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trained by his brother-in-law David Morley, a former 10th Hussar, and it won the Ascot Gold Cup in 1997.
Christopher was married first to Merle Ropner and secondly to Susan Morley. He had four children and six grandchildren.
Those of us who were fortunate enough to know Christopher will remember him not only for his incredible reserves of energy but
his infectious smile in both good and difficult times.
6 Flight AAC, as the so-called War Office flight, carried out train- ing trials for clandestine operations in the course of which Uloth test flew the ML Inflatable, an early form of micro-light aircraft with a delta wing made of inflatable rubber - irreverently known as the Durex Delta.
On completion of his first flying tour he joined the Regiment as commander Recce Troop under John Ward-Harrison. He acted as Captain of No I guard at the presentation of the Guidon in Paderborn by the Duke of Gloucester
After a further tour of flying duty at Middle Wallop he attended the Staff College at Camberley from where he returned to the Regiment as adjutant in Germany and Aden under Bill Lithgow, and was a member of the Regiment’s squash, water-polo and fencing teams. Following this he returned to Middle Wallop in a series of staff appointments including combat development and the study of the employment of armed helicopters, for which he retrained as a helicopter pilot. At this stage he put forward a proposal that the Royal Armoured Corps should subsume the aviation branch of the army. Although supported by John Ward- Harrison (then Deputy commandant of the Staff College), it was rejected by the then DRAC. His final posting with the Regiment was as A Squadron Leader under John Willis in Munster
In 1970 he was posted to Khartoum as Defence Attaché. At the start of his tour, because the Sudan had recently fallen very much under the influence of the Soviet Union, the British Defence Attaché’s contacts with the Sudanese armed forces activities were seriously curtailed. He therefore confined his activities to far ranging exploration by Land Rover and sometimes by air to many parts of the country including to the area of the war in the south and to Darfur in the west. For recreation he spent much time sailing on the Blue Nile where he became racing secretary for the Blue Nile Sailing Club and eventually its Vice Commodore under its Sudanese Commodore.
However, after about a year the coup and countercoup that deposed and then reinstated President Nimeiri took place and the Russians were expelled. He then became closely involved in the setting up of the British Army Training Team established in the Sudan in the wake of these events.
On leaving the Sudan he was appointed GSO 1 SD on the staff of the Directorate of Army Aviation at Middle Wallop and from there he was posted to Brussels on the staff of HQ NATO.
He ended his military career by spending five years as Director of Overseas Defence Relations in the MOD in the course of which he headed missions to Indonesia, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Khartoum and in London introduced the Chinese ambassador to English country ways and hosted, amongst others, Indonesian, Iraqi and Turkish diplomats at his Fourteenth Century home in Nether Wallop.
On leaving the MOD in 1982 he took up the post of Chief Executive of the Royal Bath and West of England Agricultural Society. It was at a time when the Society was introducing a num- ber of specialist agricultural shows into its calendar to comple- ment the main annual show. It was also expanding the use of the showground for a wide variety of revenue producing events from pop concerts, including Dire Straits, to antiques fairs. He retired as Chief Executive in 1992 but continued in the part-time post of Secretary General of the European Association of Show Organisers (EURASCO) for another three years. In the course of this appointment he organised its bi-annual meetings in Caen, Rennes, Frankfurt, Alborg, Oslo, London and Braga
Throughout his time in the army and in retirement he was able to pursue his love of sailing starting in 1951 with skippering,
Colonel A C Uloth
1st Royal Tank Regiment 1949-1958 10th Royal Hussars (PWO) 1958-1969 The Royal Hussars (PWO) 1969-1983
Tony Uloth served in the 10th Hussars and subsequently the Royal Hussars from 1959 to 1982. He died on Thursday 23rd September 2021 aged 92.
He was brought up in Kent from where, as an eleven-year-old boy he witnessed the Battle of Britain and later the VI and V2 attacks on London and the south of England. The parish of Benenden, where he lived, sustained more Doodlebug strikes than any other in the land.
From an early age he was aware
of his family’s involvement in the army. Both his Uloth uncles were awarded MCs in the First World War and his father was shot and wounded on the North
West Frontier.
He was educated at Malvern College which, apart from his last term there, shared the accommodation at Harrow School to where the school, as a war-time measure, had been moved when the Radar Research Establishment took over all the buildings at Malvern. He was captain of boxing and in the school gymnastics team.
In 1947 he was called up for National Service but entered the RMA Sandhurst the following year where he was a Junior Under Officer, captain of the modern pentathlon team and in the Academy fencing team.
He was commissioned into the 1st Royal Tank Regiment in 1949 and served in Germany and then Korea where he was men- tioned in despatches as the troop leader supporting the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment during the last Hook Battle. One night his tank received direct hits from three shells. Daylight revealed that all the turret bins had been blown off and the searchlight badly damaged, but the crew, though their ears were ringing, were unharmed.
In 1954 he passed the army Turkish interpreter’s exam. Some years later he acted as the President of Turkey’s interpreter when the latter came on a state visit to Britain. He subsequently passed the Linguist Exams in French and Arabic.
In 1958 he qualified as an Auster pilot. Posted to 6 Flight Army Air Corps at Middle Wallop he transferred to the 10th Hussars and, flying an Auster that he had flown over from Middle Wallop, took part in a two week exercise with the Regiment on the Soltau training area as a first experiment in integrating light aircraft into a teeth arm unit.
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