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WO2 (BSM) M J Casson
10th Royal Hussars (PWO) and
The Royal Hussars (PWO) 1948 – 2022
Mick joined the Junior Leaders Regimen Royal Armoured Corps in Bovington in 1962. After train- ing he joined his chosen Regiment the 10th Royal Hussars (PWO), in Munster, West Germany.
Mick was a highly respected per- cussionist in the band. He was also known to dabble on trom- bone once in a while with varying degrees of success!
After Munster the 10th Hussars moved to Perham Down and Tidworth, where in 1969 they amalgamated with the 11th
Hussars. After amalgamation Mick served with The Royal Hussars (PWO) in Sennelager, Catterick and Fallingbostel, until his retirement from the Army in 1986.
After leaving the Regiment Mick successfully applied to be a Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London, and so started a second long and fulfilling career. Mick loved being a Yeoman Warder and took the job on with absolute enthusiasm and passion. He redis- covered his love for history and was in his element when talking to the public, enthralling them with the stories and secrets of The Tower (some of them true!). He never missed an opportunity to have his picture taken and was a noted ‘photo-bomb’ specialist. He served as a Yeoman Warder until his full retirement and kept in close contact afterwards.
Mick leaves behind his wife Lesley and a son and daughter from a previous marriage, Paul and Wendy.
Mick will always be remembered by his friends and those he served with, as a very amiable jocular person who had many skills, one of which was as a cartoonist which he often combined with his menacing sense of humour. Gone, but never forgotten.
During this time he attended a 12 week driving and maintenance course at Bovington but with his undoubted intellectual ability never really understood why he had to crawl under Centurion tanks getting dirty and greasy. This earned him an adverse report. On returning to the regiment the Commanding Officer summoned Walter to his office demanding an explanation for this awful report. Unfortunately for Walter his interview with his Commanding Officer coincided with the arrival of a letter asking for volunteers to serve in the Korean War as Troop Leaders with the 8th Hussars.
Walter now found himself the Troop Leader of four Centurion tanks at the battle of Maryang San in 1951. On his return to the regiment he was asked if he ever felt frightened and he replied “at times petrified particularly just before dawn hearing the Chinese chattering away like monkeys”. He added his crew were more frightened than he was which gave him great encouragement.
Walter attended a Signals Officers course at Bovington in 1953 which was much more to his liking and on successful completion he was appointed Regimental Signals Officer. The regiment were to begin a two year unaccompanied tour to Aqaba Jordan in 1955. Walter had married Alison in 1952 so it was decided to send him as an instructor to the Wireless School at Bovington. However during his time there he decided to leave the army.
Walter decided to buy Westley Richards, a failing company because it had gone out of fashion. However with his contacts in India and the Middle East he turned the company’s fortunes round displaying an entrepreneurial talent not seen during his military career.
Walter died on 15 March 2022 and his widow Alison died shortly
Captain W. A. Clode
10th Royal Hussars (PWO) 1948-56
Walter was born in Wimbledon South London in 1929. His father served in the Indian army, so he was brought up in India until the age of five whereupon after prep school he was sent to Winchester College. “The truth is I hardly saw my parents for years” he recalled. After Sandhurst he joined the 10th in Iserlohn in Germany in 1950. He represented the regimental swimming team which won the Rhine Army Championships and played on the regimental polo team.
Obituaries
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Ken Davies arrived at the Junior Leaders Regiment in Bovington in 1964, aged 151⁄2. On passing out in 1966, he was posted to the 3rd Carabiniers in Detmold as a Centurion gunner. Not long after, the Regiment converted to Saladins and Ferrets, serving in Cyprus, Libya and Herford where he met his wife-to-be, Liz. He left the Army in 1970, shortly before amalgamation with the Scots Greys and worked in Germany for 18 months.
He re-joined the Army in 1972 and
was posted to 14/20H, at that time in the reconnaissance role in Tidworth, and was immediately sent to join A Sqn serving in Belfast. The Regiment returned to Germany, converted to CVR(T) then back to Saladins for a tour in Cyprus. He had married Liz by this stage and they had their
children, Nadine and Jon, during the mid 70’s.
afterwards on 17 June 2022. They had five children.
Lieutenant Colonel K Davies
3rd Carabiniers 1966-1970 14th/20th King’s Hussars 1972-1992 King’s Royal Hussars 1992-2005
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