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police horse and was in uniform [which he designed himself]. He retired 10 years later at 65. In retirement he was chairman of the RBL Branch at Odiham and continued to produce his brilliant and topical Christmas cards. John married Cherry in 1961 and they had three children, Blaise, Jonathan and Tamzin.
Mr D H Crossland
Died: 2 Mar 22 Served: 1958-60.
David joined the Armed Forces on 12 January 1958 as a member of 1st Troop, B Squadron 13th/ 18th Royal Hussars. He was stationed at Hadrian’s Camp, Carlisle where he did his basic training. Later that year he
was sent to Malaya and Singapore. He sailed on the Troop Ship SS Oxfordshire, calling at Gibraltar, Malta, Aden, Cyprus, through the Suez Canal, Port Said, Egypt, Colombo and onto Singapore. While serv- ing in Malayia he went on patrols into the jungle to hunt terrorists. He was awarded the GSM Malaya medal for his duties there. Whilst he was there, he visited Penang and Kuala Lumpur. The last 6 months of his service were spent in HQ Singapore. He worked as a clerk to a padre for a short time. After serving two years National Service he was returned to England where he was demobbed in Poole, Dorset in 1960.
D W A Chamberlain Esq
Died: 8 Apr 22 Served: 1955-57.
David was born in 1936 and educated at Sherborne where he was Captain of Hockey and a prize winning swimmer and a talented musi- cian. He was an exact contemporary of Tony Deakin who also joined the
13th/18th Hussars. In 1954 he joined the family firm leather and shoe business WW Chamberlain Ltd as a 17.5-year-old man- agement trainee earning £4 10s a week. He worked there until he was called up for National Service and went to 67 Training Regiment, Carlisle. After he was commis- sioned David joined A Squadron in Wolfenbüttel. He was a member of the Regimental hockey team. While he was in Germany he decided to drive to Innsbruck via Paris in his 2 seater XK140 into which he fitted himself, his younger brother and Richard Stancomb plus their luggage. The 2 seater XK140 was somewhat overloaded and, unsurprisingly, the car broke a rear spring. It was a perilous journey. He served
for a long time as a Reservist Officer with the Northamptonshire Yeomanry with Ken Tout, the well-known military writer. After National Service David re-joined WW Chamberlain and ended up managing 2 factories. He left in 1962. After a stint at a small engineering firm, he became Managing Director at Kingswell’s Shoes, which was the first company in the UK to design and produce lightweight sports shoes. The firm became very successful because of the sponsorship deals which they were able to secure with Lee Trevino, Peter Lorimer, Gordon Banks and Geoffrey Boycott.
Kingswell was eventually sold to Mitre Sports. David joined the board of Mitre as Development Director and travelled extensively around the world for Mitre and Mitre USA. One of his success sto- ries was to get Mohamed Ali to wear Mitre sports gear in a fight. In 1979 David returned to the family firm which had been renamed Chamberlain Phipps. He soon became Chairman. He successfully fought off an unwanted takeover attempt by Wardle Storey who wanted to acquire it and strip out the assets. After fighting off the takeover the company diversified into adhesives and, as a result, in 1989 it was bought by Evode and David decided to take early retirement. David’s had a very full life away from work. In 1960 he bought a Cooper Jaguar Mark II from Michael Head (whose son became a lynch pin of Williams F1). The car had number plate HOT 95. (That same car was recently sold by Sotheby’s for just under 2 million dollars). He raced in the car at Goodwood, Brands Hatch, Snetterton and Silverstone. 1n February 1967 he found time to go down the Cresta Run both in a 4-man bob- sleigh and the skeleton. His other interests included flying light aircraft, ocean sailing (including crossings of the Atlantic) ski- ing, shooting, hunting and playing tennis.
Munster where the Regiment were posted at the time until 1972, a short period in Northern Ireland and then served as the Royal Armoured Corps Training Regiment in England with Sqns located in Bovington and Lulworth before a further return to BAOR. Anthony discharged from the Army in September 1973
Mr W M Wigglesworth
Died: 23 May 22 Served: 1961-70.
Bill worked at Silverwood Colliery until he was 18 when he enlisted with the 13/18th Royal Hussars (QMO) in August of 1961. Bill was nicknamed Elvis as he knew every- thing about him, a character he was always up for a laugh. While serving in the army he saw service abroad, fighting in Aden and involved in the Cold War in Berlin as part of the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR). While stationed at Paderborn in Germany he met Brigitta Grawinger at a dance, married her and had a son called Frank born May 1964. Bill resided in Germany after leaving the Army in July 1970 where he worked on the docks in Hamburg for Blohm and Voss as an interpreter, but eventually returned to England on the breakup of his marriage. Returning back to his former home in Sunnyside where he had been born, he got a job as a delivery driver for Brittain Brothers during which time he met Sandra and consequently mar- ried again in 1972. Bill changed jobs after a couple of years and was employed by Heaton’s Bathrooms for 23 years as a long distance lorry driver. The army was still a major part of Bill’s life and every year he and Sandra would go to Amesbury to the Regimental reunions and was a regular at the mini reunions also which were held at South Kirby and Bramley Club. Bill thor- oughly enjoyed life, his love of driving saw him drive tanks, transporters and heavy goods vehicles during his working years. He had a love of music from Rock and Roll to opera and his knowledge of music was second to none. He also had a love of woodworking, spending hours in his work- shop always finding something to make.
Mr R H O Malloy
Died: 30 May 22 Served: 1969-82.
Robert, Hannigan, O’Hara Malloy (known as Bob) joined the Regiment whilst they were posted to Germany as part of the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR). starting in B Squadron initially After Germany Bob
saw service in Bovington Camp in Dorset as the Regiment returned to UK as the RAC Training Regiment where he was a member of 4th Troop, A Squadron as a Trooper. Moving Squadron’s, he saw ser-
Mr K W Coy
Died: 2 May 22 Served: 1959-61.
Ken joined the Regiment whilst they were serving in Malaya, he was a member of A Squadron who initially deployed to Singapore in July 1959. then moving to Ipoh in March 2960, the Squadron were equipped with Daimler Armoured cars at this time. The Regiment returned to Germany after Malaya as Ken discharged from the Army.
Mr A Wilkinson
Died: 15 May 22 Served: 1967-73.
Anthony joined the Regiment in Perham Down and settled in as a member of C Squadron in SHQ Troop. Following Perham Down the Regiment then returned to Germany as part of the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) and in particular
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