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BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA POLICE REGIME'NTAL ASSOCIATION UNITED KINGDOM BRANCH B S A P TRUST ISSUE No: 44 SPRING 2000 &gll ll l G f I' R, O I / z~qO lr q'& OUTPOST KDITOMAL The first Editorial of the new Millen- nium and I have the feeling I should be saying something profound and earth- shattering. So relax, because I am not. Fortunately, almost at the last moment, we have a new Editor, Dick Ray, who will take up the reins for the next issue. Dick is one of that very small number within the Branch who are prepared to get up and do something, having already, previously, been a Committee Member for a number of years and also organised the highly successful Broad- way Braais for 20 odd years. Thankfully we do have these few, but it is a sad reflection that out of the membership wc have, only two members offered, Bcv Jaboor in USA being the other, but unfortunately logistics prevented her from doing it. Dick, we wish you well! The AGM is advertised elsewhere in this issue. Hopefully we will have more members attending than we have had over the last few years. It be nice to see others offering themselves to serve on the Executive Coinmitiee as well. I mentioned the Broadway Braais and I have some excellent news, they are to continue. Andy Young has moved up to the Group 4 HQ and therefore with an ex- member as a member of their staff the Braais will continue for the foreseeable future. Our thanks to Group 4 as well. Alan Toms has come up with some excel- lent ideas for expanding or extending the time we can be together on the day of the Annual Dinner and his suggestions are on page 14. Please give him your support, and contact him as per his details on the back page. The Video, which has developed into an excellent product, has been seen in brief by your Editor and Chairman and is most impressive. The work Jim Hazlett and Peter Butler have put into it is incalcula- ble and they arc to be congratulated on a most fascinating, comprehensive and well presented summary of some of our history. For its price, it should be the jewel in everyone's collection. Details of how to get it are on page 31. And finally, your Editor and production staff would like to thank all our contributors, advertisers, printers, dis- tributors and readers over the last ten or so years for their support and encouragement. PLEASE ATTEND YOUR AGM ON THE 19TH MAY AT VIC- TORY SERVICES CLUB. (See Page 5 for further details)
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BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA POLICE REGIME'NTAL ASSOCIATIONUNITED KINGDOM BRANCH
B S A P TRUST
ISSUE No: 44 SPRING 2000
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OUTPOSTKDITOMAL
The first Editorial of the new Millen-nium and I have the feeling I should besaying something profound and earth-shattering. So relax, because I am not.
Fortunately, almost at the last moment,we have a new Editor, Dick Ray, whowill take up the reins for the next issue.Dick is one of that very small numberwithin the Branch who are prepared toget up and do something, havingalready, previously, been a CommitteeMember for a number of years and alsoorganised the highly successful Broad-way Braais for 20 odd years. Thankfullywe do have these few, but it is a sadreflection that out of the membership wchave, only two members offered, BcvJaboor in USA being the other, butunfortunately logistics prevented herfrom doing it. Dick, we wish you well!
The AGM is advertised elsewhere in thisissue. Hopefully we will have moremembers attending than we have hadover the last few years. It be nice to seeothers offering themselves to serve onthe Executive Coinmitiee as well.
I mentioned the Broadway Braais and I
have some excellent news, they are tocontinue. Andy Young has moved up to
the Group 4 HQ and therefore with an ex-member as a member of their staff theBraais will continue for the foreseeablefuture. Our thanks to Group 4 as well.
Alan Toms has come up with some excel-lent ideas for expanding or extending thetime we can be together on the day of theAnnual Dinner and his suggestions are onpage 14. Please give him your support,and contact him as per his details on theback page.The Video, which has developed into anexcellent product, has been seen in briefby your Editor and Chairman and is mostimpressive. The work Jim Hazlett andPeter Butler have put into it is incalcula-ble and they arc to be congratulated on amost fascinating, comprehensive and wellpresented summary of some of ourhistory. For its price, it should be thejewel in everyone's collection. Details ofhow to get it are on page 31.And finally, your Editor and productionstaff would like to thank all ourcontributors, advertisers, printers, dis-tributors and readers over the last ten orso years for their support andencouragement.
PLEASE ATTEND YOUR AGMON THE 19TH MAY AT VIC-TORY SERVICES CLUB. (SeePage 5 for further details)
ROLL OF HONOUR6602 Dermoi (Derry) Patrick CARTERdied peacefully in Harare on 11'" No-vember 1999.
The Algoa Outpost reports the death of4036 Peter Chalmers CHALKER.Peter died suddenly on 1st October,1999 at Bathurst in the Eastern Cape.Peter served from 11"February 1946until he took his gratuity on 12'" April1958.
6583 John O'Brien "Shaun" G R I FF INdied in I-larare on 4th December, 1999,following a heart attacl .
2906 Percy William BARN ESpassed away on 8th I.ebruary 2000.Percy served for twenty years fromJuly 1927 through to July 1947 whenhe retired as a Det. Sub/Insp. Anllonorary Life Member of ourBranch he was 96 years young.
We have learnt of the death of WFR200602 Angela BORRA. Angela wasbrutally murdered at her home in Mu-
tare on the night of 20'" December.Her daughter June, in advising the hor-rific details, says that the Police havearrested her gardener and three othermen who were all found in possessionof her property when arrested. Appar-ently there are some good tingerprintsas well. We wish June all the best andhope that justice will be done on thisoccasion.
South Africa advise the death of 4405Frank R. J, HOGG in Johannesburg on25'" February 2000.
Sadly we advise the death of 5373Alfred JONES, formerly of the BSAPBand. Alfred died on 18th November1999 in Saskatchewan, Canada wherehe and his wife Jill had settled. Alfredhad suffered a stroke many years agobut had managed to live with his dis-ability with part of his treatment beingto convert sheet music onto a computerprogram, and converting audible musicback to sheet music. Quite anachievement. Sadly a heart attack in
1998 and several recent mini strokesfinally took their toll.
Cape Town advise the death of 3417Detective Chief Inspector Alwyne Ter-ence McCormick who served from 12'"
September 1934 to 24'" April 1955. He
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later served as a prosecutor inSalisbury. Terence died in Cape Townon the 22nd January 2000 following asix-month illness.
3663 Gordon McNeilie "Pat" PATER-SON died in Devon on 5th December1999 as a result of fractures sustainedin a fall. Pat, who was 84 years old,served from 8'" April 1937, retiring ongratuity on 19'" November 1948 as aFarrier Sergeant. Pat never marriedand is survived by his two sisters, Jeanand Anne to whom we extend oursympathies. The funeral arrangementswere handled by his brother-in-law,3661 Mike KEMP and several mem-bers managed to attend the funeralservice at St. Andrews, Chardstock on16'" December 1999. Although Patfound it difficult to attend functions, hefully supported the Branch in otherways and his generosity wasoutstanding.
4558 Benjamin George RIDGE died in
Harare on 23rd January, 2000 follow-ing a long cancer illness. He servedfrom 30'" January 1950 to 29'" January1953 all in Salisbury Town.
4088 Fredrick James (Paddy) RUTTLEpassed away in Scotborough Natal on4th January 2000 after a long illness.Paddy had served from 11'" June 1946to 15'" July 1967 and retired as StaffChief Inspector.
4230 Peter Nesbit SHIELD, died inAvenues Clinic Harare on 5th January,2000 following a strol c. Peter had
served from 22"' December 1947 to21" December 1967 when he retired asInspector.
The Internet showed that Wp 76 SueSUMMERS, nee Boulton, passed awayon 1st February, 2000.
Sadly we advise the death of P/r 9948Roy THOMPSON-HOLLAND.
He passed away at 1710hrs on 11'"January 2000 at Castlehill I-lospital,near Cottringham, East Yorkshire. Thecause of death was chest and lungcongestion. He had had a bad set forlungs and chest for a number of years.Roy was born 18'" December 1924 atKingston Upon Hull, so he made 75years old and saw in the year 2000.
We have learnt of the death during1999 of 3865 William Alfred WellsTICKLER. 13illy Tickler served from13"August 1939 to 29'" August 1946when he left at his own request. Billywas farming in Australia and at thetime of his death he was recoveringfrom a hip operation.
Zimbabwe advise the death of 2948 J.H. F. WEIGALL (aged 101 years) atKaroi, Zimbabwe on 12th January,2000.
Final Farewells
Sadly we advise the death of MrsJoyce WILTSHIRE, widow of the Late1569 W. T. Wiltshire who passedaway on 11th November 1999 at theage of 90 years.
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P/r 9948 Roy Thompson-Holland wasa regular contributor of articles, andwhilst not everyone appreciated hishumour I mal e no apologies for in-cluding this as one of his last contri-butions which relates to the changingof the tail fin logos of our commercialairlines.
"Change of Air"
We was proud of our Nation; nowwe just skulk:—like we lost the will to try
with our transportation laggin' in a'ulk.
Hritons once was rovers; then we'ad the flair;—'aving bottoms like blue sky
is 'ard bargain since our flagship'sbeen 'ongkonged.
Pilots was like Jonah's, in syker-delic whales;—in those kites they 'ad ter fly
with a bunch of noodles o' er theirtails.
Unpalatable fraud on empennageabhorred;—split un-finny ti the eye
until the flying Virgin first our flagrestored.
"Roy T/ioinpson-Hollo»d June '97 Vs
1-3 and June 1999 Vs 4Ck5"
Our Thanks Roy for your support and
humour over the years - MLL
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BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA POLICEREGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION
UNITED KINGDOM BRANCH
Notice is hereby given that the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of theUnited Kingdom Branch of the British South Africa Police RegimentalAssociation, and BSAP TRUST will be held at the Victory Services Club,Seymour Street, London on Friday, 19'" May 2000 commencing at 6.00pmsharp to transact the business set out. below:-
1. Greetings and Apologies2. Roll of Honour
3. Read and confirm minutes of Annual General Meeting on 21" May 1999.4. Matters arising therefrom.
5. Chairman's Report.6. Financial Report and Presentation of Balance Sheet.7. Annual Report of the BSAP Trust.8. Election of Executive Committee Members (see note below).
9. Appointment of Auditors for forthcoming year.10.Any other business.
Mike Leach, Honorary Secretary, 26th March 2000
ELECTION OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Three members retire byrotation, Mike Leach, Peter Ellis and Peter Philips. All three have offeredthemselves for re-election. Brian Gibbs has also indicated his willingness tostand for Chairman again. Any member wishing to stand or to proposeanother member for election, please f'orward liis name to our Hon Sec.At the conclusion of the meeting a bar service will be available. The Barwill also be open prior to the meeting for early arrivals from 5.30pm.Accommodation is available at the Victory Services to be arranged by themembers themselves directly with the Club.
