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served through the amalgamation with the Sherwood Foresters Regiment. He saw service in Minden, Gibraltar, Libya, Northern Ireland and Belize and left the Regiment in 1986.
CARLIN Melvyn Edwin ‘Ted’ Pte 4986609
Of Foston near Grantham, Lincolnshire on the 16 September 2013 aged 89. He enlisted into the Sherwood Foresters in November 1941 and was posted to the 70th Battalion The Sherwood
Foresters at Brigg and then transferred to the 16th Battalion on coastal defence duties at Lowestoft. He then joined the 2nd Battalion at Great Yarmouth and was then drafted out to serve in North Africa and Italy. He was posted to the Military mission and remained there until 1947 when he was transferred
to the Reserve in November that year. In civilian life he became a bus/coach driver and also a local Government officer.
CHADWICK Frank Cpl 19178397
Of Arboretum, Worcester on 4 November 2012. Frank was an apprentice joiner when he enlisted at Oswestry on 25 August 1947 into the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment and when the 1st and
2nd Battalions amalgamated that same year, he was transferred to the 1st Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment in October. He moved with D Coy to Malaya from 24 May 1950 until 22 February 1952, he then returned to Norton Barracks and was discharged in February 1953. He then took up employment in the building industry as a steel fixer.
CHRISTIAN Michael Cpl
Of Silk Willoughby, Lincolnshire on 4 February 2013 aged 66. He joined the 1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters in 1964 and was a member of the Signals Platoon. He left the Regiment in 1970.
DANN John 4984751 Cpl
Of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire on 18 August 2013 aged 90. After leaving school aged 14 John worked in the mines and when he reached 17 in 1940 he joined the RASC 70th
Young Soldiers Battalion and transferred to the East Coast Aerodromes on Perimeter Defence until 1943, he then moved to the 1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters where he saw service in North Africa and then moved to Salerno from there he transferred to the 2/7th Bn Queens Royal Regiment. Sadly he contracted diphtheria and he
spent time in the 85th General Hospital at
Maison Caree, Algiers, he was then returned to UK to recuperate in hospital in Dudley. Following demobilisation he worked as a
bus driver, then in the laboratories at the Ministry of Transport and his final occupation was working as a coalminer at Mansfield Pit until ill health forced him to retire. Between 1959-1974 John served as a Sergeant Major Instructor with the 4th Battalion Sherwood Ranger Yeomanry Army Cadet Force.
DEE Ernest Charles LCpl 23856031
Of Worcester died on Saturday 25 May 2013 aged 70. Ernest served with the 1st Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment from 1962 to 1968 in Minden, Lydd and Gibraltar. After
demobilisation he served with the Reserves for two years. In civilian life he was employed for 40 years as a driver for Country Wide delivering liquid gas to farms.
DOUGHTY Trevor ‘Jack’ CSgt 23239269
Of Nottingham died on 27 June 2013 aged 76. He enlisted into the 1st Battalion the Sherwood Foresters in May 1955 and served in Germany and Malaya and he continued to serve on amalgamation with WFR in Berlin, Northern Ireland and the UK and became PSI(T) with E Coy 3 WFR (V) before leaving the Army in October 1977. He then joined 3 WFR(V) as PSI(A) D Coy (Beeston).
DURRANT L S Major
Of Worcester on 5 February 2013
aged 92. He was commissioned into The Worcestershire Regiment in 1940 and after service in UK landed in Normandy as Adjutant 1 Worcestershire Regiment. He was later evacuated and after service at the Depot, with the Sudan Defence Force and 9 Worcestershire Regiment,
he rejoined 1 Worcestershire Regiment in 1946 and served in Trieste, Luneburg and Berlin, and later in Iserlohn. He attended the Staff College in 1951 and after further staff appointments was Training Major of 7 Worcestershire Regiment from 1958 to 1961. He retired from the Regular Army in 1961 and from the TA in 1967.
GLOVER Cyril Arthur Pte 4981875
Of The Meadows, Nottingham and later Bilborough, Nottingham on 26 April 2013 aged 93. He enlisted into The Sherwood Foresters on 24 June 1940 and served at El Alamein and with
the 14th Battalion at Anzio where he took a wound to his thigh. He transferred to The Royal Leicestershire Regiment in November 1944. After demobilisation he retired to his pre-war occupation of a warehouseman and became the foreman for a tailor, he later
became a long distance lorry driver and then worked as a senior foreman with BRS in Nottingham. He held this position for 30 years until retirement.
GOODMAN Derek ‘Benny’ Cpl 22797121 Of South Normanton,
Derbyshire on 19 January 2013 aged
78. As a National Serviceman he joined The Sherwood Foresters on 27 March 1952 until 27 March 1953. He
then transferred to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and throughout his Army career he served in the UK, Germany, Egypt and Korea. In 1955 he left the Army and became a shopkeeper and market trader.
HOAD Reginald Walter ‘Reg’ WO2 (RQMS) 21013238
Of Derby on 2 April 2013 aged 95. Reg joined the Army at Canterbury in 1935 aged 16 and served with the Grenadier Guards
in North Africa, North West Europe and UK. At the beginning of
WW11 he had become a CSgt and came to Derby where, in Markeaton Park, he trained recruits. He was then posted to Welbeck Abbey and was promoted to CQMS and was deployed to Europe in 1942 where
he served until the war ended. It was at this time that the Guards became a Tank Regiment and Reg’s title then became SQMS. He suffered an injury to his finger and was returned home to the UK. He
was promoted to WO2 and then after demobilisation he joined the 5th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters and remained with it on amalgamation with the 8th Battalion
in 1961 to become the 5th/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters. After completion of his TA Service Reg worked for Rolls Royce, Aytons and later managed the Seven Stars Pub in Derby city, Quarndon Post Office and a local café and catering business. In 1976, He joined the Derbyshire Army Cadet Force as Chief Clerk and served until 1982.
HODGKISS Eric Albert Pte 2259321
Of Brierley Hill, West Midlands on 24 March 2012 aged 79. He enlisted as a National Serviceman at Lichfield in September 1951 and served with the
A Company 1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment in Malay. Whilst
mobilised he played football for the Battalion and the Combined Services and
in later he played for Brierely Hill Alliance and Woodside Wanderers. In 1953, after demobilisation, he returned to Hill and Smith Iron Works in Brierley Hill and later worked
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