge r and
you're used to, but Warminster would 'ave a fit if a dozen supporters to make sure I don 't act in an

they even knew I was 'ere. continued on next page
Ayios Theodoros village is mixed Greek and Turk
(Top): W02 Wood reeetVmg the Challenge Cup for
- about 25 0 of each. L ike Protestants and Catholics the Champion Company on behalf of Comd/ Admin
you can't tell 'em apa rt at 20 metres. R oughl y speak-
ing, which is my style, the Turks live in the North C oy.
and the G reeks in the South. The only way to tell (Lower): A bouquet of flowers for Mrs. Tarver
wh ich is which is that the Turks quarter is a sight
gungier and friendlier. In the middle of the vi llage is
this 'ere bridge ca lled Blackbridge which is a smart
new bridge over a dry ri ver bed which yo u can drive

ac ross anyway.
At the south end of the bridge is an old coff ee

shop which is now used as the OP. It's a sort of 3
storey goat-pen w ith a sent ry box at the front door.
In 'ere we 'ave the OP Commande r ( thats me) , a
cook, a dri ver an' seven slaves. Our job was to keep
the peace between the two communities and to ensure
that the Status Quo ag reement was honoured.

K eeping the peace was no problem cause there
wasn't no fighting . H owever both sides have guns and
they aren't exactl y mates. M ostl y both communities
keep themselves to themselves. I sent out an unarmed
foot patrol of two men each day. Orders is some-

thing like this:
Time out: 0930
Leg one: Mustafas coff ee shop for a quick cuppa
an' a chat. Leg two: Donkey ride up t o the water
tanks, which we control, and back to Mustafas to
'a nd in the donkeys . L eg three: T ab it to the
Greek coffee shop for a beer and a natter. Time
in: 1100.
The onl y potential dangers are ouzo, brandy and

the village girls-they're as dangerous to play with as
passin' the parcel in a Belfast pub .

F or this job you need two smart blokes who
aint boracic-thats Greek, boracic lint-skint-and
who 'ave more patter than two days' rain .

Soldiers don't understand "Status Quo" as not
man y of 'em are 'ot on L atin. So we don 't tell 'em
that. I give them the things they gotta look for. For
example, the local soldiers aren't allowed to cross
Bl ackbridge in uniform or carry arms, though they
can walk underneath. U niform means wearing a hat,
ca use when this Status Quo was dreamed up the
soldiers was only issued with 'ats an' guns. If a sol-
dier walks ac ross the bridge with ' is lid on, m y sent ry
shouts at ' im to take it off. H e either does so, or keeps
it on and walks under the bridge. I tell yo u, soldiers
think Status Quo's some potty local game. Anyway,
a fter a weeks indoctrination most of the blokes could
quote the Status Quo format fashion-an' then the

CO comes round.

Naturally I 'ave a genius in the sentry box.

" I s it a break of the Status Quo," says the CO,
"if a tank crosses the bridge?" Even m y 'andpicked
sentry 'as to think abou t this one, an' I 'm chuffed

unprofess ional man ner. An old bloke who wa s a is q ui te on the cards for 12 squaddies living in a
baker in the 8th Arm y drops in for a natter, tryi ng little village. Finall y if I may parody ( good word
to change his 1942 issue greatcoat. that ) a famous poem, w ith this version :-

When we' re all cleaned up there's a list of trai n- Thomas Atkins- UN Soldier
ing to be done; not much scope but there's the old
fa ithfuls' wea pon tra ining and map readi ng. And the When the UN went to C yprus to keep the S tatus Quo
plumbing on the roof is accidentall y designed to T hey were welcomed by the loca ls oo was 'avi ng
double for circu it trai ning.
qui te a go
Us ually there's some sort of visit. The CO, the Now they're welcomed by the shops and bars and
Company Commander, the h ygiene expert, the cook
W arrant Officer, in fact U ncle T om Cobley's the even brothels too
only bloke who 'asn't visited. F or the money in their pockets more than what

Sometimes we get a V IP of some nat ionality or the soldiers do
other who rates a Quarter G uard and we turn out at 0, its "UN th is" and "UN that" and "leave our
the end of the bridge. You could sell tickets for tills
performance, but its a sort of confidence trick in the wives alone"
proper mea ning of the phrase. The locals see me and But its "where's the bloody bl ue berets" when
my fine immaculate soldiers and know we're not a
fi sh and chips outfit like their armies are. Ahmed slings a stone
It's back to camp by one o'clock and m ust be out
The evenings are a bit long for the blokes. The
illiterates write letters like mad and I play chess with in pa irs
a selected opponent who can't pass his third class But it 's all day long in OPs if theres any 'int of
Educat ion ; I can beat him. There's books and a
Playboy if you're lucky and a couple go into K op- scares.
hinou to watch the film an' have a pint. Sometimes The average British Squadd ie aint no UN delegate
if I'm feeling strong I visit the D anish Police where An' he aint no bloody diplomat, not in 'is natural
the Schnap ps runs faster than the P ope going through
The Shankhill. About I 030 it 's lights out-not be- st a te
cause they all want to go to bed, but an American But e' usuall y knows what's right from wrong,
bird who lives opposite strips off about this time.
( as long as it's not' im )
W ell, that's it G entlemen, it all boils down to An' e'll keep the Cyps from Brawlin' and tearin '
doing a rather boring job which is diffi cult for sol-
diers to understand, and keeping them busy and limb from limb.
happy. I don't say we always succeeded but we 'ad a For it 's "T ommy this" an' "T ommy that" an'
good go at it, and we didn 't break the peace wh ich
"E can't keep the peace,"
But it's "bloomin' UN 'ero" if a Turk does that

at Greece .
No, the British contribution 'aint no loa d of

T ommy rot,
'E may not be what UNO wa nts, be 'E 's all

they've bloody got.

Leaving the Regiment?

Take the natural choice
In th e world famous Metropolitan

1Police yo u will fmd we ca n offer everything

.I1.------------..you like about Regimental life. Action.

IVariety. Res ponsibilit y. Comrades hip. A
To Chief Inspector, Careers Section, Dept. .:;TD

Metropolitan Police, New Scotland Yard,
London,SWIHOBG.

feeling of belonging and a real se nse of I Name I
purpose.

We will look aft er you . There is pl ent y I A ddress I
of scope for soci al life. H ousing is free or I I
you get a tax-paid rent allowance. Sports

faciliti es are comprehe nsive and , more I I
important, th ere is the sati sfacti on of th e
job itself.

I IThe Met has been th e ri ght career choice
I Ifor so many ex-servicemen: and we know
I Ithat they make good poli cemen.

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Age

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in height , or over (wo men 19-40 and

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detail s today and get the bes t of the fo rces-

and the bes t from civili an life.

33

ISRAEL'S CONTINUING WAR by Capt. M . H. G . Pannett

After I srael's victory in June 1967, many people committed the British Government to providing a
national home for the J ews.
believed that the defeated Arab countries would at After the war, Britain conveniently forgot her
last abandon their da ngerous and self-destructive feud pledge to the Arabs, and the larger part of the Otto-
with the Jews. H ad any of the states involved taken man Empire was di vided between Britain and France.
ntage of th e new situation, a peaceful
grea ter adva the Middle East could have been achiev- Palestine came under British M andate and, with the
settl ement in Balfour decla ration, an inte rgral part of B ritain's
have shown, the situation,
ed. H owever, as events deteriorated, an d now, nea rl y aoeilnesmbutlopisaglnoaotthyfiieoanlnagiase.rnfeouaJntc.eluowyrPmesaJmleIfewrssuortniaimsniehtilyiaanplssleteaoAtotpverla.ieetbrsBesaElynfwudtrauhotpcceprheeleiaandbtteeingtwhga1ient9iht3rht0eohm'sopnirdoutrshuocter-r,
far from improving, h as
six years after the war, the middle eastern countries
are still in a state of semi-war, with the chance of a
settlement growing weaker and weaker.

