Peter'

Thank you for your e-mail, the badge looks just fine and I would think the size 7in by 7in is probably right, it depends on the size of the plinth, but from what you and Ron have said and going by the photographs it seems to be the right size.

Tom Parnell's birthday party went off very well, there were about 18 of us to lunch, apart from Tom and his minder ( Derek Ivings ) all the other were retired officers of the Tenth Hussars, all of whom had served with Tom at sometime or other, as it so happened I had also served with them all, stretching back over some years, sixty in some cases, so you can see there were a few rather ancient old boys there.   It was a good lunch as one would expect from the Cavalry Club, finished off with a birthday cake with a large 10H badge on the top, only four candles, not sufficient space for 90, he did manage to blow them all out, to cheers all round !

I hope to go up to London on the 11th May for Cavalry Sunday, and our annual stroll around Hyde Park, so I will see Tom P again, this time in his Chelsea Pensioners uniform. Saddly the number of old Tenth gets less every year, but I hope to see some of my old mates, those that are still around and fit enough to get up to London