10TH ROYAL HUSSARS XRH

Edition No.8

Web Page Supplement

5 May 2007

Last Post Aden 1967

We are holding a Lecture Evening on 31 May 2007 at the Central Lecture Hall (above the museum) Called Last Post Aden 1967 The 40th Anniversary. The final withdrawal from Aden seen from the perspective of a Platoon Commander in 1 PARA It will be given by Col retired David Parker.

The lecture starts at 7.30pm but the museum and shop are open from 6.30pm. Tickets are £8.50 which includes wine, soft drinks and nibbles. Cheques should be payable to Airborne Forces Museum. Please send an sae.

Special Offer. Discount for Aden Veterans in an organised group.

Please contact the museum 01252 349619 Monday to Friday or email airbornefm@btconnect.com. Peter Hill 1973

No jumps for Paras as MoD cuts £1bn

By Sean Rayment and Rob Watts, Sunday Telegraph Full Story and here

Members of the Parachute Regiment will not receive parachute training ... The proposals mean that Britain will be without a parachute-trained force for the first time since the Second World War when the Parachute Regiment was created on the orders of Winston Churchill.

The planned cuts to be imposed on 16 Air Assault Brigade, which the MoD admits would be a public-relations disaster, can be revealed just days after 77 members of the unit received awards, including a Victoria Cross and a George Cross, for their actions in Afghanistan... The document states that if the cuts were imposed "the Parachute Regiment and other airborne units would be undermined with implications for morale, recruiting and retention. It would take until March 31, 2012, to retrain all aircrews, dispatchers, planers and parachute-trained units". It adds: "This measure would also have implications for special forces' recruiting and selection." The Parachute Regiment provides more than half of the special forces' intake.

So what are we going to do about it ?

David Smart has started a Petition via 10 Downing St own website ... Look for "Military-Madness" Click Here
You will be asked for an email address and your Postal address, IT IS NOT PUBLISHED ANYWHERE IT IS CHECKED WITH THE ELECTORAL ROLE TO CONFIRM YOUR IDENTITY THATS ALL.

The Petition will run until December 2007 so lets show Tony Blair what the power of the Internet can do, we need you and your friends to sign-up Click Here The crisis has emerged two months after Tony Blair promised commanders in Afghanistan that they would get whatever they needed to beat the Taliban... Yeah, Right Tony

I hope all members of the Regiment will vote to stop this Insanity and not just the ex members of the Royal Armoured Corps PARA SQN.

Sunday Lunch 20th May 2007

Crown Inn Swindon

Just a reminder for the above event in case some of you have forgotten its only two weeks away now details can be obtained from Liz Bentley on 01793 336136.

I would really appreciate some photographs of the event for the website could somebody please take a group picture if at all possible thank you. (your Webslave Peter)

28 April 2007

Old Comrades 10th Hussars

Just in from Ron an Email he received from T.C. Johnson:

Dear Ron,

Sorry for the delay in answering your emails, I thought I had some luck with five old comrades coming back to the fold but they are not interested at all. They were all glad to get out of the 10th and all the bullshit. I have the number of my very good friend at the time:
trooper Salisbury number 19142139 from Birmingham, again he hated all of it. He had a young wife and daughter and worried about them quite a lot. If he is still alive he may show some interest. He was attached to HQ Squadron, transport. I would like to contact him again, we had a great deal in common.

I also had another good friend, Alfie Smith, last known address: 12 addison crescent, London w14. He was working at an engineering company called Rotax, you probably have heard of it. I have tried to trace it but have not had much success. A lot of these companies were taken over years back! The cream of our industry gone to foreign hands.

The 10th gave me a passion for all sorts of machinery, buying and dismantling. I ended up with a big yard buying jeeps and all sorts of army equipment - tanks anything armoured. I was shipping all over the globe. That has all stopped now, too many rules and regulations. Anyway
my good lady of 56 years said I should give up work now and do some gardening! ugh!

The M4 General Sherman tank was the main tank designed and built by the US for use in World War 2 It was named after Union General William Tecumseh Sherman. The name is often shortened to M4 Sherman or simply Sherman.
Its high profile and rounded top made it an easy target but it was rather fast and manoeuvrable, reliable, easy to produce and service.

I have some photos of the lads and one or two Churchill and Sherman Tanks. I had one or two of Col Archer/Shee Major Morley, I used to drive them on different duty days. I enjoyed my time in the army, good and bad days I had, many like everybody else. never mind, we can't go back, we can only add memories. Getting back on the subject, the two fellas I had mentioned, I hope you can put your scouts to work and find them, I sure will be pleased.

yours sincerely,
T.C. Johnson - ex 10th number 19065714.

I knew Col Archie Shee and Major Morley. I think if these two gentlemen are alive they will be chuffed to little NAAFI breaks. I am not that old to have driven a Sherman or Churchill tank, my first tank was a Mark 111 Cent. Tom's army number tells me he joined the army late 40s,he will be round about 75-77

Ron

Mined Vehicles Aden

I am trying to get together a list of the above during our tour of duty for the Aden Page If anyone has any information could you please email it to me. David Hodge has sent me some details of C Sqn. which has been published, I still need info on the other Squadrons. peter@xrhgb.com

Photograph courtesy of Brian Willoughby QDG