One important factor has emerged since the six Arabs and the Jewish settlers were fighting each other
day war : the major defeated Arab states-notably for the first time; civil war had broken out in
E gypt, Jordan and Syria-have realised the folly of Palestine. Britain, by now almost fully committed to
outright conflict with Israel, for the time being at a new war with Nazi Germany, subdued the Arab
least. Concurrent with this, and partly as a result of
it, the Palestinians, the only Arabs to have suffered feeling by restricting the number of J ews allowed
true injustice through Israel's creation, have return ed into Palestine and peace was preserved, for a wh ile.
to the forefront of the battle. The nature of the bat-
At the end of World War II the extent of the G er-
man atrocities upon the Jewish people wa s full y
tle has changed; outright war has been succeeded by realised and the world could no longer turn a blind
guerrilla war. Israel is now finding h erself fighting
terrorist attacks not only in her own country but in esbeeyfefeeeomnrtetosdsyttsohotueetmrrfeaaasgtttieerciocaoutlfsly.tahTemphueenorudpUmelrenbe,iedtsre.idxAofmSs tiJalaeltiweossrnedsiounefltmtow,ahnPBodarmeliedtsathiitnanh'dese
va rious parts of the world, notably Europe. P alestinian
T errorist bands have grown up, unparalelled in recent
history for their ruthlessness and callous dis-
world for world opinion. Admidst all this-the fight- immediate admission of 100,000 J ews and world
regard opinion backed this. At the same time, P alestinian
ing, killing, accusations and spectacular terrorist Jews, not trusting world opinion which
coups-world leaders, both west and east, struggle to had for so

find a solution to a problem which could lead to a hlhooeaunrntgsdetslhif.genTfowirgeoerhdrrtloidnrt,higsedt enpcboildati gnedhdotsntlooygfrteatwwkhoeeriulrmdpcaotoatupennirdnst riyoiBnmntroeibtnautihttnhe iraroflosuoougwnhdna-
major east-west conflict unless handled cautiously.
What are the origins of the I sraeli-Arab conflict?
To answer this we need only look into recent history
a course of events which lead up to this well run guerrilla assault. In 1947 Britain threw her
and study insoluble problem. The J ewish people, and asked the UN to take responsibility for
seemingly h and in, A UN plan for the partition of Palestine
homeless for centuries, hated and mistrusted by the area.
people in whose countries they had settled, found between J ew and Arab and for the Internationalis-
ation of J erusalem was put forward and passed by
themselves in the late nineteenth century subject to 33 votes to 13 . This wa s the stormy beginning of the
persecution in Europe and Russia. Anti- Jewish state, born of war and one that has been
increased became fa shionable, political leaders won fighting on and off continuously ever since.
se miti sm were continually hounded
it and the J ews result of this persecution,
votes by they settled. As a grew up, and the age-old No sooner had the UN vote been taken and the
Zionist movement period of mandate ended than fighting broke
wherever British P alestine between J ew and Arab. Immediately
a strong out in
mystical aspiration to "return to Zion" began to ac-
quire a new meaning. after the Israeli Prime Minister, Mr. David Ben-
Gurion, had pronounced the formation of the state of
A Viennese journalist, Theodore H erzl, published Israel in M ay 1948, the armies of Egypt, Tran -
in 1896 a paper entitled "The J ewish State". The
theme of this work, which was to become a bible for Jordan, Iraq, S yria and L ebanon r olled into P alestine
the Zionist movement, was that the only way for the in their first attempt to eliminate the newly born
Jews to escape the endless persecution was for them Jewish state. The Arab
state of their own. Although H erzl never effective fighting force arm y was never a united or
P alestine in his work, most t r ad ition alist and a fter a series of battles,
to form a interrupted by a UN imposed truce, the war was con-
mentioned cluded earl y in 1949 by an armistice agreement
J ews, who had always considered it as their home- between Israel and four of the Arab combatants made
the goa l of a J ew ish ( Iraq
next landmark in the
land, began to work towards the First World War being the exception ). The result of this war was that
state being created there. The Israel gained a land area one-third larger than that
Israel came during
creation of allotted to her under the partition agreement.
when Britain made three conflicting promises to three
different sets of people in order to secure their help H owever, important though this newly-acquired
against her enemies. Through L awrence of Arabia, land was, there was also another result which is h av-
she promised help in setting up a unified nation of a major effect upon the situation in the middle-
the Sykes- ing three-quarters of a million Arabs
Arabi a. In 1916 Britain and France signed Ottoman today. Nearly in 1947 and 1948, leaving only
P icot agreement, by which the defeated eas t from I srael
fl ed
160,000 Palestinian Arabs there after the exodus.
Empire would be divided between Britain and France. Why did they leave? The Arabs cla im that they were
H owever, probably the most important of these by deliberate J ewish T errorism. The J ews
promises was the Balfour D ecJaration of November driven out their leaders told them to move away, a
191 7 made by Britain to the Jewish world in which, claim that
by a letter to the leading British Jew, Lord Rothschild, political act. Certai nl y the Arabs were afraid of J ew-
the British Foreign minister, Mr. Arthur Balfour ish Terrorism, and with justification. Equally certain-

34 Not unnaturally the Palestinian Arabs have since
felt that their ca use has been abandoned by the re-
ly the exodus of the A rabs was very convenient to the mainder of the A rab world; indeed by the world in
Jews who now had their own state almost entirely to general. They now see I srael even more firml y en-
themselves. What is also probable is that the ma jority trenched in " their" land and the champions of their
of the Arabs left with the intention of returning ca use more interested in looking after their own in-
once the trouble was over. In D ecember I 94 8 the terests, forgetting the plight of the P alestinians. S uch
United Nations G eneral Assembley declared: a feeling of de jection and abandonment has led these
people into the arms of ruthless militants, who be-
" That the refugees wishing to return to their lieve that any act of terrorism, however horri ble or
homes and live in peace with their neighbours degrading is justi fied in their fight against Z ionism.
should be permitted to do so at the earliest prac- Israel, for her part, h as never bowed to the wishes
ticable date, and that compensation should be or demands of these people, and on m any occasions
paid for the property of those choos ing not to has set an example to the rest of the free world on
return, h ow terrorism should be h andled. Initially, these ter-
This resolution h as been reaffirmed by the U N rorist attacks were military-style commando raids into
year after year and yet the refugees still remai n in the heart of Israel, although their targets were not
their squalid camps in Lebanon and Jordan . Apart necessarily of a military nature. However, constant
from about 40,000 who returned under an earl y re- counter attacks by I sraeli forces into the very camps
union scheme, I srael has not allowed any of the of the terrorists in J orda n and L ebanon and the ex-
refugees to come back. The UN still look after these pulsion of the el Fatah commandos from J ordan by
people, now with their numbers greatly swollen by King Hussein in S eptem ber 1970, h as led to a cur-
natural increase and by another exodus during the six tailment of these attacks and an increase in inter-
day war in 1967. Figures released in 1970 by the UN, national terror tactics aimed at Israeli embassies,
not completely satisfactory, but the best available, officials inside Israel and, in some cases, noted friends
showed these to be 1,345,000 P alestinians in camps, of the Zionist cause abroad.
half of them aged between one and seventeen years
old. There can be very little doubt in the minds of
Obviously these people living in squalid con- most people (apart from the perpetrators of the act )
ditions, seeing no hope for the future and feeling that such tactics are damaging to the Palestinian
bitter resentment against the J ews, whom they believe Arab cause . S uch acts of violence, as the blowing up
to be the thieves of their land, are ideal recruits for of three British aircraft on D awson 's Field-which
militant terrorist bands who offer action to have led to King Hussein's victorious fight to expel the
their grievances removed. Thus in J anuary 1965 the terrorists from Jordan, the massacre at Lod Airport,
world learned about the first commando action car- the killings at the Munich Olympics and, more
ried out by the Palestinian T errorist group called el recently, the murder of the three diplomats in the
Fatah ( conquest ). At that time most Arab govern- S udan, can onl y ca use loss of world sympathy and
ments, fearing I sraeli retaliation for the movement's increase I sraeli determination. Whilst the present
activities, cracked down upon them . Syr ia's Baathist situation exists, however, and Palestinian Arabs re-
regime welcomed them. The guerriJias were offered main in refugee camps with an ever increasing sense
training inside Syria and they were supplied with of despondency, many will feel convinced that the
modem Russian-made weapons. The number of r aids only way for the Arabs to ach ieve their demands is
into I srael increased, nearly all from within Jordan. through acts of terror. And while the refugees are left
By I 967 events in the M iddle E ast were moving to- to rot in their camps there will be no shortage of re-
wards the inevitable result. Syria and Jordan were cruits.
in the forefront of increased military activity from
I srael, and Egypt, the " leader " of the Arab world, An awful ogre has been created, as ruthless as
was goaded into action by these two states. Finally, anything the world h as known and it will be difficult
President Nasser fearing for his position as " leader " to handle. Although its declared aims are the removal
embarked upon a policy to create the eventual result of the state of Israel and the return of the land to the
-direct war between Arab and J ew. Arabs, it is potentionally as dangerous to the remain-
The result of this war was well known- the der of the world as it is to the J ews. H aving tacit
humiliation of the Arab world. However, the one approval of the majority of the Arab states, as well
lesson learned by Arab leaders was the futilit y of h ead- as the unqualified support of wealthy countries such
on confrontation with the Jews. The situation, how- as Libya, it can be argued that this problem is in-
ever, posed many more problems. The Arabs h ad lost soluable. At present the situation does not look hope-
a great deal of land to Israel and were smarting under ful, and will remain so until both sides are prep ared
the loss . I srael on the other hand had pushed her in some way to abandon entrenched positions and
borders forward to the Suez canal, the River J ordan work for a compromise. As long as I sr ael occupies the
and the Golan H eights, all easily defendable frontiers. land she took in 1967 extreme Arab hostility will
Now she not only felt secure behind these new natural persist. I sraelis argue that the terrorists are in no
barriers but also realised the bargaining power that way interested in these lands; that their aim is to see
these new tracts of land offered ; and whereas before, every Jew removed from the whole of P alestine. Why,
she may have actually been the uncrowned queen of therefore, should they return land, justly won, thus
the Arab-Israeli conflict, she now could arrogantly making the terrorists' job easier. Reasonable? Y es,
show herself to be so. For the Arabs the war changed but it overlooks one point. No T errorist organisation
everything ; not onl y had their vast modern a rmies can survive without help and without a firm base
been almost annihilated, but they had lost much land. from which to operate. While I srael continues to oc-
From their weak political bargaining position, their cupy these Arab lands, the Arab states will continue
first priority was, and still is, to see a return to the to provide that firm base.
situation existing in the Middle East before June '67.
This issue has, of course, taken the place of the Should I srael, however, seek to improve relations
previous policy-the removal of the Israeli state and with the Arabs by withdrawing to the 1967 frontiers,
the return of the land to the Palestinian Arabs. or even going some way towards it, the Arabs might

