2009
is at Otterburn Sun 9 - Fri 21 Aug.
Only
days to go !
See:
www.otterburnranges.co.uk/story-and-struggle
See the Sennybridge Camp 08 photographs taken by Lt Col Bob West |
The 2007-8 Archive
Competition winner was Mildenhall
RTR Detachment, A Coy - awarded £65. 2nd was
Wattisham
AAC Detachment, A Coy - awarded £40.
3rd was Beccles
R Anglian Detachment - awarded £30. Highly commended was
Ipswich RTR
(now Ipswich RLC)
Detachment, C Coy. |
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It
could save the life you love
- a 2 minute film about how to recognise the symptoms or signs of a heart
attack in yourself or of someone you love (From Lt Col
Bob West TD).
And also see:
Did you know this Heart
Attack advice ? |
Sadly,
the submitted copy for the Dec 07 'Castle' (The Regimental Journal of the
Royal Anglian Regt) did not appear in print - probably down to the printing
company!
However, it can be viewed by clicking this line.
But beware if you are not on
Broadband as the pdf
file is 2 megabytes and you will be locked-out for ages !
Happily, all that submitted to the editor of the Suffolk Section 'Britannia
and Castle' (Regimental Journal of the Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Royal
Norfolk, East Anglian and Royal Anglian Regimental Associations) was
printed.
Click here for the 'B&C' and 'Castle' Jun 08 submissions - both
published in full. |
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to
:
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Lt Col
Kelvin Ives on his appointment as
Commandant SACF, in the rank of Colonel and to Maj
Bob
West TD on his appointment as Deputy Commandant SACF, in the rank of Lt
Colonel, wef 1 Feb 08.
Click here for the photographs.
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Cpl
Lauren
Stoddart,
Hadleigh
REME, on being awarded a BTEC
Merit.
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C Coy on winning the
County Cross
Country Competition held on Sun 3 Feb 08 at Woodbridge, organised by C
Coy.
Click here for some of the photographs.
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A Coy teams in the
Colonels Cup
Competition held on STANTA Fri 8 - Sun 10 Feb 08. It was won by Team A1
from A Coy, led by Cpl
John
King of
Wattisham with a score of 31 points.
Runners-up were Team A2 from A Coy, led by Cpl
Daniel Allsebrook of BStE with a score of 29 points. It was
masterminded by Lt
Nick Binks with adult
support from Cty HQ, A, B and C Coys.
Click here
for some photographs - more to
follow.
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2Lt Rob Simpkin,
Mildenhall Det, A Coy on his commissioning.
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All SACF participants and
supporting Adults at the Regional Cross
Country Competition on Sun 2 Mar 08 at Waterbeach, Cambs.
Far right, below, is Col Roger Herriot, Cambs ACF Commandant and a SACF
silver medallist.
More photographs, results and Regional selections to follow.
Meanwhile, see below.
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  Recipients
of awards
presented by The Right Honourable Lord Tollemache
KStJ JP, HM Lord Lieutenant
for Suffolk, to members of Suffolk Reserve
Forces and Cadets at the Yarmouth Road Territorial Army Centre in Ipswich on
11 March 2008. He presented Suffolk Army Cadet Force
Staff
Sergeant Instructor ('Mr Fixit')
Roger Austin,
Hadleigh Detachment, C Coy, with his Cadet Medal, awarded for 12 years of exemplary service,
near left. Cadets, selected from the Sea Cadet Corps, Army Cadets, Combined Cadet Force
and the Air Training Corps, who have achieved exceptional results in
training proficiency, bearing and turnout, were appointed as Lord
Lieutenant’s Cadets for 2008 and received badges, which they will proudly
wear on their uniform, and certificates. Cadet
Company Sergeant Major
Luke Underdown,
Lowestoft North Detachment, B Company,
was selected to represent SACF, 2nd photograph.
