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The Journal of
THE QUEEN'S REGIMENT
UNCONQUERED I SERVE
Vol. 12, No. 2 December, 1978
Battle Honours borne on The Colours
The R egimental Colour:
"Tangier, 1662-80," "Namur, 1695," "Gibraltar, 1704-5," "Blenheim," "Ramillies," "Malplaquet," "Dettingen/'
"Louisburg," "Guadaloupe, 1759," "Quebec, 1759," "Martinique, 1762," "St. Lucia, 1778," "Seringapatam,"
"Maida," "Vimiera," "Corunna," "Douro," "Talavera," "Albuhera," "Almaraz," "Badajoz," "Salamanca,"
"Vittoria," "Affgbanistan, 1839," "Punniar,n "Moodkee," "Sobraoo,t' "lnkerman," "Sevastopol," "Lucknow,"
"Taku Forts," "New Zealand," "South Africa, 1879," "Nile, 1884-85," "Burma, 1885-87," "Chitral," "Relief
of Ladysmith," "Relief of Kimberley," "South Africa, 1899-1902," " Korea 1950-51."
The Queen's Colour:
"Mons," "Mame, 1914-18," "Aisne, 1914," "Ypres, 1914-15-17-18," " Hill 60," "Festubert, 1915," "Somme,
1916, 18," "Aibert, 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 al 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, 1940-43,, "Sicily, 1943," "Sangro," "Salemo," "Anzio," "Cassino," "Italy, 1943-
45," "Malta, 1940-42," "Malaya, 1941-42," "Hong Kong," "Defence of Kohima," "Burma, 1943-45."
Allied Colonels-in-Chief
HER MAJESTY QUEEN JULIANA, Queen of the Netherlands
HER MAJESTY QUEEN MARGRETHE 11 of Denmark
Colonel of Th e R egimeut : M aj.-General R. S. N . MANS, CBE
D epucy Colonel of Th e R egimeu c: Brigadier H . C. M ILLMAN, OBE (I J an. ' 79)
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Co mmanding Officers
1st Battalion-Lt.-Col. ]. C. HOLMAN
2nd Baua/ion-Lt.-Co l. P. de S. BARROW
Jrd Battalion-Lt.-Col. S . T. W. ANDERSON, OBE, M C
5th (Volumeer) Battalion-Lt.-Col. S. M. BOUCHER
6th/ 7th (Volunteer) Bactalion-Lt.-Co l. M . ] . DUDDING
AFFILIATED UNITS OF THE CADET FORCE
C.C.F . S chool Comingen ts
Ardingly College; St. Aloysius College; Brighton College; Chichester High School, (Horsham); Collyer's VI
Form College; Cranbrook School; Cranleigh School; Dulwich College; Eastbourne College; Haberdashers' Aske's
School (Eistree); Hampton Grammar School; Highgate School; Hurstpierpoint College; The judd School; The
King's School, Canterbury; Kingston Grammar School; Lancing College; Mill Hill School; Ottershaw School; Reeds
School; Reigate Grammar School; Royal Grammar School (Guildford); Sir Roger Manwood's School (Sand-
wich); 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 Cadet Goys. Nos. 25 and 26.
Greater London:
Cadet Coys. Nos. 194 (Hounslow), 195 (Staines), 205 (Willesden), 211 (Edg-
N.E. London Sector ware), 225 (Tottenham), 226 (Hornsey) .
Cadet Coys.
N.W. London Sector Cadet Bns. Nos. 133, 141 , 143, 15 1, 152, 153, 155, 161 to 165, 167
Cadet Bns. 1st, 2nd and 5th Cadet Bns., The Queen's Regiment (Surrey A.C.F . ).
S.W. London Sector Cadet Coys. 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Cadet Bns., The Queen's Regiment (Kent A.C.F .).
Cadet Pis. No. 6 (C rawley).
Surrey: Nos. 2 ( Seaford), 3 ( H astings) , 4 ( Lewes ), 7 (Chichester ), 8 (Crow-
Kent: borough), 10 (Eastbourne), 11 (Horsham), 13 (Shoreham), 14 (Bexhill),
Suun:: 15 (Brighton), 16 (Hurstpierpoint), 17 (Bognor), 18 (Littlehampton), 22
(Tilgate), Mayfield Co llege and Lewes old G.S.
ALLIANCES
The Canadian Armed Forces-
The Queen's York Rangers (RCAC)
The South Alberta Light Horse
The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada
The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment
1st Battalion The Royal New Brunswick Regiment (Carleton & York)
The Essex and Kent Scottish
The Australian Military Forces-
The Royal New South Wales Regiment
The University of New South Wales Regiment
The Royal Western Australia Regiment
The New Zealand Army-
2nd Battalion (Canterbury, Nelson, Marlborough and West Coast)
The Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment
5th Battalion (Wellington West Coast and Taranaki) The Royal New
Zealand Infantry Regiment
The Pakistan Army-
12th, 14th, 15th and 17th Battalions, The Punjab Regiment
H ong K ong-
The Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers)
AFFILIATIONS
HMS Excellent, HMS Kent and HMS Brighton
The Royal M arines
3rd (Harrier Sqn. ) RAF
EDITOR-Major G. U . WEYMOUTH, MBE CRetd.l
REGIMENTAL HEADQUARTERS
RHQ THE QUEEN'S REGIMENT
Howe Barracks, Canterbury. (Tel. : 65281 )
R egimental Secretary: Col. f . N. Shipster, CBE, DSO ( Ext. I )
Assistant R egimental S ecretary: Maj . G. U . W eymouth, MBE ( Ext. 3 )
Fin ancial and R egimental Association S ecretary: M aj. E . A. M cCm·thy ( Ex. 2)
Archives: Maj. F. f . R eed ( Ext. 22)
R ecruiting: M aj. G. T. Faulkn er ( Ext. 9 )
Admin.: M aj. A. E . F . Waldron, MBE ( Ext. 2 1)
Regim ental Careers Officer: Maj . R . T . W . M ellotte ( Ext. I 2)
( M aj. D . C. F . Gouda, on 12 ]an. '79)
REGULAR UNITS
1st Bn. ( 1) 2nd Bn. (2) 3rd Bn. QUEENS RIT
Albuhera Barracks,
Werl, Lathbury Barracks, Connaught Barracks, M aids tone
BFPO 106. Gibraltar, D o v er. T el: M aidstone M.il. Ext. 292
BFPO 52.
T & AVR BATTALIONS
5th (V) Bn. 6th/7th (V) Bn.
Bn. HQ & HQ Coy : Bn. HQ : T & AVR Centre,
Ler<>s T & A VR Centre, Denne Road,
Sturry Road, Horsham, Sussex.
Canterbury.
Col. D. A. H . Sime, OBE, MC, TD .
Honorary Colonels :
Col. H . H. Prince Georg of Denmark, KCVO.
DIVISIONAL DEPO T-B assingboum Barracks, Royston, H erts. Senior Regi mental Representative : M aj. M . E. Girling ( f an. '79)
Notes ( 1) To Howe Barracks Canterbury in 1980
( 2) To Colchester in 1979
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Editor: c 0 nt e nt s
Major G. U. Weymouth,
M.B.E . (Ret'd.)
R egimen tal H eadquarters,
B owe Berracks,
canterbury, K ent.
Cap Badge Page
Collar 8adre A Christmas Message from the Colonel of T he Regiment ... 5
Button Edi to r ia l 7
Forecast of Events 8
The 1st Battalion 11
T he 2nd Batta lion 15
The 3rd Battalion 23
The 5th (Volunteer) Battalion 31
The 6th/7th ( Volunteer) Battalion ... 37
Depot, The Queen's Division 43
The IJLB 45
T he Queen's Cadets 45
Regimental Secretary's Notes 48
RCO's Report 50
T he Regimental Associati on ... 52
Senior NCOs Location List . . 55
Allied Regiments 58
Affiliated HM Ships .. 59
Marriages and Deaths 64
T he County Associations 67/ 73
Articles 74
" Queensmen help to tram Volunteer Citizen-Soldiers"
"The First and Second New Zealand Campaigns" 75
T he Regimental Shop 79
Journal Order Form ... back cover
Printers: COVER PICTURE
Kent County Printers The Prince of Wales talks to Pte. Eric Thomas ( of
Canterbury, Herne Bay and Hulme, Manchester) during his inspection of The
Royal Guard of Honour formed by The 3rd Bn.,
Deal. Kent when His Royal Highness visited C anterbury on 9
November
P ict ure by Brian P earson
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.~~: %£ (![bristma·s ftlrssagr ~~i- :.From The Colonel of The Regiment
1~~. I want to devote my "Message to the Regiment" on this occasion to the subject
·.: ex-members of our Regiment and our founding Regiments.
of our soldiers. Our Queensmen are the li fe blood of T he Regiment; without them
we would wither on the vine. I address thi s particular message to them and to all
T o continue to do our job properly as a Regi ment we must be well recruited.
We want our good soldiers to stay with us and make a full career, and we want·
;~ ·
i new men to join us in suffi cient numbers to ensure that our battalions are not
subj ected to unbearable overstretch. I stress that we want the good men to stay
~~~ in and get promotion, for only in this way will we ensure the maintenance of t he
high standards among our seni or and junior NCOs, a matter in which we now
rightly pride ourselves.
. Some good soldiers who may be contemplating extend ing their service may
have doubts because of a disappointment they may have suffered during their present
I~~ service; others may feel that new family responsibilities demand a change in career.
.. careful consideration. But I can tell you all one thing: "the grass" on the civilian~~~
I will not attempt to catalogue the many good reasons which cause a soldier to
hesitate about re-engaging ; it is right that such a step should only be taken ah er
I than we think. Army pay has improved this year and we have been promised parity
. side of the hill, instead of being greener, can be a lot browner and more withered
.. is kept in the forefront of attention when the necessity arises.~~~
I~! with civilian wages over the next two years. I, as your Colonel (along with others
of like mind ) , have dedicated myself to seeing that the subj ect of pay and conditions
._. Rfefgimentfi, where we pride. hourshelvesddond
o er a rst c1ass career wit t e a e
The message here is clea r: things have improved but we shall go on working
for even better improvements. In summary, The Army- and especially our own
I cannot be matched in civilian life. T o t hose who are now " Old Comrades"-both of
!ookingb after our sfoldiers--cdonthi~ues hto
mva1ua 1e aspect o a comra es 1p t at
~.· soldiers for The Queen's Regt. A real effort on your pan to bring home to everyone
· T he Regiment and all its founding Regiments-! say: help us recruit t he best
. in your own circle of relatives and friend s the advantage of service with our Regiment
i~. ! could ensure that we continue to be the fi nest in T he Army. If you want to put a
young man in touch with us, just write (or tell him to write) to the Regimental
~ Careers Office r at RHQ, Howe Barracks; we wi ll take it up from t here.
~! Finally, a very happy Christma s to you all and may the New Year bring good
fortune and much happiness your way.
~
II ~~~'L:.~~NS i~~ Colonel, The Queen's Regiment.
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EDITORIAL
In his Christmas message to The Regiment, General Mans appea ls to us all to
become personally involved in keeping the Reg iment alive; to get more regular soldiers into
our battalions; to persuade the good ones alread y there to sta y; and to ferret out those who,
having left for "pastures green" may be disillusioned and would like to return to the fold .
Why not make it a N ew Yea r's resolution to do your bit-as many Scotsmen did a
few years ago when asked to "Save the Argylls"?
Maj. Roddy Mellotte, our chief spokesman for recruiting, leaves RHQ at the end of
this year to become "our man in Denmark" ( HQ BALTAP ). During his eighteen months
in the job, he ha s worked tirelessly and successfully to improve the Reg iment's recruiting
organisation and initiated a spate of eye-catching literature. M aj. David Gouda replaces him
in January.
In bidding a fond farewell to Brigadier Roy Coleman, D eputy Colonel of The
Regiment ( an appreciation by the Colonel of The Reg iment appears on page 47 ), we also
welcome his successor, Brigadier Charles Millman who, as Divisional Brigadier, is panicularly
well placed to influence our Regimental a ff airs; a curriculum vitae for Brigadier Charles is
also on page 47.
The Regular Battalions
The 1st Bn. returned to G ermany from a tour in Belfast in early October and, by
the time you read this, they will have defended their Army Boxing title at Aldershot-
successfully, we hope. In the latter pan of 1979, Lt.-Col. John Holman will be handing
over command to Maj . David Dickins, at present B.M . of 39 Inf. Bde.
The 2nd, now commanded by Lt.-Col. P eter Barrow, keeps the fl ag flying in Gibraltar
whilst getti ng as many as poss ible away from the Rock on tra ining and adventurous
activities, thus helping to relieve the tedium of close confinement ; in late Autumn next year,
the Battalion will be in Colchester.
The 3rd Bn ., whilst carrying out the numerous commitments of a home-based unit
( and as pan of 6 Field Force) has, somehow, found time to advertise the Regiment 's presence
and enhance its good name throughout the South East. On 9 Nov., the Battalion mounted
a Royal Guard of Honour for The Prince of Wales when His Royal Highness visited Can-
terbury, the reby cementing funher our close ties with the "Home" of The Regiment. And
on 2 1 Nov., the Band and Drums exercised the Regiment's "Freedom" rights during a
ceremony at Worthing, when Lavin ia, Duchess of Norfolk was made a "Freeman, of The
Borough . Lt.-Col. Stuan Anderson, who will be handing over command to Lt.-Col. G avin
Bu lloch in January, is then off to Fon Benning on a Grade I Staff appointment. In March,
the Battalion wi ll move to N. Ireland for an emorgency tour and, at the end of the yea r (or
early in 1980 ), is due for a spell in BAOR, but probably not at Werl.
The T A VR Battalions
The activities of our two fine TAVR Battalions are chronicled elsewhere but Exercise
" Bold Guard" in Schleswig Holstein, which involved 5 QUEENS (Lt.-Col. Simon Boucher ),
shows how "ever-ready" are The TA-elite of today .
The 6th/ 7th held their Annual Camp at Stanford in early June and by the time
th is goes to press, Lt.-Col. Mike Dudding (formerly RRF and lately the Battalion's 2IC)
wi ll have taken over command from Lt.-Col. Foster Herd.
Good PR
Those who were able to be at Twickenham on 25 Nov., or who watched the England v.
All Blacks rugby match on the television, will have seen and heard the massed Bands and
Drums from The 3rd Bn., The TA VR Band and Corps of Drums of 5 QUEENS and our
Junior Soldiers; and a whole page of the match programme was devoted to The Regiment
(see page 51). Whilst on the subj ect of "Good PR", we are extremely fonunate in having as
a colleague, Mr. David McDine, OBE- PRO SE District ( K ent and Sussex). His office is
part of the RHQ block and the very close liaison he mai ntains with our Secretariat ensures
that the Regiment's activities are widely reponed in local papers throughout the South East.
Affiliations
Our traditional link (originally through the former East Surrey R egt.) with The Royal
Marines has recently been strengthened by a new "Bond of Friendship" established between
that Corps and The Regiment as a whole; such a bond will become even more meaningful
th rough the officer exchanges which are to be effected in future.
Sports
A Regimental policy aimed at achieving notoriety in the field of Spon is being evolved;
in essence, this means encouraging each regular battalion to excel in at lea st one major Army
sport. O ur 1st Bn . is already renowned for its boxing talent ; we must now strive to match
this sta ndard in footba ll and the other principal sports.
Finally, may I wish yo u all- readers, contributors, printers and advertisers, a very
happy Christmas and my grateful thanks for the assistance and encouragement given to me
during the past year.
8
Forecast of Events
January June Glorious First of June and Celebrations with
12 Investments Sub-Committee Meeting, London. I HMS Excellent with 1 QUEENS at Werl,
including a Trooping of The Colour. ( dates
February at 8 to be confirmed ).
10
10 Sobraon Day-lst Bn. 15 Queen's Surreys Offi cers' Cocktail P art y,
14 Managing Trustees Meeting, London. London .
23 Re-dedication Service. HMS Brighton
Queen's S urreys Assn. Ch urch Service, G ui ld-
HMS Drake, Plymouth. fo rd Ca thedral ( 111 5 hrs.)
Queen 's S urreys G.S . M atch v. R oyal M ari nes
March ( prov isional ) .
6/ 8
9 3 QUEENS Op. Banner (to 4/ 6 July) July
Royal Sussex R egt. C'ttee M eeting and Cock- Queen 's Own Buffs Assn . R eunion and Ser-
17 tail P arty, London. vice of Remembrance, Maidstone.
Royal Sussex Assn . Exec. C'ttee M eeting,
3 1/ Ro ya l Sussex Assn.-Main Goodwood R aces.
C hich es t er . 4 Aug.
April Queen's Own Buffs Assn. AGM and Darts August
7 Competition, Maidstone. 4 Queen's Own Buffs A ssn . R eunion and Ser-
16 Queen Margrethe's birthday. vice of R emembrance, Canterbury.
Queen's Own Buffs G .S . M eeting, R oyal S t. 11-1 7 Canterbury Cricket Week.
21 G eorges, Sandwich.
23 Royal Sussex Assn. St. G eorge's D ay Service September
24 and R eception, Chichester .
28 Middx. G .S . Spring M eeting, N orth H ants 8 Sevastopol Day-2nd Bn.
30/ 4 9 Salemo Day-lst Bn.
G .C. 13 Quebec Day-Jrd Bn.
30 Royal Sussex Assn . AGM and Reunion D.n-
ner, Lewes.