reciprocate by clamping down on the terrorists, in the 35
way that King Hussein did in 1970.
Don't be put off
The war continues and it looks as though it will
do so for many years to come. If there is one good because
thing that has emerged, it has been the level headed- we dressed the
ness of the Americans and the Russians. A lthough Iron Duke ...
both superpowers back opposing sides in this conflict,
they have refu sed to be drawn into it and have thus It was quite a recommendation in 1833. The
avoided open confrontation. This despite President British Army has advanced a long way since
Nasser's claim, during the war of 1967, that American then with Hawkes of Savile Row, who continue
ai rcraft were fighting on the I sraeli side-no doubt to make uniforms and civilian clothes to their
an attempt to get Russia to commit her troops in traditional high standards.
opposition. Fortunately the two powers have appre-
ciated the seriousness of the situation and have been Today we also sell ready-made lounge suits
careful to refrain from upsetting the balance of power and overcoats. We have probably the finest
in the area. selection of the famous Chester Barrie suits
available in London (and Camberley) and
So whilst the Americans, Russians, British and several other less expensive ranges for you to
French sea rch for a political solution, far away in choose from.
New York, Israel and the Arabs continue to achieve
little in the Middle East. The Economist, in 1969, We don't make swords, sabretaches, shakos
decla red: or even solar topees any more. But shirts (by
Hathaway), shoes (by Crockett & Jones),
" I srael's deep fea r of an ' imposed' solution could sports jackets, socks and ties are all part of our
turn out to be a decisive factor. Their deter- stock in trade.
mination not to be pushed into a return to the
bad old days; not to withdraw in return for what HAWKES
I sraeli's consider a rigmarole of guarantees and of Savile Row
decla rations, could swing the cabinet into action COME AND SEE US AT :
-into demonstrating conclusively that, short of No 1 Savile Row London W1
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Three and a half years later it seems that she or 149 London Road Camberley Surrey
has done just that. There now seems little chance of Tel Camberley 63829
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Telephone 52654

36 On IIth July the Colonel of the Regiment paid
us a farewell visit. After lunch he spoke to all Queens-
The 4th Battalion men, young and old and looked round the barracks.

Alhuhera Company Our farewell cocktail party in the evening was
attended by over 100 guests including the M ayors of
THIS Company is finally to disband by 1st Canterbury and Bamet; it was followed by a dinner
November 1973. The last twelve months of party at Slatter's H otel.

our existence have been shared with Tiger Coy., Readers who are acquainted with junior soldier-
4 Royal Anglian at Howe Barracks, Canterbury. ing will know that the Platoon Commanders and
Our task has been to train 395 junior soldiers; Sergeants are father figure s and that the Company
they could leave without cost during the first Commander is a cross between grandfather and loca l
six months if they so wished-and 145 did. This magistrate! As such, M aj. Goring ha s had consid-
seems a high loss but we are assured that in fact erable experience in unravelling Juniors' problems;
this is a fine achievement. they differ from the usual type because a new per-
specti ve has to be imagined. H e has been most ably
The encouraging point is that 250 Juniors ad- assisted by CSM Scott and Cpl. Humphries.
justed well and, in one year have transformed them-
selves from youths to fine disciplined young men . Of Cpl. Humphries deserves special mention now
these, 163 come to our Division and-as it happens- that he is to retire in November after a quarter of a
57 to the Regiment. century's Service. Although he has seen service with
the RMP's and Royal Fusiliers, he joined the Queen's
This last term has seen feverish activity prepa r- Own in 194 5 and has been associated with the K ent-
ing for the fin al close down of the Junior Infantry- ish infantry elements ever since. H e hopes to become
men's Wing, taking the juniors to camp and continuing a civi lian clerk in the C hatham area and we wish him
tra ining as usual. T wo days stand out-16th M ay
and 11th July. and his wife good luck and much h appiness in his n ew
life.
We celebrated Albuhera D ay with lunch time
drinks and the Officers and Sergeants invited guests The success of the Junior Infantry Wing is
from 5 QUEENS (V) and the Junior Infantrymen's grea tl y indebted to the eff orts of one man, seldom seen
Battalion for the Silent Toast Ceremony and a party but powerfully over-worked-Lt. "Smokey Joe" Bass.
afterwards in the Sergeants' M ess. The celebrations Fate dealt him a sneaker when appointed QM to 395/
were not lavish by normal standards but the day had 250 juniors, all naturally gifted at losing kit. He has
a lingering, haunting sadness about it wh ich could been quick to remind us of the realities of life and
not quite be shrugged off. for many months, grown men have wondered if he
reall y could smile if he tried- and of course he can.

As Queensmen we are only 19 in number and
we are shortly to scatter to the four winds but we
will nearly all be meeting each other, and our other
friends from JIW, shortly in BFPO 801.

The Colonel of the Regi-
ment i n s pc c t i n g the
Guard of Honour when
he paid us a farewell

visit on 11th July.

