ARBORFIELD - Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd June 2002
inclusive
AGM held in the Beachley Centre
Reunion Parade 2002 - Rowcroft Barracks, Arborfield
The parade column marching down the hill and past the bus stop to
the gates
The
parade column turning left into the old entrance, led by the volunteer
Drum
and Fife Band gathered together by Mike CHEESEMAN [62C]
(3rd from left) Gordon BONNER [49B]
Bugler – Mike CHEESEMAN [62C] sounded the Last Post and Reveille
The Drumhead Service conducted on the site of the long-gone
Guardroom.
The Memorial
Garden is seen in the
background.
(4th right) Gordon BONNER [49B] at the Drumhead
Service
Piper playing the Lament at the Drumhead Service
The column marching on to the square, with the AOBA Standard
leading
(6th from left) Pete HENRY [49B]
(nearest camera, 2nd from left) Dave PERROTT [49B], and
on his left in the centre rank, John CASSELLS [49B]
(2nd from left) John CASSELLS [49B], (front rank,
right) Dave PERROTT [49B]
The 49B Diehards
Gordon BONNER, John CASSELLS, Dave PERROTT, Pete HENRY, Max WARWICK
Gordon BONNER [49B], mended and back in working order
What’s Left?
The old AAS Drum Major’s mace now adorns one wall of the WO’s and Sergeants’ Mess
Butch HAYNES’ [49B Armourer] memorial in his own ‘handwriting’ on
the wall of the disused rifle range
Jeff COOK’s [49B Armourer] handywork also on the wall of the disused rifle range
What is left of the Armourers’ testing range – the Enfield ‘rest’ building,
sandwiched between
The .22 indoor range and the 25-yard outdoor range mentioned in Gordon
BONNER’s anecdotes
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