Army Golfing Society Meeting Royal St.
Georges G.C. ( Argll. and Sutherland Bowl
3/ 4 May).
Queen Juliana's birthday.
May Queen's Surreys G .S. Spring M eeting, October
3 Richmond.
2 Middx. G .S . Autumn M eeting, North H ants
3/ 4 Argll and Sutherland Bowl ( AGS M eeting, G .C.
Royal St. G eorges).
11 Middx. Officers' C lub Dinner, Cavalry and 4/ 5 Queen 's Surreys G .S . Autumn M eeting and
Guards Club. AGM, Richmond.
12 R oya l Sussex Assn. Offi cers Dinner, Arundel
Middx. Assn. Service of R emembrance, St. C a s tl e.
13 Paul's Ca thedral and Annual Reunion.
Ro yal Sussex Assn . Aubers Ridge/ Dunkirk November
16 Parade and Service, H astings.
22 / 24 ALBUHERA DAY. I 0 Middx. Assn. S ervice at Field of R emem-
24 Royal Sussex Assn. Goodwood R aces. brance, Westiminster.
Queen's Own Royal W est K ent R egt. Offi cers'
27 C ocktail P arty, Army and Navy Club . 11 Middx. Assn . S ervice of R emembrance, Inglis
Royal Sussex Assn. C ricket M atch, Arunde l. Bks., Mill Hill.
Queen 's Surreys Assn . R emembrance D ay
P arades, Guildford and Kingston.
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Mainly About People 9
Appointments Pres ident in 1972).
Col. K. Dodson, OBE is to be D efence Adviser
Brig. H . C. Millman, OBE assumed the appoint-
ment of Divisional Brigadier, The Queen 's Div., on to the UK H igh Commissioner, Singapore in J an. '79.
4 Aug. '78 (vice Brig. D avid Carter who is now Lt.-Col. J. R. Stcphenson, OBE is to be Deputy
Fortress Commander at Gibraltar ). H e is also to be
Deputy Colonel, The Queen's R egt., on I J an. '79. President R C B, W cstbur y, in Apr. '79.
Lt.-Col. S. T. W. Anderson, OBE, MC is to be
Col. B. H . Marciandi, OBE wa s appo inted Chief
Pol. Sect. (P ol Branch Plans and P ol Div.) SH APE, GSOI ( BLO ) US Arm y lnf. Centre, Fort Benning
in M ar. '79.
on 28 July '78.
Maj . D. J. C. Dickins is to command I QUEENS Brig. G. H. W. Howlett, OBE, MC (late P ara.,
form erl y RWK ) OAR, is to be GOC I Div. in 1979.
in J an. '80.
Maj . H . N. Tarver is to command 5 UDR in Lt.-Col. H . M. du V. Lohan is to be GSOI (E x.
Plans) UKCICC, HQ UKLF (vice Lt.-Col. J . R .
Apr. '79. Stephenson, OBE) in Apr. ' 79.
Lt.-Col. P. H. Courtenay was appoi nted GSO I
Lt.-Col. R. L ea, MBE has been provisionally
SD/ Trg. HQ DAAC on 25 Aug . ' 78. selected for promotion to substantive rank of Colonel;
Lt.-Col. C. G. Champion is to be GSO I TA VR/ and Maj. G. B. Bateman to substanti ve rank of Lt.-
Col., both in 1979.
TRG HQ N. Ireland on 12 J an. ' 79.
Lt.-Col. M . P. St. F . Dracopoli, OBE was Sgt. McLeod ( 3rd Bn.) obtained an "out-
standing " grading on his Unit NBC NCOs Course
appointed GSO I 2 1 Liaison HQ ( F rench Forces) on (M ay '78) at th e D efence NBC Centre.
29 Sep. '78.
Pte. C. C. Freelove (2nd Bn .) received an 'A'
Lt.-Col. M . E. C. Rixon was appo inted GSO I grading on a Regt. M edical Ass istants C lass 3 Course
SCPL6 MOD on 3 Oct. '78. (June '78).
Maj. R. W. Acworth is to be GSO I Int. SAF Capts. L. H . H art and R. S cott received regular
(vice Lt.-Col. R . Lea, MBE ) in M ar/ Apr. '79. QMs Commissions in Apr. and Jul y '78 respectively.
Lt.-Col. A . Colin Cole, MVO, TD (former WOII ( now Lt.) W. D . Marshall was com-
2IC 6 QUEENS ) has been appointed Garter missioned ( SCC ) in Aug. '78.
Principal King of Arms.
Cpl. C. Cole ( 2nd Bn. ) has been awarded a
Col. H . R. (Raymond) Grace, OBE, JP, DL C-in-C 's Commendation for rescuing an American
has been elected Pres ident of The Kent County sa ilor under very dangerous conditions.
C ricket C lub for 1979- ( h is brother, O liver, was
Col. and Alderman Ronald Gardner-Thorpe, TD,
JP (former CO 5 Buffs) has been elected a Sheriff of
the City ol London.
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The 1st Battalion
SI NCE the end of June, the Battalion ha s been continued to keep our name to the fore . During the
involved enti rely in pre-Op. Banner training Army Intermediate Individual Boxing C hampionships
on 5 Oct., L/Cpls. Harrison and Worrell won against
or in N. Ireland itself. NITAT training was co- thei r Guards and Kings opponents respectively, whilst
Cpl. L eefmans and Pte. Walker lost in the finals.
ordinated from Senelager, with the Battalion
In extra-mural training, B Coy. was very success-
billeted in the rented " Woodland s" camp . ful in mountain-walking and canoeing expeditions in
the M ountains of M oume.
During the twelve days there, Tne Colonel of
the R egt. visited and, amongst other things, presented On return to W erl, our Novices Boxing Com-
Army Boxing Colours to some of our victorious tea m. petition helped to whi le away a few days before
In short gaps between trai ning and visits, the Cross- block leave; 169 Novices entered and the high standard
Country and Orienteering Competitions-part of heralds great promise for the future. At the time of
"K irke's Competition"-were held; both were won by wnting, our BAOR title is to be defended ( 6 Dec.)
against another box ing leviathan-10 R CT- and we
B (Holland ) Coy. look forward to ach ieving the sa me success as we did
The long-awa ited move to N. Ireland got under last year.
way and, on 22 J un ., the Battalion took over re- Officers of Bn. HQ (Tac)
sponsibility for Andersonstown, Rrverdale, L adyb rook,
Lenadoon, Suffolk, Twinbrook, Dunmurry and CO-Lt.-Col. J . C. H olman
D eniaghy- an area ( no doubt) well etched mto the 2IC (des)-Maj. P. Hubert, MBE
hearts of our sister regular Battalions, both of which Ops. Offr.-Maj. C. J oint
have been allotted this "patch" before. Adjt.- Capt. A. Mieville (Capt. D . P olla rd (des . )
IO-Capt. M . W. Allington
In retrospect, the tour appears to have been PRO-Capt. A. A. A. Beattie
extraordinaril y quiet; long periods of " nothing-out-of- RSO-Capt. T. N. McDerrnott
the-ordinary" were punctuated by hoax bombs, minor OC COP-Lt. L. S. Edwards
robberies, marches through Andersonstown, funeral s, Watchkeeper- Capt. D . Carter
and one or two genuinely nasty incidents: one was the
apparentl y senseless shooting of a telephone engineer In N. Ireland, T ac HQ was based at Fort
who was first "prepared for execution" with a shot- M onagh which we shared with A Coy., I L.I. For-
gun and then systematically shot . in the head. On tunately we we re in the happy position of doing the
the credit side, the follow-up to thrs mcrdent lead to decision-making while the L.I. did the work- i. e.
guarding etc. P erhaps the most exciting incident here
the finding of the shotgun . was the well-timed shooting at members of the P ress
Many people have visited us, starting with the as their convoy entered base for the first time;
seldom has copy been so manifestly presented!
wives of the GOC No rthern Ireland and the Ad-
jutant General and continuing with at least two visits Echelon Officers (Musgrove Park)
weekly, viz-the GOC 3 Armd. Div., Mr. Brown
( Under Secretary of State for D efence), GOC N. QM ( A )-Maj. ( QM ) L. M . Wilson
Ireland and the Commander L and Forces, to name QM (T )- Capt. ( QM ) E . P arker
Paymaster-Cap!. S. Cooper
but a few. MTO-Lt. B. Upson
M aj. Hugh Tarver, our erstwhile 2I C, has gone
This small but elite crew became notorious in
to the NDC; Capt. Clive Wi lson to University. Lt. U lster for their escaping stories, nightly discotheques,
Bill M arsh al! has joined us on Commissioning and parties and errant bunny-g irls from the Belfast
we also welcome M aj. J ames J onklass. Capt. P eter Europa. In addition to their daily task of "providing",
Hitchcock and Lt . John Riley stayed for short "bus- they were also responsible for the "nastiesH Ward
mens" holidays and 2/Lt. Chris Lincoln-J ones (of outside the gates. The person who discovered that
'M' Bty., RHA ) was attached to B Coy. from fusing the Ward lights and thereby galvanising
Echelon into action (in a manner associated with
September. Colditz) would have been more than satisfied if he
On the sporting side, our volley-ball team reached had known that it also kept that stoic sleeper-the
QM- awake on more than one occasion.
the finals of the N . Ireland Competit ion, a resul t
which bodes well for the BAOR Competitions later A (Tangier) Coy.
this yea r ; our footballers played a variety of teams
with varying success and, of course, our boxers have OC-Maj . S. M . D owse (also OC Rear Party )
2IC- Capt. D. S . Carter
I. A d:senchanted 10 after sifting through the con- Pl. Comds.-Lts. H. Beeston, K . Hames and
tents of Connolly's Bookshop 2/ Lt. A. Bickersdike
2. The CO takes over the Bn's area responsibility
from LL-Co1. K . Coates (3 PARA ) on 22 Jun.
3. Hill walkers on the Mountains of Mourne pause
for a rest
4. "Miss 1 QUEENS" (Tania Nicholls) and the
RSM in fond, if unso1dier1y embrace
5. "I was sure he went that-a-way"- C pls. Matthews
and de Warner Waller
6. Boxer turns bodyguard-Cpl. Jean Pierre, of the
CO's R Group, ready for all-corners
For the duration of the N. Ireland tour, our preserved for four months. Our only casualty was
Platoons were under command of the other three
rifl e compan ies: I PI. with C Coy.; 2 PI. adding a ca used by a brick in the face for L/ Cpl. Parsons
bit of youth to D ; and 3 PI. had B attached! All now restored to his former ebullient self.
acquitted themse lves well with their host companies '
and now that we have reformed, there is an excellent
esprit de corps. •• RecKo" r-rs <rME WE ,,, A Fou R. Mor-rr""
lov R. OF G,EI<MAN'( ill_
M any of our older hands have now moved on
but we got the lions share of new soldiers who arrived Cartoons
during Op. Banner. by
CSM Ryan
M echanized trai ning at Soltau and the various
Kirkes competitions will provide an exce llent challenge
now that we have reformed.
B (Holland) Coy.
OC-Maj. P. V. Panton
2IC-Capt. A. W . Barratt
PI. Comds.-Lts. A. N. M arston, R . W alker
and 2/ Lt. M . Comar-Aston
Attached-2/ Lts. A. Bickerdike and C. Lincoln
Jones, RHA
" Thot will have to go over-and that as well
" so began our move to Andersonstown. Ca pt.
Barratt, our Ops. Officer, was determined to get us
off to a good start by rearranging the entire Ops.
Room to suit his own taste and inimitable style.
Ryman's stationery products ( he insists he has no
shares in it! ) began to appear everyhere.
Much of our patrolling activity ( mobile and foot )
was routine but it was eventually rewarded by the
finding of an AR 15 rifle sight and a large variet y of
ammunition. More exciting incidents-such as a bomb
on the railings of the "Busy Bee" complex on Ander-
sonstown Road; hoax and fal se IEO 's and the
follow-up to Post Office robberies, were all dea lt
with successfully . The Intelligence Section under Sgt.
P yper were always effective in checking pubs and
keeping tabs on several resident " baddies".
CSM Ebbens is now with 3 R . ANGLIAN and
WOII Ta ylor ( via the RMA and T ac HQ ) has re-
placed him.
C (Sobraon ) Coy.
OC-Maj . M. Hunter (Maj . C. Joint (des))
2IC- Capt. M . F eatherstone
PI. Comd .-Lts. H . W . R . E agan ( 10 des),
J. Noble and L. S. P . M ans
Attached- 2/Lt. K. Hames
"Train hard and fight easy" was our catch phrase
during the build-up to NITAT training at Sennelager.
For those not used to the vagaries of Belfast proper,
hearts were struck with terror by the fa st-moving and
apparently lethal abilities of the "enemy" in "Tin
City" . When we got to Belfast, our first patrols
soon revealed that "Tin City" was not exactly repre-
sented on the ground- thank goodness !
During Op. Banner, opportunities occurred to
send soldiers home on courses and some of our mem-
bers enjo yed 11 days at sea with The Ro ya l Navy
whilst others went to the mountains.
During the thousands of hours spent patrolling,
I 02 houses were searched as well as acres of open
ground. The Company found I0 rounds of ammu-
nition, 2 radios and a single-point sight-fairly
unglamorous-but, far more important, peace was
13
u (Quebec) Coy. * RUGBY-UK TOUR 1979
As with most other wi nter Spotts in the l .c Bn .,
OC-Maj . M . ]. A . K ea ly, DSO
2IC-Capt. D . S . Pollard ( Capt. A . W . Russell rug by has suffered over the yea rs through Op. Banner
( de s ) ) tours coming at inconvenient times. Combined with
Pl. Comds.-Lts. A . Cooper ( Drums), G .
the frantic pace of life in BAOR, this has led not
Bullivan {A/ Tl<. ) and P . A. 0 . Storie-Pugh (M or )
Attached-Lt. H . Beeston only to a disrupted season but also to cancellation of
In the latter part of June, " Da shing D " took many fi xtures.
to the streets around Lenadoon where, after an initial
spate of interest, the local population reacted with in- H owever, it is planned to make our last season
difference. ( Activity might have been grea ter had it
been known that the Mortar and A/ Tk. platoons in BAOR as success ful as possible and a key feature
were led by T.A . and Intelligence Corps platoon
commanders respectively!) The Drums and 2 Pl. ( A in this wi ll be an ea rl y season tou r to the four
Coy.) and Coy. HQ completed our detai l.
Regimental Counties du ring the first ten days in
Woodbourne Hotel soon settled down to a stead y
pattern of patrolling, stand-by and guards. ( We pro- September '79.
vided the guard for the G .O .C's residence and, in
so doing, enjo yed the use of his swimming pool ) . On Four clubs have been app roached so far- Can-
the night of 8/ 9 Aug. some locals indulged in some
enthusiastic stone throwing and the compa ny entered terbur y, Chichester, E sher and Mill H ill- which
into the spirit of things by achieving 3 figure s with
baton rounds. On the same night, part of the Drums should present quite a challenge to our team.
Pl. had a noisy but inconclusive encounter with a
Thompson; the get-away car was late r found with To make the tour a trul y R egimental event
modifications to its air-conditioning! Other highlights
included the finding of a Thompson (on 3 Sept.) ( rather than a purely I QUEENS one), any Regi -
and five rifl es on the 25th, by A/ Tk. Pl. search
reams; the intervening time was occupied by a seri es mental pl ayer who is interested, is invited to join the
of high-jackings and abandoned cars.
tour. There is a wea lth of talent wi thin the R egiment
Our return to Werl brought a re-union with ou r
smelly machines, and at Soltau, we re-discovered and this tour off ers a unique opportunity to exploit
our mechanical feet.
this. Individual players who are interested in taking
THE REAR PARTY
part in the tour should contact Maj. S. M . Dow..,,
During the Battalion's Op. Banner tour, although
there was plent y of work to be done, serious prob- OIC Rugby, I QUEENS, BFPO 106. .
lems were few and far between and for the lack of
drama, all members of the Rear Patty can feel justi- The plan is for the touring patty to trave l m
fiabl y proud .
our own PR! coach, sta yi ng at military estab lishm ents
The families team {under Ca pt. O'Gorman ) was
a great asse t with their firm ( but understanding ) close to the va rious pl aying venues.
approach and lack of flap. The LAD and MT teams
worked wonders with the vehicles which not only *
work (so we are assured) but are also all the same
colour. We trust that the productivity deals between WOII ]ones {Asst. RSO) receiving his LS and GC
EME and the "brothers on the shop fl oor" survived medal from Lt.-Gcn. Sir Tintothy Cr~y, KCB,
the "ordeal by fire" at Soltau! OBE, GOC N. Ireland and Colonel Commandant
Numerous under-age soldiers fresh from l]LB Queen's Division
and the D epot rapidl y became acquainted with the
FV432 by cleaning, painting and learning to drive
it; additionally, some are gifted sportsmen and have
already made their presence felt at both football and
in the Inter-Coy. Novices boxing (CSM Hill hij acked
them for HQ Coy. for the latter, before others were
aware of their existence!)
The wives' Club held their soirees and da y
trips, and the link-up during the " D ave R ave n"
morning show on BFBS wa s a particular success,
using the excellent faciliti es of The Queens C lub
both for the event and during the "warm-up" on
the previous night.
W e have also entertained parties of CCF cadets;
played sport; fired our weapons; passed the BFT
( well, a fai r number anyway! ); cleaned the Barracks
and had bomb scares.
