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OFFICERS’CLUBS The Wardrobe
The Light Infantry Club Summer Lunch
Sunday 20th July 2014
The 2014 LI Club Summer Lunch was
held at The Wardrobe, Salisbury on 20th July. A year changes all and, following encouragement, numbers were largely up on the previous year even allowing for some late withdrawals with 94 attendees. The “canapé” starter course
The date for the 2015 lunch is confirmed as Sunday 12th July. (Note: it is one week earlier than previously)
ALL Light Infantry Club members are asked to note the date. Details will be sent out in the annual Club mailing in January.
Farrant, Teddy and Trish Fellows, Simon and Rosemary Firbank, Ian and Di Foster, Alastair and Dee Fyfe, Robin and Debbie Garrett, Adrian Gilbert, Philip and Antonia Goddard, Celia Grover, Martin and Rachel Grubb, John and Jennifer Hibbert, Vicky Hitchcock, Nigel and Jane Jones, Barry and Shirley Lane, Mike and Gillian Latter, Chris and Terri Lawton, Richard Le Fleming, Tim and Rosie Lerwill, Pat and Gabbie Lewis, Jill Makepeace-Warne, Jim and Jeannie Parker, Robin and Jane Phayre, Sir Anthony Pile Bt, Mike and Victoria Regan, Ian Sawers, Stan and Elaine Sedman, John and Trish Spiers, Bill Stephens, Rex and Andy Stephenson, Richard and Lynette Vaughan, Richard and Vivienne Vellacott, Robert Waight, Judy Watts, Alison Weller, Mike and Joanna Whistler, Hugo and Caroline White, John White, Jimbo and Stina Whitehead, John Wykeham, David and Sue Wynne-Davies, Jeremy and Hazel York.
The occasion was made possible by the kind permission of the Trustees of The Rifles Wardrobe Museum.
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the 59-94 lifetime. The shortfall in numbers was partly due to the clash with the 70th Anniversary Commemorations of D-Day. Our Royal Berkshire Regiment and Wiltshire Regiment forebears who were putting their training to the ultimate test at that time were remembered with respect and gratitude.
Those attending were (16): John Biggs, Alan Coates, Simon Cook, Alex Cooper, Jo Edmonds, George Griffin, Clive Ireson, David Jones, Chris Knights, John Marsh, Charlie Maconochie, Gordon Muir, Chris Perkins, David Proctor, Alister Turtle, Bill Wilson, with Richard Preece joining us for the follow-on.
The 2015 lunches at Davies Street will be on Friday 30 January and Friday 5 June. TMAD
THE RIFLES
on the lawn continues to attract and will be continued next year.
The “canapé” starter course on the lawn continues to attract and will be continued next year
Those diagnosed with eternal OQ are urged to create Tables of ten (10) their peers – the best way to ensure cohesive groups who will enjoy meeting old chums. Individuals are sympathetically seated
It was good to see
Jim and Jeannie Parker
on a break from South
Africa though it was
disappointing that Chris
Notley was unable to travel the same way for many would have enjoyed seeing him for the first time since the yellow banana was consigned to history – though it is believed the Ducati 1250 is still alive & well!
to mutual benefit and enjoyment.
Those attending were [94]: David Ash,
Dick and Cherry Beath, Nigel Bedford, Mike and Rosamond Benson, Ron Berry and Mrs Val Wingfield, Tim and Penny Bevan, Stephen and Liz Caney, Richard and Jan Chetwynd-Stapleton, Tony and Elizabeth Collyns, Richard and Avril Cousens, Robin and Jenny Crawford, Anthony and Judy D’Arcy-Irvine, Mark and Nikki Elcomb, David and Tisha Eliot, David and Rosie
It had been hoped that the last officers
to be commissioned into the Light Infantry, August 2006, would have a Table but it was not to be. The Committee hopes that this group and the generation before them will grace the occasion in 2015.
Fifty Nine-Ninety Four Club
(A Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment Officers’ Club)
Yet again the 59-94 Club’s winter and summer lunches were held in the Rifles Officers’ London Club in Davies Street.
On 24 January a total of 20 officers met, including a few not seen for a while – one after a 15 years gap. The mea culpa by the Committee for mis-programming ‘the last Friday in January’ was noted. The sitreps provided by those unable to be present were briefed as usual, and any containing
a less than cast-iron excuse for being absent were received with the equally usual scepticism. Those present were reminded that it was 7 years since the January lunch was cancelled at the last minute as that was the date chosen for Graham Barlow’s funeral, and raised a glass to his memory; and in thanks to their own continued luck in life’s lottery.
Attending were (20): Simon Bailey, John 178 OFFICERS’ CLUBS
Biggs, Simon Cook, Terry Daly, Farren Drury, Andy Fontana, Ben Johnson, Jeremy Lillies, John Marsh, Barry Paddison, John Peters, David Proctor, Kevin Sayers, David Stone, Jim Tanner, Patrick Tomlinson, Jerry Tozer, Richard Vaughan-Payne, Nigel Walker and Adam Westlake, with Alex Cooper and Andrew Gay joining at the pub.
The second lunch was held on 6th June, with Rfn Pope ably fielding us single-handed. After some exceptional late volatility, attendance was down to 16, although we were delighted to see that
it included Alan Coates making his first 59-94 lunch, having previously managed only a single ‘join late at the pub’ 13 years ago, and that he was joined by his brother, John, at the Barley Mow this time. Simon Cook rebro’d the absentees’ sitreps, Terry Daly being one of them for the first time in