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Leader Magazine
SUMMER 1965.
EDITORIAL.
Taking up our editorial pen to introduce this final edition of The Leader, we resist firmly the temptation to write either a recessional requiem for Tonfanau or a personal valediction to it. Change is the essence of army life, and though the unit, having fulfilled its purpose, is preparing to fade away gracefully in the traditional fashion of old soldiers, the life of the past year as chronicled in these pages seems to have been as vigorous and varied as ever. Doubtless it will continue so until the day the sheep come down again from the mountains to repossess a deserted camp.
No doubt the training on these Welsh mountains stood Captain Owens and his gallant band in good stead when they came to tackle the more formidable challenge of the Corsican peaks, as described and illustrated elsewhere in the magazine. They could climb the Monte Cinto ... but they couldn't tell lemon curd from mustard!
We are indebted once again to Major Hardy's abiding interest in military history, this time for his account of Indian Army life as seen through the slightly bloodshot eyes of Kipling, a poet we suspect him of preferring to Shakespeare. Readers will scarcely recognise the solitary figure in the solar topee, trekking manfully across the desert waste, but we assure them that it actually was Mr. Krell, some time after the battle of Plassey! Horified to discover that some Junior Leaders believed his Battle Honours article in our last issue to consist largely of personal reminiscences, Mr. Krell has turned to astrology and the future for his current contribution.
Captain Peters' service with the King's African Rifles forms the background to his article on that regiment, while Major Nunn, RADC, though taught to be cautious by his training, nevertheless rebuts the arguments of the opponents of water fluoridation, in the hope of eventually reducing his swollen list of patients!
Padre Williams had promised us an article on the sufferings of Wales at the hands of the perfidious English, but so painful did the subject prove that he could not bring himself to write it, and we had to call on our editorial alter ego, Nodrog ap Friog, to fill the gap by describing the martyrdom of a contemporary Welsh hero.
The editors hope you will enjoy this, our last issue: Valete!
Editor: Capt. G. Millington, R.A.E.C.
Assistant Editor : Lt. D.M. Peters, R.A.E.C.
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