F inally, a word of thanks to all ou r wives and
all members of the Rear Party for providing such a
sound base while the Battalion was away.
14
(left): Cpl. and Mrs. Alien after their wedding (right) : C.S.E. Show (" The singer, not the song")
(best man-on right-is Cpl. Jennings)
*
JOINING TIIE QUEENS
One day a waas sat in me offis in Ingland wen the
the fone rang, "Company Sergeant M ajor repon to
my office" says the CO . A went doon there like thi
clappas o'hell thinking ad dun somthin rang. W en
a got inside e says ti me "Jamieson you are going
to Queens as RSM, good day". A went ootside an
thaut ti mesel' tha all foriners hoo !hi hell can !hi
understand a fin e Inglish chep like mesel? Nivor
mind a went hame ti tell wor lass hoo went a ends
cos sh i thaut a wus lettin !hi gud family name doon
by being put in charge of a bunch o sutheners hoo
cudnt speek propa Inglish . A boot an oor later wen
a had telt hor all about thi extri muny wi wud get
gannin ti gormany shi said alreet bonn y lad yi cin
gan but yiv got ti promis me that wi winnit end up
takin like that lot over theor.
Howay the lads,
WO! Jamieson, R. S.M .
( A n ex tract fr om. uBraganzan)
*
(Top): The Colonel of The Regt. presents the
RSM-WOl Jamieson-with his LS and GC
medal (Woodlands camp, Senelager)
(Lower) : Brig. Keightley (Comdr. Paderbom Gar.)
talks to Lts. Wailer and Lincoln-Jones (RHA}; on-
lookers are Maj. Panton and C / Sgt. Smith
15
The 2nd Battalion
W e regret to a nnounce the death of Pte. P aul, Shaun,
Steven, Field, who died at RAF Hospita l, Wroughton
on 17 O ct. '78.
T HEEditorial A ver y thorough and demanding J NCOs' cadre
main events of the last six months which was run by Capt. Whithouse and W02 Bart le; some
survived, some did not, but a ll benefitted. We have
have kept us busy have been the arrival of a lso run some u sefu l coaching cadres; a Signal cadre,
and another Assau lt Pioneer cadre.
the new Governor, close ly followed by the
On 28 Sept. we said goodbye to Lt.- Col.
Queen's Birthday Parade ; training with sub- C hampion after two and three qu arter years in com-
mand ; he was dragged from Bn. HQ by the Officers,
marines; adventure training in Morocco; the visit W arrant Officers and S ergeants in a Blue and Buff
ferret to the Officers' M ess where ye t another farewell
of The Colonel of the Regt.; change of Com- party was held. In his place we welcome back to the
Batta lion Lt.-Co l. P eter Barrow.
manding Officers and, most important of all,
W e h ave been invo lved in a lot of cri cket and
many hours of relaxation in the sun. achieved some good results: every company entered
a team in the Minor Units competition and there were
His Excellen cy the Governor, G en. Sir William many close and exciting results. HQ Coy. (I) just
J ackson, GBE, KCB, MC, arri ved in HMS Apollo bea t B Coy. in the inter-Coy. swimming and H Q
on 30 M ay, where he was greeted by a tri-ser vice Coy. (2) beat B into fir st pl ace in the Athletics
Guard of Honour under the command of M aj. Thorpe com p etiti o n.
and A Coy., with th e R egimental Colour, provided
the Arm y element. H e then visi ted the Ba ttalion on In earl y D ecember, the Batta lion returned to
the morning of 8 ] une and was greeted by a Roya l Salisbury Plain for two weeks training; this did ever y-
Guard of Honour with the Queen's Co lour on p arade. one good, en abling us to stretch ou r legs and do the
C hristm as shopping . In M arch to June next year each
On 3 ] une, most of us were involved in the compan y, in turn, will return to Salisbur y Plain for
Queen's Birthd ay P arade when we trooped the Queen 's three weeks traini ng. In October, a recce p ar ty from
Colour before a vas t crowd. It was a magnificent 2nd Bn . The Light Infan tr y (who are to relieve us
parade, and praise from a ll qu arters, though em- in Sept. next yea r) arri ved in G ibra ltar.
ha rassingly fl attering, was ve r y good for morale.
BOXING v. HMS ARK ROYAL
During June a number of submarines arri ved to
carr y out loca l training with, amongst others, the by Capt. M. F. Pearson
Roya l M arines R aiding Squadron from Pl ymou th .
Each compan y had the equi va lent of one pl atoon HMS A•·k R oyal was due to arri ve in Gibra ltar
trained in landing by Geminis from submarines by on 25 S ept. and, in keeping with most Nava l ships.
day and ni ght. Thi s valuable training provided much threw ch a llenges to a ll sporting tea ms of the three
excitement as well as the essenti al variety needed in services. One such ch a llenge was received by the
G i b r a lt a r . so- ca lled Combined S er vices Boxing T eam and
elabor ate plans we re m ade involving a ll three ser vices,
We have endeavoured to get as m an y soldiers not only to get each into the ring b ut also to assist
off the R ock as possible and have con tinued our close with the organization of the m atch. As is often the
associa tion with ships of the Ro ya l Navy which take case in Gibra ltar with outside units, the tire of en -
many soldi ers to sea . HMS A chilles has just as ked thusiasm a t the ou tset is p aramount but, as the day
us to lend her a Drummer for nine months and he draws nearer, it is but me re ember . Thus, true to
wi ll go to pl aces as far a field as New Zealand and form, this event became an a ll- 2 Q UEENS
Hong K on g. We ha ve a lso sent ove r 200 so ldiers (i n r es p o n si b i l i t y.
parti es of 16) to Morocco on adventure trai ning; some
of these have climbed J ebel Toubka l (over 12,000 With four of our best boxers competing in the
feet), the highest mountain in the High Atl as south Army Individu al Championships in UK, we were left
of M a rrackes h. All visited the ancient cities of F ez with only three proven boxers; the ever-ready ca ll
and M eknes and should have a fairly good idea of was sounded throughout the B atta lion and no less
what life there was like a thousand or more yea rs than 24 indi vidua ls of va riou s shapes and sizes
ago. The reader will note (from the article " A Trip stepped forward.
to Spain ") that some soldiers a lso m ade a great effort
on their own to get off the Rock. T en d ays of hard trai ning began under Sgt.
Sturgeon and L / Cp l. Barnes and one well-known
The Co lonel of The Regt. and Mrs. M an s visi ted
us for the first time in ] une. They were subj ected heavyweight losing l t stones in 7 d ays ! Ark R oyal
to a ve r y full and demanding programme and can now
say with justifi ca tion that they know the Ba ttalion arri ved on the morning of the 25th and, by mid
well. Other visitors h ave included the last D eputy afternoon, the mermaids, h aving sufficient substance,
Fortress Commander, Brig. Stepto, and his su ccessor, issued their usual cr y: (jP ommy will be annihi lated"'
Bri g. Carter, our erstwhile Division a l Brigadier. (With a crew of 2600 men this could h ave been true).
16 F irst we had to find out how much it would cost
to hire a car, so we went to El ands Car Hire and
The morning of the 29th brought the mcdicals, were told that the charge would be £122 for a Fiat
weigh-in and matching, plus the usual arguments. 125 for two weeks. Th at night, after hours of
The match consisted of 11 bouts and I exhibition di scussion, Nevi llc came up with the idea of bu yi ng
bout, and was held in the Lathbu ry Barracks G ym-
nasi um in front of a capacity crowd of 700, equal ly a car.
balanced between the Battalion and HMS Arll Roval.
The next day we went car hunting and to start
The Contest started with a very good win by Pte. with, didn 't have much luck (We on ly had £ 100
D eane, one of our "unknowns" and continued through- to spend between us). So we put an advert on the
out the evening with each bout being vigorously local radio and BFBS on " Exchange and Mart"; for
fought. The final bout was between L/C pl. Barnes and
REM Jones ; it contained everything that is good the first few days, all was qui et, but then offers came
about services boxing with L/ Cp l. Barnes being nar- flooding in. With only eight weeks left, we looked at
rowly bea ten on points. In the end 2 QUEENS lost a few cars but none were what we wanted. Then,
by 5 bouts to 6 but praise for an outstanding evenings one day, whi lst Nevi lle was driving his Land Rover,
entertainment is due to every boxer for the tremendous he came across one which he fell in love with at
effort and guts shown in a very closely contested first sight-or it cou ld have been the nurse who
match. The many hundreds of spectators "fought" was se lling it!
each and every round with the boxers and their en-
thusiasm made this a night to remember. T o our That afternoon we went up to the RNH to see
brothers in I QUEENS we say: " Read and take the car . " Oh my God ", I thought : it had flat tyres;
heed! " the two wings had been eaten away by rust; the
engine needed to be looked at; the hand and foot
A TRIP TO SPAIN brakes didn' t work and nor did the lights ! (It was
supposed to be a Ford Cortina 1300) First we had
by Ptes. Neville, Sinunons and Toulson of A Coy. to see how much we had to spend on the car (al-
together, we had £200), then we got to work. Neville
The whole thing started when we came back has a mate who is a mechanic and he jacked-up the
from our holiday in Morocco and decided to go to maintainance on the engine.
Spain for our leave in three months time. W e began
by looking at travel brochure's for both Spain and A week later, N eville had to go on a P ara
Italy, but eventually we ded ded on Spain. Course in England for three weeks, so Simmons was
left to get on with the car. To cut a long story
short, on Nevi lle's return, nothing much had been
Sgt. Goodall receives yet another prize at the
swimming gala, from The Colonel of The Regiment
during his visit to the Battalion
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done on the car except that the engine was read y for 17
long distance travelling. With fi ve weeks to go, we
jacked up the bodywork with a bloke who owned a haps the approach was wrong.
small garage down by the A WTC- hand y to check After four days in Faro we left for L agos with
on at dinner time and during NAAFI breaks because
our two companions and that is where we had ou r
we were on Adventure Training at the time. When little shock; it was Friday, and very hot; the three of
all was fini shed it had cost us £303: £90 for the car ; us were just s leeping under a tree when Nick came
£ 145 for bodywork; £30 welding, and £ 14 for a running down the road and said: "You 'd never guess,
new exhaust. The rest was spent on odds and ends. the beaches down there arc all starks!" You can
im ag ine our reaction ; up and away we wen t and had
But that wasn' t the end of our money problems; to sca le a cliff to get there. Neville nearl y had a fit
we had to fork out fo r the fare to Spain (£ 150). when he saw three birds wa lk ri ght past him.
However, anothe r bloke in our Company as ked if he
could come with us and we agreed because that would Time was closing on us and we had to start
help out with our petro l and so on. m aking our way back. We travelled back to Cadiz on
a different route staying th at night in a hostel. At
The next three days were spent booking on the the British "Embassy at Seville, Neville phoned hi s
M on's Ca lpe to T angiers and the Spanish boat to bank in Engl and and they let him have a further £30.
Algeciras and on Sunday 24 Sept ., at 0 830 hours, There were onl y three days left before we had to
we left South Barracks and arri ved in Spain at 1630 be back into the o ld routine, so we decided that it
hrs. After passing through customs, we were ready to would be best to go back to Algeciras and have day
hit the road; well we thought we were. When one trips from there. When we cou ldn' t find places to stay,
mile up the road, our r adia tor blew up on us ! After we had to sleep in the car and on our las t day we went
trying to ex plain that we wanted a new radi ator, it to L a-Linea- to the Spanish side of the border-
took 48 hours to get one and then another hour to and that was an ex peri ence.
put in in! We sai d goodbye to Spain and m ade our way
The first night we slept in the car; it was a bit to T angi er ; this was on 7 October which was Simmons
birthd ay. W e were stuck in T angie r for a day and a
rough but we got over it wi th a bottle of Vodka . night so, to enab le us to get some money to celebrate,
On the third day we set out fo r Cadiz but, on Simmons so ld hi s camera and Toulson his best shoes.
We got 20 D erams for these (about £2.50) and with
the way through the town centre, the exhaust fell that we bought rolls and cheese and a bottle of Coke
off. Simmons got under the car to put the thing back to go with the half bottle of Vodka we found in the
on; Dave Toulson stood on the roadside monking li ke back of the car, to ce lebr ate the end of a fantas tic
holiday.
a goodun and swea ring at the car, and I just sa t
there in amazement. Simmons fixed the exhaus t (with WE , THE LIMBLESS He lp BLESMA, please.
our help) and then we had something to eat and We need money desp:r-
drink before setting off for Sevi lle. On arrival it LOOK TO YOU FOR ately. And , we promiSe
took us a good two hours to find a camping site where you , not a penny of it
we pitched out tent; here we had something to ca t HELP will be wasted .
and then we wen t out to the bar in the camp where
we met a coach- load from Ausliey, got talking to We come from both Donations and informa-
them and had a good time. Neville fe ll in the fountain world wars. We come tion : Majo r The Earl of
and was put to bed. Next morning we woke up and from Kenya, Malaya , Ancaster, KCVO, TD ..
found we'd no money-not even enough to pay the Aden, Cyprus . . and from Midland Bank Limited, 60
camp site- so we got in the car with just enough Ulster. From keeping the West Smithfield, Lond on
petro l to get us to town . We decided to go to the ECIA 9DX.
British Embassy to see if we could get some money peace no le ss than from
and after telling them our trouble, they were amazed.
We couldn 't get through to our Bank, so the bloke war we limbless look to
said that he wou ld get in touch with Brig. D awson . you for help .
Nevi lle: "Wwwe ll, sssir, I'm Pte. Ncville of the And you can help , by
Quun's er sorr y Queen's sssir", and after he had helping our A ssociation .
calmed down he eventually spat out what we wanted BLESMA (the British
and the Brigadier agreed. limbless Ex - Service
Men's Association) looks
We went back to the camp site to celebrate and after the limbless from
during the evening, met up with a couple of hitch- all the Services. It helps,
hikers, Nick and Ann. We said we were going to with advice and encour-
Portugal the next morning; one thing lead to another, agement, to ove rcome
we arranged to give them a lift and the next morning the shock of losing arms,
we packed up and left with Nick and Ann. or legs or an eye. lt sees
that red-tape does not
After travelling all day, our first stop was Faro, stand in the way of the
where we pitched up and went to taste the wine. The right entitlement to pen -
five of us had a big mea l of steak and chips and all sion. And , for the se-
the other local stuff the y put on it. Nevi lle's idea verely handicapped and
was to select the first bottle of local wine but from the elderly, it provi des
then on, it was Red, Whi te, Sweet and Dry into the Residential Homes where
ear ly hours of the mornin g; once again, Neville was they can live in peac e
so drunk that Simmons had to go back to the Bat- and dign ity.
mobile and pick him up. At about 0345 hrs., myse lf
and Toulson dragged Nevi lle out of the car and put British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association
him in his bag once again . After that, we decided
to try out our English charm on two Spanish birds, 'GIVE TO THOSE WHO GAVE-PLEASE'
using sign language, but they told us to leave; per-
18
EX. "SPRING RUN VI" a fi at plain which, shimmering in the hea t, event ually
by Lt. N. A. M . Wright lead to the Sahara . After the confines of Gibral tar, to
get away from It all was worth the sweat and tears.
Returning to our base camp, we broke o ut some
This was the name of the sixth trip the Battalion of our duty-free allowance and the next day consisted
organised to sightsee around M orocco. The basic
of a lie-in, cold bath in a mountain strea m, and
format was two Safari Landrovers ( one to be collected generally enjoying doing nothing.
in Tangier ) and 15 men with " carte blanche" to do
.. The next morning we set off for Imlil, through
whatever they wanted for rwo weeks in North Africa.
S1d1-Charamouche ( where again quantities of mint
Two weeks before we left, A Coy. offices looked tea were taken ) and back to the other group, whose
like a CQMS store: Compo piled to the ceiling;
tales we re longer than our arms. H ere we spent the
twent y pai rs of assorted climbing boots; quilted
next few days . sightseeing while the second group,
jackets and breeches spilling out of boxes, not to under Pte. Nev1lle, ( Sgt. Bradley ha ving become ill )
mention the mobile kitchen which appeared with Sgt. followed in our tracks. '
Bradley the expedition ZIC, ( he kept a watchful eye
on me, it being on his signature). . At last we headed north, sta ying one night out-
Side Asm for a party, and, on return to Gibraltar
H aving been given last minute instructions ( and everyo ne felt their blisters but better for the experience:
warnings), we packed up and set off on the ferry
to T angier on 6 Jul y, hopefully leaving all fireworks
behind us. W e picked up the other Landrover, headed AMPHIBIOUS TRAINING WITH
south, and hav ing dri ven all da y-through Raba t and SUBMARINES
Casablanca-we stopped at about 0300 hrs. 100 km .
north of M arrackesh; here everybody stretched out in by 2Lt. M. S. Glenister
their sleeping bags by the side of the road.
