Members from near Oxford...

[ChrisMClark]

Were any of you in Didcot today at the 11EOD medal parade? If so can you let me know as I was in the band on parade and am looking for pictures for our unit yearbook.

Thanks in advance

 

[ditchdigger]

i allways find out about these things after

had a look in the oxfrd mail here

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/yourtown/didcot/

maybe you can find some pictures here?


by the way i used to work on the felix cans [saracens] when i was in belfast

they were still RE then.

i still well remember the mother of all explosions through there radios when i was fixing the brakes on one of the vehicles. i dropped the jack and they shot out the camp to attend.

we found out later we had also been welding the outside lockers were they kept the explosives our welder was a bit shakey after that...

 

[ditchdigger]

oh and if you ever need any photos let me know if ime available and i will come along.

 

[ChrisMClark]

Cheers, I'll keep my eye on that site. I got the card of the official regt tog, but the more angles the better. There's one shot I was really after but I don't think I'll get it. It drives me nuts on these sort of marching band jobs, becasue I'm always IN the photos and never taking them!

EDIT: And thanks for the offer, it's odd us working in that part of the country though, we're noramlly either down here in Bovington, or up north where our regiments come from (we're cavalry). The page is here but there's no pictures yet

 

[ditchdigger]

my cousins still in hes also a bandsman based in catterick

gary chilton do you know him perhaps?

 

[ChrisMClark]

Small world! I don't know him personally, but have probably met him no doubt, the name certainly rings a bell. The Catterick band are our sort of sister band, they're the Heavy Cavalry & Cambrai band, we're the Light Cavalry Band.