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Terry KING's Photo Album

 

Harrogate AAS 49A – Arborfield AAS 49B

 

Terry passed away on the 22nd February 2011.  IN MEMORIAM

 

 

1950 - AAS Arborfield, 'C' Company

 

 

Lindley, Nightingale, Clover

Thompson

 

Terry King and Ted Nightingale

 

Cookhouse, HQ Company barrack rooms, and famous water tower in the background

 

49B Barrack room interior; Left foreground Meadows, Right Foreground Rafferty.

 

Telescopic beds, bed blocks, 6’ table, beezed bucket, broom and bumper.

 

View of the parade square with the cookhouse (left), HQ Company etc barrack rooms (right) and flag pole.

 

 

The Recruiting Vehicle, often referred to as “The Queen Mary”.

 

Wokingham Railway Station.

 

Going home on Easter leave.

 

July 1950 - Passing Out Parade

Lieutenant-General Sir Ivor THOMAS, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, takes the salute at the March Past

 

September 1950 - Arborfield Old Boys Association

Third Annual Reunion Week-end

 

'C' Company Rugby Teams 1950

 

         

Senior Team

 

                     Junior team - Terry KING, standing 1st left   

 

1951  Terry King 49B

 

                    

AAS Drill Competition with Pipe Band on parade

 

The Pipe Band

 

circa Winter 1951

(from the left) Brown, Hall; Terry King, Rogers, ‘C’ Coy.

 

1952 - 'C' Company team winning the tug-of-war for the title "Champion Company"

Terry King is first man to the left of the coach.

 

View of the parade square with the cookhouse (left), HQ Company etc barrack rooms (right) and flag pole.

 

A/L/Cpl Derek Clover, A/T Terry King.

 

Derek Clover playing his accordion

 

"Sergeant Herby Payne’s Gardeners"

A Saturday Morning Gardening Group of Volunteers

 

 

Standing L>R: Long, Henry, Williams, Brown, n/k, Rafferty, Hall, Wright, Meadows, n/k, Baker.

Kneeling L>R, n/k, n/k.

 

Sports Day presentation.  Possibly the recipient was a lad named Pearce.

 

Dance in the NAAFI with girls from Reading

Behind the girl on the left is Joe BARNES, and in the centre SAUNDERS

 

1952 - Roberts Barracks, Osnabrück, BAOR

(above and below) ex-Apprentices from Arborfield, Chepstow and Harrogate, being the first and last group to complete their Basic Royal Engineers Training (Field Engineering B3 Course) in BAOR.

 

Individual photographs

Rows are numbered front to back 1 to 4

 

1952 B.A.O.R.  Exercise ‘Holdfast’

I am third from the left, Rear Rank, with John Kelly (49B Chepstow) next to me.

 

Tobruk 1957  I.W.T. Squadron

I am on the left.

 

Sea Mech, our workshop.

 

Autumn 2002 – Osnabrück, Germany

 

 

 

Terry King in 2005.

 

Terry King in 2009

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30th July 2011.

Army Apprentice National Memorial,

at the

National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire.

At the Drum Head Service, which was part of the

48th. Arborfield Old Boys Association Reunion,

a Cross of Remembrance was laid for

Terry King.

Harrogate AAS 49A – Arborfield AAS 49B

 

 

 

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Documents contributed by Terry King (49B) can be read from  HERE.

 

A Memoire contributed by Terry King (49B) can be read from  HERE.

 

 

First Published: 11th November 2006.

Latest Update: 1st February 2015.

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