Five soldiers from B Coy. had the good fortune
Arising at 0700, we moved to M arrakesh where to spend a days training with the SBS, ending with
launching and recover y practices on HMS Osiris.
we picked up fresh provisions, trouble, and an amazing
The first half of the morning was spent at Coa ling
amount of junk. We arrived in Imlil at 1300 hrs. ; Island where we were taught paddling, and stowing
here the road ends and, from here on, everything is kit in a large infl atable dinghy; we then progressed
onto the 20ft. rigid raider, where Cpl. Martin, behind
carried on foot or by mule. Having arranged accom- the wheel, tried to capsize us.
modation and guides, Prentice and I left Sgt. In the afternoon the rea l work began with a
demonstration on HMS Osiris. The Marines showed
Bradley to sort things out and went to visit the us how to pass deflated dinghies and equipment up
next vi llage up the va lley some 8 km . and a few through the forward hatch and erect them on deck,
screwing the engines on after the dinghies were
thousand feet above us. The scenery was stupendous inflated.
and we returned to Imlil tired but happ y. Osiris slipped at 1630 hrs., headed into the
Mediterranean and 12 miles from Gibraltar, we sub-
We then divided into two groups, following merged and prepared for a daylight launching and
recovery rehearsa l. As f ar as the crew was concerned,
separate programmes : one group was in the mountains we were "excess baggage" and were relegated to the
small enclosure by the torpedo tubes. The Marines
for four days whilst the other spent the time sight- were the first on deck-seconds afte r the submarine
had surfaced-and the equipment was passed up after
seeing in and around Marrakesh. M y group was first them . Five minutes late r we were hustled up, clutching
our weapons. With a calm sea, we had no problem
up the mountains and this meant 0400 hrs. start. standing on the casing and when all was ready, we
Although the nights were cold, the days were ex- were given the thumbs up to board the dinghies. We
tremely hot with temperatures sometimes well over clipped on our weapons, grabbed a paddle and waited
100 '. for the doors and hatches to be shut and for the
submarine to submerge.
Loaded like mules we climbed to the village
Sidi-Charamouche, arriving there by 0800 hrs. for ~ Anyone who has sat on the casing of a submarine
in a small dinghy will appreciate the feeling of utter
very welcome break. After a good rest, and ga llons helplessness as the ballas t tanks are blown and the
submarine dives. W e padd led furiously to clear the
of mint tea, Prentice decided to help locals with the wake of the disappearing submarine and when it had
building of a bridge over a stream which, during gone we practiced our paddling for a few minutes
before going straight into the recovery drills.
the last years melt, had swollen so much that it had
The principles involved in the recovery of a
carried the previous one away. W e soon got into the beach landing party are basically as follows: On
completion of the patrol or operation, the party boards
swing of it, bringing boulders down from the mountain its dinghies and paddles out to meet the submarine.
About 600m. out, a line is attached to the two dinghies
by chain-gang and (:athering gravel from the freez ing and a beacon put into the water. The submarine (still
stream bed for their m1x of Portland "blue circle". submerged) " homes in" on the beacon, passes between
After the physical effort, we were privileged to watch the dinghies and, with the periscope up, catches the
the sacrificial slaughter of about 20 animals for the (continued on page 19 )
festi va l they were holding that night. They asked us
to stay but I refu sed, to the acco mpaniment of moans
and pleas to press on in the heat of the afternoon.
. We were now moving very slowly and eventuall y
arnved at the bottom of Toubkal (our object ive for
the trip ) in the ea rly evening, with H enley suffering
from hea t exhaustion and finding it hard even to
take water. Tents were pitched and, by 1900 hrs.,
the sound of snoring shattered the still night air.
Next morning was again an early start; leaving
Henley behind, we started up the first slope of Toubkal
(4165 m. ). It was tough going after a da y of hard
work and we began to slow up as we neared the
summit, the air becoming very much thinner; Cpl.
C ull inane felt he was due for a hea rt attack ! Once
on the summit the view was fant as tic; to the south
19
( COIIIiiiii Cd {>'OIIl page / 8) as the subm arine was submerging, the forward dinghy
was washed off by a large wave leaving the second
line; it then tows the dinghies to a safe distance still on board. The swe ll was about 6ft. with waves
crashi ng down onto the submarine with great force
where recovery takes place. and the second craft was also washed off; the crew
The dinghi es then move to a position above the padd led like slaves to join up with the other dinghy.
casi ng and the submarine surfaces. The recovery sequence began, except tha t the
Our exerci se went according to plan, except that engi nes were started immediately since the padd ling
was ineffecti ve; anyway, we were needed to bail water
the subm arine surfaced too rapid ly and onl y one out. After ten minutes-no submarine ! We began to
dinghy man aged to mount the casi ng . The sub's Cap- look about anxiously; after twenty, we showed li gh t
tain seemed unperturbed and sank six feet into the and radioed the F leet T ender which was monitoring
water but the soldie rs on the first dinghy were uot us a mi le as tern, acting as safety boat.. Eventu all y
hap py havin g to tread wa ter! it came, picked up five cold, wet Infanteers and gave
us hot tea and dry blankets. T en minutes later, the
After drying out we had dinner-the men in the subm arine surfaced and confirmed our fears- there
after mess and I in the wardroom (stri ctly chewing- was a techni ca l prob lem on board . The sea by thi
time was too rough to attempt a recovery. We then
room onl y !) began to crawl back to Gibra ltar at abo ut 4 knots
After dinner we began our night rehearsals in since we were still safety boat for the two dinghies
as it had been too da ngerous even to take them onto
preparation fo r a beach landing. To boost our morale the T ender . We never did carr y out our beach landi ng !
the Captain informed us: " the weather is blowing
up- but don't worr y" !
Once again the subma rine su rfaced and the
M arines began asse mbling the dinghies. When we got
on the casing, it was a matter of seconds before we
were soaked to the skin and the sea was quite choppy-,
ve rgin3 on the sui cid al ! We got into the dinghies and
***
THE BATTALION BOXING TEAM
Back row (I .to r.): Pte. Aetheris, Sgt. Sturgeon (Centre row ): Pte. Brenton, L / Cpls. Rhodes,
(trainer) , L / Cpl. Bames, Pte. Jackson, C apt. Johnston and Smith (01), Cpl. Friday, Ptes. Gerald
Pearson, (manager), L / Cpl. Schooling, Sgt.
and Barton
Knowles, Pte. Mayers ( Front row ): Cpl. Findlay, Ptes. McNeil, Deane,
Murray and Lewis
1. The Battalion says farewell to Lt.-Col. Champion 21
2. C / Sgt. Rearden with The Keys and escort, on
their way to lock the Landport Gate Besides being a first ra te soldier, intell igent, dili-
3. Drum Major Lively leads the Band and Drums gent, loya l, humorous an d understand ing, h e wa s th e
epitome of the fami ly ma n, the adored hu sband of
04. into Convent Square M a ureen a nd much-loved fa ther of K a ren a nd Cind y.
Cpl. Anthony and Ptes. C able, Matthews and Brian met M aureen in T eddi ngton ; they p la yed to-
5. gether as chi ldren, we nt to school together a nd m a rr ied
6. Ryan on Submarine training in 1957, two yea rs a fter Bria n joined the Arm y. Be-
HE inspects the Guard of Honour on his arrival cause their marriage was as firm as the very rock
7. The Queen's Birthday Parade-the escort moving above us, the sudden dea th of Brian has been a ll the
more keen Iy felt.
forward to collect the Colours
Capt. Whithouse leads the NCOs' Cadre, on their O n a grey day, when prob lem s appea red insu r-
moun table, I wo uld often leave m y offi ce a n d d rop
trial parade in on the Q M 's D ept . to find Brian 's sta ff we ll or-
gan ised, ha ppy, working positively and wh en n ecessa ry
CAPT. BRIAN MORRIS (but on ly then), wor kin g long after hours. I n their
midst was Brian- cool, confi dent a nd chee rful-a
-AN APPRECIATION friend who could put my disasters into perspective
wh ilst p lac ing the credit for his own man y successes
by Maj. R. W. Acworth alwa ys elsewhere tha n w ith himself. To me h e was a
trusted lieutenant and w ise confidant ; to us a ll he
A ll members of the R eg iment were shocked to was the very example of a fine soldier, a leader, a
hear of the death of Brian M orris in M ay this yea r. gen tleman and a f riend .
M aureen, his widow, ver y kind ly presented us wi th a
cup in h is memor y which w ill be kn own as the Br ia n W e mou rn hi m grievously. W e o ff er our love,
M orris Trophy an d will be awarded to the company our pra ye rs and our heart felt sympa th y to his la rge
winning the Inter-Compan y basketball competition . and lovin g famil y, p art icu la rl y to M aureen, to K a ren
and to C ind y.
As a tri bute to h is memory we reprint the text
of an add ress g iven b y Lt.-Col. C . G. C ham pion at **
Capt. M orris's memorial service in the K ing's Ch apel
G ibraltar on T h ursday 18 M a y. C / Sgt. Reardon returns The Keys to Brig. A . S .
Stepto, MBE, outside the Convent
" It was in 1968 that I first met Brian when he
was a C ompan y Sergeant M a jor in the 3rd Bn . at
L emgo, and I h ave been fortunate to serve with him
for much of the time ever since ; I very soon came to
wish that I h ad known h im earlier, as frien ds and
colleagues such as h e are not found too often .
Brian M a rden M orr is was born on 22 A pr il 1936
at Isleworth, Middlesex. H e, with his severa l brothers
and sisters, went to school in T eddi ngton where he
excelled at box ing and cri cket. H e enlisted in 1955
at Guildford into The Queen 's Royal Regt., and com-
pleted his basic tra ining at the Buff s' D epot in
Canterbury. H e served all over the wo rl d, incl udi ng
a tour in M alaya dur ing the emergency, rising stead ily
through the ra nks and servin g w ith d istinct ion as
Drum M a jor before transferrin g back to duty in
1967, becoming successively, in the 3rd Bn ., CS M of
B Coy., RQMS and, in 1970, R eg imenta l Sergeant
M ajor.
Brian was commissioned in 1972, joining the 2nd
Bn ., then in W erl , firstl y as MTO an d then Compa ny
2IC of Support Coy. in the C reggan, and of A Coy.
in G ermany. In 1974 he was promoted Capta in
and appointed Quartermaster in 1976, serving the
Battalion-always a dm irab ly-in Belize, England ,
Belfast a nd latterl y here in G ibra ltar.
H e was an out standing soldier an d wo uld surely
have become, had he lived, a staff Quartermaster,
reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel -zenith of the
Quartermaster Commission. T estimony to his ex -
cellence are th e awa rds made to h im: The L ong S er-
vice and G ood Conduct M eda l ; Officer of the O rder
of the C rown of the Netherlan ds; Gold M ed al, O rder
of th e H ouse of O range; G enera l S erv ice M edal with
the clasps ' M a laya' and ' Northern Ireland'; and The
Queen 's Silve r Ju bilee M eda l.
2L.
Acknowledgements
The Editor acknow ledges with thanks receipt of
the following publications :
The Globe and L aurel, M ay/ J une/ july/ Aug., and
Sep./Oct. '78 ;
SSAFA N ews, Summer '78;
RBLJ, Jul.- Nov. '78 incl. ;
Legion ( Ca nada ) Jun. to O ct. '78 incl .
Blesmag Spring, Summer and Autumn '78 ;
The Die-Hards, J un . '78;
" Braganza" Nos. 1 and 2;
The 2nd Fusiliers (Londonderry Aug ., Sep. and Oct.,
' 78);
The Cadet Journal and G azette, Aug. ' 78 ;
Queens Surreys Assn. Newsletter, Nov. ' 78;
The Silver Bugle, Autumn '7 8.
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The 3rd Battalion
General tactics cadre for J N C Os mai nl y oriented towards
counterinsurgency but also designed as a refresher
AS recorded in the last issue of the J ournal, cadre for defensive tactics in the North W est Euro-
the Banali on moved into Connaught Bar- pean setting. The fina l exercise las ted a week in fa irl y
unpleasant weather and ended with a forced march
racks, D over, in January. The Barracks are from Canterbury to Dover. On 13 Ju ne, a contingent
unde r OC B Coy., M a j. Consta nti ne, lined the streets
relatively modern and comfortable although they of London for a State Visit by the President of
Ru mania and later in the month, each Compan y had
occupy an ancient military site, practically be- a 4 8 hour exercise as an introduction to our ma in
operationa l role as part of the Field Force. A Coy's
neath the rampans of Dover Castle and with exercise involved an 80 km. forced march along the
commanding views over the town, the harbour South D owns W ay .
and the Channel. M ost members of the Battalion wi ll probably
remember our exercise in C anada as the highlight of
W e share our hill with the Duke of Yorks the year ; the wide variety of activities experienced
Royal Militar y School and the new A2 D over to by most is described elsewhere but it is true to say
Canterbury road which enables the cross-channel that the determined soldier, from ea rl y J uly to mid-
motorist to avoid the town. Anyone driving home from August, could have seen the finals of the
the Continent via D over must almost pass our gate. Commonwealth Games in Edmonton ; visited the USA ;
Over 200 new quarters have just been built beside worked on a Canad ian farm ; wa ter-skied; canoed;
our playi ng fi elds and in future the majority of the barbecued; cl imbed a mountain in the R ock ies; fi shed
families will be able to live within walking distance for pike and trout; seen a bear, a deer, a skunk, a
of the Barracks rather than be di vided between Can- coyote and possibly a timber wolf, and would q uite
terburv and Shomcliffe as the y are now. likely have been bitten by a hornet. H e wo uld cer-
tainly have been hot, cold, soaked, parched and been
The Battalion assumed its operational role as bitten severely by mosquitos wh ile wa tching the
pan of 6th Field F orce on 15 June this yea r ; most Northern Lights. H e will also have eaten some fairly
of the Force's major units, as well as its H eadquarters, massive steaks . In between all this he will have
are centred on A ldershot. W e are known to them as achieved some of the best training ava ilable any-
"the Army of the East" and it is true to say that where. W e were fortunate to h ave our affili ated battery,
the twin bottle-necks of present day paperwork and 88 (Arakan) Bty. with us as well as a detachment of
the A25-that historic example of urban road plan- 3 helicopters from 656 Sqn . AAC both of wh ich
ning-do make Aldershot seem to be very far away. contributed enormously to our training. We also had
the pleasure of having attached to us a composite
Apart from the major events such as overseas platoon from 2 QUEENS under C / Sgt. Streeter as
exercises and N onhem Ireland tours, as a 6th F ield well as several NCO s and soldiers from 5 QUEENS
Force battalion, we do a great deal of training away and 6/ 7 Q UEEN S and two potent ial officers. W e
from barrac ks. It is not uncommon for indi viduals used our training time mainly to prepa re for E x.
who are doing specialist courses to find themselves " Bold G uard" in which we were to pract ice the 6th
away from home for nine months and more out of Field F orce role to reinforce NAT O and-the ma in
the twelve . H owever, most people, in common with ad vantage derived from our being able to use Jive
all infanteers, are used to this but the tolerance and ammunition. Whilst in Canada, we were visited by
good humour of the families towards this unceasing the British High Commissioner to Ottawa, Si r J ohn
turbulence is very gratifying . Being stationed in South Ford; C- in-C U KLF, Gen . Sir John A rcher, and
East England ha s a settling influence on most of us 6th Field F orce Commander, Bri g. G r ay.
and the idea of promoting H owe Barracks as a per-
manent stat ion for the R egiment is worth pursuing On our return, we enj oyed 3 weeks summer leave,
apart from those of the R ea r P arty and th e "Bold
with determination . Guard " Adva nce P arty who had to pack up and
move to Schleswig H olstein ; the M ain Body fo llowed
M ajor ba ttalion events are highlighted in the a da y or two after leave ended. The Exercise's aim was
an icles which follow; they show, that most of our to practice a concept for using an ai rportable force
activities, as well as being beneficial militaril y, have in mechanized wa rfare. The F ield Force defensive
also been enj oyable and even the weather on Ex. position, of which the Battalion formed the central
"Bold Guard ", had its sunn y moments. Albuhera element, was developed as a powerful 11bas tion" in
D ay was celebrated with the usual round of potted close count ry around wh ich the mechanized battle
sports, rich food and a quantity of booze . (The men raged. It is seldom that an entire battle group is able
of Albuhera would have been drowned by the beer to go so completely unde rground and we p roved tha t
in which they have been remembered !) The Glorious when it is handled correctl y, a non-mechanized force
F irst of June cricket match was, unhappily, rai ned off can successfull y oppose a preponde rantl y armoured
but the Beating of R etreat wa s generally considered enemy; the proof of this was that the enemy, con-
to be among the best the Battalion has presented sisting ma inl y of German armoured formations,
in recent yea rs. The mass ive emplacements of the conspicuously avo ided attacking our posit ion .
18th centur y F ort Burgoyne provided an impressive
setting both acco ustically and visually, the dark, heavy
walls magnifying the sound and contrasting with the
bright scarlet of the Band and Drums.
June was spent preparing fo r the overseas
exercise in Canada and Training W ing also ran a
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was the fall ing plates; out of 64 teams, the wi nners
were one from A Coy. led by Sgt. R od ziewicz, who
had to run down the shingle fi ve times and thoroughl y
deserved their bottle of cham pagne. Finall y ( dare we
mention it ), the O ffi cers won the inter-rank pistol
competit ion although the Priva tes' team produced the
individual winner in Pte. Sackey of C Coy.
During the latter half of O ctober most of the
Batta lion prepared for a S .E . District I.S. Exercise
involving vehicle and heli copter p atrolling while at the
same time we rehearsed for a R oyal Guard of H onour
for HRH The Prince of W ales who was to be given
the Freedom of The C ity of Canterbury. M eanwhile
C Coy. spent a week at Stanford PTA providing
enemy for I Grenadier G uards who are trai ning for
their forthcoming roulement tour as our own pre-
decesso rs in South Armagh. C urrentl y there are
potential NCO s, signals, mortar and dri ving cadres
underwa y; the A/ Tk. PI. has begun its conve rsion to
the MILA N guided missiles and the R ecce PI. is
re-forming as the C lose Observation PI. in readiness
for N . Ireland next Spring. W e have also had the
pleasure of playi ng " host" to a 6/7 QUEENS re-
cruits cadre. Finally all companies have been
conducting up -grading and fitn ess training.