Click here for more
on Luke. 3rd photograph, Maj Bob Potter
MBE, CEO Suffolk ACF; Suffolk Army Cadet Force
Staff
Sergeant Instructor Roger Austin,
Hadleigh Detachment, C Coy; The Right Honourable Lord Tollemache, HM
Lord Lieutenant for Suffolk; Cadet
Company Sergeant Major
Luke Underdown,
Lowestoft North Detachment, B Company.
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Our 2
Suffolk ACF runners, right, who represented E Region at the
National Cross
Country Championships held at Warcop in Cumbria on Sat 15 Mar 08: LCpl
Libby Kelly (Haverhill Det, A Coy) and Cdt
Lee Lockwood (RTR Det, C Coy) ensured E Region yet again were declared 'Overall Champions'. In gruelling
conditions, they were placed, respectively, 4th and 22nd out of
60 runners in their group. Cdt Lee Lockwood
was awarded his Regional Cross-Country Colours - LCpl
Libby Kelly was awarded her Regional
Colours in 2007, coming in 2nd. More photographs
to follow.
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RTR Det, C Coy, at Ipswich, on a most
successful and enjoyable Inspection by the Webmaster on Mon 31 Mar.
Cdt
Cpl Katie Barnes
conducted the opening and closing parades, smartly and promptly, with
excellent presence and command.
Special thanks to CAA C Coy Capt
Ron McDaid, Det Comd SI
Libby Stopard
and SI Carl Sheehan for a most
efficiently
prepared evening. The lessons
given by SI
Paul
Perry
of Ipswich Holbrook Guards and Lt Glen
Page of C Coy were admirable.
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SSI
Ian
Partridge,
Ipswich QRL Detachment, C Coy
and SSI Mark
Cummings,
Ixworth Grenadier Guards Detachment, A Coy on their promotions.
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Our
SACF Cadets participating in the Apr 08 Combat Cadet Competition on
STANTA : Cdt James Baxter
- Ixworth Det A Coy; LCpls Callum Featherstone
and
Shannen Garner - Beccles Det B Coy;
LCpl Mark Nagorski
- Haverhill Det A Coy; LBdrs
Owen Pick and
Ryan Ward
- Mildenhall Det A Coy;
Cdt Tara Salter - Ipswich
RTR Det, C Coy and LCpl Alexander
Quelch - Stowmarket Det A Coy (To whom thanks for the names.
Ed.)
Their 'Command Task' was executed with the utmost precision, directed by Team
Leader LBdr Daniel Allsebrook, BStE Det, A Coy.
And thanks to the supporting adults: Capt Cathy Bradshaw, SSI Grant Crouch,
County HQ and SI Paul Rumbell,
A Coy.
The
ashes of the parents of the Webmaster are scattered at Frog Hill and it is
a poignant reminder of their influence when an opportunity arises to visit
Frog Hill, (where the closing scene of Capt Mainwaring and his
'Dad's Army' were filmed) and that of the Bailey Bridge by the R Wissey where memories
of STANTA exercises of the 1970s and 1980s with 6 (V) Bn, The Royal Anglian
Regt come flooding back !
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Cadet
Company Sergeant Major
Luke Underdown,
Lowestoft North Det, B Coy, on promotion and
appointment as Suffolk ACF Cadet Regimental Sergeant Major wef 19 Apr 08.
See above and
click here for more photographs.
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All
participants and Adult staff at the damp
Sat 17 May County Athletics and County Tug of War Competitions in
Colchester.
The Junior ToW was won by
A Coy,
the Senior by C Coy
and the Champion Coy were
A Coy.
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SSI
Jason
Wade, Lowestoft RA, on his May 08
promotion,
right, photographed at Rollestone Camp 2005.
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SMI (Retd)
Ralph Bianco
on his presentation, at the May E Region Sports Ctee Mtg, of a framed
set of military cigarette cards in recognition of his sterling service
to Eastern Region Athletics over many years.
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The
SACF County 'Headshed', the Camp Trg Team presenters and all attending the
most successful
Sennybridge 08 Camp Briefing Weekend at the WETC Croxton
Sat 14 - Sun 15 Jun. The briefings were
magnificent
and the bonding through the inter-unit and Mess Sat evening competitions of
'Volleyball and Archery' and 'Pub Quiz' (for which special thanks to CEO Maj
Bob Potter
MBE) will ensure a 'Good Camp.