PLLiASEi TRY TO ATTEND TIIIS IMI'ORTANT MEEiTINCYOUR PARTICIPATION IS VEiRY IMPORTANT
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AROUND dk ABOUT
Mike BROOKFS 4595 paid tribute tothe late 4575 Joe WALKER as theyhad served together in Bulawayo, Infact Mike believes that he and Joe werethe last to leave the BSAP(31/12/1962) on a I ull Gratuity. (Thatshould prompt correspondence! MLL)Joe was married to Joan BOWYER, theRhodesian Tennis star of the 1950's.Mike sent greetings for Christnlas andthe Millennium to one and all as hespent the period in the Spanish lnoun-talns
Jim STEELE 8164 is now residing inPerth, Australia
Given any more thought to Spike'sBSAP ring? If you want to see it inglorious colour, why not check it outon Spike's wcb page?& http: //cl ix.to/bsap &
"Kiwi" O' BRIEN 9440 in 1997, hasbeen on the sick list for a couple ofyears. I-Ic advises that; "for reasonsunknown, an old gunshot wound in thechest (delivered by a long deceased inthe Mrewa area) went septic, and afterthree operations and two and half yearsI arise back in the land of the healthy.They removed metal fragments, old"sanction" style stitching, etc. but thebloody thing wouldn't heal, then I got
that hospital curse of golden staph etc.But it now appears to have healed (Ihope) so I can get back in thenial n st re'lnl. He '
s moved -sceChanges of Address.
David. V. "Taffy" PHILLIPS 5414 hasarrived from Fish Hock in of SouthAfrica to settle permanently in Chip-penham effective from November.Branch membership forms have beensent.
Stan EDWARDS 3749 thinks (knows!)that we will probably have difficultyfinding someone to take over Outpost.He says that apart from the expertiseneeded, there is also the snag of somehard work. Stan should know, heedited the Force Outpost for 6 months.The main concern then was keepingStation Notes clean! Fortunately, DickRay has stepped forward. Hallelujah!
Geoff QUICK 6681 made contact fromBotswana during December last and atthat time he said, "Rainy season nowin full swing in this part of the world.Bclievc that up on the high veldtthey' ve had some great downpours.The river at the bottom of our gardenhas been bank to bank for days - greatnluddy seasonal African thing, whichin the dry season is a one hundredmetre wide beach!" Water being thelife's blood of Africa, we all wish thatthc rains are plentiful - MLLFred WHITE 4090 should be in hisnew house now. Last December, whenhe advised a change of address he in-formed me of the system in Canada.When a new street of houses is built inCanada there is no door-to- door maildelivery. The Post office installs abank of mailboxes on the street, each
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house is allocated a box and providedwith tvvo keys. The nearest thing tothcin would be a security box in abanl ."Our house is not completed but wehave been able to get the keys from thepost office and as a result we can pickup our mail from the box on a dailybasis. "From Doug Hubbard in Australiacomes the following:Heaven is when you have a Britishsalary, an American home, Chinesefood, a German car and a South Afri-can wife.
Hell is when you have a British wife,an American car, Chinese home, Ger-man food and a South African salary!Peter 8602 and Lorraine Fairbridge-
Currie have moved house. (SeeChanges of Address) although they arestill in the Cairns district in Australia.
Bert SELLEY 4586 comments that thedemise notice of Roger Sandall broughtback memories of many a convivialevening meeting together in theGatooma Pub (The Run-em Inn?}playing liar dice. The notice of JoeWalker's passing evoked memories ofhis journey out. Accompanied byPaddy LEAN, John JANNAWAY, BillBATEMAN et al. They sailed on theDurban Castle, it's first voyage sincethe murder of the actress Gay Gibson
by one of the stewards! Bert has justhad cataracts removed and commentsthat it is great to see the clarity of apint again.Jim SHIEL 5926 still has to work tolive with the Probation Service inCleveland.
Barry MARSDEN 6314 is a new mem-ber and as he lives only a short dis-tance from the M6 Motorway atPreston/Blackburn and very close tothe Northwest gathering venue, he ex-tends an offer to anyone who is passingand in need of a room. He continues,whether with or without kids andanimals, there is a reassuring warmthwith cool beers available.At the Northwest gathering in Decem-ber last, Barry met Frank Dearden andcontinuing the function at Barry'shome they ended up phoning hisbrother-in-law, Mike Williams who isin Jo'burg. Barry would like to makecontact with Bert Freemantle, BobStokoe, Fred Pringle, GordonReynolds, Harry Moolman, lanI ladwick, Henry Coetzee, Jack Stid-ulph and any member of Squad 4/61(6300-6325). His address is in theNew Members section.Don 4808 and Nalda RUSSELL weresadly unable to attend any BSAP func-tions in the UK despite being in thecountry for three weeks inNovember/December. 'I'hcy managedto meet with Nalda's brother 3914Vaughn GRIFFIN, as well as 4857Mike Wiltshire, 5075 Dick RAY andP/r 4891 S in COOP ER. They st i I I
run the Rochamar Bar, but arc preparedto sell for any reasonable offer. 1 heyfound our cost of living had risengreatly and were pleased to gct home,
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especially to get out of the UK trafficon our roads. Don still runs a I otterySyndicate under the title "RochamarI ourty-Nincrs" so if you are interested
just contact Dondirect.As you read this,5103 Brian WIL-LIAMS is in themiddle of a worldtour which startedlast November.Hawaii, Australia,Singapore and Mau-ritius are on theitinerary, but he willbe at this year's din-
ner where he is sharing a table withJohnny VYE and Maurice AKEDPeter Lane 5349 renewed his subscrip-tions from South Africa and advisedthat he had seen 5024 John BISHOPwho had been visiting Capetown fromthe UK. He has also met with 4760Dcrrnot "Paddy'" GLOSTER whose ad-dress is P 0 Box 141, St. James, Cape7946 and 4501 Vince LOVEGROVEwho lives at 14 Alwyn Street,Brooklyn, Cape, 7405. Neither aremembers so hopefully the Cape willcorrect this situation!
Angie PALMER Wp. 110 has at lastsettled. She has purchased her ownhome in Gloucester and says that this isdefinitely her last move! (I' ll believethat - Retirement will be the next thing!MLL) She has also just made the 20thCentury on email at«dowson(rrwaitrose. corn»Les TILL 4801 is on email at«lesti llgcv, netactive. co.za» He is run-
ning his own business looking afterchildren in Edenvale, Johannesburg.
Judith McCALL Wp 340, (nce Gibson)has now returned to the UK togethervvith her husband and family. She willbe living in Warwickshire. (SeeChanges of Address) No doubt youwill miss the sunshine - MLLJulian "Paddy" BURKITT 4209 in Co.Waterford was transported intomemory lane on seeing the TommyGriffith photo in the last issue. Hehad been in the same squad, but wentto Bulawayo so missed the photoopportunity. He is in touch with othersquad members who include 4216 TedKIRBY who is farming in Plumtreeand 4210 Brian CHADWICK wholives in Bulawayo. He wonders about4214 Geoff HODGSON who went toNew Zealand and 3987 JohnTAYLOR, 4143 Colin Deneys and4213 Ted HALE (all three are nowsadly deceased - MLL). He wonders ifanyone has any news of the followingmembers: 4206 Mike Avery, 4211 JoeCURTIN, 4215 Bill KENNARD, 4223Pete MARSHALL and 4203 ChipsBAKER. Casting his net wider, hewonders what happened to 3956 PaddyForde who ended up in Ingutsheni,4235 Bill Freyer-Hosken and 6574 Pe-ter BRADELL, who came from Don-egal and served in Matabeleland in theearly 1960's. Any news to PaddyBurkitt direct or via the I-Ion Sec quot-ing Outpost page number please-MLL. Paddy, thanks for the addressof 5768 Clive EVANS. Membershipforms have been sent.Dave WHITNEY 5504 made contactfrom South Australia where he lives inBlackwood. He can be contacted onemail at &dwhitneygaarcom. corn. au&
Andy DOUGALL 7002 has resettled in
Gauteng, South Africa. . See Changes
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of Address
At the Southern Counties gathering ofRhodesians Worldwide which had beenorganised by our own 35336 Bernard'I ERRY, appeared a veritable trio ofBSAP members. 6269 W.P. WATSONhas re-established himself and with himwere 6338 E.A. BODDINGTON whohas returned from the Republic ofSouth Africa to settle back into the UKand 6900 Martin GEE, who is FleetAdmin. Manager for Virgin Airlines.(Membership forms have been sent-MLL)GEORGE LEPPAN 4643 is at 104Carica Street, Kilner Park, 0186Pretoria. Telephone number and faxnumber 012-333.5210. George suf-fered a heart attack and a stroke about12 months ago and is still not in thebest of health but This natural selec-
tion is good for theherd as a whole,because the gen-eral speed andhealth of thewhole group keepsimproving by theregular killing of!he weakestmembers. Inmuch the sameway, the humanbrain can only op-erate as fast as the
would be happy tohear from whonl-ever is enquiringabout him.
Are you axvaf'e thatthere is a specialchat page forformer members ofBSAP 1 raffic!Like the originalBSAP page youhave to go on tothe web to getstarted. Try it
SOUTHERN COUNTIESThe Southern Counties Area of theBSAP Association is holding their 3rdAnnual Luncheon on 25th June. Onceagain it will be at the Hollist Arms,Lodsworrth, near Petworth, WestSussex. The main course will be eitherlamb or pork with a vegetarian option.Anyone who may be interested shouldcontact either Bernard TERRY on01730 817387, or Mike HORNER on01892 533496.
«BSAPQaworldnet. att. net»Just before Christmas, 4963 Rod WIL-SON picked up three people from aPub in Merseyside and on recognisingthe accent, subsequent chat revealedthat 7902 Brian Bonynge was visitiilgfrom Jo'burg. Just goes to prove, younever know who is going to get intoyour cab these days!
Andy YOUNG 9361 has relocatedfrom the Isle of Wight to live in Broad-way to be nearer his place of work.He is making plans, with the assistanceof others, to hold another BroadwayBraai this year.Life's mysteries explained: A herd ofbuffalo can only move as fast as theslowest buffalo. When the herd ishunted„ it is the slowest and weakestones at the back that are killed first.