Inevitably, our thoughts turn towards our tour in
South Armag h due to begin in ea rl y March 1979;
alrea dy the courses have started and planning for the
considerable reorganisations necessary within the
Battalion is well advanced. H owever, at the time of
writing, we still have to undertake a major 6th Field
Force exercise on S alisbury Plain in D ecember based
on our present operational role; we will face an
"enemy" including elements of the 2nd Bn . fl own
over from Gibraltar.
As can be seen, the Battalion is in the m iddle of
a very busy period and the pressure is being felt
EX. "BOLD GUARD" mostly in two ways-in family and mess life, and in ·t
sport . G one are the days when sport was played on
(Top): The RSM and Adjutant resigned to the most afternoons and "gladiators" trained for Arm y
thought of 3 more days and a poor weather forecast! cup events. Battalion teams still exist, playing friendl y
matches on W ednesdays and Frida ys and recentl y,
the boxing team drew in a match against a powerful
(Lower): Pte. Beard-as usual! "Not bad; now local team for a troph y sponsored by C ourage
let's see the other side" Breweries. Individual sports are also surviving: Ang-
ling is well supported, as are golf, sailing and squash
and despite the lack of time, the Battalion is happy
to be busy. H aving an operational role; training hard
at home and overseas, and to be preparing for a tour
in Ulster's li veliest corner makes for very
Almost as soon as we returned from BAOR, we worthwhile life.
launched into our annual Skill-at-Arms fortnight on
H ythe ranges except for the M ortar PI. wh ich went Top left: Junior NCOs Cadre-(!. to r.): L / Cpls.
to N etheravon, distinguishing itself by coming out top Hoddinott, King and Greenhaigh with Sgt.
m the UKLF M ortar concentration . At Hythe, 530 Pollington's '0' group
soldiers completed their annual personal and alter- Top right: Bn. Shooring Comp.-Pte. Flynn (B Coy.)
native weapon tests of which 494 passed in both receives his prize as SMG Champion Shot, from
( 94 %). On the fin al day a series of competitions Mrs. Anderson
Centre left: The
II were held: 6 PI. won the inter-platoon team troph y RSM holding the Courage Trophy ~
for which 18 members of each had to fire a variety
'I after the friendly Boxing match against the Deal and
of platoon weapons; the Corps of Drums were runners-
Walmer Club
up . The SLR champion shot was C / Sgt. Gill of the
I T~a ining team, while the champion yo ung soldier 's Centre right: L/ Cpl. Howes in action during the
pnze was drawn berween Pte. Bilham of A Coy. and match
I Pte. M arshal! of C. The individual GPMG winner Bottom left: Albuhera Day 1978 (Dover Castle
was Pte. Cook of C Coy. and in the SMG, the highest Church in the background)
scorer was Pte. Flynn of C Coy. and the champion Bottom right: 2/ Lt. Neil Morris, 2nd/ 4th Royal
young soldier was Pte. Goldberg, ACC of HQ Coy. Australian Regt. on 3-month attachment to the Bn.
The fin al competition-as usual the most popular -
26 Initially, he won the sympathy of h is platoon by
being the one who fe lt the cold most on " Bold
Maj. Cowing ( our former 2IC ) left, on the Gu ard "; gradually he won their support as they grew
Glorious First of June, on posting to 5 UDR ; a to understand his English and finally won their hearts
month later, the RSM, WO ! M arshal!, received his when he led hi s team in the semi-finals of the falling
commission and went to the 1st Bn. as MTO ; his plates competition-despi te the obstacle of his splendid
replacement is WO 1 Fisher, recently RSM of 7 hat! ( I t is now up for auction and expected to fetch
R. ANGLIAN. At the same time Bandmaster Wood a significant price) .
left to take over a staff band at the Armoured Corps
Centre, Bovington and was replaced by Bandma ster Finally, a brief report on our Roya l Guard of
Davis. Band Sgt.-Major Beechey has retired and so Honou r which was mounted for The Prince of Wales
have S/ Sgt . Nicholson (REME ) and C/ Sgt. Russell. outside the West Gate T owers in Canterbury on 9
TQMS Oakley who has been promoted to RSM of Nov. when His Roya l Highness received the Freedom
15 CTT has been replaced by TQMS Whalley, late of The City: Major Constantine (our resident cere-
CSM of C Coy. W02 Aylward, after 2 very successful monia l expert ) commanded the Guard (he also
years as RSO (which included the MBE for his comma nded the detachment which lined the streets
work in Belize) has been appointed RSM of 2 in London during the State Vi sit of the Rum anian
QUEENS . CSM Booth of A Coy. has been posted President as well as our representative detachment at
to 5 QUEENS (H astings Company) and C/ Sgt. the Ceremony of Remembrance in D over on 12
Davies (CQMS A Coy.) was promoted W02 on Nov.) The Guard, together with the Band (augmented
posting to command a recruit platoon at the D epot. for the occa sion by five bandsmen from the D epot)
Other senior people who have left are M aj. Charter and Drums exercised our right as a Regiment to march
(C Coy. ) to Staff College; Capt. Russell ( IO ) to the through the C ity with bayonets fix ed and Colours
Royal Brunei M alay Regt. as a Company Commander; fl ying before receiving Prince C harles with a fanfdrc
2/Lt. Barr to the Depot; C/ Sgt. Pitchforth (A Coy. and ro yal salute. After the inspection, the Commanding
CQMS ) who has joined the SAS; Sgt . Milborrow to Officer and Ad jutant were presented to the Pnnce
l]LB ; Sgt. Dixon (whose line beard was saved when and they, together with the RSM, attended the civ ic
he was posted to the School of Infantry as Assault lunch in his honour at which L/ C pl. Cooper of the
Pioneer Platoon Sergeant ), and Sgt. Petty to H'-2 2 Band played an !I th centu ry horn belonging to the
D iv. as Sergeants' M ess Ca terer. City, the first time it had been success fully used
within living memory.
This summary would not be complete without a
brief mention of 2/ Lt. Neil Morris of 2/ 4 Roya l
Australian Regt. who is attached for 3 months.
..
Change of RSMs and Bandmasters June '78-(1. to r.) : Maj. G ybbon-Monypenny, WOl Fisher, W01
Davis, W01 Wood, W01 Marshall, Capt. Salmon, Mrs. Marshal, Mrs. Anderson and Lt.-Col. Anderson.
27
SOLDIER OF THE QUEENS?-WELL ALMOST known as Dmr. Sutton ) We survived on milk shakes
and "Mr. Submarines", and amused ourselves at the
by Paul Cordcn cinema and at a pool and billiards club.
Then it was back to Dover, hand in kit, and off
lt would take a complete edi tion of this journal home. During my visit I not only gained valuable
experience and was given useful tips for the future,
10 relate all that I did and saw in the five weeks I but I also h ad a tremendously enjoyable time thanks
was with the Battalion on Ex. " P ond Jump" so I to all those who organised the trip and the kindness,
hospitality and ( at times) patience I received from
would like to share just a few of th e many memories everyone. I am especiall y grateful to Lt. Wilby, 2
PI. and of course to the Drum-Major and the Drum-
I retain. mers, with whom I spent most of m y time and who
Attached to th e Drums PI. , I first met them on
the way to the Rockies, when they gave me the oppor-
tunit y to pla y "hunt the camera ". I didn't stand a looked after me so well.
chance; they had thrown it (a long with m y lunch ) into
the trash bin at Cheap Charlie's! Fortunately it was
recovered the nex t day, thanks to Cpl. Tilley.
The Rockies were quite an experience. Fortified
by PRI rip-off beer, and with PRI rip-off rucksacks, EXERCISE "HARD PUSH"
we set off. Sometimes we had to cross plains of
matted grass floating on a layer of stagnant water,
which undulated with each step. The beauty was
exemplified by the magnificent Rub y Falls ( below by L / Cpl. Jock McLaughlan
which we "bashered-up") and the towering, slab-like
peaks above the Falls which we climbed the next 'Tbis was an inter-section end urance competition
day. This was when I learnt about "an enjoyable
ramble" Army-style-13 hours marching! Despite a within A Coy., the ai m of which was for each section
fa st-flowing river and a cloud-burst, we enjoyed a to complete a route of 80 km . as quickly as possible
variety of views which made it all worthwhi le. Back with all the original starting soldiers and equipment
at Base Camp, to general amusement, the Drummers
stripped me down to the grots and paraded me around. as intact as possible; a section would have time
points added for route deviation or if a member of
I then joined Lt. Wilby (and 2 PI. ) for military the section dropped out. There were a total of five
training, working alongside (amongst other things) a check points, and sections started from Eastbourne
spider, a camel, a dog, a worm, and even a doughnut
at ! hour intervals; a Gazelle helicopter was tasked
(amazing what they get in uniform these days!)
to overlook the proceedings.
After some shakedown training we did a platoon The Company 2IC, Lt . Edwards, gave Section
attack! I was No. 2 on the 84 with Pte. Na sh (am Commanders a total of five maps to join together
l responsible for his discharge by purchase?!) and horizontally, which confirmed our worst fears-there
when Pte. Taylor tried to mask the flanking attack were five check points starting from the Golf Course
in Eastbourne. We started with a full section con-
with smoke he started a couple of bush fires, giving
sisting of Section Commander, Cpl. Phillips; 2IC
me the chance to try my hand at fire-fighting-some-
( myself ); R adio Op ., Pte. Palmer; GPMG, Pte.
thing new.
At the ranges, I was introduced to the delights Reddick ; Ptes. Collier, Anger and }ones.
of "area cleaning" by Sgt. "Dog-end, sir" Moss, After a few kilometres, we discovered we were
whose vocal chords must be like Geoff Capes's biceps.
going along the wrong way but eventually arrived at
I found the night-firing demonstration by the Check Point One, confident that we were doing well
( Anti-Tank PI. spectacularly impress ive as the · trcl on time ( until CSM Jenkin son told us that we were
targets were taken out quickly and accurately by the second to las t through! ) Obviously, we had to im-
Combats, glowing red hot from the heat generated
prove on this as we had started off second.
by the HESH rounds.
As the Drum-Major sa id; "It makes you thanl:- When we left this Check Point it was dark,
windy and raining and we found we h ad lost our way
ful you're not a Tankie". again; we were head ing up a motorway. We heard a
The AAC were next to give us a show: three at Landrov-er but were too slow to avoid Lt. Edwards
who promptly added 40 points to our time for route
a time, we were subj ected to a no-holds-barred flying
display, the highlight of wh ich was . a stomach- deviation .
churning vertical nose-dive. It was so good I went
back for more ( No, Colour, I am not talking about At about 0600 hrs. we arrived at Check Point
your food! ) 2 whe re Collier and Anger dropped out and cost us
200 extra points. W e quickly "brewed-up " before
The long hours of night sentry duty during the
making for Check Point 3, 24 km . away. At this
Battalion exercise were made worth-while by the
stage the lads were wet through and very tired and
Northern Lights. On one night in particular, there
although we knew we could not now win the Cham-
was the most incredibl y awe-inspiring display- a huge
pion Section Shield, we had to fini sh, come what may.
white flickering circle formed above me, tinted with
green and mauve; really quite enchanting. On the way to Check Point 3 we saw Cpl.
The most exciting period of the battle was 2 Bowdrey's Section; they had started out last but
eventually won the shield.
Platoon 's U.S. Cavalry-style charges to relieve 3 PI.
which nearly escalated into the rea l thing, especiall y At the 3rd Check Point we had a compulsory
when the enemy tried to run us down with their one hour break for lunch and the medics, complete
with "Meat Waggon", anended to our feet; Cpl.
vehicles. Phillip's and Pte. Palmer's were very bad but tn<Y
Finally it was R and R and I spent a very managed to drag themselves to Check Point 4.
enjoyable three days in Edmonton with L / Cpl. Stuart,
Dmr. Blue and the "Honey Monster" (sometimes
28 away. " It woul dn't h appen to us, surely? " It did
and an important scientific discovery was made~
From here we were down to three men but our
morale had been given an uplift (because the fi nish bea rs have a great ap petite for compo; the climbing
was only 15 kms. away) and we forced ourselves to
bash on. Looking up, we saw Lt. Edwards watchi ng expedition ( eo-located wi th us) fo und th is out when
us aga in from his "chopper"- No Comment!
a bear ripped its way in to their stores one night; and
As we dragged ourselves along the fi nal leg, we
passed a num ber of people actually walk ing fo r I found out, when I came across a bear sitting at
pleasure and they told us that the fini sh ing point,
with ambulance, landrovers, 4-tonners and a heli- our table eating my compo pack ! ( I didn't argue
copter, were just over the hill. W e almost fell into the
hands of the medics, who promptly produced huge and, as there were no comp lain ts about the wine 1
syringes for our feet. We had " fin ished". retired to the cab of the 4 Tonner ).
'
***
The next day we sorted out our canoes and set
EXERCISE "ROCKY WASH", 1978 off for . the M iette Ri ver practice before undertaking
the mam exped ition-to ca noe the A thabasca River
by Lt. Paul Edwards which bega n as a trickle at the foot of the Ath abasc~
Glacier (a branch of the Columbia icefi eld ) before
Ex tract from a short couversatiou cwo weeks be- becoming a raging torrent. On arrival at the entry
f ore leavi11 g f or Can ada: point, a volunteer joined us ( L / C pl. D olan, REME )
sharing the dr iving with L / Cpl. Payne and Cpl
First (and r ather more senior) speaker : " The
CO would like us to mount a Canoeing E xpedition Thorn, and the expedi tion set off in moderate water;
in Canada at the end of our training out there".
we came ac ross many log jams and the occasional
Second speaker: " What are you looking at me spate of shallow but rather exciting rapids. H ere, our
for ?"
volunteer met his "Waterloo'' when his ca noe capsized)
First speaker : " Because you are the Canoeing wedging itself sideways in t he rapids. L uckil y we all
Officer". managed to pull into the side and help, although it
was a m ajor operation to dislodge the canoe with
S econd speaker: " Oh, OK". such a tremendous we ight of fast water working against
First speaker : " It would be a good idea if you us. At this point L / Cpl. D olan, a fairly able canoeist,
made it an expedition for experienced canoeists-in left us.
the Rockies perhaps".
Second speaker : "But that means r ather fast W e continued in high spirits until we entered a
moving White W ater". deceptive ly dangerous part of the river; what had
First speaker : " Yes" . looked like fairly tame rapids t urned out to be an
Second speaker : " Oh". arduous exercise in rock dodging. The water foa med
and bubbled over the rocks at great speed and the
"Rocky Wash" was born! Canoe ing Offi cer bounced h is head unde r the water
E xperienced canoeists he said-well, that's me before eventuall y arri ving at the ba nk, complete with
out for a start! H owever, the expedition really was paddle and canoe ! After an exhausting day, we drove
rather high-powered, consisting of myself, Sgt. Jeng to a sulphur spring, bathed and gener ally relaxed be-
APTC, Cpl. D earlove, Pte. Etherton and Pte. E dwa rds fore returning to an evening mea l of Compo ( bears
(no relation ); the latter two were Army Standard permitting ).
C a no eist s.
W e were to meet Sgt. Jeng in J asper, a r ather The next day we set off for the famous Atha-
elite Holiday Village in the Rockies and, after the basca F alls which looked like a dozen D evil's
harrowing 13-hour dri ve by 4-T onner and L androver, Cauldrons rolled into one before the river steadied it-
we duly married up and settled into one of the self to a fa st fl owing calm which was our entry point.
N ational Camp Sites. It was here that Sgt. J eng, E dwa rds and Etherton
The expedition was duly briefed on " Bear Pro- really demonstrated their skill whilst C pl. D ea rlovc
cedure": for example, always bum empty food cans and I just concentrated on staying afl oat.
and always put food at least 15 feet up a tree; when
seeing a bea r, always bang something to scare h im The water was dee p, wide and fl owing very fast
and, being glacial in origin, it was also very cold, in
sharp contrast to the ai r temperature which was in the
eighties . We were in a continuous cycle of shock and
recovery as the canoes were repeatedly swamped and
the weight of water over my canoe was so great
that at one stage, I couldn' t move my arms before
bobbing up from the boiling mass.
The experts took this sort of going in their
stride, but the watching tourists thought we were
mad and deserved to die in those kyaks! At last we
canoed triumphantly into J asper and, after doi ng
some E skimo Rolls in front of an excited audience
(one girl reading a book !) loaded our canoes on to
the 4-T onner.
On the fin al day we travelled around J asper and
the surrounding countryside ta king in the sights be·
fore returning to Wa inwright.