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Col
Paul Long
OBE, near right, our SACF Hon Col, recently honoured to be gazetted
as a Suffolk DL - ie Her Majesty's Deputy Lt for Suffolk.
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Capt James Preston
on assuming the appointment as OC C Coy wef 1 Jul 08.
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The promotion of SI
Jerry Ballam,
OC Leiston Det, B Coy.
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Beccles Det on
providing 18 Cadets and Adults for the Jun 08 re-dedication of the War Memorial and
the addition of the name of LCpl George Davey who died in Afghanistan in May
2007 while serving with 1 Royal Anglian.
Click here for the photographs.
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Beccles
Det on
providing 6 Adults and Cadets
to assist with erecting the stalls for the Jun 08 Beccles Hospital Fete.
Click here for the photographs.
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the following on their 1
Oct 08 postings
: Maj Andy Smith from OC A Coy to Cty HQ as
Cty Training Offr; Maj Glyn French TD (3 R
Anglian dual commission) as Sen Cdt Trg Offr; Capt Cathy Bradshaw from Cty HQ as OC A Coy; Lt
Ted Warren from Cty HQ as Trg Offr A
Coy; Maj Terry Thacker (ex-Norfolk ACF) as
OC B Coy; Maj Brian Lawn JP from OC B Coy
to B Coy Staff Offr; Lt Nick Binks from Cty
HQ as Trg Offr C Coy.
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B Coy
on a superb evening reception at the
Lowestoft TAC on Sat 5 Jul.
Click here for the photographs - more to follow.
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 Southwold
Det on collecting £800 and A Coy collecting £500 for SSAFA.
Click
here for the Press Release.
At the
Sat 5 Jul
Suffolk ACF Evening Reception in Lowestoft they presented a SACF cheque for
£1300 and,
for the 2nd year running, received the SSAFA Trophy for raising the most
money. For 7 years, a challenge trophy has been presented annually to the
Suffolk ACF Detachment raising the most money for the Soldiers, Sailors,
Airmen and Families Association. They were the winners for the 1st
3 years. Near right, Col Robin Newell OBE & Cdt RSM
Luke Underdown
with the cheque. Far right, SSI
Roger
Hemp
& Col Robin Newell OBE with the trophy.
Click here for the
Lowestoft Journal piece kindly sent by Col
Paul Denny.
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SMI Mark Galley
and Capt James Preston
on being invited to attend the Queen's Garden Party at Buckingham Palace
in Jul 2008.
Click here for an article with photographs.
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on the following awards made at Camp Sennybridge 2008:
Officers' Mess Soccer Team in the 1st Annual match v
the WOs' and Sgts' Mess. C Coy
- Inter Company Sports - awarded the
Lucas Tooth
Shield. CSgt Luke Derrett
of C Coy - Brooks Stick.
Maj Andy 'Monocle' Smith,
then OC A Coy, on the award of the Cadet Medal
for 12 years of exemplary service.
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Capt James Preston
and Jacqueline
on their Sat 27 Sep wedding at the Church of St
Peter and St Paul Aldeburgh, Suffolk and the majestic afternoon and evening receptions at Leiston Abbey.
Photographs to follow.
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Beccles
Det on providing 8 Cadets and 2 adults for the Sep Beccles Duck Race.
2500 ducks were released and £3500 raised for the 7 Beccles Middle Schools.
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PRO on meeting the Fri 17 Oct deadline for arrival at RHQ Bury St
Edmunds of SACF 'Castle' material and in Norwich for the
Suffolk Section of the 'Britannia & Castle' (Journal of the Cambs, Suffolk,
R Norfolk, E Anglian and R Anglian Regtl Associations)
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SI Steph
Pollard
on her initiative in getting a slot on Beach Radio in Nov to publicise her
unit.