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There are no fees or snags. If youhave any queries, why not contactMike "Spike" WERNER by email at
slowest brain cells. Excessive intake ofalcohol, we all know, kills brain cells,but naturally it attacks the slowest andweakest brain cells first. In this way,regular consumption of beer eliminatesthe weaker brain cells, making thebrain a faster and more efficientmachine. That's why you always feelsmarter after a few beers!
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ber could bc called upon to do mosttllings -and well too!Sheila BFVAN (3790), vvidow ot tlielate Trevor is in contact with 3855Dave CRACKNFLL (forms sent MLL)who advises the death of 3865 BillyTICKLER which is reported in ourRoll of I-Ionour.
T. S. "Paddy" Anderson 3605 who hasrecently joined our ranks from the Isleof Man sent in a copy of an old photo-graph of members of Squad 6/36 enroute from England to Rhodesia. The
Branches, worldwide,echoed this whenmessages of thankswere read out.
The contents of the"Durban Museum"have been packed andstored, until their newhome is found. Hope-fully this will havebeen done by the timeyou all read this.
As has become
photo is not suitablefor copying into thismagazine, but itshows 3605 ThomasStewart "Paddy"ANDERSON, 3606Hugh Glyn LaurenceArthur BROOKING,3607 John PittMORAY-BROWN,3609 Frank PrenticeHowes DUFTON,Arthur Cardew
CONGRATULATIONS
Associate Member AngusCOOK, son of the late (4825)C/Insp. (Pioneers) lan COOKwas married to Kelly atDaventry, England on 11th De-cember 1999. We extend ourbest wishes for a long, happy andhealtliy life together.
'I hanks to 9137 Doug IJUBBARD inAustralia for this one.On Saturday 15th January some 60members and wives attended the finalfunction at tlie Golden Lion in Durbanfor Rob Bristow's "Thank You"function. Rob has closed down thepremises and is now working fromhome. Branch Chairman, F'red Masonpresented Rob with a 'Silver Salver' onbehalf of the members to say a special'Thank You' to Rob for all he has donefor the Branch over the years. All
customary, many Christmas cards werereceived by the Hon Sec., paying trib-ute to the Committee and sendinggreetings and best wishes to allmembers. The list this year is toolong to reproduce here, but thank youall for your support.
Eric COLLIER 3948 sent Christmasgreetings and apologies for a droppingoff in attendance, due to age, time dis-tance andundertakes (no pun intended MLL) parttime relief organist duties at Bourne-mouth Crematorium where not infre-quently the services are conducted by4600 The Rev. Terry SPONG. Didn' t
we always say that an Ex BSAI' mem-
GLANVILLE. The five were joinedon the voyage by 3252 Reginald PeterI INCH who was returning following aperiod of leave in the UK.A new member of the Branch is 6900Martin GEE. Having left the force in
1967 he learnt to fly, and then workedfor Air Malawi for 20 years. This wasfollowed by 18 months in New Zealandwhere he was flying for a corporatecompany, cut short by the 1987 stockmarket crash. From there to HongKong until retirement in 1999. Martinhas returned to the UK where he isFleet Admin. Manager for Virgin At-lantic Airways at Gatwick.Norman READER 7304 in Vancouver,
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Canada, bumped into 7181 MikeHOWARTH in a hotel lobby inFebruary. They discussed a reunion ofthe members in the Vancouver area.Julian BURKITT 4209 has been remi-niscing over his time at Inyati in 1948.His Member I/c was Sub. lnsp. JockHarvey who was followed by CharlieAust. Both delightful men to serveunder. Julian recalls the 6 week horsepatrols at Nkai and Dagamella in theShangani reserve. Julian has put a newrecruit our way, in Clive EVANS whoruns a BkB in Co. Donegal.D. D. P. "David" CRACKNELL 3855has recently joined our Branch. Hecomments "The Force motto, Pro RegePro Lege Pro Patria, has been mypersonal standard in 50 years of publicservice and I owe much to the ground-ing I had in those early days. " Fromthe Essex Regiment of the TerritorialArmy, he joined the Mounted Sectionof the BSAP in 1939. His service sawhim seconded to Eritrea with the likesof the late 3790 Trevor BEVAN. Heleft the Force to become Commissionerin Somalia, Then Commissioner inEritrea, Asst. Comm. Kenya in chargeof Mau Mau operations, 1954 — 1957.Then back to Somaliland Protectorateuntil his appointment with the ForeignOffice for 17 years. Following retire-ment he remained in public service as aCouncillor with Local Government un-til 1991. David retains contact with3843 Jim ORR, 3683 Tony STOKESand 3867 Jay YORKPrompted by previous articles, JackBrown recalls a reception at Govern-ment House in Bulawayo held duringthe visit of Her Majesty, The QueenMother. "I was the OIC of the BSAPcontingent, and!he RAF personnel
were manning the bar. It was my jobto obtain booze for the boys and theRAF blokes were most helpful. As Ipurloined the bottles, they were passeddown the line and stored in the PoliceTruck. As the function wore on, so thebooze ran out. I was able to ensurethat the Senior Police Officer and hisRAF counterpart were still supplied,until they all went home. They shareda bottle that they concealed amongstthe aspidistras so others would not beaware. When we got back to camp, westored our ill-gotten gains and had freebooze for several weeks. "Poor Jack has not been keeping 100%lately, and if any of you would like tocheer him up with mail, he would loveit. Take care, and get well soon Jack-MLLH. J. "Mike" Cave P/r 15152 hasmoved into a mobile home (mansions!)park at Hillier in South Australia. Be-ing finally settled, he has transferredhis membership to the AustraliaBranch.Grahame FREEMAN 7044/7844 hasbeen ill since before Christmas with anasty problem that has severely hit hismemory capacity. He is currently athome and whilst not 100% composmentis would probably appreciate aget-well card or a letter of support - I'msure his wife Merle would appreciatesome moral support also. His currentaddress is: 178 Derby Road,Kensington, Johannesburg 2094.Cherry ALMY (4526) wrote an appre-ciative letter to our Almoner, BillEARLE thanking him for all his effortsin sorting our her widows pension.She was equally as appreciative, if notmore so, of the efforts of Ken
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S'I AN FORD-SMITH in HararcKcn„ take a bow please - MI.L. De-spite all the help, members should beaware that it took some 10 months!The administration wheels revolvesomewhat slowly in Harare these days.
Gwyn RICHARDS 5819 made contactwith 5826 Nigel Cuerden since he ar-rived in the UK. Nigel has not found it
easy to obtain suitable employtnenthere and has returned to the Republicof South Africa. I-Ie hopes to return tothe UK later on. Gwyn complimentsthe editor of Outpost saying,"Although I only did my three, formany of our ilk, single blokes goingout to Africa by ship in the '50's, thenDepot, 1st posting etc. , was undoubt-edly a very intense experience. Ittherefore remains in the mind whennational service or school reunionsfade. I search each new Outpost fornews of those who stayed on and I findit most useful that names are pickedout in capitals. "
I shall cut the quotetllefe although Gwyn says a lot mole ln
his letter about the current inclementweather, the Roll of Honour and thepolitical problems. Thanks Gwyn.
The Tommy Griffith Mystery Photopublished across the centre pages ofour last issued raised many responsesby both phone and letter. The fullestresponse was from 4005 StanFORREST, who submits a sequel storywith a second photo. Steve Moore-Stevens added names to those missedby Stan, and Steve should know - hewas there! The photograph was takenin the Salisbury Town Police, tempo-rary Recreation Hut in the Depot at theend of 1948. The persons in thephotograph are:- I ront Row from leftto right (5 persons): John COULTER,
Alee BARTI-IORPI.:, Tommy Griffith,Sgt. Jock MacLAUGHLAN andJohnny MILLEl. Middle row (8persons): Dave CLAPHAM, BasilTAYLOR, Dick PERKINS, ShinerWRIGHT, Norman NIMMO, DickieHAZELHURST, Dave McKINLEY(Visitor from Immigration) and LaurieDAVENPORT. Back row of faces orheads (10 persons): Ian McKAY, KenBATTERS, Peter GRAHAM, JimmyREID, Steve MOORE-STEVENS, BillBUCHANAN, Dave GOUGH, HankBLOWERS, MacKENZIE and RonBLACKMORE. Steve thinks that TomEgleton took the photo! The occasionwas the Salisbury Town PoliceSundowner. The corrugated iron hutwas designated a "reading room" but ithad a snooker table with some hardchairs and tables scattered round. Itwas where Steve wrote his first letterhome so it must have had paper, penand ink as well!
The party got well out of hand entirelydue to the beer consumed. 'I he doorsof the Depot Office were barricadedwith trees being cut down near theguardroom. I'he mule carts werespread around the "Green Square" toforestall landings by glider bornetroops. Two old Machine Guns wercplaced near the mess and trained on theDepot Office. A pair of rugger shortswas hoisted up the flagpole, as no la-dies knickers were readily available atthe time. Steve himself was dissuadedfrom setting all the mules and horsesfree although he thought they neededthe exercise. Steve ended up sittingatop the Blatherwick Memorial withTom Egleton discussing the World ingeneral and Depot in particular, puttin&
all to right.
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Mike 4585 and Hazel BROOKES sawthe Millennium in, in the Spanish resortsnear Nerja, seeing in both the SpanishNew Year and one hour later, the UKone! They had been into the mountainsfor their customary Christmas break,which this year was a three-day break.They are still fit enough for a little horseriding.
Reg CRAHART 4912 sends regards toall. Sadly he is unable to attend func-tions these days due to emphysema butwas fortunate to have a "wee growth"detected in his left lung, which has beensuccessfully removed. As Reg says, "Iwas lucky to get the op now that I am70!"' How the years fly by - Ml L
The Annual Dinner2000
Now thtlt sprnlg Is with us, lt Is turleto think of our annual dinner. Thisyear we include our Ladies and itwill take place at the four star Swal-low Hotel, Lynch Wood, Peterbor-ough on Saturday 30th September,2000. Please diarise this eventnovv so that. othel events wl I I notclash! I.ull details will be includedwith our next issue of Outpost, but itis anticipated that the ticket will costno more than f25 per head. Specialaccommodation rates have been ne-gotiated at f37 per person, sharing adouble room and this will include afu I I English breakfast.
