BRANCH MEMBERS' MEMORIES

Dave Ball
Dave was placed in a Barnado Home in 1942 and, in 1948 with his brother and sister, went to South Africa. He ran away from home at 16 and joined the SA Army. He left for the Merchant Navy but decided he could walk farther than he could swim and came home to sign up with the British Army in the Bedfordshire/Hertfordshire Regiment and later the Royal Anglian Regiment. He served in Germany, Malaya and Singapore for a total of 14 years. Photo taken while Dave was serving in the South African Army with the Witwatersrand Rifles.

Bill Wise - Dodwells Ridge, Hong Kong, 1959
Attached to 5th Regiment R A
Part of 48 Ghurkha Infantry Brigade Group
Served six years all told, two years in Hong Kong

Final Parade of The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
27 Jan 07 in Exeter - the Duke of Kent takes the salute
First two rows are Generals. Third row Brigadiers.
Col Graham Jefferies, 3rd row closest to the Duke of Kent

Don Dykes

Member of the Order
of the British Empire (MBE)
Meritorious Service Medal (MSM)
General Service Medal (GSM)
Malaya Peninsula
Long Service & Good Conduct Medal with Bar (LS&GCM)

RAF Innsworth 1953

Don Dykes (Far left)

Eastern Radar RAF Watton where Don was the Adjutant.

AOC's Annual Inspection Parade of the Unit in 1965.

Basil Jones - The photo was taken in May 1955 at the then RAPC training depot at Devizes, Wiltshire. After passing out Basil was attached as a Unit Pay Clerk at the Royal Armoured Corps Depot at Bovington Camp, Dorset, during which time he undertook all the same duties as the RAC, guard duties, ceremonial parades etc. Demobbed in May 1957, he comments: "I can honestly say that I enjoyed my two years in HM forces."