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Cpl
Emily Simpkin on submitting a
majestic piece for the Dec 08 Suffolk Cdt on the Silver DofE Camp 08
Expedition - it is not often I receive such lucid and grammatically correct
article !
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Beccles
Det on a good turnout at the Remembrance Sunday Parade - especially to Cpls
Callum Featherstone (Std
Bearer), Shannen Garner
(Wreath Layer) and LCpl Gemma Ward
who wore the medals of her Great Great Grandfather.
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All participants at the Eastern Region Girls Multisports
at RAF Honington on Sat 15 - Sun 16 Nov.
SACF won the Netball and came 4th overall.
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All participants at the Sat 22
Nov Opening Ceremony of the Memorial Garden at Croxton.
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SSI Lee Cramsie
on his appointment, wef 1 Dec 08, as CSM C Coy and on promotion to SMI.
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SMI Mark Galley
on his appointment, wef 1 Jan 09, as County RSM and on promotion to RSMI.
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Beccles
Pl on a strong presence at the Fri 28 Nov 08 'Beccles Late Night Shopping'
event, running a raffle for SSAFA.
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Capt Ted Warren
on his promotion from Lt.
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SIs
Syd Payne
and
Paul Rumbell on promotion from PI.
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About the Artillery ?
Did you know this Heart
Attack advice Two
of our SACF Adults served with the SAS ie 'Special Air Service' - no names
and don't ask ! |
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For some Old Stuff: Look at Suffolk ACF on 'Facebook' for some 'Old Faces' ! |
FORECAST
OF EVENTS
Forecast
of Events to 2010 on an Excel Spreadsheet - Thanks to Dep Commdt, Lt Col
Bob West TD. |
 
The Beast is back ! After 5
months 'in-dock, the SACF Webmaster's 1962 race-spec Austin Healey 3000 returned to Suffolk
in Oct 07 after major repairs. It had been a sad summer without my and my wife
of 40 years, Janine, feeling the 'Wind in our hair'! A free 'fast ride (in daylight and dry weather only) {J9 was once clocked at
124ph and at 101 db before 'running out of road'} is offered to the 1st SACF Cadet who can state the 1st name of the originator of the 'Healey'
marque. Ah, it was 'The Beast' J9 which clocked 124 mph - not my long suffering wife Janine - aka
J9 - hence the roundel !
Wife J9s
decibel level when I have offended is 'Classified' ! Send me
Major
John L Raybould TD your rank, 1st name and surname plus home address and tel no and a
suitable date for a ride. Ear defenders are essential ! |
Spot
the 'Dress Error' in the photograph !
Click the image for a larger view.
Send me an e-mail
with 'Dress Error' as the subject, stating : your first name and surname on
line 1, your SACF Det on line 2, the answer on line 3.
The reward is a mention of your name on the site ! (9 Nov)
The winner is Maj (Retired)
Garry Turner, former County Training Officer,
spotting the incorrect wearing of a Royal Norfolk tie with No 2 Dress! |
5
episodes of 'Ross Kemp in Afghanistan 2007', featuring 1 R ANGLIAN, were
broadcast on Sky TV in Jan - Feb 08. A great piece of reporting and
fantastic coverage of the battalion, too. Tim Wilkes kindly sent
advice that the series is available to anyone with a computer and broadband
via ‘YouTube’. Click the line below for
the links :
Ross Kemp in Afghanistan - YouTube |
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Col
Alan Munro TD
Jenny Hammond
John Hunns Addition
to the obituary for Capt Doug James by Lt Col Dan Baily |
Click
here for some of the 2007 Barry Buddon camp photographs prepared for magazine articles
Click here for some photographs of the Mar 08 Offrs Mess Dinner
See the Sennybridge Camp 08 photographs taken by Lt Col Bob West |
Capt
Gary
Day, A Coy Training Officer;
SSI
V Casey, SIs
G Challis,
DM Lewis and
B Rudd, all B Coy, in Jan 08.
