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IT CAN SAFELY BE SAID THAT A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL – CERTAINLY IF MEASURED BY THE DECIBEL LEVEL
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The first 59-94 lunch of 2018 marked a change for the Club as the previous 43 had all been held in London, but this time we decamped to Wiltshire on 23rd February to use the Regiment’s Spiritual Home, the fine ancient Listed II* building. The Wardrobe, in the Salisbury Cathedral Close. The place is well known to us all, of course, having been taken over in 1978 to house RHQ DERR and the Regimental Museum, and since the 1994 amalgamation an office of RHQs RGBW/RGBWLI &thenTheRiflesuntil2016;theMuseumremains in situ though now titled The Rifles Berkshire and Wiltshire Museum.
After ’94 the property continued to be the respon- sibility of the Wardrobe and Museum Trust, the DERR prefix being replaced by RGBW and then Rifles in 2007, and the Charity’s Trustees maintain the policy that use by a recognized group of former members of any rank of R Berks, Wilts, DERR or RGBW/RGBWLI does not incur the normal hire charge – so not only a chance to lunch in a highly appropriate ‘Mess’ atmosphere surrounded by the silver and pictures with which we served, but at lower cost! The 59-94 Committee had designated this as a trial, but the response was so overwhelm- ingly positive that it has been decided to make it a fixture for the first lunch of each year.
A draw-back is that the Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment Room (the 17th Century Great Chamber on the 1st floor) can only seat 36 for a lunch or dinner and for the first time ever we had to instigate a reserve list.
So it was exactly 36 officers with the single aim of pre-lunch drinks in the library who crossed the Museum entrance hall to ascend the grand staircase, passing the 2 mannequins which denote the ‘Golden Thread’ heritage linkage of our regiments with one wearing the scarlet uniform of a DERR Drum Major and the other the Greens of a Serjeant in The Rifles, all under the watchful canine eye of ‘Bobbie of the Berkshires’ from his glass kennel.
The tables in the DERR Room had been impres- sively prepared by the Trust’s entire staff (the Curator and his Museum Assistant – the latter having consid- erably more silver polish stains on his hands than the
former), and the staff of the Wardrobe’s Bernières Tea Room fed and watered us well. Attendance reflected a properly representative generational range of the Regiment, and it can safely be said that a good time was had by all – certainly if measured by the decibel level – with most of the ‘younger’ officers subse- quently proceeding to ‘continued the movement’ at the New Inn just outside The Cathedral Close.
Lunching were: Simon Bailey, John Biggs, Jon Boxall, Paul Bradley, Fred Chedham, Patrick Clements, Simon Cook, Michael Cornwell, Derek Crabtree, Andy Crocker, Terry Daly, Dickie Davis, Michael Delf, Farren Drury, Piers Dunn, Jo Edmonds, Paul Flavell, Robin Higgs, Basil Hobbs, Ben Johnson, Charlie Maconochie, John Marsh, Tim O’Hare, John Peters, Desmond Redding, John Rylands, Ian Spence, David Stone, Richard Titley, Patrick Tomlinson, Jerry Tozer, Mike Vernon-Powell, Nigel Walker, Russ Wardle, Matt Way & Bill Wilson.
For the second lunch of the year on 1st June we returned to London and the private room of The Antelope in Eaton Terrace SW1, having been looked after well when we’d tried it for the first time the previous summer.
The 20 officers who could attend were: John Biggs, Patrick Clements, Simon Cook, Terry Daly, Farren Drury, Andy Fontana, George Griffin, Ben Johnson, Chris Knights, Jeremy Lillies, John Marsh, David Proctor, John Rylands, David Stone, Jerry Tozer, Alister Turtle, Richard Vaughan-Payne, Nigel Walker, Russ Wardle & Adam Westlake, with Patrick Tomlinson joining the boisterous follow-on downstairs in the bar after lunch.
In 2019 the winter lunch is scheduled for Friday 22nd February, again at The Wardrobe. The summer lunch is being replaced by a Regimental Dinner at the White Hart Hotel in Salisbury on Friday 27th September to mark the 60th anniversary of the formation of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) by the 9th June 1959 amalgamation of The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) (49th/66th) and The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh’s) (62nd/99th).
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