NOTE THIS DATE NOW
LONDON GATHERING
Attendance at our 1st Tuesday Gather-ings has, so far this year, been verypoor. One possible reason is that notnlany members are aware that it is nowheld at The Victory Services Club.That excuse is now eliminated. Thefirst Tuesday gatherings are at VIC-TORY SERVICES CLUB, SeymourStreet, in the Trafalgar 13ar downstairsconlrnencing at 5.30pm. (Closest tubeis Marble Arch. ) Please sign in on thesheet at the Steward's table. Advisethe Barman that you are BSAP and askif any others are present. Recentlyseen attending: Christmas 1999 Gather-i n g on 7'" December vvere:
4278 John BALCI-IIN, 4837 Jack &Jenny BROWN, WFR Trish CECH,6737 Mike COLEMAN, 4882 Peter &Barbara DANCER, 5755 StewartFDWARDS, 9086 Tony GRANGFR,6308 Dan HUGHES, 4879 Brian &Jacky I.AY, P/r Alan MACKENZIE,4180 Rick MAY, 4955 BobMORRISTON, 6905 Peter PHILLIPS,7327 Mike & Maggie PLANT, 6348Dennis POOLE, 8515 Martin POWISQPM, 8099 Dave QUILLIAM, 4735Cliff ROGERS, Assoc. HeatherSMITH, 6130 Randy SYMMONS,7391Alan & Lynn TOMS and Assoc.Sylvia Wainwright. January 2000, CliffRogers. February, Peter Phillips, JohnBalchin, Mac Maguiness and JackBrown. March, Cliff Rogers, JohnBalchin, Mike Plant and JohnnyMartin. PLEASE MAKE AN EFFORTTO ATTEND. A COUPLE OF HOURSONCE A MONTH WOULD MEANTHE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANACTIVE BRANCH AND A PAPERLIST OF MEMBERS.
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MORE BANG FORYOUR BUCKS
Do you have the feeling there is neverenough time at the Annual Dinners tohave a decent chat to everyone youwant to? Is it worth incurring the ex-pense of the dinner just to see oldfriends for a couple of hours? Thecommittee feel that an increasingnumber of you may not agree the ex-pense is justified which may explainthe gradual decline in attendance overthe years. To encourage attendance weare this year offering members MoreBang for Their Bucks. The dinner willbe at the Swallow Hotel, Peterborough.Extra rooms have been hired wl&ichwill be used as a Reunion Centre. Thiswill be open from I 1am on the day ofthe dinner and be available for nsem-bers to use to meet friends and col-leagues in a somewhat calmer atmos-phere than usually prevails in the noisycouple of' hours before the dinner.There will be a number of displays andfeatures in the centre. Details have notbeen flnalised but it is hoped to includethe following: screenings of the newBSAP Video History and the Cente-nary Dinner with HMQM, a display ofmemorabilia of the 1977 PresidentialPass Out Parade including photos andlist of those on parade, a feature on theNational Army Museum including alist of all BSAP relics lodged there,look up your entry in the Force Nomi-nal Roll, view the BSAP web site,guess the name of the horse and win abottle of champagne, features on theactivities of the Association and Trust,and displays of general memorabilia.
Suggestions for items to be includedwill be welcome. Peterborough itself is
an interesting town steeped in historyset in lovely countryside. It is easy toreach. It's on the A I and is wellserved by rail and National Expresscoaches. The cathedral, built between1118 and 1238, contains the most com-plete example of a Norman apse (lookit up) surviving in England and aunique example of a 13'" centurypainted ceiling. Katherine of Aragon is
buried here as was, initially, Mary,Queen of Scots after her execution atnearby Fotheringay Castle. The riverNene flows through the town and thereare plenty of walks to be had throughthe Nene Park which is a stretch ofsome six miles of meadows lakes andwoods. The Ncne Valley Railway, ofThomas the Tank Engine fame, takesthe most scenic route along the Nenevalley for 7 'r'. miles. Special rates areavailable for groups of 20 or more. Ifanyone is interested in making up agroup on Sunday 1"October let AlanToms know. (address at back). Somake the effort to come. It will beworth the expense. You do not ofcourse have to attend the dinner, justmake a day of it visiting the ReunionCentre and Town.
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THE SALISBURY TOWN POLICE MONTHLYTHRASH (P/U) OR
CONDUCT TO THE PREJUDICE OF COODORDER AND DISCIPLINE
by 4005Published on the centre pages of theWinter '99-2000 UK Outpost is a pho-tograph of several comrades (therewere others not shown) who wereabout to become a "tanked-up" unrulymob bent on creating chaos and mis-chief within the hallowed precincts ofthe Police Depot. Memories fade afterso much time has passed, so forgiveany variations from other stories on thesubject you may have heard or confu-sion with other similar happenings, butin essence the event is well known tothe sober members who served inSalisbury at that time. The year is prob-ably late 1947 or 1948 and the scene inthe photograph is the Town Police rec-reation hut, Police Depot - generouslyprovided through the courtesy of theCommandant Depot (BasilSPURLING) on the instructions of theCommissioner following anguishedrepresentations (self-defence) by Cap-tain RICHENS, the then OfficerCommanding, Salisbury Town.The location and use of the hut was anessential exercise in strategy to avoidfurther embarrassment to both the Po-lice authority and the Citizens ofSalisbury. The arrangements cameabout following complaints from mem-bers of the public about the bawdysongs and unacceptable conduct thathad been witnessed on several occa-sions in the vicinity of the Baker Av-enue Police station.
In history, during 1946 it was the cus-tom of Captain RICHENS to hold amonthly meeting of all available TownPolice members to discuss Police,Messing, and Recreation matters. Dur-ing one of these meetings and afterdiscussions with other members, SgtClifford PODMORE requested permis-sion to hold a monthly recreational get-together on the first floor premises ofthe Baker Avenue Police Station - uti-lising the existing bar, rest rooms, andthe verandas adjacent thereto. Eventu-ally permission was granted but on theproviso that there must always be amember of the Inspectorate present toensure that good order and disciplinewas maintained at all times.And, so was launched a highly desir-able event which became affectionatelyknown as the monthly P/U. (If youdon't know what P/U stands for thenyour Police education is faulty).The initial series of events passed offwithout too much of a problem. Wehad guests to entertain us and of courseour own in-house talents - includingthe magical expertise of the great PeterBECK. Volunteers set up special barsand the Inspectorate kept good order.That is until the popularity of the eventattracted hordes of members from farand wide who engineered dubious vis-its to Salisbury and towards the end ofeach evening when liquor took its hold,it inevitably resulted in the spontaneous
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communal singing of male-ears onlyson&~&s.
ln older to cmphaslse the initial re-sponsible disciplined compliance withCaptain RICI IENS' instructions, I pro-duce a photograph showing some ofthe members attending the Baker Av-enue Social evening (halo's omitted).Identified from right to left are - DaveWl LLIA MS, Bi I I CRABTREE,Tommy GRIFFITHS, Johnny HAMER,Ian McKAY, George I-IARCOURT,Chuck BOTTERILL, Stan FORREST,Pete GRAHAM, a guest entertainer, ?DIXON, and Sidney POPE.I-Iowever, as liquor took its hold, con-duct deteriorated to the extent thatsome members of the Inspectoratequickly disappeared (to avoid beingcalled to account) and a great volumeof vocal disharmony burst forththrough open windows into BakerAvenue. Booze running out and voicesbecoming hoarse, the cry "to the hot-dog stalls" resulted in a mass exodusinto the streets of central Salisbury.I hc stream of happy cops meanderedpast three sergeants, sitting in the mid-dle of Baker Avenue holding discus-sions to the consternation of the motor-ing public. On into First Street theywent to the front of the Standard Bankwhere the shout "BOK-BOK" went upafld horses and jockeys plunged withgreat enthusiasm into the time-hon-oured game. Tiring of the fruitlessexercise, the participants left and con-tinued to the hot-dog stalls. Some-oneshould have told Dickie HAZEL-I IURST who was in mid-air seeking toadd to the pile of jockeys, when theinstant departure occurred. His landingshool the streets of Salisbury.
1 he I-Iot-dog stalls survived the visit
and after a toast to the King (duringwhich Johnny HAMER failed to riseand he fell off the end of the bench todamage his arm) members dispersed.This resulted in a rickshaw race back toDepot with Cops in harness and ownersin the seat.Well the situation could not be toler-ated for long. Complaints were re-ceived from senior citizens and thegeneral public. Inebriated memberswere found by the roadside in dire needof assistance (some in uniform too).Captain RICHENS was summoned bythe Commissioner to a conference ofsenior officers to give an account andafter discussion it was accepted thatBaker Avenue Station was probablynot a suitable venue. It was agreed thatthe holding of the monthly event wasgood for morale and in consequencethe question of an alternative venue
was explored. The offer of a recreationhut in Depot was unanimously ac-cepted as the ideal solution. High spir-ited activity within the confines of thcDepot would not offend the public anda greater degree of disciplinary controlcould be exercised (believe that one ifyou like). And so the events leading upto establishment of the Town Policemonthly P/U in Depot explained, I willnow deal with the night that followedthe taking of that photograph men-tioned in the opening paragraph of thisstory. As with all these monthlygatherings, the evening started off withall on best gentlemanly behaviour.Rank was respected and beer sippedslowly. All having been warned thatserious consequences would resultfrom any incidents of adversebehaviour.
Unfortunately, this desirable disci-
plined approach was not to last forlong. As with all such functions, anelement of reckless disregard afflictsthe serious drinker. The effect creepsup slowly, clouding judgement andcausing the individual to engage in in-
cidents of uninhibited conduct. When a
group of like drinkers are so affected,then mob activity becomesunpredictable.
Cliff PODMORE attended the function
also but he missed the honour of fea-turing in the photograph as he had been
carted off to hospital with a broken leg- a shear fracture arising from an over-
load of jockeys during the inevitablegame of bok-bok.
Now picture the scene around 11 pmthat night. Copious amounts of beerhave been consumed. Everyone is in
high spirits and they have become benton mischief. Near the depot square is a
great pile of tree branches - courtesy ofJock GREGORY (and others) who arespending a stint in the Depot stocksand have spent the last few days se-verely pruning trees around the area(the trees never recovered). A museumhad been established in the Depotgrounds which contained machine gunsand other items of Force history. Dum-
mies had been tailor made for recruittraining and left nearby and there werehorses &n the stables.
The true story of what happened hasnever been revealed but the realisationthat an unusual event had taken placewas first discovered by a trumpeter and
flag raiser who took up position at theBLATHERWICK memorial to rousethe Depot from slumber. The flag couldnot be raised for a pair of highly col-oured feminine panties occupied theplace where the flag should be. In
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addition, the Depot Institute clock wasshowing the incorrect time and a bullethole was observed in the face. Horseswere in view grazing contentedly onthe green square.