Col Paul Denny - SACF
Commandant 1 Jul 2003 - 1 Feb 2008, after 50 years in uniform. Click the
underlined words, left, for a career summary.
SI
Nick Wiseman,
Stowmarket Det, A Coy, on transfer to Norfolk ACF; SSI
Glyn Bown Felixstowe RA Det, C Coy;
SI Danny Bayford,
Ipswich Holbrook Guards Det , C Coy; SI
Mark Hazell, Hadleigh Det, C Coy; SI
Michaela Welham, Kesgrave
Det, C Coy; RSMI Mal Anderson;
SMI Becky Baldwin, A
Coy, SI Trevor Willoughby
and SI
Paul S Perry,
Ipswich Holbrook Guards, C Coy; SSI
Kevin Havelock, Wattisham, on retirement. SSI Jason
Wade, Lowestoft RA, on transfer to Lancashire ACF; SI
Mick Hammond, Felixstowe,
on transfer to Cambridgeshire ACF. With sincere thanks for your service and
commitment to Suffolk ACF. |
Please send, by e-mail, photographs and text for our
own 'Suffolk Cadet', the 'Castle' (Journal of the R Anglian Regt) and the
Suffolk Section of the 'Britannia & Castle' (Journal of the Cambs, Suffolk,
R Norfolk, E Anglian and R Anglian Regtl Associations).
An A4 page of copy, plus photographs, is submitted,
respectively, to the Regimental 'Castle' and Suffolk Section
'B&C' Editors, so the SACF Webmaster has no control over
what is published.
But what you send for 'Suffolk Cadet' gets published either in the magazine
or on site !
The deadlines for receipt are indicated below. |
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Wed
1 Oct 08 is your deadline for my receipt of any Suffolk
ACF copy for Dec 08 'Castle'
(Journal of the R
Anglian Regt)
and The 'Britannia and Castle'
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Fri
17 Oct 08 Deadline for arrival at RHQ Bury St
Edmunds of SACF Webmaster's 'Castle' material and in
Norwich for the Suffolk Section of the 'Britannia & Castle'
(Journal of the Cambs, Suffolk, R Norfolk, E Anglian and
R Anglian Regtl Associations).
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Fri
7 Nov 08 Your deadline for my receipt of any Suffolk
ACF copy for Dec 08 'Suffolk Cadet
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Send
it to
Major
John L Raybould TD
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But click here first!
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Dec 07
and
SACF Newsletter Jul 08 -
But beware if you are not on Broadband as the pdf files are
massive and you will be locked-out for ages ! |
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to:
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Alicia Crewe, former Kesgrave PARA Det, C
Coy, for the info that her name was missing from 2 site pages, now corrected, at
Cty XC 06 and
Regional Tug of War at Lincoln May 06
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Many thanks to many for your most valued
contribution to the Sat 1 Mar SACF Offrs Mess Dinner at the WETC in Thetford
when we 'Dined Out' our Past-Commandant, Col
Paul Denny.
I thought it was the best ACF best dinner I have ever attended.
The menu, selected by Col Paul, was excellent, the amended room layout
superb and our new sharing of kit with the Sgt's Mess added to the
ambience.
The success, was, as I stated aloud, due to the considerable input/output,
effort and contribution (before and after the event) of many SACF Offrs,
Adults and Cdts:
CEO Maj Bob Potter MBE, QM Capt
Brian Gerrard RA, RSMI
Mal Anderson, SSIs
Christine Forsdike and
Leigh Smith plus his team of expert Cadet staff.
Additionally, but not stated, with the fatal crash of my PC a few days
before the Dinner, I was most grateful for the gift of a labelling printer
from my daughter Elfrida.
It indeed saved the day with making new seating plan labels and place cards!
Capt Brian
Gerrard RA - Your
contribution to the Dinner was just majestic. To dine with that wonderful
long buried silver Suffolk Regt cutlery was truly regal. You indeed 'broke
the mould' of the age-old QM principle: 'Stores are for storing - but NOT
for issuing.'
