i have double memories,i started with the royals in 58,did 7 years,then when i returned to detmold from detatchment i was told i was being posted to the blues yep you guessed it harewood barracks herford.
These 2 pictures evoke some good memories I was there through 58 & 59 when the regiment moved from Wesendorf, "A" Squadron tech stores and 5 troop was home to me. I left the Royals, transferred to the14th20thKings Hussars when the regiment went to Aden, and just prior to my demob. Looking at the 2 photographs and just how much has changed, I wonder what happened to all of the houses to the rear and to the right of the original picture. Some 8 0r 9 years ago I was in Hereford on business, and visited the camp, the Cherrypickers were in residence but the sergeant guard commander allowed me in and escorted me around the camp very little appeared tp have changed, and down in the cellar of "A" sqdn building the drinking room that 4 of us had decorated (with permission ) was still there. Catalkoy, (Bryan Rowland).
These senior moments keep hapening,I made an error re which regiment was at Herford during my visit It was in fact the 17th 21st Lancers and not the Cherrypickers. Catalkoy (Bryan Rowland0.
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Not much changed here in the last 52 years.
i have double memories,i started with the royals in 58,did 7 years,then when i returned to detmold from detatchment i was told i was being posted to the blues yep you guessed it harewood barracks herford.
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These 2 pictures evoke some good memories I was there through 58 & 59 when the regiment moved from Wesendorf, "A" Squadron tech stores and 5 troop was home to me. I left the Royals,
ReplyDeletetransferred to the14th20thKings Hussars when the regiment went to Aden, and just prior to my demob. Looking at the 2 photographs and just how much has changed, I wonder what happened to all of the houses to the rear and to the right of the original picture. Some 8 0r 9 years ago I was in Hereford on business, and visited the camp, the Cherrypickers were in residence but the sergeant guard commander allowed me in and escorted me around the camp very little appeared tp have changed, and down in the cellar of "A" sqdn building the drinking room that 4 of us had decorated (with permission ) was still there.
Catalkoy, (Bryan Rowland).
These senior moments keep hapening,I made an error re which regiment was at Herford during my visit It was in fact the 17th 21st Lancers and not the Cherrypickers. Catalkoy (Bryan Rowland0.
ReplyDeleteOnce JHQ in Rheindahlen closes in about 2014. Herford will become the HQ for all Army pers left in Germany.
ReplyDeleteAnother 44 photos added above..........not all photos were mine, some from Brian & Cal's album
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