***
J, EXERCISE "BOLD GUARD" 29
tt by Maj. Graham Brown tanks sudden ly moved into the proposed assembly
le area and the R CT transport asked to move us there
On a damp, windy evening in September, a failed to show up. Eventually, some hastily-
I procession of German military coaches drew up in requisitioned trucks moved the two D Coy. platoons,
a muddy field ou tside the town of Flensburg on the Surveillance and Drums, to join up with their HQ
,I German/ Dani sh border; 3 QUEENS was arriving element and the Company, with a squadron of 3
to take part in "Bold Guard", the largest NATO RTR, proceeded to clear the enemy from the imme-
g exercise held in Germany thi s year. The Battalion diate area. When the RCT transport had ben located,
r, flew out from UK and, on the same day, moved into the rest of the Battalion (less A Coy., who had their
a a tented camp, our concentration area. One of a turn at a scenic tour in RAF heli copters) arrived at
·e number of tented camps accommodating 6 Field the start-line and set off on the long hike down the
y Force Units, Camp H was erected and administered counter-attack route. After a 15 km. walk and with-
I, by the T ech QM, Capt. J ohn P erry; he and his staff out a shot fired in anger, the Battalion reached its
I. had worked hard to produce a well laid out area objective and gratefully heard that not only the
which included messes, a canteen and even a NAAFI counter-attack but the whole Exercise was over.
,; Gift Shop. It was little consolation to them that the
Battalion only occupied it for one day before and two The final chapter of Ex . "Bold Guard" involved
.r days after the Exercise! filling in trenches; the move back to Camp H ; a
I, night ou t in Flensburg (for those who still had the
11 Some 24 hours later, the Battalion was deploying energy), and the return to the UK.
it into asse mbly area s close to the battle positions which
h each company was to occupy for the fi rst part of ***
the exercise. A, B and C Coys. p roceeded to dig de-
n fensive positions in a large Staatsfo.-st whilst D , si ted THE ROYAL GUARD OF HONOUR
d well forward, gathered together its various Screen (Top): HRH The Prince of Wales talks to L / Cpl.
Force elements, a mixed bag comprising the Sur-
·s veillance PI., 8 PI. of C Coy., four Wombat Raymond Hoddinott of Buckland, Dover
detachments, a R ecce Tp. (Fox armoured cars from Picture by Kent Herald
r the Life Guards), a Swingfire ATGW Tp., a Striker
ATGW Tp. and two Blowpipe detachments manned ( Lower): The Guard awaits HRH's arrival, C/ Sgt.
by Gunners with a sprinkling of MFCs and FOOs. Thompson of A Coy. is in the foreground (front
Their pl an was to monitor the approach of and to rank) and Pte. Whitworth (B Coy.) in the rear
delay the enemy for as long as possible whilst the
three rifle companies held the enemy on the main rank
defensive positions as tride roads and tracks through-
out the forest. At first li ght, three days after the
Battalion' s initial deployment, the enemy (elements
of a German mechanised division) closed up to the
forward posi tions of D Coy. W ith its r adio nets
suffering from enemy jamming and with the ap pear-
ance of Leopard tanks and Marder AP Cs the Screen
Force gradually pulled back to the main battalion
positions and then into reserve. A new withdrawal
technique entitled "thumbing it'' was practised for
the first time and proved successful, albeit with some
intrepid screen troops returning to the ba ttalion main
positions three deep on the back of a Fox armoured
car. Although the noise of battle echoed on ei ther
flank of the battalion area (and eventu ally behind it),
no enemy attempted to penetrate the forest lair held
by 3 QUE'ENS bu t the powers-that-be finally decreed
that we shou ld withdraw to a less isolated spot.
In the middle of the night, lines of heavil y laden
soldiers converged on an embussing point just out-
side the forest and motored back to the new position,
a small village some way ou t of the firing line where
the Battalion went to ground in a number of dry,
wa rm and gener ally r ather comfortable barns. Exce pt
for B Coy., who took a sceni c tour of the local area
firstly in RAF helicopters and then on the back
of some Cen turion tanks, the next 24 hours passed
quietly whilst we awaited the expected order for a
6 Field Force counter- attack.
At dawn on the final day, D Coy. HQ were
busily reconnoitering an assembly area and start line
for the Battalions' part in the counter attack. There
were complications, however : a regiment of enemy
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The 5th (Volunteer) Battalion
General Intelligence Corps, and 2/ Lts. Ben Green and Barry
Gregory on commissioning.
EVERY weekend in 1978 (and often during
the week) there has been some form of Other recent arri va ls have been W02 D o ug
Booth, C/ Sgt. D avid Rickerb y, Sgts. Adam H ami lton
activity: platoon training weekends; company and Peter P arker, and Sgt. Brian Burvill as a "conrate"
exercises, or " presentations" at 6 Field Force. MT PSI.
Training has been mainly at battalion level with Our Congratulations are extended to Lts. Nick
a series of large exercises---"Savage Nibble",
"Chew and Bite", culminating in Exercise "Bold Kell y, Philip Legg, and M artin M ortimer on passing
Lt. to Capt. promotion exa m.; W02 M acAieese, Sgt.
Fulker, Sgt. J ames, Sgt. W ard, Cpl. H over, Cpl.
Guard" in the Autumn. Stapley, L/ Cpl. Wright and Pte. P atterson on their
awa rd of the Effici ency M edal (TAVR); and to WO!
For Ex. " S avage Bite" (in Jul y), the whole bat- (RSM ) P eterson, C/ Sgt. Bullen, C / Sgt. J ones and
talion was lifted from home loca tions by G erm an Sgt. Booker on their awa rd of the LS and GC Med al.
Support Helicopters to Stanford PTA ; for many, this
was their first expen ence of helicopter travel. On W e ha ve to say farewell to the following : Lt.
arrival, we had six hours to . prepare a defensive Al an C hissel (albeit temporarily on SSVC with the
position before the enemy, vehtcles, support weapons 1st Bn ., W02 Eddi e L awrence, C/ Sgt. Bren Webb,
and all, parachuted in . The battalion was extensively Sgt. 'Nobby' C lark, Sgt. P at Simmons (on retirement),
patrolled against, and nightfall saw the obligatory Sgt. Bill Butler, W02 Graham Rothwell (on reti re-
withdrawal to a new defensive position and the in- ment and L/ Cpl. Collins (on retirement).
evitable dawn attack. In Februar y next we say goodbye to the RSM ,
In spite of the emphasis on battalion-level P at P aterson and Chief C lerk, Brian Wright; both
training, the rifle companies did manage to "do their have been selected for Loan Service with the RBMR
own thing" at weekends: A Coy. defended RAF in Brunei. The RSM and his wife will be taking their
Stations and did a Battlefield tour; B spent a lot of first born, Robin J ohn, with them and we wish them
time training recruits and were generally run off their all the very best for the future.
feet by their new O C, Capt. Terry L atham; C held
a very successful amphibious exercise with the RNVR,
and E Coy. spent a lot of time re-training, having
lost their share of battalion an ti-tank weapons. The ANNUAL CAMP
A/ Tk. PI. itse lf, tried to introduce its own form of
defence cut by almost writing off a M obat, but that's In Sept. the battalion went to Schleswig-Holstein:
another story. The Mortar PI. performed well at the first week was spent in a rented camp nea r Flens-
the S.E. Dist. concentration and HQ Coy., as always, burg on the G erman/ D anish border and the second
provided exce llent support for the battalion ; it also week on Ex . " Bold Guard" as part of 6 Field Force
wi th, amongst others, our 3rd Bn .
managed to achieve a fair amo unt of Infantr y trai nin g. The move to Germany went smoothly and a
short account of the adva nce party appea rs elsewhere.
r We held our own Recruits Course at St. M artin's The weather was poor and, wi thin two da ys, everyone
Plain to cope with the large number of new recruits was soaked through . D espi te this (and limited
and to enable as many as possible to attend camp. facilities), all companies achieved considerable
Pte. Gore (B Coy.) is to be congratulated for being
Best R ecruit. amount in their train ing.
Albuhera Day was celebrated by the Officers and
Sergeants in Compan y locations. The Ceremon y of M a j. ! an Lloyd, the Training Major, organised
Beating Retreat was held in Canterbury on 1st Jul y, a "Tickell T est" course ( 3 miles on tarmac in 27
where The R egiment's TA VR Band and the Corps minutes for those under 30, with a few minutes extra
for uoldies" !) ; although there was little tarmac in
of Drums of 5 QUEENS played extremely well, the area there was a lot of mud ! The volunteers ( par-
prompting the Mayor of Canterbury to declare that, ticularly the officers !) dreamt up excuses not to
were he younger, he would enlist immediately! Both participate, but eventually they set off in groups by
the Officers and Sergeants held cocktail parties after- age and company. Notable passes were achieved by
wards in their respective messes . RQMS Cavanagh and SQMS Horey. "Cav's" effort
is to be particularl y commended; not only because of
A joint lunch was held in the City for both our his "seniority" but also through overcoming a 4 a.m .
officers and officers of 6/ 7 QUEENS-an extreme ly return to camp, a quart of whisky and a throat hoarse
successful function which helped to cement further
the relationship between the two TAVR battalions. from singing " 100 Pipers" !
This was taken a step further at camp, when Lt.
Tony L eonard and a section of 6/ 7 QUEENS were One company, reputedly over I 00 strong, paraded
attached to C Coy. onl y 14 on the range. Deductions for recruits course,
NCO T actics, MT and Signals Cadres, and duties
had all t aken their toll. On top of this, a shortage
of radios prompted a desperate OC to threaten to run
Perso n a lities a "SEWER "-Signals Exe rcise Without R adios!
We welcome Capt. D avid W ake as Adjutant in
In the R ecruits' Cadre, the Best R ecruit was Pte.
place of Capt. Richard J ackso n who has become an Swinburne of A Coy.
instructor at the RMAS ; also Lt. Nick K elly from the
SCHLESWIG- HOLSTEIN, 1978
A pictorial review
[he first week could have been mistaken for a KKK meeting. The order of the day being No. 1 Welly order.
l The Signals Corporal doing the The Sergeant who called
German Tent Pole Trick. the RSM- 'Pockets'.
I
part from 'much good training value' -
t can be remembered for the attempt
to liberate Denmark.
' Th lol olt••" od l•tlhitiUI"" .' C.ol... ,..
The second week found the battalion underground which even disorientated the most intelligent.
But I expect we will be
back again for more next year.
+ Cartoons by "Rankin" 33
During the first week, everyone managed to " R hard; I know because I was there. How, you may
and R " in Flensburg (a mini-Hamburg) with all that well ask, did the Training M ajor get himself onto
entails. Even the day to day camp routine was en- the Advance P arty and therefore get an extra week's
livened by the visit of the "S .. . T GOBBLER " LOA ? It's a long story which ended in yours truly
which arri ved with regular monotony to perform its being met by the Chief Clerk on arrival at Bn. HQ
vita l duty. on Thursda y 3 1 Aug. and being told to go home to
pack as I was driving a L and R over departing for
In the second week ( drier than the first ) the Colchester at 1400 hrs. This situation arose as the
battalion had three days in which to prepare a de- unfortunate L / C pl. Watt h ad been admitted to
fensive position but with almost molelike enthusiasm, H ospital during the night in a serious condition
the battalion was dug-in within a few hours. The and there was no one else ava ilable at short notice
exercise followed the, by now, familiar p attern but with an F MT 600.
at a much slower pace than our normal weekend
exercises- i.e.-Dig in, D efence, Withdraw and So there I was, driving up the M 20 to Colchester
Counter Attack. Only A Coy. saw any action before when I remembered my mess tins and KFS were still
the battalion was withdrawn at night to a new at home; suffice to say that the sa id tins etc. arrived
position. After 24 hours the Counter-attack began, by air in G ermany before me. After a not uneventful
but by then we were preparing to move back to the journey we duly arrived at Flensburg for our first
UK . sight of what was to become Camp ' G '- a sight
enough to make the hea rt of a perpetual optimist
Although the exercise may not have been as sink. It was dusk and a fi erce westerl y wind was
active as many would have wished, a lot of valuable driving rain across a desolate wa ste. Was this to be
lessons were learned and, as one volunteer put it, home for the next two or three weeks? Thank heavens
" Profess ionalism starts when the novelty of firing for the 3 QUEENS Activation Party led by Capt.
blanks wea rs off ". P erry who took us under their wing, fed and housed
us and put everyone on Guard.
Camp entertainment varied from the Offi cers
havi ng a fairly sedate dinner in a local Ga.sthaus We stayed with the 3rd Bn. for 2 days and nights
(which included the initi ation of the Commanding until the QM had drawn up sufficient tentage and
Officer in the " ceremony of Ratzeputz"), to the Sig- stores for us to be self-contained; then the work
nals PI. (and others) enjo ying the dubious delights of started. That week before the Battalion arrived is
Fl en sburg. memorable for hard work, good comradeship and team-
work together with the most extraordinary fluctuation s
C amp was ad judged to be a success and many in the weather, from Arctic storms to M editerranean
complimentary things were said by our various visitors. sunshine. The Advance P arty of ten included M aj.
Yonwin ( QM ), $ / Sgt. H orey, ACC, C / Sgt. Coates
THE QUEEN'S REGIMENT BAND, TAVR ( R. ANGLIAN-doing his las t 6 months with the
With no fewer than 2 1 engage ments by the end Bn. ), Sgt. Piper ( Q PSI ), Sgt. Booker ( Sigs. PSI ),
Sgt. D avies A CC, Cpl. Daley (C Coy. ) , L / C pl.
of October ( and probably 30 by the end of the yea r ), Colline ( doing his last few months with the Bn.),
1978 has been a busy year. L / C pl. M acD onald (CO 's Driver ) and m yself.
One event which must be highlighted was the F ew enough to get all the stores in and tentage
Mayor of Canterbury's G arden Party for the L ambeth erected but the QM had to attend conferences and
Conference: despite inclement weather, Bandmaste r draw-up stores from LSG ; Sgt. Piper disa ppea red
T ed C lark and his men had the Archbishop and the as often as possible to collect stores and, when they
Bishops of the world's Anglican C hurches doing a departed, the QM 's department inevitably took
11knees-up" in Westgate Gardens to the tune of L / Cpls. Collins and M acD onald with them as d rivers.
" Raindrops K eep F alling on my H ead" ! Al so involved was S / Sgt. Horey, who did a tre-
mendous job in sorting out the indents and the
Other events were the two Offi cers' Guest Nights collection of rations. Sgt. D avies, our diminutive
at the Intelligence Centre, Ashford where a number C hef, spent most of his time over a No. I Burner
of senior guests were un-convinced that the Band trying to keep either the rai n or the wasps out of
was made up entirely of part-time volunteers. the stew. This left an ageing Trai ning M a jor, a
Signals PSI and experienced Colour Sergeant, and a
We have promised ourselves a quieter year in bright ( but sometimes bolshy ) Signals Corporal, as
1979: Camp will be in D evon with The 5th ( V ) the tent pitchers. The others joined these labourers
Bn. and the annual engagements will be carried out, when they could spare the time from their more
but we hope to have at least one Bank Holiday to cerebral pursuits and by the time the second party
ourselves-for a change. arrived on W ednesday 6 S ept., the wasteland h ad
been transformed into an embryo Camp 'G'. •
ADVANCE PARTY 1978-0R HOW THE
TRAINING MAJOR LEARNED Transition of a rather uneven and very wet
TO PITCH TENTS corner of Schleswig-Holstein into a recognisable camp
wa s much helped by the arrival of a h earty group of
by Maj. I. M. E. Lloyd red-bereted R oyal Engineers from 9 ( Gobbler ) Sqn.
RE . They took over what had been designed as the
The function of an Advance P arty is always WO / Sgts. M ess Lines and proceeded to erect, at
something of a m ystery to those of us who manage phenomenal speed, corrugated iron lat rines, ablutions
to avoid getting too involved in the 'Q ' world. We and a cook-house, while still finding time to go for
all know that a group always precedes the mai n body runs around the training area chased by their for-
on any move but what do they actually do? There midable, ha iry-seated Staff Sergeant. However the
always seems plenty to be done when the main body erection which dominated the Camp ( and which
arrives. Well, what they do is work and work very turned out to be something of a white elephant ) was
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the Water Tower; with its th ree bulbous rubber rea der ca n now see why Cp l. Daley was sometimes
tanks, it resembled one and a half pneumatic young bolshy- in fact, regula rl y, at 1000 hrs. when the
ladies lying on their backs ! Unfortunate ly, owing to German "Excrement Gobbler" ( norma ll y desc ribed
" techn ical problems" (someone forgot the Ju bilee by a shorter Anglo-S axon word ) arri ved to empty
C lips), only one of these was ever used. Occasionally the aforement ioned buckets. Never mind Corpora l, it's
(as if there wasn 't enough moisture about ) the other another qualification ; you are now R eg imental Sig-
two tanks decided to leak, cascading water over the naller G rade (?) and "Gobbler" Grade 3!
track near the CO's tent. After 3 days the "Gobblers",
(sorry, Sappers ) departed, together with some cha irs Finall y, most, if not all, the tentage had been
and t ables intended for higher things ( the Officers' erected and workers were beg inning to admi re thei r
M ess) and Camp 'G' was left in compa rative tran- handiwork when a Signal arri ved to an nounce that a
quillity apart from the frenetic efforts of the Advance group of pacifi sts, communists (or some other kind of
Party-now augmented by the Second P arty- to "ists") had decided to de monst rate aga inst holding
complete the job before the M ain Body arri ved. " Bold Guard" and were likely to do it at Cam p 'G '.