37

The Regimental Information Team

HQ ( H owe Banacks, Canterbury) KENT Section- (manned by 2nd Bn)
(The Old Barracks, M aidstone) - Sgt. G . Collins
OC M a j. M . J. D . Brady SUSSEX Sect ion- (manned by 3 rd Bn.)
( Preston Barrac ks, Brighton ) - Sgt. C. T . C reighton
TQMS C / Sgt. ] . M ogford, BEM MIDDLESEX Section- (manned by all Bns.)
(TA VR Centre, Deansbrook R oad, Edgewa re)
SUR REY Section- (manned by l st Bn.) - Sgt . J . E vans
( Stoughton Barracks, Guildford ) - Sgt. J . H arfl eet GUARANTEED VACANCY SCHEME FOR
J UNIORS
Q UR good news is that we have now estab- One result of the recent raising of the school
lished a Surrey Section in Stoughton Bar- leaving age ( ROSLA ) is that boys cannot now join
acks G uildford and all old QUEENSMEN will the Army as J uniors until they are 16 plus. To ease
be pleased to hear that the Lamb and Flag still the way for 15-year-olds who wish to join the Arm y
stands proudly over the main gate. T his event as soon as they lea ve school, the Army h as introduced
plus the march through G uildford by the 1st Bn. the Gua ranteed Vacancy scheme.
(reported elsewhere in the Journal) will , I hope, This scheme ensures that a boy who can pass
do something to improve the extremely bad re- the necessa ry standards whilst still at school, will be
cruiting figures we have had from Surrey ove r offered a guaranteed vacancy in the Anny as a j unior,
as soon as h e is eligible to leave school. There is NO
the last two years. obligation, however, on the part of the boy if he wish-
es to withdraw before joining the Army.
During the summer season (still in progress as I
write) the sections have provided a QUEENS pres- EAST KENT
ence at as m any publ ic events and places as possible; NEWS & PICTURES
this has varied from the la rge events like Brighton
Carnival, to attendance at petrol stations in m the
conjunction with T exaco's nationa l campaign of
"Badges of Famous Regiments". There has been one KENTISH
successful KQP E tour by Quebec Coy., 1st Bn., in GAZETTE
August in SW London and Surrey; A Coy, 2nd Bn.
are due to send back a party for a tour in K ent in EVERY
September. FRIDAY

Our bad news is that in spite of The Regiment's
etfarts, recrui ting figu res so far this yea r are bad for
THE QUEEN 'S ( 50 % down ) and bad for The Army.

I therefo re ask all readers to do what the y can to
help, and if they know of a likely young man in their
firm, street, village or town who has expressed interest
in being a CO M BAT SOLDIER, please let me know
and I will arrange fo r someone to see him and explain
the pro's and con's of a career in THE QUEEN 'S .
H owever, the Infantry standards remai n high and at
present about 50% are failing the entrance standards.

For the benefit of serving QUEENSMEN who
may like to voluntee r for a tour with the RIT, here
are some details:

I. Job description - volunteers to be from one of
the counties in the Regimenta l

A rea, and either HGV or t

ton dvr; and, in a few cases, a
GD soldier in the ranks of

Sgt. to Pte. inclusive.

2. Length of tour - Section Comm anders (Sgts.)
- 2 years

Married soldiers - 18 months
Single soldiers - 12 months

3. Married Quarters - are generally ava ilable in our
five areas, though there may
be a few weeks on the wait-

ing list.
M .J .D .B.

38 !3cath) flank ed the sa luting base, which wa s guarded
by so ldiers and sa ilors from the 5th ( Volunteer ) Bn.
GUILDFORD and HM S Excellent respectively. T he latter were pres-
en t in recognition o f th e R cgim t nt~ close links with
30t h MAY, 1973 HM S Excellent-the direct successor of HM S Queen
Char/vue on which the 2nd or Queen's Ro ya l R egt.
1661 1973 of Foot fought at the famous Naval Battle on the
G lorious First o f June 1794 .
THE QUEEN'S
REGIMENT Also present at the sa luting base were Brig. G.
R . P . Roupe ll, VC (formerl y Colonel The Ea st Surrey
An Invitation Regt. ), Brig. ( now M aj.-Ge n.) R. S . N . M a ns, C BE
( Deput y Colonel desig nate ( S urrey)), t he Command-
England's Senior Infantry Regiment ing Officers o f the 3rd Bn . ( Lt.-Col. C. L. Tarver,
presents its compliments to the citizens MBE) and 7 th(V) Bn. (Lt. -Co l. ] . B . Ogilvie TD)
of Guildford, and invites them to come and Capt. R. Falconer RN, Ca ptain of HM S
and support the 1st Battalion of the Excel/wt.
County Regiment. exercising their pri-
vilege, as Freemen of the Borough, of It was a brave sight as the Band and Corps of
marching through the streets on WED- Drums led the troops up the High Street, which was
NESDAY, MAY 30th, 1973. His Wor- completely packed with spectators from the street
ship the Mayor will take the salute at level right up to the top windows overlooking them.
It was not ve ry difficult to pick out the well-known
the Gui ldhall at 12 Noon . ties o f the old soldiers who h ad come along to sup-
port this you ng successor to their own distinguished
J N response to the above invitation which T he Reg iments.
Regiment placed in the Surrey press dunng
Englishmen are slow to applaud, especially in
the week preceding the march, the Citizens turned public, and therefore it was the more welcome and,
out in hundreds to support thei r County Regi- let's admit it, fi lled the watching soldiers with pride
ment during the march through the Borough on as the combat suited QUEENSMEN of Holland Coy.,
30th May. contras ting with the scarlet tunics of the Band, ca me
level with the sa luting base and spontaneous a pp la use
For the first time since the Freedom of the broke out with man y cries of " well done lads". It was
Borough was transferred from The Queen's Ro ya l little enough reward for all the R eg iment has done in
Surrey R egt. to Th e R egiment on 29th J ul y 1969, we Ulster and elsewhere but it reminded at least one sol-
were able to txe rcise our privilege of marching d ier present of some of the truest words ever written,
through the streets with Colours flying, bayonets fix ed - by Eric Linklater:
and drums beating. R epresenting the R eg iment was a
Company Group from the I st Bn ., under the com- "Nothing ha s ever been m ade until the soldier
mand of Maj . Bob Acworth, consisting of The Band has m ade sa fe the fi eld where the bui lding shall
and Corps of Drums, Colour Party ( carrying the be built; and the soldier is the scaffolding until it
Colours of the former I st Bn . The Queen's Roya l has been built, and the sold ier gets no rewa rd but
Surrey R egt. ), B ( H oll and ) Coy. and elements of honour".
Support ( Quebec ) Coy.- a total of 200 all ranks. It
was fortun ate that on the occasion of The R egiment's I mmedi ately after the m a rch, all those pa rticipat-
first official entry to the County town of Surrey the ing were guests of The Ma yo r and Corporation a t
m arching troops should come from the 1st Bn. whose lunch iC~ the C ivic H all. The Mayor p aid t ribute dur-
forbears have proudly borne " Surrey" in their title iing: his speech to the 1st Battalion ,s "excellent service
since 1825. in Ulster" under ve ry difficu lt circumstances. H e hoped
that when they returned there in October the situation
The sa luting base was outside the historic Guild- would be " happier and easier.11 It was fitt ing, he said,
h all where the Mayo r of Guildford ( Mr. Bill Bellerb y, that the R eg iment should exercise its privilege of
a former QUEENSMAN ) took the salute, accom- ma rching through Guildford at the time of a Ro yal
pa nied by the Colonel of the R eg iment and the Deputy
Colonel ( Surrey). The Commanding Officer of the • Continued on page 40
1st Bn. ( Lt.-Col. M . V. H aywa rd MBE ) and the
High Sheriff of Surrey (Rear Admiral ] . E. H . Me- GUILDFORD-30th MAY 73

1. 6 PI. Holland Coy., forming up before the P arade.

Beh ind Sgt. E dwards can be seen L / C pl. P ower,

P tes. L umb, H argreaves a nd P arsons, L / C pls .

Fielder and K en t and C pl. W ilson

2 . (I t o r ) L / C pl. ] ones, Ptes. Wynn a nd Hopper

marching past the saluting base

3 . The Band of Corps of D rums lead in g th e ~
Battalion past the G uildhall
_,.....-

4. Drum Major Maloney, BEM, assisted by Dmr.

P eel, Casin g the Queen's Colour after the P arade

5. The Mayor of G uildford, flanked by the C olonel

of t he Reg iment and the High S her iff of S urrey,

speakin g after luncheon

Pictures by ]. M alecki, A .R .P .S.



