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SALTER George H. H.
Served with the Indian Army during World War II as Captain,
8th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters in 1956, and promoted to Major the same year taking over command of Support Company
at Mansfield. He died on 31st July 2015.
SHERWOOD (formally EWART) Derek died on 7 November 2015 aged 75. Derek enlisted into 1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters in 1957 and served with it in Malaya, Singapore, Northern Ireland, UK, Cyprus, Libya, Canada and Germany and left the Regiment in 1970
SULLIVAN–TAILYOUR Robert Basil Maj
of Sutton Veny, Warminster died on
24 February 2015 aged 84. Robert attended Eaton Hall OCS and Mons OCS in 1948 before being commissioned into
the Sherwood Foresters Regiment in 1950. He joined the 1st Battalion in BAOR and in 1952 was appointed Pl Comd of Anti Tank Platoon in Egypt before being posted to the Depot in 1953. He went
on to serve with the Kings African Rifles
as OC HQ Coy in East Africa in 1955. He then became an instructor at Mons OCS before returning to the 1st Battalion in Malaya in 1960. Between 1963 - 1966 he was a student at the German Staff College before returning to the 1st Battalion as a Coy Comd. In 1968 he was posted to HQ BAOR as GSO 2 before being appointed 2IC 1st Battalion The Worcestershire and
Sherwood Foresters Regiment in 1970. Robert then had various Staff Appointments before leaving the Army in 1978.
SHILLAM Wayne Sgt of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire died on 14 January
2015. Wayne enlisted in 1970 with the 1st Battalion The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment and was employed
in a number of different appointments during his service including butcher, ration orderly and the MT. Wayne served in Berlin, Belize and NI where he was slightly wounded by an IRA mortar bomb which landed in C Coy camp in Londonderry in May 1972. He left the Army in 1992
SIMCOX John Thomas Pte of Oldbury died on 11 November 2014 aged 67. He enlisted in October 1966 and served with 1 Worc R in Gibraltar, Tobruk and Cyprus and with 1 Devon and Dorset in Malta and Northern Ireland before discharge in 1971.
TREADGOLD John
was recruited by 5th/8th Foresters in
the early 1960’s as
their chaplain, when
he was Vicar Choral at Southwell Minster and served until the late 1970’s. He died on 15th February 2015 aged
83. His funeral was at Chichester Cathedral on 6th March Brigadier Wilkinson attended.
After leaving Southwell he became Rector of Wollaton - Nottingham, Vicar of Darlington, Canon of St George’s Windsor and Her Majesty’s Chaplain in the Park, and finally Dean of Chichester Cathedral, before retiring in 2001.
He was the Battalion Padre when 3 WFR received Colours in Newark from HRH The Princess Anne as she then was in in 1977.
During the period 1967 until 1971 when the TA was in partial limbo, he remained on the unposted list until 3WFR was formed
in 1970 when he became one of their two Padres - the other being the late Father Victor Key.
VARLEY Piers daughter of Major John and Mrs Anne Varley, died on 25 September 2014. She was born in Gibraltar in 1966
WESTON Lieutenant Samuel James Holroyd Lt TD of Wollaton, Nottingham died on 30 September 2015 aged 82. Jim served in the ranks from Pte to WO2 at Nottingham University OTC from 1950 to 1959 before transferring as a Pte into The Royal Leicestershire Regiment from 1959 to 1960. He commissioned as 2Lt into
1st Battalion The Hampshire Regiment
5 November 1960. On 30 June 1961
he joined 5/8th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters until 1967. He then served with Prince of Wales Own Volunteers between 1967 and 1968, The Queens Regiment (Liverpool) in 1968, the Royal Artillery LAA (TAVR III) Widnes in from 1968 and 1969 (as a Capt) and finally The Lancastrian Volunteers, Preston from 1969 until 1972.
WHITE David
Elwyn (Chalky)
Pte of Bilborough, Nottingham died on 31 August 2015 aged 77. Chalky enlisted into 1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters Regiment in January 1959 where he served
until 1965. He was with D Coy 12 Pl and also carried out duties of Arms Storeman. Chalky saw service in Malaya, Cyprus, N Ireland and Colchester
The Mercian Regiment
Private Dean Cauldley
Private Dean Cauldley died at the Marie Curie Cancer Centre in Belfast on Thursday 12 March 2015.
Private Cauldley was a casualty on HERRICK 10 with a life changing injury. He overcame this to return back to work in the 2 MERCIAN Quartermaster’s Department. However, he was diagnosed with cancer
in April 2014, which he had been receiving treatment for in Belfast.
His funeral was held at Ulster Temple, Belfast. Mourners from Dean’s family, friends, fellow officers and soldiers from The Mercian Regiment and ex-servicemen who served alongside Dean, filled the Belfast temple.
Tributes came from Dean’s beloved wife, Shelly and close friend Corporal (Retd)
Jason Passarelli, who both paid respect to his fierce loyalty, grit and determination even through the toughest of times, and his constant ability to ‘look on the bright side’, where others may fall apart.
A photo slideshow, compiled by Shelly was played to the John Legend song ‘All of me’. It showed Dean during service in Afghanistan, times with his son Tyler and best friend, Milo the German Shepherd.
Dean will leave a hole in the lives of all who knew him, but he will forever live on through the statue ‘Big Dean’, currently standing for all to see in the Mcindoe Centre at DMS Whittington; centralised training facility for tri-service medical staff.
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