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Brothers in arms - Minden 1969
The family nature of the Regiment is
illustrated by the numbers of brothers who served in the Regiment.
(L to R) 1 Cpl C Dando, Pte B Dando.
2 L/Cpl E Stockley, L/Cpl R Stockley 3 Pte B Sillence, Pte A
Sillence, 4 L/Cpl R White, Pte A White 5 Pte M Browne, L/Cpl A
Browne, 6 Pte Peter Choules, Pte Paul Choules, 7 Cpl W Potter,
Sgt E Potter, 8 Cpl M Collins, Pte F Collins, 9 Pte C Watton,
Sgt T Watton, 10 Pte A Watson, Pte N Watson, 11 Pte B
Barnfield, Pte K Barnfield, 12 Pte C Cook, Pte B Cook, 13
L/Cpl A Sawyer, Pte G Sawyer, 14 Pte A Hiscock, Pte N Hiscock 15
Cpl T Iles, Pte R Iles (NOT PRESENT) Cpl M Burton, Pte B Burton, Pte R
Edmonds, Pte P Edmonds, Pte Jordan, Pte Jordan, Pte Maher, Pte Maher.
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| Pte Jock Peet of A Company on
a winter exercise in we believe Haltern. Jock later became the longest
serving Private soldier in the Battalion retiring as the RSMs batman. |
Members of the mortar platoon
in Minden. (Right) is Cpl Steve Windsor later killed by a sniper in
Crossmaglen. |
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| Pte Sharpe training on the LMG
at Sennelager as reported in the newspaper. |
L/Cpl Mullins of the Signal
Platoon on exercise at Larzac, France. Like all 'Scallybacks' he appears to
be having rather a hard time of it. |
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| (Left) CSM 'Lofty Allcock, fag
in hand with an attached Australian in discussion with a Chaplain
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The Colonel in chief 'Chats'
to two of A Companies finest during a visit to the Battalion |
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| Sgt Head explaining the finer
points of a HEAT round to the Colonel in Chief during a visit to the
Battalion. |
The last day of freedom for
Drummer P Wilkes. Married at Minden (Believed Garrison Church) |
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A well dressed group of off duty Drummers
attending Drummer Wilkes Wedding. An interesting photo in as much as this
was the standard that had to be achieved when going out on the town. It must
be said that the return to barracks after a good night on the 'shant' in
Minden resulted in a somewhat poorer turnout. Drummer Harry Angier, (Right) |
Two members of the Regiment on route home on
the Ostend boat (Left) Stan Sawyer, Sandy Sanderson and Wife |
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| Pte Dave Nicholls, continuing
to pose (See Malta Section) |
Two members of C Company
(Right ) 'Beefy Jones from Reading and his little mate from Maidenhead. (Can
anyone assist with name) |
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| Lt Williams an officer of C
Company, running as part of the C Company 'Nines Cup' cross country team. |
Other members of the C Company
team (2nd) is 'Farmer' who could drink the average Russian under the table,
but who excelled in Cross Country running. C Coy regularly won the 'Nines
cup' during the Minden years. |
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| A motley group of C Coy
Soldiers (Left) Bill Potter, also in the group is Louie Emery. |
C Coy Football team after
winning the Battalion football competition. As with Cross Country running
this Company was indeed the top sporting company in Minden. !! (Rear Row L
to R)?, Pte 'Abdul' Moore, ?, Cpl Jim Fletcher, Pte Dave Nicholls, Pte Davisson, Sgt Culverhouse. (Front Row L to R) ?, Pte Jenkins, Lt Col Gibson
(CO), Maj Canning (OC C Coy) L/Cpl Dave Fielding, Pte Paddy O' Reilly. |
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| One more view of C Companies
victorious football team. They tended as a matter of course to wipe the
floor of the other companies (L to R) Rear Row ?, Dave Culverhouse, Jim
Fletcher, Dave Nicholls, 'Abdul' Moore (Front Row L to R) ?, ?, ?, Dave
Fielding, Pte Jenkins, Paddy O'Reilly, Pte DDDDavidson. |
The Corps of Drums practice on
the square, Clifton Barracks, Minden. The barrack blocks in the background
housed the rifle companies. |
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| Guard Mounting, on the square
Clifton Barracks, Minden. This took place at 18.00 hours each evening in
full number two dress. A natural duty for any infantryman, but nevertheless
a pain in the neck. |
Same square same group. The
Corporal of the guard appears to have got his 'Left turn' in just before the
lads crashed into the hockey goalposts. For those of you with ever deceasing
brain cells, the guard room is top right of the photograph. Directly
opposite is Battalion HQ. |
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| (Left to right) L/Cpl LANGDON
(Regimental Police) after demob he later became the mayor of Windsor. Cpl
Paul BURROUGHS (Battalion Clerk) Cpl TRISTRAM (Signal Platoon) as indicated
by the wearing of the white lanyard After leaving the Regiment he joined the
territorial army attaining the rank of Major. Pte HOBBS (One of two brothers
in the Battalion) Pte HAWKINS. |
Battalion Headquarters group.
Lieutenant Colonel GIBSON (Centre) Lt Terry DALY (Front row) 6th
from left. RSM WILLIAMS (Front row) 2nd From left. L/Cpl
BURROUGHS (Rear row) 4th from left. Can be dated to early 1969 as
they are still wearing the Wessex Brigade Cap badges |
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| An unidentified DERR Soldier
working an Armoured Fighting Vehicle 432 in the garage area at Clifton
Barracks. He is shown changing one of the rubber road pads on the vehicles
tracks. These were in place to minimise the damage to German road systems. |
Believed Recce Platoon (L to
R) Cpl Joe Hunt,L/Cpl Keegan, Pte Dave Reason, (Behind) L/Cpl Brian Smith engaged in the act of Track
breaking. The photo shows a No 2 burner burning out the track bushes (Which
held the track pins in) prior to the pin being removed with a sledge hammer.
Note the oily state of overalls. |
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| A very dirty (Oily) Lance
corporal of the DERR engaged in the removal of a from sprocket from an APC.
Working on these vehicles took up a lot of time. Some of the drivers got so
obsessed with cleaning their 'Own' beast that they became a pain in the neck
in their own right. (Paddy O'Reilly if you are still out there, please note) |
(Rear row) 2nd from
left Cpl Mitch MORTIMER, (Rear Row) 6th from left) Pte RYAN
(later committed suicide) Capt ANDRE (Centre) This group can be identified
to this time as it was just prior to the issue of camouflaged combat suits,
and after the introduction of the Regimental cap badge in early 1969 |