40

engagement, as the first Queen's Regt. was formed
in 1661 as the result of marriage between Catherine

of Braganza and Charles II .
In his reply to The Ma yor, the Colonel of the

Regiment sa id h e wanted to underline that the three

regular Battalions of THE QUEEN 'S had ca rried out
their tasks throughout the world and in Ulster in a

" most magnificent" way. He continued by saying that

the Freedom of the Borough was a "very considerable

honour", and that he and his R egiment were delighted

by the response of the people of Guildford during the

march although he did feel that the British soldier of
today deserved the public's aclamation. The Colonel
then presented the Mayor with a R eg imental plaque

and tie.
Mr . R . D . L angley, Manager of the Midl and

Bank in Friary Street Guildford, then presented a

picture of a weathervane to The Colonel. The Bank

stands on the site of the former Friary Barracks which

housed the 2nd Royal Surrey Militia till 1876. To

commemorate this, the Bank proposed to mount a
weathervane on the roof and the vane would be sur-

mounted by the lamb and flag badge of the former
Queen 's Royal Regt. The picture was an artist's im-
pression of the vane. The D eputy Colonel ( Surrey)
then thanked Mr. Langley for his generous gesture

and paid tribute to the retiring Town Clerk ( Mr. S.

Weller) for his many services to the Regiment during

his tour of office.
All in all a very successful da y for the R egiment.

Let us hope that, as and when operational and train-
ing commitments permit, the Regular and Volunteer

Battalions will be able to continue to keep The
QUEEN'S in the Public Eye by showing the fl ag in

more of our nineteen Freedom Towns.

M .J.D .B.

*** gGieves

AS OTHERS SEE US! TAILORS AND OUTFITTERS
27 Old Bond Street, London W.l
The following extract from a Russian news-
paper ODESSA NEWS, has been received from a Bath Bcxhdl Brockenhurst Cambridge Cheltenham
retired offier who wi shes to remain anonymous:- Chester Cranwcll Eastbourne Edinburgh Harrow

"The English officer is least of all an officer. H e Leicester Plymouth Portsmouth Winchester
is a rich landowner, house-owner, capitalist, or
merchant. Appointed T ailors and Outfitters to the
Queen's R egimen t
" He knows nothing about the Services and is
only seen on parade and reviews. From the
professional point of view, he is the most ignorant
officer in Europe. The officer considers himself
irresistible to the fair haired, blue-eyed English ladies.
He has a spoilt, capricious and blase character and
loves pornographic literature, suggestive pictures,
recherche food and strong drink.

" His chief amusements are gambling, racing and
sports. He goes to bed at dawn and gets up at mid-
day."

Nevertheless- if you know of a rich young
capitalist landowner with a penchant for the fair-
haired blue-eyed beauties who is also genuinely con-
idering a Commission in Infantry, please send his
particulars to the Regimental Secretary.

If the latter can find time-in between his
customary bouts of gambling and sports, h e will
invite the young man to ta lk thin~ s over with a fellow
reprobate over a glass of strong drink!

Depot The Queen 's 41

Division syllabus which starts in September, the first recruits
passing ou t in J an uar y 1974. We are not including
The Highlight of the past six months at the m uch new training but the rifle syllab us wi ll be dealt
Depot has been the Army Exhibition for School - with in greater detai l and there wi ll be more shooting.
boys and Open Day on 14th, 15th and 16th We arc also including much more sport and intro-
June. A total of some 30,000 visitors passed ducing at las t a "sports afternoon. "
through the Depot on these three days and the
display area became quite crowded as Red Devils, The " Q ueen's (Division) Pl aye rs" entered the
APCs, Adult Recruits and The Junior Soldiers' Army Drama F esti val with their production of " The
Amorou; Prawn ." Thi s was enjoyed by the audience,
Coy did their " thing." although the ad judi ca tor was charmingly but firmly
critica l of most performances. M aj. P aul G r ay took
The fin al da y (with 22,5 00 visitors) was the hot- the part of the Ma jor Gener al; so convincing was
test day of the year and the ice cream vendors h ad he that the audience was heard to remark- "When
a field da y; so too did the P ermanent Staff when area is he go ing to start acting? " !
cleaning that evening! All is not that black however,
as they did give the PRI a small fin anci al inj ection. Readers will see elsewhere, an article abo ut the
W e have also heard the gratifyi ng news that a num- magnificent set of altar silver presented by the R egi-
ber of boys joined the Army as a direct r esult of ment to the D epot. After the O pen D ay, t he Colonel
their visit here-including no less than eight at one of the R egiment and L ad y C raddock stayed until the
ACIO on the following Monday. H aving invited all Sunday for the Service of D edication of this silver .
ACF units who wear the R egiment's cap badge to All members of the D epot were extremely pleased to
come, it w as encouraging to see so m any of them and see them and to be able to thank the General
it is to be hoped that some individuals will be back personally for persauding the Trustees to donate such
here again undergoing trai ning. a wonderful gift to the new H ome of the Regiment.

In one week in May we entertained no less than A REGIMENTAL GIFT TO THE DEPOT
five G enerals. The outgoing GOC E as tern District,
Maj. Gen . S cott-Barratt, also paid us a final visi t; CHURCH AT BASSINGBOURN
hi s successor, M aj. G en. Hudson, came to the D epot
twice in his second week in the District. Following a proposa l by the Commanding
Officer of the Division al D epot, Lt-C ol M . J , D oyle
Our next highlight was H er M ajesty the Queen MBE, the M anaging Trustees of the Funded
Mother's vi sit on Saturday 14th Jul y. As Colonel in C harities approved the purch ase of an Alter Set
Chief of the Ro yal Angli an R egt. She saw all her com prising a Si lver C ross, a pair of candles ticks a nd
soldiers under training at the D epot, including those a pair of vases.
from TAVR Bns. of the Royal Angli an R egt., on
the airfield . Vast changes took place : buildings All pieces have been suitabl y inscribed; the set
changed colour overnight and carpets and curtains was presented to the D epot C hapl ain, the R ev. Ro y
appeared to be on the move in some of them . It is McAllen C F , and the P adre has expressed his
good to see the D epot being used properl y as the appreci ation in a letter dated 9 F eb 73 to the Colonel
home of its Regiments. of the Regiment, as follows:

An influx of Junior Soldiers arri ves in earl y uD ear General,
September from C anterbur y. Due to 1 ast yea r's I am writing to you on behalf of the
"bulge" in Junior Soldier recruiting there was in-
sufficient space for all of them here; thus a Junior congregation here at Bassingbourn to thank yo u for
Soldier Wing wa s formed at Canterbury. N ow that your most generous gift to us of the silver cross and
more accommodation is avail able, 56 Juniors wi ll be candlesticks. It is 3 superb set and has already be-
moving to Bassingbourn to continue the good work come a treasured possession . It stands, at the moment,
started at Canterbury. This will make the Junior on the Alter of our present little Church and when
Soldiers' Coy (including permanent staff) over 400 we eventually get our new C hurch complex I know
strong and will no doubt add to the problems of it shall have pride of place there. As you are aware
C apt. Broadbent, Lt. L awson and WOII H are. many generations of soldiers will pass through this
pl ace and, it is m y hope, that the Church and what
Our sporting success of the period has been the it stands for will come to mean something to them
fine win by the Junior Soldiers' Coy. Orienteering during their time at the D epot. A pleasant church
team in the Army Junior Soldier Orienteering cham- building suitably furni shed will certainl y help to-
pionships held in the New F orest on 1st Jul y. The wards that end.
team, which included J / Cpl. T aylor (due to join 1
QUEENS in September), must have been p arti cul arl y Would yo u please acce pt the grateful thanks of
attentive in their map rea ding instruction . everyone here at Bass ingboum and thanks, on our
behalf, all the Offi cers and men of the Queen's
Both Lts. Allington and L awson are now married R egiment who have m ade thi s generous gi ft to u s.
and h ave moved into married quarters.
Yours faithfully
Since F ebruary, 84 recruits h ave passed out and ROY McALLEN"
joined battalions of The Queen's R egiment; they in-
cluded 14 prizewinners. BUT READ ON!

