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| 1st
Bn Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment
(Berkshire and Wiltshire) |
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Commemoration parade of the Battle of
Ferozeshah 23rd June 1972 |
| This year the parade took place
in Brooke Barracks, Berlin on the 23rd June 1972. It took place in the
presence of 140 Old comrades, all of whom had travelled long distances
from England to attend.. They included Ex C/Sgt CRUMP of the Royal
Berkshires who had joined in 1909, and Lt George WOOLENOUGH the Regiments
first Commanding Officer on Formation in 1959.. Many of the old comrades
watching the precision and ceremony of this glittering parade must have
remembered the times when they themselves had been on parade and waited
with tightening throats for that most moving moment when the Colours were
handed over. Lt Col CRABTREE, commanding the parade charged the Warrant
Officers and Sergeants to
"Safeguard these Colours, and let
the fact that our Colours are entrusted to your keeping be not only a
reminder of past services but also a visible expression of the confidence
and trust which your officers justly place in you" |
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The Regimental Colour being
trooped through the ranks of the Battalion, Regimental Colour Bearer,
C/Sgt WATTON. |
| ORDER
OF PARADE |
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Commanding Officer |
Lieutenant Colonel D.T. CRABTREE |
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Second in Command |
Major J.R.E. LAIRD |
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Adjutant |
Captain D.R. SOUTHWOOD |
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No 1 Company |
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Major M.R. Vernon Powell
Captain N.J.N. SUTTON
2nd Lt A.F.R. Stevenson |
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No 2 Company |
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Major D.A. Jones
Captain A.C. Kenway
Lt C. Ireson
Lt R.G. Medley |
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No 3 Company |
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Major J.E. HORTON
Captain R.K. Titley
Lt D.J.A. Stone
2nd Lt B.R.F. Franklin |
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No 4
Company |
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Regimental Sergeant Major G.
Pinchen |
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Colour Ensigns
Lt S.W.J. Saunders
Lt A.P.B. Lake |
Colour bearers
Colour Sgt T WATTON
Colour Sgt P. HULL |
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Bandmaster
WO 1 N. BORLASE, ARCM |
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Drum Major
WO 11 P. FERRIS |
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| The
Queens Colour on Parade, 23rd June 1972, Berlin |
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