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Leader Magazine
SUMMER 1965.
'D' COMPANY NOTES.
Champion Company two terms on the run, that is the score to date. We had a very good football and hockey season, which of course put us in a good position for Champion Company last term, also the term before. We are having a hard fight this term to retain the title of Champion Company.
Since the last edition we have said goodbye to our second in command, Captain Lockett, Royal Signals, and to Lieutenant Brodie, Black Watch, on posting to BAOR. In place of them we have Captain G.F. Owens from Dettinger Platoon as second in command, and Lieutenants Stamp and Duncan as platoon commanders, of Dettingen and Cambrai platoons respectively. Of the permanent staff sergeants, we have lost Staff Sergeant Thomas and Sergeants Pitchford and Dodgson. Their replacements are Sergeants Foister, Lowe and Dance.
CSM Holloway left at the end of last year for a warmer climate, and in his chair we have another military policeman, CSM Lawrence.
Lieutenant Murray RMP, Minden Platoon Commander, has taken the plunge and enrolled in the happy ranks of married bliss.
OC Delta Company wishes all past and present Junior Leaders the best of luck for the future.
DETTINGEN PLATOON
Since the last edition of the Leader magazine the Platoon has had a very good year. It started by winning the Rhyl Cup last summer, the team leader being J/Sgt Veck, who has since left the Regiment on man service. We have also had our share of Regimental sportsmen, four of whom were in the football team and three in the hockey. One of them, J/Sig Greatholder, set the Regimental record by scoring 7 goals. In the boxing world we have J/Cpl Hamilton, who did very well in being the runner up in the Western Command Championship. As far as inter-platoon sport goes, we won the Playfoot Cup (football) last Christmas by beating Normandy 5 goals to 0 in the final.
Two new members of the Permanent Staff have joined the Platoon. Sgt Foister took over from Sgt Gardner, who is now an instructor at the AOBS Morfa, Towyn, and the new Platoon Commander is Lt Stamp, who is the ex-Platoon Commander of Waterloo, which was disbanded at the end of the Spring term. We have eight ex-Waterloo boys in the Platoon, including the present Pl Sgt, who is J/Sgt Berriman. Our old Commander, Capt Owens, who is soon to be posted, is now 2IC of the Company. All lads wish him the best of luck with his new posting.
CAMBRAI PLATOON
Since the last edition of the Leader, Cambrai Platoon has had a fairly eventful and happy year with frequent changes of command. Lt. Brodie of The Black Watch handed the happy crew over to 2/Lt Duncan of The Gordon Highlanders, who still cannot see what it is that makes them happy. Sgt Dodgson of the Royal Pioneer Corps has also left us. He is now a S/Sgt and is serving in Germany. Sgt Dance, of The Royal Pioneer Corps, has arrived as Sgt Dodgson's replacement and, together with Sgt Low of The Gordon Highlanders, they are the sole distributors of "guiding light" to the eager-so-learn mass that is Cambrai.
As a platoon, Cambrai has had a fairly successful year. In the cricket sphere we achieved a hat-trick by winning the Inter-Platoon Cricket Cup for the third year in succession. We have managed to stay in the Top Five in the Rhyl Cup in the past year, and are determined to maintain and improve this. We had a very successful football team last winter, which contained J/Sgt Smith, J/L/Bdr Coyle, J/Sig Kelly and J/Pte Kelman of the Regimental team.
There are many of Cambrai whose individual efforts have contributed to Company, Regimental and in some cases Command efforts. Throwing a hard punch is Tiger Titch Turner (J/L/Bdr), who is Army Junior Individual Champion and I.S.B.A. Champion, In the Spring Term he was runner up in the Western Command Championships. Ready to step into his gloves when he leaves is J/Gnr Pollard, who was Army Junior Champion and Western Command Champion in the Spring Term. J/Cpl Ralph has had a great deal of success pursuing the exciting sport of skiing. He represented the Regiment in Norway where he gained the N.S.F. Bronze Medal. Cpl Relph tells us that Norway is a fabulous place. However, I was just a little suspicions when he expressed an ardent desire to return to Norway in August, which is hardly the snowiest of months....
J/Sgt Smith captained last season's Regimental Football Team, which had a very good run in the Welsh Youth Cup. J/L/Bdr Rea plays a hard game for the Regiment at Basketball. J/Pte Hencher is a cross-country runner. This also came as a surprise to me.... He ran so well for the Company and for the cross-country hobby. He has now transferred to the Sailing hobby, and finds it easier to get to Aberdovey in a three tonner than running. Bowen is still cycling, and from all accounts is daily breaking the record from Block 183 to Barmouth. The same cannot be said for the return journey - he does not seem to have the same drive. He is also a very keen road walker, and is frequently seen at 0200hrs accompanied by Knight and other playboys of the Welsh Riviera "thumbing it" along the Barmouth - Block 183 road....
The members of Cambrai are rather preoccupied at the moment by having been confronted with Rhyl Cup and all the training it entails. They are mentally pushed finding thirty-four different reasons for withdrawing their services....
At the last Platoon meeting it was obvious that everyone was looking forward to the coming year, and the majority proposed that holidays should be stopped as they interrupt the flow and continuity of training which might jeopardise their chances of promotion in the first month of man's service.
MINDEN PLATOON
With the closure of one platoon in "D" Company at the end of the Spring Term, we welcome seven Junior Leaders from Waterloo Platoon to strengthen our ranks.
Congratulations to J/Sgt Innes on his promotion to J/CSM and to J/Sgt Nicholls from Waterloo Platoon as our new platoon Sgt.
"D" Company were once again Champion Company in the Spring Term, and Minden made their contribution to this by coming third in the Rhyl Cup and third in the Shooting Competition. We hope to do well this term in these coming events.
In January last term J/Cpls Thompson, Dyer and J/Cpl Burton took part in the Western Command Boxing Championships. Thompson and Dyer became champions, but Burton was beaten in the final. Thompson and Dyer went on to the Army Trials in March, but both lost in the finals.
This term our representatives in Regimental Activities are few. J/L/Cpl Harness is in the Regimental Cricket Team and J/Pte Nicholls runs in the Regimental Athletics team. J/Ptes Young, Clayton and J/Gnr Cooke have been performing in the Gymnastics display team. and J/Ptes Brown and Eley in the Judo display team. Minden is represented in the Corps of Drums by J/Ptes Searchfield and Moodie. J/Sgt Nicholls is leading bugler.
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