W e are now pl anning the new 15-week trai ning When the P adre took the Altar set to G arrards
for inscription, imagine his surprise and deli ght when
he discovered . . . ? well, here is the story in his
own words:

" The A ltar set was purchased from the firm
of ecclesiastical furni shers-Van P oulles. They were

42
'·

The altar set presented to
the Divisional Depot by

the Regiment.
Picture by PR HQ East-

ern District.

at that time holding a closing down sale and the we do not know. They may have been the original
Cross and Candlesticks appeared in a brochure which buyers or it may have reached them by some devious
they had had produced for that occasion and means. With Van P ou lles we were again very lucky
circul ated to the Clergy of the Countr y. At £275 as their original price was £ 350--a price which they
a solid silver Altar set seemed like a bargain ; we lowered to £275 as a result of their being forced
asked to see it on approval and when it arri ved we to close down.
decided that it was the ideal set for our newly
renovated C hurch. The Colonel of the Queen's Regi- I asked Garrards to value the set for me, as
ment agreed, decided it should be ours, and so the is now stands. They astounded me by quoting a value
set was purchased. of £850- £ 1,000 and possibly more. They pointed
out how lucky we have been . We h ave a completely
The great surprise occurred when I took the set ori ginal Altar set, hand made by one of the country's
to Garrards of Regent Street to have it inscri bed with leading silversmiths and one which will grow in value
a suitable legend . As I lifted the pieces of the set with the passing of the year s.
out of a suitcase and set them on the counter before
me, a glimmer of r ecognition seemed to pass over the ***
face of the salesman . Obviously in a state of some
excitement he forgot to observe the usual ni ceties A RMY YA CHT "SABRE" CREWED BY JIM
which one associates with that establishment, and PRESTON W INS THE CROSS-CH ANNEL GOS-
demanded that I tell him how the Altar set had come PORT-CHERBO UR G) RA CE HELD ON 28!29
into my hands. I replied that it had been a gift
from the Queen's Regiment. Not sati sfied with that MAY 1973
he then demanded who had supplied it. I told him
Van Poulles and asked him if he recognised the The C ross C hannel race organised by the Sail
pi ece. H e shattered me by replying "Yes, its ours." Training Association on 28 th/29th May for yachts
engaged in sail training was won overall by new Army
I confess that at the moment I believed that C lass I ocean r acer Sabre crewed by permanent
we had come into possession of stolen property and staff and junior soldiers of the Junior Infantrymen 's
was thinking how could we break the news to General Wing, Preston. Eight yachts entered. Second and
C raddock that the superb Altar set which the Queen's third were the Ocean Youth C lub yachts Samu el
had so generously given the D epot C hurch h ad been Whitbread and M aster Builder.
" nicked." I am delighted to say it never came to
that. The set had been made at Ga rrards in 1958 by The r ace course was from Gosport to P ortland
Peter Style~ne of England's leading Silversmi ths. Bill, then across the ch annel to the fini shing line at
It had been made for exhibition purposes and as C herbourg, a di stance of about 130 n autical miles.
such had remai ned with G arrards for some years.
The decision was then taken to melt it down ; and The majority of Sabres JIW crew were complete
here is the mystery; it never was. Garrards now novices to off-shore sailing and had only a few hours
believe that a mistake was made and that instead of pre-race practice to work-up. Their performance
of being melted down, it was sold at its original was therefore most creditable. /YPte. A . B urchell,
silver price. How Van P oulles got possesion of it, QUEE NS, who lives i11 Mi11Ster - in- Sh eppey, K em ,
w a.s one of the nine Juniors who crewed the yacht.

43

'· RHQ Jottings

"THE GLORIOUS FIRST OF JUNE" Detai ls from the score book are as follows:

CELEBRATIONS-1973 Birkett HMS Excellent 2
H arvey
by Col. J. W. Sewell lbw b C rawford 0
Spicer b C rawford
HMS Ex cellent were host to the Regiment at Colenso b Crawford 3
Whale Island on 1st and 2nd June and, headed by c Holrnan b Oliver 20
the Colonel of the Regiment and L ady Craddock, Il es c Anderson b Graham 23
those from the Regiment who attended were given a Ross c H olman b C rawford
most memorable time. The programme commenced on W a tso n lbw b Oliver 9
the evening of the 1st of June with the Band and Thornton lbw b Graham
Drums of the I st Bn . Beating Retreat on the lawn in *M o ss lbw b Graham 7
front of the Wardroom, after which the guests retired Miller b C rawford 0
for entertainment in the Wardroom and the P etty T h o m as Not Out I
Officers' M ess. In the Wardroom, a large number of Extas
Queen 's officers and their ladies dined with thei r hosts 0
in great nava l style with dinner supported by the 0
Band of the 1st Bn. who marked the occasion with a 7
fine final "extravaganza ".
TOTAL 72
In the morning while some watched the HMS
Excellelll Field Gun T eam at practice, and others ''Captain 0M R w
were taken on a visit to HMS Fif e, those playing 12 6 23
cricket prepared for the annual contest. The Regi- Bowling 17.1 6 35 5
ment again lost the toss, but thi s yea r HMS Excellelll C rawfo rd 3
decided to bat. However the Navy were soon in Graham 62 7 2
trouble, Crawford bowling fast into the breeze taking Oliver
a wicket in each of his first three avers. From then on
they never got out of trouble with Graham bowling The Queen's Regiment
with increasing accuracy and hostility from the
Portsmouth Ha rbour end. There was some good bowl- ]. C. Holman c Miller b Watson 17
ing support from Oliver, three well taken catches, and b Moss 14
at lunch, HMS Ex cellelll were 71 for 7. The innings C. D . Nurse Not Out 38
was soon fini shed off after lunch by Crawford and J. G . W. D avidson Not Out
Graham, the latter's last 11 avers costing only 12 J. Oliver I
runs for all his 3 wickets. S. J. Petzing l-Did not bat
B. D. S . Burton Extras 4
The Regiment was given a quick start by Hot- *J. W . Sewell 74
man and Nurse, and then John Davidson batted with S. T. W. Anderson
freedom and we had won the Match by soon after 3.30 w
and so regained the Rose Bowl. M . ]. Doyle
I
With this early fini sh, it was decided to play an T . G . C rawford
additiona l 16-overs game, and this the Regiment also
won by 100 to 95 runs. This game contained two R. H . Graham
good innings by Davidson and Doyle, but was main-
ly of note for the fina l all spin attack of Holman and TOTAL - for 2 wkts
Doyle, the former in his 2 avers organizing both a
"run out)} and a "hit wicket". *Captain 0M R
6 34
After the cricket those with energy went on to Bowlin g 62 15
further entertainment, and on Sunday morning Moss 3 13
General Craddock read the L esson in the Church of Ross 2.3
St. Barbara. Miller 8
W atson
Besides the Colonel and Lad y Craddock, and
the cricketers, those who came for all or part of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
occas ion included Brig. (now Major-Genera l ) and
M rs. R . S. N. Mans, Brig. and Mrs. M. ]. A. The Editor acknowledges with thanks, receipt of
C larke, Lt. -Col. and M rs. M. V. Hayward, man y the following publications :
from the 1st Bn ., and also the R egimental secretary,
Maj . Guy W eymouth. M ention should also be made Journal of the Royal British L egion ( April, M ay,
of Lt.-Col. Mike Lowry, who we were delighted to June, July and August 1973).
have as Umpire for the cricket, and Maj . R alph
Ewart who came to score. 2/4th Queens Old Comrades J ournal ( April 1973).
Legion (Ca nada) - ( April, M ay, June and July 1973).
Soldier Magazine (M ay 1973 ).
HMS Brighto>l News Letter (J anua ry, April 1973).
The Volunteer ( RHKR Journal) - ( 1971/ 72).
Queen 's Surreys News L etter ( M ay 1973).
The Fusilier (June 1973 ).
"After the Battle" TAVR M agazine Aug 73.

44 mation, through its birth pangs and on to its present
strong ado lesence and wished both him and L ady
THE DEPUTY COLONEL (SURREY)- C raddock ever y h appiness in the future.