These matters were immediately re-ported to authority whilst also at thatmoment, the Commandant arrived toview with horror the scene at his office.Aimed at the door were the museummachine guns manned by dummiestaken from the equipment store. Theoffice was inaccessible due to a moun-tain of prunings dumped outside andthe office itself was stuffed full ofbranches. When these were eventuallycleared a dummy figure appearedseated on the Commandants chair anddressed in the uniform of a Pioneertrooper.Around the Depot elsewhere, fire extin-guishers had been activated, windowsbroken, notices removed from themess, new orders substituted, and sta-ble doors had been left open. A fumingCommandant and Captain RICHENSordered an immediate high level inves-tigation instructing Inspectors NormanNIMMO and MACKENZIE to takeover the case - to be assisted by thatace inquisitor from the Enquiry Section- Sgt Butch BUCKLEY (he said he hadgone home early).Fortunately, an effort by the Comman-dant to confine all Town Police person-nel resident in Depot until the culpritswere forced to come forward was re-jected as impracticable and a plea byCaptain RICHENS for the culprits tocome forward voluntarily brought noresults.
Now after viewing the photograph, I
find it rather strange that two of the
three senior members responsible forthoroughly investigating the incidentwere in fact in attendance at the P/Uduring the course of the evening and I
would comment that it must be veryrare indeed for police officers to inves-tigate a case in which they surelyqualify to be viewed as suspects.Over a period of several weeks every-one was called to give an account oftheir movements and conduct on thenight in question. Of those who admit-ted being present at the P/U, all statedthat they had left early for various rea-sons and not surprisingly no witnesseswere found or evidence secured toidentify the culprits responsible for theprejudicial conduct revealed. The twoinvestigating Inspectors were forced toadmit failure to Captain RICHENS andthe case was closed"UNDETECTED". Not surprisingly allfuture Town Police Monthly socialevenings were cancelled.I have identified the majority of thosepresent in the photograph to our Secre-tary but out of loyalty to my comradesI have declined to mention who theculprits were (I have my informants??). However, I now invite those whohave survived to give their versions ofthe happenings on that night. I guaran-tee that through abrogation byproscription, all those involved whocome clean will be protected fromprosecution.I left early too.
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BATTLE LINES~The following letter has been receivedin response to Cliff Rogers article"Battle Honours" on page 24 of ourlast Issue:
Dear Mike,Far be it for me to challenge a state-ment made by Cliff Rogers, but I be-lieve he was totally incorrect in hisstatement over the BSAP BattleI lonouI's.
Yes it is correct to say that for reasonsbest known to the authorities the BSAPnever received any Battle I-Ionours forthe Boer War.But they did receive a measure of rec-ognition in the receipt of the KingsColours for operations during the SouthAfrican War 1899-1902. This was notgiven to everybody who participated. Itwas, in my view, a proper reward forthe Regiment's contribution during theBoer War.
However in 1925 His Majesty the Kingapproved the grant of Great War BattleHonours to each of the five SouthernRhodesian Regiments. They were tothe British South Africa Police (I), theI. irst Rhodesia Regiment (I), the Sec-ond Rhodesia Regiment (3), the FirstRhodesia Native Regiment (I) and thcSecond Native Rhodesia Regiment (I).The BSAP were recognised with theBattle Honour " EAST AFRICA 1915-18".The four Southern Rhodesianregiments, on the cessation ofHostilities, were awarded their coloursby the King for taking part in activeoperations during the Great War. Sowere able to join the BSAP with theirearlier award with Kings Colours. As a
matter of fact I believe that only 13Kings Colours were awarded to NewZealand Regiments at the end of WorldWar One. Each of the four main regi-ments received one for each battalionraised plus one to the Maori PioneerRegiment. So that Southern Rhodesiawas to be rewarded with four doesshow flow lnlportallt the colony s con-tributions were regarded.
PS the Regiment would have had tohave paid for the Battle Honours to bcsevvn on their Colours, not the1 reasury!Peter Silk (Associate Member)
Dick Ray Visited
Don and Valda (Portugal) Russellturned up in Broadway a couple ofmonths ago, and the standard of dili-gent enIIuiry one expects ol a Districtman enabled thenI to trace me at myoff'ice. Although we were never sta-tioned together, I followed Don as i/cSelukwe and Rusape. It was good toscc them - both looking well. They arestill in I'ortugal of course.Mark Doyle (from Pretoria) stayedwith us for a couple of days last Au-turnn while on a Rotary trip to UK.l=ollowing a long established mutualenjoyment of ornithology, we wentbird-watching to Slimbridgc WildfowlTrust, as well as taking in some coun-try pubs in our Welsh Borders area.Pat Deasy (Jo'burg) was another wel-come visitor to Goodrich House Cot-tage during World Cup Rugby week.Unfortunately we had suffered fromtorrential rain flood damage a fewdays previously and the ground floor
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was damp(ish) and carpetless. Dearold Pat pretended not to notice (afteryears in a single Mess perhaps hcdidn' t!).Thc mail - at Christmas in particular-has brought letters from Ken MacDon-ald and Peter South in Bulawayo„TaffyMorgan and Taffy Phillips in Harare,and Doug Wright in Tasmania.
GATHERINCS IN THENORTHWEST
The new venue is at The MycrscoughI-lotel, Whalley Road, 13aldcrstone, Nr.Blackburn. Turn off the M6 Motorwayat Junction 31 and go to the right (ifcoming from the South or turn left ifcoming from the North) and take theA59 towards Clitheroe or Blackburn.In one and a half miles you will cometo a fork and traffic lights. There is alarge Hotel on your left and a ServiceStation on the right. I. ork left at thejunction and travel for One mile whenyou will see the Myerscough on yourleft, just before the British Aerospacebuilding which you can see on yourright. (There is another Pub 150 yardspast the Myerscough„both of which arein a LayBy)Eighteen members and wives splashedtheir way to The Myerscough on Satur-day 11'" December. The weather wasatrocious, raining and blowing as it hasdone I'or the past few weeks.Frank and Margaret Dearden were seenchanging out of Wet Suits in the door-way before comin into the Pub. (Atleast that is what I was told!) This wasour first meeting since Allen Day stooddown as Secretary of the North WestDivision. Allen was the originator
with some help from Sandy Johnston,of thc North-West gatherings back in1988. Thc first meeting was at theTicl led Trout just a mile or two awayfrom The Myerscough in September1998 but members were not very tick-led by the prices there so the meetingsmoved to The New Inn, Galgate wherethey remained for some eleven yearsuntil we moved for this meeting. Allenpresented me with his folder goingright back to 1988 and it is to him thatwe all owe our grateful thanks that themeetings were started and continue toflourish. THANK YOU ALLEN.Thc Myerscough is bigger that TheNew Inn, a little further for some totravel and quite a bit nearer for most. Ithas recently been taken over by twoyoung Chefs who are eager to please.'I hey have a Great Dane cross Ridge-back which wanders around greetingpeople. (Amazing what some of thoseR/Rs could get up to). The food is vclvgood, the Bar meals are cheap and thedrinks not expensive.Arnold and I'aula Woollev botli regularvisitors made a 60 mile detour toattend as at the moment they have todrive from their home in North Walesto Brighton some 260 miles away,every weekend, where they have a rela-tive who is seriously ill. We hope thathc makes a good recovery. Bob Clarkeand Pet made the long journey fromStourbridge, Barry Marsden and Valmade the journey from their home,about half a mile away! The Myer-scough is Barry's local. He is in foren-sic science these days. Rhona Johnstonwas served an extra large Prawn Cock-tail as apparently someone had toldmine host that she was a troublemaker!Joe Mercer brought along a model of a
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Mounted Trooper which he won at theAnnual Dinner. Arnold Wool Icy wastelling me about the "Goings On" withRon Pilborough whom I knew well inBu 1awayo.
Everyone attended this meeting wasfull of praise for new venue and theparty was still in full swing at 3pmwhen usually everyone goes home.This was the last meeting of thecentury, the century in which weserved.
Those who attended were A.M. Cole-man and Terry, Sid and VeryStrickland, Arnold and Paula Woolley,Allen Day, Harry Marshall (Assoc),Bob Clarke and Pet, Frank and Marga-ret Dearden, Joe Mercer, RhonaJohnston, Mike and Jan Leach andBarry and Val Marsden.
A nice day brought out a good numberto the Myerscough Hotel for our firstget together of the new century, and I
insist that you all be there for the last!!As well as an increase in the numberattending, (24 but some did not sign in)we also had an increase in the numberof apologies, so obviously more peopleare taking notice. Going through theapologies and checking on the reasonsgiven, I have decided to ban Births,Holidays and prior engagements. Any-way it was nice to see new memberI-larry Davies who has just joined theassociation and Steve Robins who hasjust got back from 25 years service inHong Kong. Also nice to see DorothyWalker with Craig and Penny. LarryKing brought along an excellent Mapof S. Rhodesia which Barry Marsden isgoing to copy for those who would likeone. It covers the whole country so youcan see everywhere on one page Wemissed regulars Sid and Vera whose
first Grand Daughter has just arrived.Congratulations and yes, you can signher up as an associate member. WhilstGerrard (who runs the Myerscoughwith his partner) only got notice of ourarrival that san&e morning he copedvery well with the extra demands onthe kitchen and again„everybody wasmore than satisfied with the cateringarrangements and enjoyed their meals.We have certainly found an excellentvenue to meet. Those attending: 6314Barry and Val Marsden, 5607 HarryDavies, 5479 Mike and Jan Leach,4716 Larry King, Rona Johnston, 7022Dorothy Walker with Craig and Penny(now twopence), Nick and TerryColeman, Arnold and Paula Wooley,7084 Frank and Margaret Dearden, JoeMercer and Harry Marshall.
Apologies. Paul I lodges on holiday,Sid and Vera- new grand daughter,Mike Hoggarth - prior engagemen, L.Lumholtz - prior engagement, Stan andGinny Forrest — prior engagement. Ournext meetings are on June 10th, Sep-tember 9th and December 9th. Don' tforget, if you have a friend who isinterested„you are welcome to bringthem along. Hope to see you all inJune. Rod Wilson.
