MILITARY SERVICE RECORD & CIVILIAN CAREER

MOLESWORTH, Christopher R.

July 1950

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date and place of birth: 07 Apr 1934

Next of kin address: ‘Beggars Roost’, Anglesey, North Wales

MILITARY SERVICE

Date and place of enlistment: 07 Sep 1949, Coventry, Warwickshire

Regimental Number: 22289036

G.S.C. 07 Sep 1949 – 25 Jul 1952:

Company: 'A' ● Squad: 13 ● Trade: Turner ● Rank: Apprentice Tradesman

Education: Army Certificate of Education Class 2 (Ref: Part 2 Order N^o 61 of 1950)

Trade Qualification: Turner Class 3 (Ref: Part 2 Order N^o 62 of 1952)

R.E.

Posting: wef 29 Aug 1952: H.Q. Royal Engineers Depot, Barton Stacey, Hampshire (Ref: Part 2 Order N^o 63 of 1952)

Posting: Sep 1952 - Apr 1953: 37 Engineer Regiment R.E., Osnabrück, BAOR

Discharge

Date & place: 1961, on completion of 9 years with the colours (followed by 3 years in the Reserve).

CIVILIAN CAREER

1963: Moved to Germany with my wife, and went to work in the US oil construction business in Nigeria for 11 years. I spent 25 years in the Middle East and Far East, the last 15 years of which, as offshore construction Superintendent/Captain of various oilrigs scattered around the globe.

1978: Moved back to Germany from Larnaca, Cyprus, where I had lived on a boat for 13 years.

Retired

1999 at age 65 years.

MARITAL & FAMILY STATUS

Married: three times – divorced, widowed, and married Elke on 19^th April 2002.

Children: daughter Tina, born 1958, has an antique business in Bremen, Germany; son, born 1963, died in Algeria in 1983 aged 20 years.

We live in Kiel, the "sailing" city of Germany, on the Baltic, having had to move here from a small spa town called Bad Schwartau when Elke's firm closed their local branch in Lübeck, 60 kms south of here two years ago - when Elke retires in a few years we hope to move back there, or at least in the vicinity.

IN RETIREMENT

2002

Hobbies: Radio-controlled ‘planes and helicopters; amateur radio; digital photography

Deceased: Monday 17^th March 2003, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Interred: Monday 24^th March 2003, Malente, Near Kiel

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