DESIGNATE OFFICERS' MESS KIT

M a j.-Gen. R. S. N. M ans CBE, who is to suc- Overalls: 32" waist
ceed M aj-Gen. Ling as Deputy Colonel ( Surrey ) in 31 " Leg
October is the Director of the Military A ssistance
Office at the Ministry of D efence (The office deals J ackets: 36" chest
with after-sales support for equipment bought by An y officer (or potential officer ) inte rested, shou ld con-
overseas customers ).
tact-
Gen . Mans was commissioned into The Queen's S. J. Elliot E sq.
Roya l Regt. from Sandhurst in 1939 and saw active 19 Mill L ane,
service in France, East Africa, M adagasca r and in London NW6.
post-war Palestine.
ROUND THE WORLD SAILING RACE
H e h as instructed at the Staff College, Ca mber-
ley, and at the Ca nadian Army Staff College. In the Maj . J ohn Day, QUEENS , to skipper British
mid-sixties he commanded the l st Bn. Tanganyika Steel.
Rifl es. Following two tours as a colonel on the staff
at HQ, Far East L and Forces, and one at the M in- Open to large single-hulled ocean racing yachts
istry of Defence, he became D eputy Commander with a crew of not less than five, the race starts from
South East District in 1969. His last appo intment Portsmouth on 8th September 1973 and is divided
was D eput y Director of Personal Services. into four "legs" with stops to change over crews at
Cape Town, Sydney and Rio de J aneiro.
OFFI CERS' CLUB
The British Army is to enter this race in the
A record number of some 24 5 Officers and their yacht British S teel which C hay Blyth sai led round
guests assembled for the annual r enunion in the the world . Maj. J ohn T. Day, who joined the Regi-
elegant M embers' Dining Room of the House of ment in 1954, h as been selected to skipper the yacht
Conm1ons-by kind permission of our sponsor, Sir in the first leg of the race.
P aul Brya n, DSO, MC, MP, a war-time Com-
manding Officer of a Queen's Own Battalion . As British Steel was specifically designed for
single-handed sailing she requires a major conversion
Thi s happy occasion was somewhat saddened by to suit her for a crew of nine for this race. The cost
a remi nder from General Ling that it would be the of conversion, refit, sai1 s and administration costs
last reunion which General C raddock would be will be over £20,000 which has to be raised privately.
attending as Colonel of the R egiment. General Ling's The Committee of M anagement is hoping there wi ll
speech accompani ed the presentation to G eneral be a number of people both in the Army and outside
Craddock of an inscribed silver cigarette box from who would wish to contribute to this very worthwhile
"his officers, to mark the end of nearly seven years venture. Donations, however small, will be very
of devoted service as our first Colonel, when he r e- welcome and should be sent to the Team Manager,
linquishes the appointment on 15th October. M aj. A. N . Carlier RE, Office of FOCAS , Fort
Southwick, F amham, Hants. Cheques should be
On behalf of all members, G en. Ling paid tri burc made payable to "Army round the World Yacht
to General Sir Richard, congratulating him on his Race.,.
most expert steerage of the Regiment from its for-

THE PRESENT ATION
CIGARETTE BOX

Picture supplied by Gar-
rad & Co. Ltd .

li\egi mental <!CfJri stmas <!Ca rb Letters

General From: Mrs. D . G. Duh ig
The R egimental Christmas Card for this year (j Broomehurst"
23 Aldershot Road
ha s been selected from the series sponsored by the Guildford, Surrey
Army Benevolent Fund, and fea tures on the cover a 30th M ay 1973
reproduction, in colour, of " The Adoration of the
Kings" b y Dosso Doss i (active 15 12-1 542 )-by kind To: The Co lonel of the R egiment
permission of the Trustees of the National G all ery
(sec below). D ear Sir,
I just wanted to write to say how very inspiring
S pecial Features
Inside will appear the Regimenta l Badge die- it was to see a nd hear yo ur R egiment as it marched
through Guildford today. One hear's so much these
stamped in Gold and Silver above the usua l greetings. da ys about lack of purpose and always doing things
Bulk orders on ly from Battalions and County the easy way, that it was delightful to see some of
the old pomp and circumstance. I know a great deal
Officers (ca lled fo r in a separate letter ) can have of planning goes into making these occasions a suc-
the unit and brief address overprinted on the same cess but every moment of it was worthwhile.
page at no additiona l cost.
Yours faithfull y,
C ost DOROTHY DUHIG
96p per dozen including postage and packing and
matching envelopes. This corres pondent refers, of course, to the
Minimum order-one dozen. uFr eedo mJJ m arch by the 1st Bn .-Ed.

Orders F rom: Lt. J . M. H arcus
Orders from individuals should be submitted to 3rd Bn. The Queen's R egiment

Regimental H eadq uarters, H owe Barracks, Canter- IIth June 1973
bury, Kent and accompanied by a cheque/ PO made
payable to " The Queen's Regiment Account No. To: The R egimental Secretary
0491688"
Dear M ajor Weymouth,
Orders will not be acknowledged, but will be
dispatched as soon as the cards are received from the I would like to thank you and all m y fellow
printers.
officers of the Queen's Regiment for the simply
PLEASE ORDER EARLY TO AVOID
splendid cigarette box which was presented to me on
DISAPPOINTMENT
the occasion of my marriage.

S arah and I were delighted to receive such a

generous gift. Yours sincerely

JOHN HARCUS

From: Lt. J . Ewart
41 Army Youth T eam
Preston Barracks
Brighton
Sussex
20th June 1973

To: The R eg imental Secretary
D ea r M a jor W eymouth,

Please thank all of the officers of the R egiment
for the wonderful silver ciga rette box which they so
kindly presented to Pauline and myself on the
occasion of our marriage.

P a uline and I will treas ure it always.
Yours

JAMES EWART

A n A ppreciation by Brighton Old Comrades

Th e fo llowill g is a /eue.- addressed To Th e Com-
m aud hl g Officers of our three ·regular ba ttaN011S by
Col . R ay m o11d G•·ace, Secretary of t he Quem's Ow11
Buf fs R egim el/tal A ssociaTion .

2nd April 1973

At the annual Dinner and Dance of the
Brighton Branch of the Queen 's Own Buffs R egi-
mental Association, held in Brighton on Saturday
3 I st M arch, I was asked to convey to you • nd to the

46 •

Battalion under your Command the wannest good Th e followin g signal was received from Admiral of
wishes of all those present and their great appre- rhe Flee t Sir V ary/ B egg, G overnor and C in C
ciation of the way in which, particularly during yo ur Gibraltar, on 7th August :
tours of duty in N. Ireland, you have carried out
whatever duties h ave been assigned to you with such "P ersonal for the Colonel of the R egiment from
distinction, honour and professional skill. C in C. The 3rd QUEENS mounted their first cere-
monial guard of this tour at the Convent yesterday. It
All those present were loud in their praises and would have done you good, as it did me, to see their
were quite obviously very proud to be, however performance. I am only sorry that the end of my tour
remotely, associated with you and your Battalion. here next month wi ll come before you can visit them. ''

RAYMOND GRACE From: M aj. P . A. S . W ollocombe, Queens
HQ NORTHAG
From: Brig. P. J. Wilson, BFPO 40
Commandant ACC Training Centre, 17th July 1973
A ldershot, Hants.
19th July 1973 To: The Editor
D ear Editor,
To : Lt.-Gen. Sir Richard Craddock, KBE CB DSO
Colonel, The Queen's Regiment I was recent ly lucky enough to attend a H ead-
quarters Northern Army Group Study Tour of the
Dear General, 1943 Sicilian Campaign-in Sicily.
Since 1960 the officers of the Army Catering
. . Apart from the Study itself and the obligatory
Corps have been privileged to have on loan in their VISits to the beaches to soak in the M editerranean we
mess certain items of regimental silver which are the found time to honour the fallen and to lay wr:aths
property of The Queen 's Royal Surrey R egiment . at the cemetaries of most of the n ations, including the
enemy, which took part in the Campaign.
We are, as you know-by your r egiment's stan-
dards-a young Corps, and as such, especially during . It would seem that the only Regiment connected
our formative years, would not have been able to en- w1th the Queen's R egt. which took part was the
joy such standards as were possible in our mess, had Queen's Own Roy~l W est K ent Regt. although I may
it not been for the generosity of those older Regiments be miStaken on this pomt. At any rate at the British
who so kindly loaned us items of their regimental Cemetary outside Catania I failed to find any of our
silver. old badges except for that of the RWK.
( The 117 th Middlesex also fought in Sicily-Ed. )
Those items have recently been returned to your
Regimental Headquarters and, on their return, I would continued on next page
wish you to know how very much we of the Army
Catering Corps appreciate your kindness in loaning 16 Clifford Street ·Savile Row·london W1X 2HS
your silver to us for such a long time . Tel: 01-734 2248 ALso IN THE RMA ouRING TERMs

Yours very sincerely,
PHILIP WILSON

British Commanders' in Chief Mission

From C/ Sgt. McKay, QUEENS
to the Soviet Forces in Germany
BFPO 45

Extract of a letter dated 29th July 19 73

To: Regimental Headquarters

Dear Sir,

My tour here with BRIXMIS is just about at an
end and I am due in Singapore in November with
the ANZUK Garrison. This tour has been a tre-
mendous experience and I consider it to have been 3!
years well spent.

