MILITARY SERVICE RECORD & CIVILIAN CAREER

WARWICK, Richard Maxwell

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date and place of birth: 21 May 1934, Newmarket, Suffolk

Next of kin address: Cheveley, Newmarket, Suffolk

MILITARY SERVICE

Date & place of enlistment: 07 Sep 1949, Army Recruiting Office, Cambridge

Regimental Number: Restricted

G.S.C. 07 Sep 1949 – 25 Jul 1952:

Company: 'C' ● Squad: 13 ● Trade: Armourer ● Rank: Apprentice Corporal (Ref: Daily Routine Order N^o 32 of 1952)

Education: Army Certificate of Education Class 2 (Ref: Part 2 Order N^o 40 of 1950)

Education: Army Certificate of Education Class 1 (Ref: Part 2 Order N^o 8 of 1952)

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

R.E.M.E.

Posting: wef 29 Aug 1952 - 01 Aug 1953: 18 Command Workshops REME, Wareham, Dorset (Ref: Part 2 Order N^o 63 of 1952)

Continuation training: A2 Trade Test May 1953: 13 Command Workshop REME, Aldershot, Hampshire

Mémoire: Spent the entire year as armourer to the shooting team that had earned a reputation for winning Army competitions at Bisley. Member of the shooting team that won the Army Sten & Pistol Championship at Bisley, 1953 - Parachute Regiment Cup & Connaught Cup - and many others in the Command, Corps and inter-Services Competitions. Had a crash-course on 'how to prepare standard weapons for competition without breaking too many rules'

Rank: Corporal

Posting: 02 Aug 1953 - 10 Feb 1954: Regimental Depot, The Gloucestershire Regiment, Wessex Training Brigade, Gloucester

Duties: Unit Armourer

Rank: Corporal

Posting: 11 Feb 1954 - 29 Jul 1960: Light Aid Detachment REME, 3^rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery

Duties: Regimental Armourer

Rank: Sergeant

Posting: 11 Feb 1954 - 11 Mar 1956: 25^th Independent Armoured Brigade, Fayid, Egypt

Trade Test: Dec 1954: A1 Trade Test at Base Workshops, Tell-el-Kebir, Egypt

Posting: 12 Mar 1956 - 26 May 1957: 25^th Independent Armoured Brigade, Homs, Tripoli, Libya

Posting: 27 May 1957 - 29 Jul 1960: 3^rd Infantry Division, Bulford and Tidworth, Wiltshire

Course (Civilian): 1957 - 1960: Commercial Photography, School of Art, Salisbury, Wiltshire

Course (Military): 1959: N^o 1 Air Photo Readers, School of Military Intelligence

Discharge

Date & place: 29 July 1960: 3^rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, Tidworth, Wiltshire. At own request by payment.

Note: with 10 months to serve of my commitment of 9 years with the colours and 3 years in the reserve, I became disillusioned with the re-structuring of future promotion prospects for Armourers

CIVILIAN CAREER

01 Aug 1960 - 01 Sep 1964: Commercial Photographer - John Slater Photography, Newmarket, Suffolk. Duties: all photography ex-studio - for publicity, public relations, and advertising for commerce and industry in East Anglia. All Press photography for the Newmarket Journal and national racing industry. Attended two-years day-release Documentary Film-making course at London Polytechnic Film School; subsequently shot over 200 news-film stories for Anglia TV & ITN. Union intervention prevented freelance photographers, me included, working on assignments. Working about 80 hours a week for half my former Army pay was my induction into a new career-path and skills

02 Sep 1964 - 20 Nov 1966: Photography Manager - John Martin (Staffordshire) Ltd., Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. Responsible for all activities of a commercial studio specialising in The Pottery and Staffordshire Industry, having one of the first colour-printing laboratories. Specialisation: studio colour photography of pottery, glassware and room sets.

21 Nov 1966 - 01 Jan 1973: Director & Partner - John Slater Photography/Colorlabs International, Newmarket, Suffolk. Business: photography, and processing/printing for retail shops. My task: start a colour laboratory for professional photographers and industry - Colorlabs International. Colour processing, in its infancy, required staff to be in-house trained. Much experimental equipment was developed to undertake the diverse activities. The combined business employed staff totalling in excess of 200 working over three shifts when, early in 1973, we sold the business and I joined UPL (see below). My Service training was sadly lacking when I came face-to-face with female staff and I had to learn how to handle a whole new ball game!

02 Jan 1973 - May 1976: Director (Planning), United Photographic Laboratories, Downton, Wiltshire (Member of London International Plc). Responsibilities: business acquisitions, planning, management development, and corporate integration of eight photo laboratories employing over 600 staff in UK, and 75 in South Africa. Spent two months in the USA and Japan studying production techniques and the possibility of wet photographic processes being replaced by ‘electronic systems’.

May 1976 - Sep 1978: Management Consultant, involving various projects covering the setting-up of high-volume photo laboratories and promotional services.

Sep 1978 - May 1984: European Markets Co-ordinator, N.E.C., Salt Lake City, USA, and Managing Director of its European Sales & Service Company. Manufacturers of flying-spot-scanners for TV broadcast and photo film colour analysers, and computer-based interfaces for photo-printers. Company's research/development Staff involved with developing blind-flying cockpit displays for many of the 1970s US military aircraft. Interesting working with technicians who designed high-tech equipment to be serviced in open desert by simple parts-replacement and having design features in preparation for war action. Responsibilities: determine the prospective requirements of commercial photo printing and translate this information into useful products with research and development; product range sales throughout Europe, and marketing to the international photo industry. Using 16-bit computer technology in 1980 had its technology embargo problems in the former Eastern bloc. Extensive travelling, international import/export, currency handling, rules/ regulations, and the vagaries of differing management mentalities in various countries proved invaluable.

May 1984 - May 1987: General Manager, Hostert Fotomata International GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany and London. Leading manufacturers of film and photo paper processing equipment with branches and agents in most countries. Responsible for UK sales/service, active also in USA and other countries.

May 1987 - Jul 1991: Joint Managing Director & Dutch main Board Director, Sallmetall Ltd./b.v., Raalte, Holland. Manufacturers of wide-format laminators and adhesive coatings used in the exhibition/photo mural industry. Responsible for establishing the brand in UK, and sales/service organization. Active in equipment research/development, and establishing overseas agencies/branches.

1991 - 1999: Managing Director, The Display Board Co. Ltd., London, suppliers of mounting board, plastics, foam-board, laminating equipment and materials to exhibition and large-format print producers. Managing Director, Display Technologies Ltd., suppliers of computer-controlled electronic printing systems for the exhibition, display and photo markets.

1999: Sold the business and retired.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

British Institute of Professional Photography (Fellow)

Association of Professional Photographic Laboratories (Past National Chairman)

Royal Photographic Society (Associate)

Institute of Management

Chartered Institute of Marketing

& former

Printing and Publishing Industries Training Board

MARITAL & FAMILY STATUS

1958: Married ● 1959 Bulford: Birth of daughter Fiona Jane (now living in Wiltshire) ● 1970 Newmarket: Birth of son Paul Steven (now living in London) ● 1982: Divorced ● 1986: New partner - Thea

IN RETIREMENT

2001

Hobbies: Panoramic & 360 Virtual Reality Photography. Keeping low a garden of shrubs.

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