Memorabilia OfferGwyn RICHARDS 5819 is offering asteel tear-gas grenade box, size 80 x 20x 20cms and painted grey with centrered stripe and red and yellow lettering.This box was used in the 1959Nyasaland campaign and is similar tothat seen on the Landrover roof in thearticle "BSAP In Nyasaland" publishedin our Outpost, Issue 40 (Winter 1998)on page 26. Interested? ContactGwyn direct on 01386 710473
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CENTRALAnd once again we extract with impu-nity the Hugh's news for our readers'delectation and delight or even forgreat interest and amusement!
Starting off with various Outposts,Hugh reports that Fred Mason, thechairman and now editor of the NatalOutpost "is perturbed at the apparentU DI by mern bers fromPietermaritzburg. There is a letter fromPhil Kensett bemoaning the lack ofresponse to letters by MartinFitzgerald. When I met him a fewweeks ago, he did not seem particularlyconcerned about keeping up oldcontacts. I think he is working inMsasa. Other correspondents includeAlf Winter and Malcolm Torrance,Mike Moss, Digger Flavell who wasbadly mugged in his Scottburgh apart-ment and Bill Crabtree.The magazine includes a short tributeto 3117 Albert Potts, who served from1929 to 1951 when he retired as aDetective Chief Inspector. Mr Potts isa regular attender at Branch Dinnersand now lives with his son - also an ex-member - in Ramsgate on the SouthCoast. For those of you plannin&~holidays, the Durban Dinner is on 4'August.
It is a real pleasure to see the AlgoaOutpost because Alan Dickinson 6687
has slipped into the editorial chair untilthe AGM. Alan I abre is now out ofhospital and his ten years plus of serv-ice has been acknowledged andappreciated. Trevor Compton 5922,one of the most hardworking of theAlgoa Committee, has resigned fromhis job and is to retire with his wife Patto their cottage at Knysna. An item ofvery good news - Mike Lindley in EastLondon has managed to revive the Bor-der Branch. The Port Elizabeth Clubhosted the Branch Dinner during lastAugust and Dave Blacker flew up to beGuest Speaker, ensuring both excellentfood and an excellent speech.The Cape Outpost reports that ChrisLathe is still with Hulletts Sugar inNatal but took temporary residence atTimour Hall recently and sadly WendyMeyer has resigned as the BranchSecretary. 1 he reason for this hassofnething to do with another mini-meyer. And thanks to ChimpsWebster, there's a history of the Sup-port Unit from 1963 to 1968. I maywell make use of this. At least twoformer OC's Bert Freemantle and GuyHoughton are available in Zimbabwebut if there are others who could con-tribute anecdotes„ I would be more than
happy to have them.
The 9'" edition of the Transvaal Outpostreports the Dinner in September withthe first Lady Guest Speaker, Dr. Jan-ice Farquharson. Hy all accounts„ thespeech was one of the finest ever heardby many of the guests. The subjectmatter was mainly based on the Anglo-Boer War and, to some extent, the partplayed in it by the BSAP.The email section has letters from AlanRicli, Mike Edden, Mike Reeler, AndyField (concerning HSAP participation
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in the Boer War), Dave Craven, RegVincent, Grant Lewthwaite (fromSydney, Australia), John Pirrett(recovering from a cancer op), TerrySmith 6416 who has linked up withDave Davenport in East London, PeterKeyes, Norman Reader both referringto the late Ron Trangmar and EricDickinson who once patrolled Bula-wayo in drag. Finally there is an inter-esting note on the Annual Remem-brance Day service at what I wouldinterpret as "Red house Village" whichwas attended by Police, Army, AirForce and Internal Affairsrepresentatives. Many members of theAssociation were present and a specialand well-deserved tribute was includedto the late Hank Hankinson.
I have slithered from Outpost to localnews and might just as well note thoseattending our New Year Sundowner inHarare. This was very well supportedand all the more pleasurable now thatthe Depot roads have been tarred andflattened! Not only that, but the Clubfloors have been sumptuously tiled, sotoo the verandah and the Great Hall.But the crowning glory has to be thebar. The old bar has gone and in itsplace is a dark wood, slightly highersurface with graceful wood pillarsreaching up to a lowered ceiling. Thefloor is mainly carpeted, the lightingsubdued and the whole appearance hasbeen judiciously and graciously altered.Those attending were Basil ParkerAndrew, Peter Bellingham, DeborahBishop, Ron Blackmore, MikeBloomfield, Dennis Borra, DuncanBarker, Bourt Harvey, Syd Bristow,Dixie Bruce, Anne Buckley, H.Chisnail (611Q), John Clements, MelClements, Aileen Coetzer, Gill
Conway, Bruce Darling, Dave deBurgh-Thomas, Dudley Naude, BillEllway, Mike Edden, Rod Finnigan,Flash Firth, Jack Fisher (4004), MikeFox, Nigel Gabriel, Gerry Gibson,Fluff Hawks, Marnie Hickman, Nor-man H i I I (now 86!), DerekHumberstone, Guy Houghton, KeithHolshausen, Martin Kay, Ron Warren,whose wife Nan, was responsible for adelicious buffet supper, Chris Lennard,Bill Linfield, Rose Lindsay, TackieMacintosh, John Mackinnon, lanMacmillan, John March, Dave Martin,Taff Morgan, Hugh Phillips, DavePratt, Fred Punter, Mike Robinson, Ha-zel Robinson, Isobel and Eric Ross,Mike Rowley, Bob Schonken, PatShaw, Ivan Stitt, Frank Stober, KenStanford Smith, Jamie Tennant, DennisThompson, Peter Tomlinson, TerryWalmsley, Sheila Weaver, G. West,Caroline Witts, John Woodward, BillMerritt - and apologies from ConnieVowles, Pat Logue, Dave Young andTerence McCormick. Terence hadbeen staying with his daughter Sue, in
Marlborough and many of us werelooking forward to seeing that sprightlyold gentleman once more. Sadly it wasnot to be. Terence returned to the Capeand passed away a few days later.
Reverting to the sundowner, this reallywas an excellent turnout and made allthe more enjoyable by the presence ofTerry Walmsley and Fred Punter fromthe UK and of Jack Fisher {asking afterOlive Brialt) from New Zealand. BillMerritt is now based in Cape Town andsplitting his business interests betweenthere and 'ere. Duncan Barker, a newmember, made his first appearance.Bob Schonken very generously gave acruise on his boat on Kariba as a prize
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for a raf'fle. I-Iarare„with a vigorouscommittee, led by Peter Bellingham, is
going from sttcngtll to stlcngth.
The first letter in the pile, comes I'rom
the Warburtons in Constantia in theCape. Mike 4566, popped in to seeJanet du Toit, nee Noakes, whilst inEngland recently. Janet's father wasprobably Walter John Noakes 2017who served from 1919 to 1945 whenhe retired, on pension. Apparently oneof Janet's children is a geologist andliving in Harare. A few days ago I wasin touch with Mike and Pam again thistime to check tha! all was well. Readerswill probably be aware of the awfulfires which have swept through parts ofthe Cape Province, destroying homes,forest areas and, possibly even worse-vineyards! The fire was halted only afew hundred yards from their newhome but vast swathes of those beauti-ful trees that grace Constantia Nekwere burnt down.
Mike Harvey 6121„writes from High-lands to mention that 15378 Tony El-dridge has just had published "Just OutOf Sight". The book concerns thevolunteers for special service in the lastWar (1939- 1945) and enthrals with arivetting account of the job of a "Chari-oteer"on what is known as an offensiveunderwater vehicle. In the second partof the book Eldridge describes hisPATU experiences.Dave Young is another correspondentand passes on the address of Roger andHelen Lebish as 22 Mount Elliot Drive,Alligator Creek, Townsville Q4816,Queensland. Roger is still doing all thethings that triathlon athletes do in
Aussy - like hugging kangaroos! Theother address from Dave is that of ]onMilner, from whom I heard quite
recently, at 18700 Walker's ChoiceRoad, 212 Gaithersburg, MD 20879,USA.There have been a fair number of visitsto the Club of late. John Clements5084, ex-Depot Provost Staff and hisson made a welcome appearance; AndyField and Marguerite found time toabsent themselves from their manyinterests; Eric Dickinson 7754 ap-peared looking remarkably relaxed nowthat he's retired and started working forhimself; Eric Birrell 7180 and wife(WP 344 Rene Willemse) popped infor a couple of evenings during theirholidays; Dudley McLachlan 6079 andKen Mackay, 6578 came up fromSouth Africa at the same time as PaulShewell 5749, the latter sending bestwishes to Neville Cook, Trevor Wilsonand John Frost. Ray Herran, Bula-wayo's witty and often caustic secretaryput in an appearance and intimated thatdue to his advanced years, he wouldhave to hand over the quill and accountbooks to someone else at the nextAGM; and then, more recently, cameJohn Stanyon 3835 who has now leftMasvingo, is living in Nelspruit andhopes to join his son, Douglas, in theBrisbane area later this year. Johnbrought up to the Club, Richard Wolfe,3840, who has left South Africa andnow lives in Greendale. John and Rich-ard were both in the Aegean during the39/45 conflict, keep up comms withDon Lane, whilst Richard was bestman a! the late Peter Sherren'swedding.
Thanks Hugh, for all your inadvert-ent help and great support to thiseditor over the last ten years-3clri enne.