I have had constant contact with various ex-
members of the Queen's Regiment during my tour,
and Ex WOI John Lewis is one of my closest; he
is B.I.A. with the British Military Government in
Berlin. Some while ago I met Lt. Col. Squires MBE
during one of his working visits here. Very recently
I came into contact with WOII Tony Briggs, also
a B.I.A. with Ordnance Services in Berlin. I also
met Maj. V. C. Abplanalp who visited BRIXMIS
from HQ BAOR. Some weeks ago when meeting the
charter plane at RAF Gatow I bumped into Ex-WOI
Ben Lyons who was flying out, after a short holiday
with one of the Regiments stationed here; he looked
very well and told me he is working as an Agri-
cultural Engineer.

Yours faithfully,

M. C. KAY

I th ought, perhaps, the enclosed two photo- There we re, in fact, three other R WK graves to
graphs migh t be of interest. Laying the wreaths is the left of the picture but my camera lens was not
Col. P . M . de Bu rgh, RA (left ) who was the senior good enough to get them all in; the names on these
British Officer on the tour, and M aj . Gen. J . F loquet,
Belgian Army, who is a D eputy Chief of S taff at graves were: 6346584 WO II A . ] . Howa rd, MM;
NORT HAG and the senior Officer of our party.
3393904 Pte. J . H argreaves and 64124 74 Pte. W. S .
The graves a re, from right to left: 610180 1 P te.
F. A. Carter ; 14233956 L /Cpl. C. W . Welfa re; L t. Pattenden.
A . G. Fa lwa sser and 6350928 L / Cpl. R . A. L. As can be seen in the photographs, the cemetery

H ammo nd. is most beautifu lly kept and is a real haven of p eace.

Yours sincerely,
PATRICK WOLLOCOM BE

T he British Cemetery outside Catania, Sicily

ALBUHERA DAY IN COPENHAGEN I t was a cheerful an d h appy even in g wh ich sh owed
once agai n h ow many loyal frien ds t he R egiment h as
by Maj. H. C. L. Tennent
in D enma rk.
The Annual Albuhera D ay Cocktail P arty was
held on 16th M ay a t 66 R yva ngs Allee Copenhagen . To complete the evening and in r eturn for the
That the party was a success was largely due to the
kindness of M a j. and Mrs. Cedric Cooper who lent very great h ospitality received b y m embers of the
us their h ouse despite their very recent arr ival in Regiment duri ng the last yea r, a sm all dinner pa rt y
D enma rk. W e we re all m ost grateful to them and in was organised at a R est aurant in Copenhagen for Col.
particular for all their h ard wo rk in helping us pre-
pare for the party. and Mrs. Freder iksen, M aj. an d Mrs. Cooper a n d
Mrs. R iber. M ajo r Cowing, m y wife and I acted as
M y w ife and I represented the R egiment a nd
acted as h osts, assisted by M a j. Andrew Cowing, also h osts. 30th JUNE
servin g at HQ BALTAP in Jutlan d. As us ual the
party was well attended b y m embers and their wives O n this, the 315th Anniversary for the R oyal
from the D ani sh Bra nch of the Q ueen's O wn Bu ffs D anish L ife G uards, an A nnual P a rade was h eld in
P ast and Present A ssociation . It was particularl y sad Copenhagen . U nfortunately H er M ajesty Queen
that Bent and Wally M orbech we re u nable to be with M argrethc was out of the country and unable to
us; they were away on their trip to Scotland.
carry out the inspection .
W e we re very h onoured once agai n, by H . E.
the British Ambassador a nd Mrs. S tark wh o displayed Although there was a threat of r ain, it never
great interest in our Regi mental connections with
D enmark. materialised. The pa rade, with nearl y 900 very sm a rt
and well -drilled Guardsme n, formed up on the
Other guest s were Col. and Mrs. N . C. M . beau tiful sward of the L ivgardens K aserne with the
Frederiksen (Commander o f the R oyal D a n ish Life
Guards), Capt. and Mrs. A . Sunesson ( Adj utant), h istoric castle of R osenborg as a back cloth, was
Mrs. Ri ber ( M a j. Riber -The Queen's Ad jutan t impressive indeed. T o m a rk the unofficial a ffili at ion
S ta ff - was unable to attend ), Com dr . and Mrs. T . and the strong t ies between our R egiments, M a j.
M . B. F irth (B ritish D efen ce A ttache), a nd M a j. an d And rew Cowing and I we re inv ited to t ake pa rt on the
Mrs. C. F . Cooper ( Assistant Military A ttache).
parade and t o stand w ith R egimental H eadquarters

beh ind the saluti ng dais.

Col. F rederikse n inspected the p arade a n d the
Guardsmen m arched past in an extremely sma rt a nd
effi cent ma nner, well u p to the very h igh sta nda rd

expected of the R oyal D anish Life Guards.

In the even ing my wi fe and I and M aj. Cowing
were invited as guests to the A nn ual D inner held at

48 Queen 's Regiment were treated with the most tremend-
ous hospita lity and friendliness. No hosts could have
the Hotel D 'Angleterre; in a break with tradition, done more to look after their g uests and make them
ladies were included for the first time. It was a mag-
nific.ent occasion which turned the clock back to the feel at home. It , was heartening, in these present
dignity of a bygone age; particu larly so when the changing times, to find that the links between our
officers and their ladies gave several faultless per- Regiments remain as strong as ever.
formance s of traditional dances.

Throughout the evening we members of the

T he Annual Parade of
the Royal Danish Life
Guards. Col. Frederick-
sen (saluting, left) is
about to inspect his

RHQ Staff

Picture by Maj . Hugh
Tennent

***
HORSE OF THE YEAR SHOW 1973- TRUCIAL OMAN SCOUTS OFFICERS'

GALA NIGHT, 8th OCTOBER REUNION DINNER 1974

General It is proposed, if there is sufficient response, to
hold a T.O.S. Reunion Dinner in the Officers' M ess
The Gala Night of the H orse of the Yea r Show Buller Barracks, Aldershot, on Saturday 27th J anuary
is once more devoted to the Army Benevolent Fund 1974; 1930 for 2000 hrs.
Riding for the Disabled and the Injured National
Hunt Jockeys Fund. The cost of the d inner will be approximate ly
£3.50 per head exclusive of drinks after dinner, and
Prices of Seats accommodation at normal M ess rates will be available
for up to 60 people who wish to stay the night.
Concession prices for seats only apply to the
following: All those wishing to attend are invited to write
for further details to:
£ I. 90: Concession price 95p
£ 1. 20: Concession price 70p Maj . R. C. W all ace RCT
The Depot Regt. RCT
All applications for seats should be sent di rect Buller Barracks
to the " H orse of the Year" Box Office at W embley, Aldershot
as soon as possible . Hants

Parties

Regimental A ssociations, Officers' and Sergeants'
M esses, JRCs and Wives' C lubs are encouraged to
organise coach parties and in this connection con-
cession prices are available to civilians in the party
provided they are sponsored by a military unit or
formation.