Therefore ( the S igna l went on ), it was necessary to
After the Sappers had erected our smart new erect a fence around the Camp. The onl y fencing
Latrines, the inevitable buckets were dul y delivered. materials ava ilable we re a few 6 ft. piquets and the
At first the large, normal "Elsan" types appea red ( to ubiquitous white tape. Thus it was th at, at dusk on
loud cheers) but then, to the consternation of all Saturday 9 Sept., in pouring rain, this writer was
who had been saving up for this auspicious moment busy with sledgehammer and tape when, out of the
whe n the shovel could be discarded, Sgt. Piper gloom, appea red a straggling mob . Could it be? Yes,
announced that LSG h ad run out and issued other it wa s; the first Chalk of the Bn ., having been
"buckets" in lieu (sorry about the pun ); these con- du mped by their kind " H ost Nation" transport about
sisted of pudding basins suspended on a tripod and a mile away, were walking into what wa s to be home
looked both inadequate and insecure. A great decision for the next week . With a sigh of relief, yo urs trul y
then had to be taken: who should be "latrine orderly" dumped his sledgehammer and reverted to the time-
until the Bn. arrived? Everyone looked at his neigh- honoured occupation of his appointment, that of
bour, then all eyes turned to the " bright but sometimes seeming to be busy without actually doi ng anything.
bolshy" Signals Corporal ( referred to above). The
STOP PRESS! 1 Queens do it again!
BAOR Boxing Finals 6 Dec. v. 10 RCT. Won by 6 to 5.
1. Cpl. Hazard, Pte. Brown and Capt. Latham of 4. Cpl. Shilling and Lt. M . Mortimer (E Coy.)
B Coy. 5. Sgts. Hoad and Bates, Mortar PI.
fl. W02 Haley, C / Sgt. Kemp and Maj . A. P. Haigh
2. German Huey and CH53s landing A Coy. at
Stanford PTA of E Coy.
3. Sgt. James and a rifle section from B Coy. Pictures by Roger Tutt, Sevenoaks N ews
Pictures by J ohn Wilson, East Kent Times
(left): Ptes. Wheeler and Kourtoulous of B Coy.
(right): L / Cpl. Anthony Gray of the A/ Tk. PI.
Pictures by Frank H owe (Thanet Times)
36
MAJ. PETER HARRINGTON, ID, BA, FIL
by Maj. R. C. B. Dixon 0
Photo by Roger Tutt ( Sevenoaks News)
"Major Pete", as he is popularly known in the ,.
battalion, is one of those soldiers who never even
fades away; he has been with 5 QUEENS since I
formation in April 1967 and has served in so many
capacities that it seems difficult to imagine that it is In Civilian Life
the same man. H e has provided that vital element of
continuity so often missed by those on 2-yr. tours Enjoy
yet so essential to The Volunteers; along with others Service and
he has provided the backbone to the battalion both
through the good times and the bad. But lets start ~omradeship
at the beginning of his military career: Peter joined
the regular army in Jan . 1947; he was commissioned m
into the Royal Artillery in December '49 ( Intake II
from Sandhurst ) and served as a regular until M arch THE ROYAL
'63. He joined the TA and soon found himself in BRITISH LEGION
4/ 5 R . Sussex ( TA ). On the reorganisation of the
TA into the TAVR in April '67 he joined C Coy. Your service to Queen and Country
5 QUEENS as 2IC and when the first age bar needn't stop when you leave the Forces.
caught up with him, he transferred to the RAPC and T he Royal British Legion has much interest
took over as Unit Pay Master. Then the vagaries of in and r esponsibility for yo ung ex-servicemen
volunteer soldiering struck and he was asked to take and women of today as it has for those of
over command of C Coy.; he commanded for four two world wars and looks to them for its
years and it was during this period that I came to leaders of the future.
know " P ete" well. H e was always interested and
involved with his Company and created a really THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION
viable sub-unit and, as a young and inexperienced 49 PALL MAU SWIY SJY
Company Commander, I remember him for his help
and advice in the early days- a welcome face with
an unending stream of jokes.
During his time as OC C, the Company went to
BAOR twice for annual camp, these camps becoming
known as Germany I and G ermany II. Col. D er ek
Bishop (then CO) came on a two-day visit and
stayed for a week. G ermany saw the introduction of
the " Ratzeputz Ceremony" ( the goodly stomach war-
mer), the effect of which might have been acceptable
if the effect on the throat wasn 't likened to a four
inch piece of barbed wire being pulled down it!
A two-year appointment as Bn. 2IC then fol-
lowed at the end of which the " Volunteer Vagaries"
struck again and HQ Coy. was without an O C.
Peter stepped in to fill the gap only to move on
within a couple of years to command B Coy. which
found itself in a similar but more critical predicament.
It says much for Peter that he was always prepared
to lend a hand and assist whenever there was a
difficult or unpopular job to undertake. With the
battalion in camp in Norway- and largely on its
feet- Peter survived but, as he put it-"with shorter
legs." When his time had run out, he handed over
to a younger officer and became Infantry tra ining
officer to 220 Field Ambulance RAMC(V); this new
job, together with serving on committees, keep s P eter
in contact with the TAVR.
His service is not one of the "survivor" but of
someone who has dedicated himself to volunteer
soldiering and, in particular to 5 QUEENS.
37
The 6th/7th (Volunteer) Battalion
A pART from our Annual Camp, we have en- British Army S taff in Washington from 1945 - 4 7. H e
joyed a very full training programme; also commanded 5th Bn. The Buffs from 1956 - 1960
a number of outside events of great interest to and was made a Kn ight Comdr. of the Royal Order
of The D anncbrog in 1960. Granted the Freedom
the Battalion have occurred which included: the
of the Ci ty of London in 1971, the Colonel is a P ast
publishing of the report on "The Study of M aster of The Worshipful Company of P ai nters and
Wastage in the TAVR" Lt.-Col. A. Colin Cole, Stainers and wa s elected a M ember of the Court of
a former 2I C of 6 QUEENS ( V) and an the Honourable Artillery Company in 1972.
Honorary Member of our Officers' Mess has been This year he was made a Sheriff of the Ciry of
London and many of our members, including the
appointed Garter Principal King of Arms; and Adjutant, M aj. Rcggie M organ, who had been Ad-
Col. and Alderm an Ronald Gardner-Thorpc, TD, jutant of 5 Buffs during the Colonel's command,
JP, a former CO of 5 Buffs, has just been elected were present in the P ainters H all at the end of
September when he was presented with his S hrieval
a Sheriff of the City of London.
Badge and Chain of Office.
,. Our thanks and a fond farewell to Lt.-Col. Lt.-Col. A. Colin Colc, MVO, TD
I Foster H erd, TD, who handed over The Battalion Lt.-Col. Col in Cole has even closer ties with the
to Lt.-Col. Mike Dudding on 22 D ecember. There Battalion ; he wa s the last 2I C of 6 QUEENS until
is always a touch of sadness and sympathy for an they amalgamated with 7 QUEENS in 1975. Windsor
outgoing territori al C O; at the same time, an at- H erald of Arms since 1966, he h as recentl y been
mosphere of exci tement prevai ls as we en ter a new appointed as Garter Prinicpal King of Arms ( in
era. succession to Sir Anthony Wagner ), the top post at
The report on the Stud y of Wastage in the TA VR the College of H eralds. Col. Cole served with the
brought with it a brea th of fresh air as it sai d so Guards Armoured Division du ring the Second World
much that vo lunteers had been tr yi ng to say for so War after which he became 2IC of the Greater L on-
long; we rea lise, of course, that two or three years don Regt. which in 1967 became a Cadre ; on reforming
must pass before any of its recommendations can be two years later, he became OC B Bty. 6 QUEENS.
fully implemented but we await wi th interest its long He was a Sheriff of London '76 - '77; is a Freeman
term effects. of the City; a M ember of the Worshipful Company
Col. and Alderman Ronald Gardner-Thorpe, TD (3 of Basketmakers and, to crown his year, he has re-
cently been elected as M aster of the Sriveners Com-
bars) JP
pany. Colin Cole is an H onorary M ember of our
Col. Gardner-Thorpe has long connections with Officers' M ess and never misses the opportunity to
the TA and this battalion. H e served in the 1939-4 5 vis it and encourage the Battalion at all its major
war in France, Germany and Italy and was on the activi ties.
(continued 011 next page)
(left): Col. and Alderman Ronald Gardner-Thorpe, (right) : The Bn. Shooting Team (back row, L to
TD, JP after being installed as a Sheriff of The r.): Cpl. Goss, Pte. Springhall, Sgt. Bicker, W02
City of London Bowen, W02 Day, L / Cpl Smith
Picture by kind permission of (front row I. to r. ) : Ptes. Jones and Burchall, Cpls.
The Editor of The Times Blockley and Lambert
38 For the next two yea rs, he commanded a company in
W e take this opportunity to offer bo th these 2RRF after which he served on the Staff at D ivisiona l
gentlemen o ur most s incere congratulations and every HQ at Ba ssingbourn . H e retired from the Regular
good wish in their new appointments. Arm y in 1974 .
H e joined 7 QUEENS as 2IC in June '74 and \I
has remained with us ever since. On retirement from
reg ular service, Lt.-Col. Dudding joined the Civ il
Service as a Prin cipal and his first two yea rs were
with the Highwa ys Directorate of the D epa rtment of
the Environment where he was fin anci al controller
for the trunk road and motorway construction pro-
gramme. In 1976 he wa s posted into the Property
Services Agency where, since September, he h as been
responsible for the administrati ve arrangements for
the proposed British Library building at S omerstown,
next to St. Pancras Station.
The Colonel, his wife, Jan, and their two boys-
D avid and Jonathan-live in Dulwich. For the last
four yea rs Colonel Mike has been a very strong force
in the background setting up so much of the ad-
ministra tion which is now run by TA VR personnel.
We wish him well in his tour of command which will
include the Presentation of Colours in 1981.
Lt.-Col. A. Colin Cole, MVO, ID, Garter King ,,
of Anns
I
I Our New Commanding Officer
Lt.-Col. M. J. D udding
I Lt.-Col. Mike Dudding assumed command on 22
D ecember. H e was educated at Whitgift School, Croy- Picture by Bruce Scott Studio
don and entered RMA, Sandhurst in 1955; whilst
there he won six prizes, including the Infantry Sword,
and was captain of Fencing. He served as a Regular
Officer in the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt. )
and saw service in the Persian Gulf, Malta, Kenya,
W est G erman y, Berlin, and Northern Ireland. Whilst
with the Trucial Oman Scouts from 1961 - 63, he
learned to speak colloquial Arabic; he also speaks G er-
man to interpretership level. In 1967 he attended the
Staff College in Camberley and in 1968-69 held a staff
appointment in the M anning Directorate of MOD .
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ANNUAL CAMP-3 -17 JUNE, STANFORD PTA squads were trained by W02 Derek H arwood and
On 3 Jun., the Battalion arrived in an amazing W02 David Bowen respectively to whom must go
a lot of the credit. Preparation for the Colours Parade
variety of civilian and military vehicles at East goes on and the 2IC, RSM and CSM Bowen have
Wretham 'A' Camp, Thetford, Norfolk. This year just returned from Alnwick, Northumberland where
Camp was memorab le for a variety of reasons but they attended the Presentation of Colours to 6 RRF
mainly from the soldiers point of view in that the by HRH The Duke of K ent. It proved a memorable
entire fortnight's training was run by Coys. Advantage
was taken of the variety of excellent field firing ranges visit; Maj. Putnam was booked into a hotel room
and all were able to throw their annual grenade as with Mrs. Max Maloney and W02 Bowen was
booked into the Oddfellows Arms! However, we are
well! ob liged to our Fusilier friends for making this trip
In the second week, all Coys. took part in a 4-day
exercise, with, or so the CO thought one hand tied so worthwhile.
Friends of The Battalion may care to note that
behind their backs, as he had ensured that all cooks
the date for the Presentation of Colours has been
sta yed in camp! However, all survived although a
fixed for Thursday 16th July 1981 and it will take
number of CQMS were seen entering camp in a wide
place at The South of England Show Ground at
range of disguises. Each Coy. occupied defensive
Ardingly, Sussex.
positions by night and during the day moved on to Subalterns had two Drill Parades under the
well-organised training exercises run by Training
Regimental Sergeant Major; always memorable events,
Majors Gordon Crumley and Ewan Christian (the
this year particularly so by the Paymaster Steven
latter was in the process of taking over at the start
Clark :now Captain) who paraded with braces
~~ of his tour) which included Watermanship, IS Cordon
hanging down outside his trousers. It is also reported
and Search, Section March and Shoot Competition
that one young officer, on his first tour as Duty
and a Patrol Exercise. A Coy. were the winners of
Officer, was sent by his colleagues to close the WO
the "Boat R ace" run within the watermanship training
and Sgrs. Mess Bar at midnight!
and B Coy. won the "Section March and Shoot" .
Camp was also memorable, as always, for the
Running concurrently with Coy. training was fit of madness which dictates that we have to cram
our usual Recruit Cadre, run this year by members of 12 months of social events into 14 days. However,
D Coy. under Maj. Richard Hopper who had lost thanks to much careful planning and some super-
the greater part of his Coy. on various courses. It human efforts by all departments, no training time
was formed into two Platoons under Capt. Phi! was lost and a good time was had by all Messes. The
Roberts and Lt. Nigel Scott, assisted by Sgts. Hunte WOs and Sgts. held a dinner night on the middle
Friday which commenced with a presentation to our
and Baker. Cadre Training followed its traditional
departing Training Major, Garden Crumley, of a
pattern-early calls at 0530 hrs. with bed boxes, suitably-engraved carriage clock, and a sword to newly-
breakfast and inspections followed by Drill, Field- commissioned Lt. Peter Chapman. On the following
craft, Wpn. Trg. on SLR and LMG, Physical Fitness night, the Officers held their Annual Guest Night
and Section Battle Craft and Tactics. Recruits en- which was attended by The Colonel of the Regiment.
joyed a 24-hour exercise during the second week and On the same evening, the newly-formed Cpls. M ess
their fortnight terminated with our usual Passing Out held their first dinner night and thanks to stirling
Parade when we were honoured to have the Junior work by the RSM and Sgts. (many of whom waited
Division Band under Bandmaster Price from the at table ), it proved to be a resounding success. The
Depot. The Commanding Officer gave a closing ad-
Officers and their Guests joined the Cpls. in the latter
dress and presented prizes and awards to the following :
part of the evening and the former were impressed
,, Best Overall Recruit- Pte. Thomas (C Coy.); Best by the spirit shown by the young NCOs. On the last
Recruit at Drill and Turnout-Pte. Turners (B Coy.);
I Thursday, all Coys. held their usual "smokers" and
Best Shot SLR- Pte. Marriner (D Coy.); Best
thanks to some sturdy driving by S/ Sgt. Long, the
Section at Fieldcraft and Section Tacties-L/ Cpl.
CO, CO-designate, 2IC and RSM were able to attend
Brendons Section; Best Section Overall-Cpl. Borg's
Section; Best PI. Overall- both Pis. tied! Sgts. Hunte all fi ve!
We welcomed a number of visitors including
and Baker shared the honours.
The Colonel of The Regim ent who managed to stay
Another highlight at camp was the beginning with us for three days during which time he addressed
of preparations for our Presentation of Colours Parade, all the officers, WOs and Sgts.; Maj . Gen. Ling,
planned for the summer of 1981. (Regular Army in his capacity as Chairman of South East TAVR
readers will have to understand the TAVR maxim that Association; Brig. W ebster, Chief of Staff SE District;
"six months is tomorrow"). A presentation on the Lt.-Col. C lissett, WRAC, AD WRAC HQ SE
history and meaning of Colours and the provisional District ; Col. Ogilvie, former CO of 7 QUEENS
plans made so far was given by the Bn. 2IC and the and now Colonel 6 Field Force; and, of course, our
Regirr.ental Sergeant Major, WO! M . D. Maloney. Honorary Colonel, Col. David Sime, who spent a
This was followed on the la st day by the first of few days with us as did Lt.-Col. Colin Cole.
many drill competitions when all Coys. fielded a drill
squad of 25 under the command of a Subaltern. There On the last morning of camp, the CO (Lt.-Col.
was so much enthusiasm shown by all participants
during the two weeks prior to the competition with Foster H erd ) was ceremoniously towed out of barracks
practices being held at 0530 hrs. and a variety of at great speed by the Officers and Sergeants along a
"Ruperts, rushing around with severe attacks o f
route lined by Volunteers.
blood to the head trying to get feet, hands and
Before we leave "Camp '78", mention should
swords to work in conjunction. The eventual winners be made of Maj . Gerry Webb who, once again,
gamely undertook the task of Bn. M essing Officer.
were B Coy. under 2/ Lt. Simon Blausten, followed For the first time ever the Orderly Room went to
very closely by a squad made up from members of camp without any civilian staff and S/ Sgt. Downes,
HQ and D Coys. under Lt. Tony Leonard. These Sgt. Coote, L / Cpl. Hutchings, WRAC and L / Cpl.