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VISITS"For the first time in 22 years I missedthe annual dinner due to business com-mitments in Canada", wrote StewartEdwards 5755. "However, whilst thereI made contact with Terry Looker whowas i/c Selous with Aussie Miltonwhen I was at Hartley. I-Ie very kindlycollected Pam and myself from ourhotel at the Toronto airport and enter-tained us at his lovely home, which isan hours drive North of Toronto. Terry,who recently retired, seems hardly tohave changed. All that is missing isthe pipe! His wife, Audrey, who is aqualified ballet dance examiner, dis-covered relatively recently that herskills are very much in demand andnow travels throughout the world andis getting paid for it!"F'red and Margaret PUNTER have justreturned from a southern Africanholiday. Here are excerpts from theirillany emails which they entitled Punt-ers Progress."I must mention the most memorableevening at Meikles Hotel, La Fontaineon 5th January. The service was excel-lent and the so was the quality, quantityand flavour of the food, washed downby three bottles of Boschendal's best.I can personally recommend the croco-dile tail starter (main course size, insuper creamy sauce) at Zim$190 (aboutZ3 UK) and the Ostrich steaks, I thinkwere about Zim$250. Prices are stillquite reasonable for the premier restau-rant of a five star hotel. You can stillhave all your pre dinner drinks, threecourse meal, quality imported wine,coffee (and even Remy Martin for
some) for around Z$1000 per head(f15 UK)I riday 7th Jan saw us at the PoliceClub for the delayed Regimental Asso-ciation Christmas cocktail party. Therewas a good crowd there including verymany that I knew and hadn't seen forages (including Jack Fisher and hiswife from New Zealand). On Sunday9th we went to Borrowdale Park. Meldid not have any horses running butbeing an owner we went into the Stew-ards stand and had a table right levelwith the winning post. Dixie Brucewas there with his head buried in theform book. We finished with morethan we went with, had a few beers andan enjoyable afternoon, 8 races with atleast 15 horses per race. Eddie Ma-chett's son is one of the better trainersin Harare. Next stop Cape Town,where we are staying with Annabelle kGerald SPANTON.We also saw Rod ETTERMAN (whotook us to Timour Hall), DougGRIERSON, Dave BLACKER, NigelHARRIS and Sandy SANDERSON.'I hen moving up to Johannesburg andtouring southwards, Jim COLLINS,Phil MINGARD, and Chris LATHE.Then it was back to Harare, for anevening at the theatre with Alan RICH.Back in Zimbabwe, Cyclone Elinebrought in gallons of water to thecountry. We went to Bulawayo butrain limited our visit. We managed tosee Eddie WEBB who was remarkablycheerful having had a leg amputatedsome two years ago. He particularlyasked to be remembered to WallyWILTON. Then it was on to Masvingo(Fort Victoria), where we stayed out atLake Kyle. The lake is over 100% full,the five floodgates are open, and this is
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a spectacular sight. The next stage toMelsetter was aborted as the roads toMutarc (Umtali) were cui off by bridgewash- aways. One night we were with-out electricity, taking us back to ourdays in the bush with tilly lamps etc.Despite the rain, the Masvingo munici-pal workers went on strike and allowedthe towns water reservoirs to drain dryso there was no water in Masvingo fora couple of days.Additional to all this there are petroland diesel supply problems, with milelong queues at garages that have fuel.As well as inefficiency in fuelprocurement, cyclone Eline has nothelped because it capsized a boat inBeira harbour preventing a tanker loadof fuel docking.We concluded our holiday in Hararewhere, at the moment, fuel isZim$22. 62 per litre or about GBP1.65a gal lon. "Herewith a report on the latest trip byJB and Bev JABOOR. "We have justreturned from Hong Kong. It was awonderful trip. It is an amazing place.Huge buildings and wonderful architec-ture mixed in with really old shabbybuildings that need to be pulled. Neonsigns everywhere, both on the streetsand on the buildings - very bright andcolourful. One feels very safe walkingaround and we did a lot in the time wehad. This was a Goodyear dealer in-centive trip arranged by JB, so we had108 people with us and stayed at whatis probably one of the top hotels there,The Regent. Each day was plannedwith morning activities except for theday we had in China, which was a fullday. China was an experience. Verythird world. We visited the house ofSun Yet Sen (Old Times Sake?) and a
local senior school there. Thc marketwas interesting but also an eye openervvhcn you realise that these people eatalmost anything that moves. The mar-ket had an array of unrepeatable stockitems!! That was quite enough for me.We had a wonderful final night at anold colonial hotel overlooking RepulseBay on Hong Kong Island. JB hadarranged for the I-Iong Kong PoliceBand to play on the lawns overlookingthe bay, prior to dinner. The band waswonderful with several pipers allturned out in full Scottish dress. Theywere outstanding and brought backmemories of our Police band. At theend of their performance they piped usinto dinner on the veranda of this res-taurant where we had an excellentmeal. What a finale it was. "Speaking of trips, 8457 Mike CUNDYsent his apologies for last year's dinner,as he departed on a trip to Singapore-Sydney - Solomon Islands - PapuaNcw Guinea - Indonesia - Hong Kong-Mongolia and Uzbekistan. Wow!Prior to that trip, Mike visited Zimba-bwe last August with his twin sons,now 21 years old! He managed tocatch some great Tiger at SenkweCamp and on visits to the Police Clubmet up with Rod FINNEGAN, "'I luff"HAWKES, Mike CRAFTER, llarryKEFFORD, Andy FIELD, TimHOWMAN, Peter I IARRIS, "Flash"I. IRTH, Danny STANNARD, BillELWAY, Bob SCHONKEN, Dave deBERGH-THOMAS, Brian THOMASand Ron BLACKMORE who was cel-ebrating the 50th anniversary of hisrelease from POW camp!Mike 6125 and Roxane IJORNI. I& haverecently returned from a fabulous holidayin the USA the only complaint from
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which was that it was too short. Therewere other niggles like the No Smok-ing laws, and the fact that it was onlyat the end that he found a good beer!The main Holiday was in Las Vegas,which was expanding at such a rate, hecould almost watch it happening.Casinos, Grand Canyon, Hover Damand Red Valley were just a few of thehighlights. Mike claims he actuallywon over $100 at the tables!! Betterthan losing! The final stop was SanFrancisco, which was where he eventu-ally found a decent beer! (Mike's reportwas 3 x A4 pages, so if anyone wants furtherdetails you had better contact Mike and Roxancdirect - MLL)
HIP, HIP,PULL THE OTHER ONE!
Rod Wilson 4933 came across apiece in the Australian Outpost byMaurice Gamblin, ex CID, about ahippo which lived in a spruit nearGwanda and found its way to Hula-wayo where it caused trouble nearthe Teachers Training College.Rod Says, "I would like to submit
the following evidence in support. ""The now "Very Rev" Ken Berry andI were on Road Patrol at Essexvalenear a bridge with a speed limit on it.Travelling from Gwanda toBulawayo, you would of course haveto cross this bridge.
Both Ken and I observed this hippotravelling too fast. Ken said, "Oh look,Bless it,
"and being the junior troop, I
chased after it on my motor cycle andgave it a ticket. "/t/OU', perhaps some other ex Membercan recall the hippo paying the ticket,perhaps in Bulawayo Town orM"ilikazi. Maybe through the Outpost,someone can enlighten us as to whathappened next.
"
Sotneone lzns; hy tire miracle of theInternet we have already received areply from John Walton."The hippo marched into the Mzilikazicharge office one morning to pay itsspeeding ticket issued on the bridge inEssexva le.I referred the beast to Sgt. Short who inturn referred it to the Member inCharge Insp. Gaitski1l.I was instructed to settle the ticket, butit turned out that the hippo had nomoney, only Hippo Chips and as theywere not legal currency, I detained thehippo and prepared a docket for court.Later that evening A/Constable Stanis-laus took the sadza for the evening andwas not aware of the animal in the cell.He opened the door and when he sawthe hippo, panicked, and ran back tobarracks.
The hippo, seeing his opportunity, tookoff through the Mzilikazi Location andwas last seen heading towardsEssexvale.We were advised by the 0/C Matabele-land to drop the case because the Ani-mal Rights Activists were getting onthe case and creating all sorts oftrouble.
Hipporay!"
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NEW MEMBERS
David Ralph ADSHEAD 5468:"Cramond", Sevenoaks Road, Halstead,Kent TN14 7HPThomas Stewart ANDERSON 3605:"Theakston", Riverbank Road, Ramsay,Isle of Man, IM8 3PRDouglas David Pedler CRACKNELL3855:12 Manor Field, Bridport, DorsetDT6 4DBHerbert Nigel Venant CUERDEN5826: C/o 7 Bissenden Road,Croydon, Surrey CRO 6UN
Francis Harold DAVIES 5607: 41Birch Road, Rixton, Warrington WA36JPSheila Wynn DAVIES W/p 42 (NeeMarriott): 41 Birch Road, Rixton,Warrington, WA3 6JPGeorge Winn FARDELL P/r 11999:The Retreat, Lympstone, Devon EX85JUMartin Raymond GEE 6900: 37 Lash-mere Copthorne Village, West SussexRHIO 3RRHugh John GIBSON 5355: 3 CrossStreet, Peebles, Lothian EH45 8LEJean Kathleen HENSON WFR 204715:PO Box 6401, Boroko, NCD, PapuaNew Guinea
George Dewhurst HODGSON Assoc:10 Meadow Drive, Bolton-Le-Sands„Carnforth, Lancashire LA5 8HABarry James MARSDEN 6314:"Riversleigh"„Jacksons Banks Road,Balderstone, Blackburn, Lanes BB27LH
John Kenneth George MARTIN 5822:Brook Cottages, Mutton Row, Stan-
ford Rivers, Ongar, Essex CM5 9QPD.V. PIIILLIPS 5414: 5 Woodpecl. erMews, Cepcn Pari North, Chippcnhan1SN14 6XXAnthony Brian George SMITH 5992: 7Undertown, Ugborough, Devon,PL21 ONH
Kenneth Gordon STEWART 6895: 4Heath Way, Coleview, Stratton,Swindon, Wiltshire SN3 4DTCaroline Eve WITTS Wfr 204556: I
Wrefords Drive, Cowley Bridgs, ExeterEX4 5AU
CHANGES OF ADDRESS
J. W. ALLEN P/R 15488: 11Ashwalk, Alresford, Hampshire,S024 9LXJ. W. BEALE 4822: 24 St. Mary' sAvenue, Margate, Kent TN9 3JCE. A. BODDINGTON 6338: 17Warren Park, Boxhill Road,Boxhill, Surrey KT20 7PUK. J. BROOKS 5319: House namechange to "Rosedene", otherwise detailsremain the same.