Mrs Liz Reeve - Many thanks for the use of the RHQ Nch PC and printer so I could print
copies of the Guest List and Menu.
3 R Anglian - Many thanks for the loan of the silver and place mats.
Click here for some photographs of the Mar 08 Offrs Mess Dinner
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My Welsh wife
Janine
for 'riding shotgun' (and missing seeing a live broadcast, for the 2nd year
running, of Wales playing rugger - thank goodness they won the 'Grand
Slam' !) to the National Cross Country Championships held at Warcop in
Cumbria on Sat 15 Mar 08. Also to Mrs
Emma Kelly,
Mrs Sam
Lockwood,
Mr Andy Lockwood
and Mrs Almera Flatman
for delivering to, and collecting from, our Tesco BStE RV, their star SACF
runners (including support from Cdt
Amy Flatman
of Haverhill Det, A Coy) - saving Janine and I many miles. The total run was
over 600 miles, the return in appalling rain
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LCpl Alexander
Quelch - Stowmarket Det A Coy for the
Combat Cadet Team names, above.
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Col Kelvin Ives - 'Commandant's column';
Lt Col Bob West
TD -
'Annual
Camp 2008 Sennybridge'; Maj
Andy Smith, our 'Monocled Mutineer', OC A Coy - 'Suffolk Estates': Capt
James Preston,
C Coy - 'Willis Associates
charity Dress-Down Day'; SMI
Mark
Galley - 2 DoE articles and WO2
Gus Kaye -
'H&S and Duty of Care for cadets' for the Jul Suffolk Cadet magazine.
I
decline to 'name and shame' the defaulters !
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back to SSI
S Gallagher,
formerly Lowestoft (N) B Coy and Lt
Glen Page as Pl Comd C Coy.
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to SI K Joynes on
transfer from Sussex ACF to C Coy, in Apr 08.
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back to Capt
Rodney Sinclair, from Cambs ACF, as Cty Shooting
Offr.
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Woodbridge
Detachment
re-badged to Royal Engineers
on 1 Sep 08 and Ipswich Royal Tank Regt
Detachment re-badged to Royal Logistic Corps
on 18 Nov 08. |
Ipswich Queen's Royal Lancers
Detachment now meet at Holywells
High School, Lindbergh Rd, 1900 to
2100 on Tue & Thu. |
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Apr 08 to David Shipton - ACF National Marketing Manager :
'At the Apr 08 PR Conference we were advised that the new website template
is available and that we should contact you. May I therefore register our
interest and intention to use it for Suffolk ACF.'
29 May 08 from David : 'It was going to take a few weeks to get these up and
running as there is a lot of background work to do for each county wanting a
site and that currently stands at around the 20 mark.
I will chase the web people to see if we have an idea of when all sites are
up and running and ready for counties.'
4
Jun 08 from David Shipton - ACF National Marketing Manager :
'My web developers are ready to set up the sites and can do this
reasonably quickly. Each site attracts a set-up fee of £340 which will be
covered from the national marketing budget.
This budget was presented to the
Army before Xmas and we are still waiting for confirmation as
to what our budget will be.
In
the mean time, ACFA General Secretary, Brig Wharmby, has authorised me to
spend ACFA money to set up your Suffolk site. I will now organise this with the
developers.'
Maybe the
fact that Brig Mike Wharmby OBE was my Commander at 'Split Station' in
Bosnia 1997 and said,
in, 2006: 'I've looked at your
site - very impressive. I hope our new
www.armycadets.com
site is as good when we re-launch it later in
the year.'
had some influence ?
So, wait
out for a new SACF site !
David Shipton - ACF National Marketing Manager,
has set us up with a
new ACF County website template, in the style of the ACF site. David.
Sadly, the
SACF webmaster is struggling with the new ACF template so little has yet been added to this new site
at
www.armycadets.com/county/suffolk.
However, on Wed 29 Oct
is a Website Workshop in Leeds which the PRO/Webmaster will attend and learn
how to do it
Meanwhile
look at the SACF overflow site at
http://www.jlraybould.co.uk.
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