40 1. The Recruit Cadre marches past (Lt.-Col. Herd
taking the salute)
Fisher, WRA C are to be congratulated on the way in
which they coped with the usual stream of paper 2. Lt.-Col. Foster Herd after being towed out of
work. The Regimental Police under Sgt. Frater, B camp (Stanford)
Coy., and the intrepid C pl. Bonner made their usual
mark-especially the latter who called out the guard Q3. C Coy. launch the "otherway"!
one evening to test the fire hydrants outside the WOs
and Sgts. M ess, a crowd of whom assembled to watch 4. L / Cpl. Fisher, WRAC (in "enemy" garb); in
the fun just in time to be on the receiving end of rear arc (I. to r.): C / Sgt. Langley, Cpl's Ewing
the hydrant- working to perfection! and Thornton, L/ Cpl. Butler, Capt. Meldrum
and Pte. Rolfe
All the administrative staff were up to their
usual outstanding best led by the QM and RQMS 5. W02 John Day and Sgt. Bicker receive the
I an Everett and the bill at the end was so small that LMG prize at London and Middx. Shoot, from
Maj . Ran Lucas thought that he had failed. The CO Lt.-Col. Orpen Smcllie
received a letter from the Camp Commandant praising
our overall performance and our march out from 6. WOl M . D. Maloney in lighter mood (prize
camp ; most gratifying and a credit to all those giving at SEDSAM)
respo nsibl e.
7. Pte. Thomas-Best Overall Recruit
THE BATTALION SHOOTING TEAM
good shooting; his shooting on the LMG, at what
Our T eam was formed three years ago under most would consider a ripe old age, is a joy to behold!
the then Regimental Sergeant M ajor, WO! A. W ard .
The first two years saw little ( naturally ) in the way Our competition shooting for the year terminated
of reward until last year when the results list at Bisley with the London and Middlesex Rifle Association
saw us creep on to the "leader board" and we came M eeting on the 16/ 17 September at Pirbright where
21st overall. Earlier, we had registered our "arrival" we managed to secure some good results. W02 John
in the competition world with a first place in S.E. Day and Sgt. Bicker (both of A Coy.) won the LM G
District, in the joint London and S.E. Districts SAM Pairs Competition after a tie shoot against REME
at Ash. It was at this M eeting that we gained a Bordon ( Regular Army ). W e also managed to win the
place in the fin al of the Falling Tiles against 10 Stanley Pryke M emorial Competition when W02 D ay,
PARA, which we just lost. C pl. Blockley, C pl. Goss and Pte. Springhall fired
as a team of four; the latter, also won the bronze
However, much hard work on practice weekends medallion in the Association Service Rifle Champion-
has paid off; our "Shooting Year" got off to a good ship-a most creditable performance by this young
start when D Coy. ( Wandsworth ) retained the Wands-
worth Cup for the fourth year in succession in a soldier.
fiercely contested competition held in M arch between Finally, our name was also secured in the Small
all TAVR units based in the London Borough of
Wandsworth. Bore World when Pte. Brooks of B Coy. represented
the TA VR in the Inter-Services Long Range Small
In April the action moved to Pirbright and at Bore Rifle Championships on the 16/ 17 September
the JOint London and S .E . Districts Skill at Arms at Ash R anges. H e scored 757 (HPS 800) in the
Meeting, the Bn. came first overall in the M ajor Units Individual M atch ; 760 ( HPS 800 ) in the T eam Long
m South East District and third overall in the com- Range M atch, and 575 (HPS 600) in the English
bined Major Units Championship. C/ Sgt. Rolfe, PSI T eam Match . Pte. Brooks was awarded his TA VR
D Coy., won the S.E. Dist. Individual Pistol
Championship- he also won 2nd place in the SMG team badge.
Individual Competition and came 2nd with Capt. The success of the team is an all round battalion
John Cannon (A Coy.) in the Pistol T eam Event.
Cpl. Blockley of D Coy. was 2nd equal in the In- effort starting with the Commanding Officer (who
dividual Rifle Championship and Pte. Thomas ( C has never missed a practice weekend); the Bn. 2IC
Coy.) was 2nd in the Young Soldiers Championship. and the RSM who between them share all the admin.
(A photograph showing the CO and C/ Sgt. Rolfe and run the ranges; The Rifle and HQ Coys., who
celeb~atmg .with champagne after the prize giving share the load of running the Butts and Ranges.
at this meetmg formed the front cover of the October All this ensures that the team get maximum "firing
edition of the TAVR Magazine ) . time" during practice weekends; it also keeps the
team in the forefront of battalion life and there is
At Bisley for the TARA Meeting, the team now fierce compeutwn, particularly among the
strove to improve on their 21st overall place last younger soldiers, to gain a place-a good omen for
year and they did so with notable success. Under the future.
the new rules (which dictate each team only having
8 members) a considerable load is put on a few good On 10 July, 19 Volunteers ( under PSI C Coy.,
shots. However, the team came ninth in the Section C/ Sgt. Saunders), joined 3 QUEENS for Exercise
Match--out of 79 teams; fifth in the Wessex Volun- " Pond Jump West 3" in Canada. There is no doubt
teers Cup ( Snapshooting ) and eleventh in the that they were all well looked after and tales abound
Converted Gallery M atch. B y steady, consistent of the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton as well
shooting, the team came 14th overall in the Design as other adventures and of some exciting trainin~ .
Trophy. A further improvement of 7 places next Our thanks go to Lt.-Col. Anderson and his staff
year and we shall be treading on the toes of 10 PARA. for their hospitality and generosity. An opportunity
At this Meeting W02 John D ay ( A Coy.) came such as this "lifts" a TA VR battalion; in fact, 48
third m the Roupell Cup; he is one of the original hours after returning, one of the party signed on for
members of the team, never missing a practice shoot regul ar service in The Regiment.
and always setting a first class example by consistent
Another party of 13 under Lt. Anthony Leonard
joined 5 QUEENS for their annual camp in
Schleswig-Holstein ( 9- 24 Sept.) and participated in
(continued on page 42)
42 th e Command ing Officer and WO! M ax M aloney-
an o utstanding pair. F rom .the moment M ax M aloney
(co ntinued fro m page 40) arnved, he set the batta lion new st
E x. " Bold Guard". They all gained worthwh ile under !l is uniq ue style of leadersh ip, iatndhaarsdsa ttwa ihniecdh~
training experience and, for this, we thank our S ister
Battalion ; also for all their help and hospitality. he wi ll leave an indelible mark on the ba ttalion'.
D uring J ub ilee Yca r, both L t.-Col. F oster H erd and
Over the last three months all Coys. have been his R SM saw the battalion ta king pa rt, with
engaged on a variety of E xercises and the whole distinction, in a la rge number of P arades incl udi ng
battalion assembled on the R anges at Ash on 21/ 22 Li ning the Route on Jubilee D ay in the Strand; The
O ctober to fire the APWT. We have also had the Queen's Review of the Reserve F orces in Wembley
usual crop of "funnies" such as the six mon thl y S tadium when the Bn. was the strongest in nu mer ical
Audit Boa rd when all Account H olde rs received strength of any unit on parade, and the L aying Up
clean sheets; a Board of Officers which found A Coy. of Colours in Canterbury Cathedral. In all these, the
were "up " 1 teaspoon! ; and the usual crop of in- Bn . did we ll and much of the credit must go to
spections. The Pay T ea m (a ll volunteers) under both the CO and the R SM for the unselfish way
Ca pt. Steven C lark continues to serve us well ; they they gave up so much of their time to ensure a job
must now be one of the most efficient in the TAVR. well do ne.
W0 2 Eric H ensby, RAPC has just completed '
years serv ice with the TA VR and seems to attend WO! M ax M aloney formed the C pls. M ess, now
two drill nights a week at va rious drill halls helping a most thriving concern ; he also set the battalion well
(or is it checking?) where he ca n. W02 Russell is on the road for our Presentation of Colours in 198 1
to continue serving with us as a uconrate", a de- and we know he will be there on the day ! Under his
cision we are delighted about and we wish him well leadership, the WO and Sgts. M ess has never been
for the future; he will act as part time PS I for HQ happier and we take this opportuniry of thanking
Coy . whil st continuing to keep a day to day eye on him and wishing him God Speed. ( H e is being com-
the pay side. missioned and will be joining the 3rd Battalion ea rl y
in the New Year ). In his place we welcome WO
At the end of camp we sa id farewell to M a j. Burr from 8 CTT, Guildford (and formerl y, the 2nd
G ordon C rumley (our then Training M ajor ) ; he Bn).
has moved to W arminster to take up his new appoint-
ment as 2IC of the new Infantry D emonstration Lt.-Col. F oster H erd handed over command to
Battalion and the last we hea rd of him was that he L t. -Co l. Mike Dudding on 22 D ecember and, like
was lost among the 45 or so different ca p badges! WO! M aloney, he h as done so much for the Battalion
We thank him for all he did for the ba ttalion during over a p articularly busy period in our history and has
his tour ( wh ich included 3 camps) and wish him made such a notable contribution to the h igh standa rds
well for the future. S/ Sgt . Sa unders, PSI C Coy., within the battalion. W e wish him every good for-
also leaves us shortly to return to the 3rd Bn. and tune for the future and the thanks and best wishes of
we welcome in his place Sgt. D. ] . M cCa ig, also from every man in the Battalion go to him and his wife,
3 QUEENS. S ue.
At the end of the year we also say farewell to
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Division HQ COY.
On 23 May, a M emori al to those of The USAFE OC M aj. M . E . Girling, QUEENS .
9l st Bombardment Group (H eavy) who lost their CSM WOZ (CSM) N. T. V. King, QUEENS.
lives during the Second World War was unveiled
by M aj. G en. Stanley T. Wray who commanded H elped by M aj. Jim J onklaas, we won the Inter-
Bassingbourn in 1942/ 43. (The 91 st served at Bassing- Coy. C ricket Competition. M eanwhile we are
bourn from 1942/ 45 before the Station was returned continually in the throes of the new Basic Fitness
to the Roya l Air Force). The M emori al Stone, whi ch T est and we are even putting all ranks through
was dedicated by the Venerable Archdeacon P . M allet, Weapon H andling T ests ( T sOET). Cpl. Felton and
QHC, AKC Chaplain G eneral, is backed by a Pro- L / Cpl. Ash run the Armoury and keep cheerful.
peller from a B 17 ("Fl ying Fortress") brought to
England from Africa. The U SAFE M emori al stands The CS M and his fami ly have moved to their
close to the C hangi Cemetery L ych G ate brought own new house in Royston ; he will be particula rl y
to East Anglia from Tanglin Garri son C hurch, Singa- pleased when he sees the colour of the crocuses that
pore, with which the Chaplain General has had M aj. ( QM ) P. N ewman ha s had planted outside
connections. The ceremony was attended by some the Company Office!
300 USAFE Veterans and thei r famili es who had
come over from America for the week. A COV.
On Ma y 25, a Glenn Miller Charity Concert, Since M ay, M aj. P aul Truman has escaped to
performed by the " Million Airs" Orchestra, took place Gibraltar, and M aj. Richard Murph y has (at las t )
in Hanger 3, where the late Maj . Glenn Miller is arri ved to replace him . The former will long be
reported to ha ve given concerts in 1944; the Orchestra remembered for his tree planting activities around the
was conducted by Miff King and played music in D epot, including a steel Propeller Tree opposite D epot
the G lenn Miller style. Among arti sts taking part HQ . Our 2IC, Ca pt. Nick K ea rns, is attending
were Anne Shelton, P eanuts Hucko and June Allyso n JDSC at Warminster, lea rning how to burn the mid-
who pl ayed the part of Mrs. Glenn Miller in the night oil without artificial stimulation! Lt. Justin
fi lm-"The Glenn Miller Story". The evening was Hiscock has taken his place.
compered by Alan D ell of BBC R adio 2 Big Band
Sound. Sgt . Kim Leach married "local girl " L / Cp l.
J an W astle of the MT PI. in November ( we believe
On May 27 and 28, Intern ation al Air T attoo she drove him to it! ) The other new "pad" is Cp l.
staged an Anglo-American Air F estival and the Bar- Mick Vessey who has married a girl from his home
racks came alive to the Sound of Aircraft. The R ed town- Scunthorpe.
Arrows were impeccable and the H arvards noisy,
but rather nice for the old 'uns' amongst us to hear To minimize the risk of getting married himself,
again; the Canadian Air Force Starfighters looked Lt. Dick H arper has acquired a black L abrador to
more like something out of Star W ars. share his life.
Bank Holiday Weekend was blessed with superb Lt. Alasdair Goulden 's status h as been somewhat
weather and all profits were jointly in aid of the raised following a recent trip to the vineya rds of
RAF and Army Benevo lent Funds. Portugal. Although his report was highly commended,
it is significant that he still has problems writing
In Jul y the annual School Exhibition was staged Exercise Instructions ; meanwhile we are making the
for Eastern Di strict at Bassingbourn and some 20,000 doors around the Company lines slightly wider for
schoolchildren aged 14- 16 years visited over three him!
days; unfortunatel y it was cold, wet and windy.
Cpl. Adrian Hall is shortly to become a civilian,
C pl. D. White is to be congratulated on winning and is settling into his house in Warminster. Cpl.
the J ervis White C up for the Best SMG Shot at the Stephen Hannington, who came as part of 2 QUEENS
Eastern District Skill- at-Arms M eeti ng ; he went on Incremental trai ning team, has chosen to stay on
to Bi sley to win an SMG Army M edal and Bar and will shortly be going on h is instructors course.
for being placed 2 1st in the Army SMG Fin als. Cpl. Frankie Owen has also joined us from the 3rd
Bn.
In J anuary, Lt.-Col. Hugh Lohan fini shes his
tour in command and hands over to Lt.-Col. Kerr y In a desperate attempt to compete with Eddie
Woodrow, R. ANGLIAN . Col. Lohan's tour is noted W aring, Sgt. John Edwards organised the
for the major improvements to living and working Company " It's a Knockout" team for Bonfire Night
conditions in the Barracks and for, we hope, getting and has even managed to involve the wives in strenuous
definite progress in the construction of our own and dangerous physical act ivities. Cpls. Eddie D ale,
Range in the camp. As the C O is himse lf an accom- K eith Fidge and K ev in McC readie continued to en-
plished sportsman, the D epot's successes in Army hance the excellent reputation of our NCOs at the
Sports have been numerous during the las t two yea rs. D epot . Since June we have passed out 40 recruits to
We all wish Col. and Mrs. Lohan and their family the three regu lar battalions, including the foll owing
good fortune in their next posting and in the future. prizewinners: - Best R ecruit, Tobruk PI.-Pte.
One lasting momento will be the Officers' Mess Shepherdly ( to 2 QUEENS ); Best SLR Shot, Al-
"Bistro", which Col. Hugh designed and decorated in buhera PI.-Pte. Pearson ( to 3 QUEENS ); Best
his usual manner ( memories of Gibraltar, Hol ywood Recruit, Mons Pl.-Pte. Garcia ( to 3 QUEENS );
and Bulford! ) Best SLR Shot, M ons PI.-Pte. P erry ( to 3
QUEENS ).
The company has also passed out Pte. Bashford
( Albuhera PI. ) and Pte. W adsworth ( Blenheim PI. )
who have now gone to the 3rd Bn.
44 Brigadier), as have a number of Drummers whose
places have been take n by new platoons of the same
B COY.
name.
We have finally recovered from the disrup tion of
the Fireman's strike and the extra training team (for- W ate rloo, comma nded by Lt. Rob Hook and
med as a result) has now dispersed: 2/ Lt. aided by Sgt. Daines, has now completed its first
Drummond-Brady departed for an exchange visit to term 's training and ]Pte. Burgess (QUEENS ) is to
Australia; Cpls. Peacock and Brown returned to the be congratulated on winning the best turned out re-
3rd Bn ., and Sgt. Edwards and Cpl. Owens are cruit award on the Passing Off The Square Parade.
sa fely back with A Coy. Lt. Hook also found time to get married and to his
wife Elizabeth, we extend a hea rt y welcome. Con-
We welcome C pl. Spencer from the 1st Bn. and gratulations, also, to Sgt. Oliver ( recently promoted )
Lt. Barr and Cpl. Albrecht (and his Disco) from the who has taken over as Platoon Sergeant of Sobraon
3rd Bn. Sgt. D avidson soon leaves us for The l]LB Pl. ; he and Sgt . Daines have been joined by Sgt.
where he will be a drill instructor, whilst Cpls. Scully Ward of the Drums Pl.-all of whom form a nice
and Odell (for the third time) return to the 1st and regimental cliche of Platoon Sergeants.
Cpl. H ay nes to the 2nd. Sgt. H ewitt, Cpl. Turner
and Cpl. Frazer are still here and Cpl. Hassan has Sevastopol Pl., who joined us on 12 Sept., found
returned to the fold from the J unior Soldiers. Fin all y, themselves commanded by WOII Davies, (formerly
Cpl. Beaney continues as the only Queensman in 3rd Bn. ), who arrived at the D epot at the same
Coy. HQ. time. With his staff, which includes the inimitable
Cpl. " Dusty" Miller, he has been making budding
C COY. soldiers out of erstwhile schoolboys.
The Company was heavi ly involved in the Bas- The highlight-as far as the Band and Drums
singbourn Anglo-American Air F esti val and associated are concerned-was the thoroughly enjoyable trip to
events. The Band and Drums performed twice daily Royston's twin town, Grossalmerode; they proved a
in the Arena and proved so popular that their presence popular spectacle in the town and their performances
has been requested by the International Air T attoo were well attended (a far cry from one of their local
for their Show at RAF Greenham Common next engagements during the summer when performers out-
year. numbered the audience!) Thanks to 1 QUEENS,
who were most helpful in providing accommodation
However, th e Air Festival and the Schoolboys and support, the visit was an all round success, for
Exhibition were diversions, albeit enjoyable ones, which Bandmaster Price and his staff are to be
from our priority task of training. Waterloo and congratulated.
Sevastopol platoons have passed out ( parades being
take n by The Colonel of the R egt. and The Divisional
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