Kevin CRAVEN 111044:The Hazels,30 London Rd, Liphook, HampshireGU30 7AN
P. F. CURRIE 8602: 96 CassowaryStreet, Freshwater, Cairns, Queensland4870, A U STRA L I A
Mrs. N. DARLASTON: "Beeswing", 2New Cottage, Bircher, Leominster, Her-eford HR6 OBU
A. DOUGALL 7002: P.O. Box 896, Al-iens Nek, Gauteng 1737, Republic ofSollth Africa.
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H. K. A. GAI'I'SKELL 3620: "CherryTree Manor", 8 Great Road, AdeyField,Hemel Hempstead, Herts HP2 5LBE. B. GA LLOWA Y 4046: "East Wing",Escott Farm House, Williton, SomersetTA4 4JQ Tel: 01984 656702Assoc. Jason GIBBS: 39A MildmayPark, Islington, London Nl 4NA
D. LUSCOMBE 9486: 47 CroydonGardens, Plymouth, Devon PL5 2RH
Judith McCALL Wp 340: 10 ArdenClose, Meriden, Coventry, WarwickshireCV7 7NS
Steve MOORE-STEVENS 4269: postcode is TF12 5ARL. R. "Kiwi" O' BRIEN 9440: 64 Saul St,Brighton, Queensland 4017, Australia
A. W. PALMER Wp 110: I Clarke Way„Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 4AXTel: 01242 702571John M. SCOTT 9225: "GlenviewHouse"„4 Tower Lane, HillsboroughRoad, Moneyreagh, Co. Down BT236AY
Assoc. H. SMITI-I: I The Alms Houses,Harpley, Kings Lynn, Norfolk PE31 6TN
Brian WALL 5229: 131 Reid, Hudson,Quebec, Canada JOP I I-IO
W. P. WATSON 6269: "The Copse", 95Gales Drive, Three Bridges, Crawley„West Sussex RH10 IQDF. H. WHITE 4090: 26 Settler's, RidgeWay, Nepean, Ontario, K2J 4V3,Canada.
F. W I LL I A M SON 7242: 72 M i I I ban kStreet, Northam, Southampton SO145QN
A. L. V. YOUNG 9362 MCM: C/oGroup Four Security, Farncombe House,Broadway, Worcestershire„WR12 7LJ
STOLENPlease be aware that a 10k gold BSAPRing, in the name of Colin Bewes hasbeen stolen between the USA k UKsometime after July 12th 1999. 1 hering has a Fire Blue Spinnel (facet cut)set into it„with the inscriptions oneither shank: (BSAP Crest side}"Inyanga" (Rhodesian Crest side}"Colin Bewes" Inside it has the serial/t: "05" plus the Force number:"111032L" If anyone shows, exhibitsor offers it for sale, it is stolenproperty, belonging to Colin, (or theUS PO) who I am sure will prosecute.There are approx. 20 of these rings inthe world, and Colin shortly will havethe duplicate of the missing one. I can-not place a value on it, as it is now acollector's item. To my knowledge noone except the original owners haveany right to be in possession of any ofthese rings. Your help in keeping aneye open for this ring will be, and issincerely appreciated by both Colin andMike Werner.
SUBSCRIPTIONS
There are several members whohave not renewed their subscriptionsfor the year 2000. There are a fewwith more than one-yearoutstanding. Please remit early sothat our Treasurer can balance hisbooks.
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Misuse ofGovernment Transport
Jack BROWN 4837 is obviously tryirg;to clear his conscience as he subniitsyet another article in this field. Havenone of our membership similar storiesto share?
In 1953 at the Rhodes CentenaryExhibition, the Edinburgh Police PipeBand performed. On their last nightthey were invited to the Police Mess inBulawayo for which occasion I put onmy kilt. Those of you who rememberBulawayo will recall that there are noroad drainage systems at the mainintersections, only open storm drainsand the waters run down to a river atthe bottom of the town.Her Majesty, the Queen Mum, wasstaying at Government House, exactlyone mile from the last housing area inthe Town at that time.
What happened? As I happened tohave the fastest motorcycle SRG 587,somebody challenged me to a racealong what we called "The MeasuredMile" along Livingstone Road. Theroad bends away at the entrance toGovernment House. It was for a bet,which I accepted and won.On the way back, my competitor said"Double or Quits?" which I againaccepted. During this ride I hit thestorm drain and came off my bike at120 miles per hour. Whilst lyingthere, a drunk came walking along theroad. What did he say? "The firsttime I have seen a policeman in a kilt"'!With that he walked past and left me
lying there and believe it or not he wasa Scotsman!
My challenger caught up and we gotback to the camp. For the life of me Icannot remember who my challengerwas. Does anyone out there know?
NEW BRANCH
Following receipt of approval from theCentral Committee in August, the inau-gural meeting of the QueenslandBranch was held at the Colmslie Re-turned Services League Club in Bris-bane on the evening of Friday 12November, 1999.Following the meeting all members ad-journed to the bar for a few well-earned chibulies and were subse-quently joined by their partners for abuffet dinner.
Present for the evening, in alphabeticalorder„were: P/R Dave and AlisonCatherall, C782 Clinton and TaniaCain, together with daughter Courtney,5848 Dave and Jean Clinker, 8868 IanDaniel, 6278 Gerry and Wendy Dyer,6604 John Gold, 7432 Will and JackiKeys, 7012 Mike and Virginia King,901636 Mike and Lorraine Shine and7429 Frederick and Carol Thompson.Apologies were received from 7901John Dawk. ins, 6833 Peter Greef, 6994Colin John, 10248 Phil McMahon,5921 Peter Nicholls and 5147 WallyWII.TON.The duly elected committee comprisesGerry Dyer as Chairman, Mike King asSecretary/Treasurer and members WillKeys, Fred Thompson, lan Daniel andJohn Gold.
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The Video
The video project has suffered a fewdelays - a decision was made to moveover to the latest digital editing equip-ment to improve old photo material, andthis together with new material becomingavailable means an even better video col-lection is now almost ready for shipping.Jim Hazlett & Peter Butler are writing toall of you who have so far placed orders,or stated an interest in securing a copy of'the video' to confirm orders and shipingdates.
Make sure you get your copy - celebratethe 21st Century with this visual recordof the 111 years since the founding ofThe Regiment. This 90-minute video isthe result of the project initiated by theUnited Kingdom Branch of the BritishSouth Africa Police Regimental Associa-tion and is the result of four years ofresearch.
The video captures previously unpub-lished photographs and film with newand old views of the land we knew sowell. Interviews and reminiscences fromour Members are woven into a visualpresentation with storyl inc and speciallycomposed music in addition to originalPolice Band recordings, for easyviewing. All video film and cassetteswill be individually numbered, and regis-tered in your name.
The launch price is being held until 30thApril at f20 for PAL versions includingVAT, Post & Packing in the UK. Afterthat date the standard price of f25(inclusive) will apply. Overseas orders-extra f3 for posting. Prices for NTSC orother formats on a lication. Reserveyour copy using the Order Form printed
in the last issue of OU'I'POST or bytelephone/fax to Jim Hazlett at 024 76343176 (emailCJroupDga, btinternet. corn)
EDITORS' NOTE:We viewed a preview of this video andbelieve it is going to be a must foreveryone who served in The Regiment.What was originally intended as a ran-dom collection of pictures has been wo-ven into a visual presentation with sto-ryline and specially composed music inaddition to the Police Band music, foreasy viewing. It's got all those pictures(and more) that we always wanted to seebut never got around to. Just the excuse(as if we need it) for a bit of reminiscing!
Exlraefed fram the Awsiralia~t Oulpasi
OIJR CASTLE PRAYER
Our brewer who art in SalisburyHallowed be thy beer
Thy Castle comeThy shall be done in bars and bottlestores
In Salisbury as it is in BulawayoGive us our daily boozeAnd forgive us for taking teaAs we forgive those who take Cokeand Fanta
Forbid us from taking water
But deliver us to the nearest bar andbottle storeFill our tumblers with boozeI or ever and ever.Amen
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13.S.A. POLICI. REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION 1314AlsICHL'S
CENTRAL: Ken Standford-Smith, PO Box UA9„Union Avenue, Harare, Zimbabwe, Tel:(H)Nil, (0) Nil, bdbgrid. co.zw
AUSTRALIA: John Seward, 9I71 Epsom Avenue, Redcliffe 6104, Western Australia, Tel:(H)(8) 9277 3396, (0) Nil, olivosgrprimus. corn. au
BORDER: Pauline Van Rooyen, 21 Latimer Street, Berea, East London 5241, RSA, Tel:(H)(043) 726 3155 (0) Nil, pvanrooy@global. co.za
BULAWAYO: Ray Herran, 7 Essex Road, Hillside, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Tel:(H) (09) 4515,(0)Nil, induna@acacia. samara. co.zw
EASTERN CAPE: Alan Fabre, PO Box 27648, Green Acres, Port Elizabeth 6057, RSA,Tel:(H) (041) 324170 (0) Nil, tecompton@hotmail. corn
HARARE: Dave Hawkes, PO Box 1860, Harare, Zimbabwe, Tel:(H) (04) 700747 (0) Nilpbe1 l inghammango. zw
MASYINGO: Robin Bull, PO Box S48, Masvingo, Zimbabwe, Tel:(H) Nil, (0) Nil, Email: Nil
MUTARE: Neville Brent, PO Box 880, Mutare, Zimbabwe, Tel:(H) Nil, (0) Nil, Email: Nil
NATAL: Fred Mason (Chairman), P.O. Box 74401, Rochdale Park, Durban 4034, KwazuluNatal, RSA, Tel:(H) (031) 702 4812, (0) (031) 579 4859 mwfmasonimweb. co.zaNEW ZEALAND: John Crisp, 45 Dale Crescent, Pakuranga, Aukland 1706, New Zealand,Tel:(H) (09) 576 2091 (0) Nil, Jofacr@xtra. co.nz
QUEENSLAND: Mike King, 11 Leroy Street, Manly West, Wueensland 4179, Australia. Tel:(H) 07 3396 5926, (0) 07 3349 8563, mikeginny(i&ozemail. corn. au
TRANSYAAL: Dick Glanville, PO Box 8389, Johannesburg, 2000 RSA, Tel:(H) 011 4772793, (0) (011)447 2700, Fax: (011)447 4554 rhotel@cybertrade. co.za
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Will Cornell, 987 Chinotto Circle, Corona, California92881-S390, USA, Tel:(H) (909) 371 611S, (0) (213) 253 3590, bsapusaemail. msn. cornWESTERN CAPE: Gilly Potter, 15 Stanford Road, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, RSA, Tel:(H)61 8919, (0) 670 1343, gilly(rrmweb. co.za
UNITED KINGDOM BIMNCH COMMITTEE MEMBERS 4 TRUSTEESChairman: Brian Gibbs 6050 - 54 Penn Way. Letchworth, llerts SG6 2SII Tel (ll) & (0) 01462 484508lion Secretary & Trustee: Mike Leach 5479 - 5 Winksley Grove, llarrogate, N Yorks IIG3 2SZTel (II) 01423 565167 (0) 01423 530890 &BSAPUK~aaol. corn&
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Peter Phillips 6905 - 28 Cemmacs Court Road, llemel I lempstead, I lerts I IV I I SU Tel: (ll)01442 244919 (O)0207444 1873 &petcrhp, ,a~lineone. net&
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