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The Devonshire and Dorset
Regimental Association Newsletter
2024
EDITOR: MRS CAROLE ARNOLD
Locations ..............................................................2
Editorial ................................................................2
Message from The President of The Regimental
Association ...........................................................3
Wills and Legacies ...............................................4
The Regimental Association...............................4
The Devonshire and Dorset Regimental
Association and Rifles ........................................5
Annual Reunion 17th May 2025 – Exeter........5
The Devonshire and Dorset Regimental
Association and Rifles Annual Reunion...........5
Chairman’s Report 2024 .....................................6
Association Calendar 2025.................................8
Appointments ......................................................9
Supporting The Regimental Association........10
Regimental Reunion 2024................................12
President’s Award 2024 .....................................16
Postbag................................................................17
Branch Reports ..................................................20
London Gathering.........................................20
Salisbury Plain Training Area Focal Group.20
4th Devons Reunion – Wyvern ....................20
Gillingham Branch .......................................21
The Royal Hospital Chelsea .........................21
Ireland ...........................................................21
Exeter.............................................................22
The Cpl G.T. Jeffery And LCpl S.W. Tavener
Memorial Plaque...........................................24
Members of Exeter Branch enjoying their
holidays..........................................................24
London Dinner – Cavalry & Guards Club ..25
Wagon Hill ...................................................25
Update on the Janners Bike Group...............26
Annual Fishing Match ..................................27
contents
Golf Society....................................................27
JBO 2024 ......................................................28
Plymouth Branch ..........................................30
Regimental Band Branch..............................30
Purbeck Branch .............................................31
Semper Fidelis Club Dinner..........................32
Torbay Veterans Armed Forces Breakfast
Club. ..............................................................33
Sugarloaf Stomp ............................................33
Events..................................................................34
D-DAY 6th June 2024 – 80th Anniversary ..34
AFD Exeter....................................................34
D-Day Commemoration in Beer..................35
The Fan Dance ..............................................35
Glumso Dinner..............................................35
Keep Military Museum.....................................36
Recent Acquisition.........................................37
US 1st Infantry Division ...............................38
Journal of Edwd Nugent Esqr, 54th Regiment .
39
Memorials and Chapels ....................................42
Exeter Chapel – Regimental Chapel.............42
Remembering the Fallen ...............................43
The Regiment’s Monthly Sherborne Abbey
Service of Remembrance...............................43
Fovant Badges Service...................................44
Dorset Bench .................................................45
Memorial in Dorchester Hospital.................45
Normandy Trip..................................................46
Photographic Memories ...................................55
Memories of the Devonshire and Dorset
Regiment.........................................................55
Historical Events................................................57
203563 Private George Henry Joce, 1st/5th
Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment, ..........57
The Stand of 2nd Devons..............................57
Geoffrey Sneezam..........................................57
Away From The Regiment: Two Dorsets At
Arnhem..........................................................58
A Dorsetshire Regiment Japanese Prisoner Of
War
Major Harold Charles Hugh Mead (47615) 59
Dorset’s Red Cross Hospitals in World War 1 ..
60
D Day Dorset ................................................60
14429185 Private Kenneth Thomas Hay,
Dorsetshire Regiment....................................61
As I Look Back by Ken Hay ..........................66
Over the Lines - Tracing the History of a
Devon Flyer ...................................................67
A Mystery Solved...........................................71
Recommended for a Victoria Cross.............72
Welfare ................................................................75
Green Jacket Close........................................75
Pensions Information
in the Event of a Death .................................75
Army Pension................................................75
Welfare Report ...............................................76
News from The Rifles........................................81
Last Post..............................................................85
Obituaries ...........................................................89
Christopher John Stephenson OBE...............89
David Stacey .................................................89
John Cerroti...................................................89
Lt Col J H (Sam) Squires Late RE ................92
Lt Colonel Malcolm Wadham ......................92
Julian May.....................................................93
Remembrance ....................................................94
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