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AGC JOURNAL 2018

Squash In Memoriam

By Major James Doig

The Corps Squash Championships were held in It is with great sadness that we record the deaths
Winchester for the fourth year running; the club of the following. We extend our sympathy to their

once again hosted the event magnificently. families, relatives and friends.

Warrant Officer Class 2 Wayne Richard James Bashford Mr Colin Stuart Spacey 30 May 2018
10 December 2017
Major (Retired) Peter Shamus Sheehan 15 June 2018

Mr Darren Steven Greenfield 17 December 2017
Colonel (Retired) Christopher Norman Brand
Corporal Albert Somuah 29 December 2017 30 June 2018
Major (Retired) Frederick T Stoneham 7 January 2018 Mr Mark Daryl Douglas Davies 6 July 2018
Brigadier (Retired) Sean Michael Barry O’Meara MBE Mr Steven Michael Lugg 20 July 2018
11 January 2018
Captain John Henry Welsh 21 July 2018
Captain Dean Sprouting 31 January 2018
Corporal Shane Anthony Kay 5 October 2018
Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) William Minns
31 January 2018 Corporal Jeckoniah Abel Maseko 26 November 2018

Sergeant Anne West 19 February 2018 Private Mhairi Anne Burnet 30 December 2018
Mr Alan J Hollis 28 February 2018 Field of Remembrance
Corps Squash
Championships
attendees Major (Retired) Ena Patricia Forster 25 March 2018 The Regimental Association was represented at the
Royal British Legion Annual Field of Remembrance held
Ms Nicole Yvette Bullingham Date Not Known outside Westminster Abbey on the 8th of November 2018.
The Championships Corps Championships. Once again, the reason for holding Remembrances Crosses were planted in the Corps Plot
the event is to ensure that the best possible team is put Mr Huw Robert Smith 22 March 2018 for those who had passed on since last year’s Field of
This year saw over 30 applications to enter, but due to forward to represent the Corps in both A and B teams. Four Remembrance. Their names appear above.
injury and availability issues this was reduced to 25 in the newcomers to Corps squash have subsequently found Mr Melville Edwin Hall 30 April 2018 The various plots containing Remembrance Crosses were
main competition. This still meant that the squash was themselves selected to attend the Corps training weekend. reviewed by His Royal Highness Prince Harry.
fast paced and frenetic, with a huge number of matches
played over the three days. Phil Ashman arranged the Results from the Individual AGC Squash Championships:
draw so that you never stopped playing. Thanks Phil.
Open Winner: Phil Ashman; Runner Up: Neil Dewar
Team Competition
Open Plate Winner: Yvette Ashman; Runner Up: Saroj
Day one of the Championships is now established as the Sherpa
Team event. We only had three established teams enter Ladies Winner: Yvette Ashman; Runner Up: Sharon Asiimwe
the competition, so that meant all the other participants
made up hybrid teams on the day. In total there were nine Novice Winner: Sunil Rana; Runner Up: Barry Doyle
teams playing for the trophy. The teams were made up
of three players, who were allocated a seeding and the Novice Plate Winner: Sam Castledine; Runner Up: Rob
teams played matches against their relative seeds. There Greaves
were two grids made up of four and five teams per grid.

After some highly contested squash and eight hours of Training Weekend and Inter Corps
continuous playing the final was against Hybrid teams Championships

‘Drop Shots’ and ‘Spare Bods’. Drop Shots came out on top
and claimed the team event.
In November 2018, the ‘A’ Team and ‘B’ Team compete
Individual Competition against all the other Corps and Regiments in the Army.
Those who at the Corps Championships that demonstrated
their potential to play in one of the Corps teams, were
The following two days of competition were to decide invited to a Corps training weekend in Lee-on-the-Solent.
the winners of the individual events. There were a The weekend involves professional coaching and a
number of our Corps team players missing which meant competitive match. This is to build team cohesion ahead
that others had a better chance of getting further in the

event. There were five competitions in total: Open, Open of the Inter Corps and ensure that the best possible start

to the competition is possible. Four new players identified
Plate, Ladies, Novice and Novice Plate. The two days of themselves as potentials this year. Next year this could be

individual squash identified yet again more talent within you.

the Corps and reconfirms the value of having the annual
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