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Oliver was a good shot and latterly he enjoyed membership of the Triscombe Syndicate, a lovely shoot on Anthony Trollope- Bellew’s estate. He was County Patron of Cancer Research and Treasurer of the parish church. The huge turnout at a Service of Thanksgiving in September was evidence of the affection in which he was held by a wide circle of friends.
Stock Exchange in 1993. The company was then purchased by an American group before changing hands several more times end- ing up as Europcar with Brian as Operations Director of National Car Rental. The loyalty and affection of his staff bear testament to his work ethic and skill as a man manager.
Brian and Clare have two children, Rosamund and Andrew. As a family they travelled widely and often but while at home he threw himself in local life as a town councillor. He was also active as a Trustee of his company’s pension scheme and Chairman of the British Vehicle Rental Learning Association amongst a number of other organisations. He ran a tight meeting.
In the last two years Brian had to move into fulltime care but Clare and his family were seldom far away – Covid permit- ting. A funeral service was held in June and a very well attended memorial service followed in September 2022 in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire where he and Clare lived. There was a good turn- out of loyal Regimental friends and colleagues.
Captain B H Jayes
10th Royal Hussars (PWO) 1967 - 1969 The Royal Hussars (PWO) 1969 - 1978
Brian Jayes died in May 2022 after a ten-year battle with dementia. Educated at Ampleforth before going to Sandhurst in 1965 Brian joined the 10th Hussars in Munster in 1967. His first commu- nication with the Regiment was to enquire where the ski team would be training since that was where he planned to be. Being a good all- round sportsman, he represented the regiment in skiing, rugby and swimming amongst others. Following service in Germany he was gunnery officer at the Junior Leaders Regiment in Bovington where he met Clare, his future
wife. Their wedding plans had to be put on hold as Brian had volunteered for secondment to the Sultan’s Armed Forces in Oman.
After a colloquial Arabic course Brian arrived in April 1972 a critical time in the Dhofar War, as rebel forces were strongly supported from the communist regime in Yemen and SAF had not then built-up sufficient strength to take the initiative. A con- temporary, Paul Hodgson (13th/18th Hussars), records that Brian joined the Desert Regiment, an infantry battalion, at Sarfait. This outpost, at an altitude of 3,500 feet on the Oman/Yemen border, was subject to daily mortar, rocket and small arms attack. At 05.45 hrs on only his second day Brian’s company of Arab and Baluch soldiers patrolled into a steep-sided wadi and were attacked by enemy in secure positions above them. After fierce fighting all day Brian suffered severe heatstroke and dehydration necessitat- ing a casevac by Huey 205 to the SAS hospital. On recovery he joined the Armoured Car Squadron, equipped with Saladins and Ferrets, and was thereafter on continuous operations in support of the infantry battalions operating over wide distances on rough, frequently-mined, tracks. Brian was noted for his boundless enthusiasm and keen sense of the ridiculous.
While in Oman his fiancée Clare had sole care of Brian’s red setter Molly, a task not to be taken lightly. On his return home they married and he was made Adjutant of the Royal Hussars in Sennelager. The Maze blaze and subsequent break-out occurred during the regiment’s 1974 tour in Northern Ireland and Brian delighted in discharging smoke cannisters from a helicopter.
His next appointment was Adjutant to the Royal Wilshire Yeomanry in Swindon. A subsequent staff post in the Ministry of Defence was not to his liking and he resigned his commission in 1978.
Brian was a gadgets-man and petrol-head, so it was no wonder that he found his next career in the car business. It was dif- ficult to follow his career moves from Hertz to Swan National where he was instrumental in a management buy-out from TSB to become Eurodollar, which was then floated on the London
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Lieutenant Colonel P C C Kaye
10th Royal Hussars (PWO) 1958 - 1969 The Royal Hussars (PWO) 1969 - 1992 The King’s Royal Hussars 1992 - 1993
Following his education at Eton Patrick Kaye joined the 10th Royal Hussars from Sandhurst at Tidworth in 1958. His uncle, Colonel Douglas Kaye, had com- manded the regiment in Italy for the last two years of the War. Patrick was troop leader of 2nd Troop B Squadron for 3 years before attending the long course at the School of Tank Technology and a Gunnery Instructor’s course. These courses determined that most of his subsequent career would be in the gunnery and tech- nical worlds.
He returned to the regiment in time for the move to the Middle East in 1964 becoming 2nd Captain and then 2i/c of C Squadron in Sharjah and commanding the half-squadron in Salalah before moving to Aden. He returned to the Gunnery School at Lulworth in the summer of 1965 and married Fay (Diddie) Mew. Most of Patrick’s fellow officers were still abroad and could not attend the wedding but the newlyweds threw a great party at their quarter in Lulworth in the autumn. James was born in 1966 and Benjamin in 1968 before the family returned to Munster for the Tenth’s final year before amalgamation with the 11th Hussars. Patrick was the editor of the last 10th Hussars Gazette. He was briefly HQ Squadron Leader and then 2i/c of B Squadron before return- ing to Dorset and an appointment at the Equipment Trials Wing (now ATDU). This tour included six months in Australia where Patrick led a team conducting tropical and hot dry weather tri- als on prototype CVRs. He attended the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham and the Staff College at Camberley before a staff appointment as a GSO2 at the School of Military Intelligence at Ashford.
Patrick returned to The Royal Hussars in Sennelager to become HQ Squadron Leader for a short time before a busy two years as B Squadron Leader. There was a tour in Northern Ireland at Aughnacloy, in Co. Tyrone, HM The Queen’s Silver Jubilee Parade and a full BATUS exercise at Suffield. Diddie was a