Photos from Germany

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Wuppertal_Ken Furner (later Colour Sergeant)
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As viewed from top down:

Wuppertal  Ken and Norma Furner

Wuppertal_4_Pl.  Sgt Phillips on left and Cpl George Rawlinson on right.

Wuppertal  - Cpl George Rawlinson, Sgt Phillips, unknown Corporal

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As viewed from top down:

Berlin - Spandau Jail.  May 1950.  Lieutenant P N St J Saunders and B Company 1st Bn taking over guard duties from the Americans. In addition to a multi-national staff of prison warders the four occupying nations each took it in turns to provide a military guard. This particularly suited the Russians as it allowed them free access into the British Sector of the City.

Warrant Officers and Sergeants Mess_Wuppertal.  CSM George Osborne on left

Sergeants Phillips is 2nd from the right with my mother Stella Phillips next to him. Sergeant 'Tinker' Bell on right.  (Cliff)

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Missing photos replaced. The RSM Lomas photo and the RSM, Phil, ? belonged in the Far East photo section and are there so has been deleted from here.

Comments by Robert Bonner:
The officer in the car is Brigadier DR Morgan the British Berlin Commander - a most excellent officer. The occasion is the King's birthday Parade on 8 June 1950.  The battalion, together with 1st Royal Fusiliers and 1st Black Watch paraded at the Olympic Stadium on the Maifeld parade ground.
Robert

Updated by Cliff 31st October 2020

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Pre-Germany photos

As viewed from the top down:

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My father Arthur (Phil) Phillips 1st Bn is in the back row 3rd from the left.  This photo would have been taken in Dunham Park around 1946.
Seated L to R: (63rd PTC) CSM Peter Derbyshire, Major Martin Archdale, Lieut Colonel Philip Buchan, Captain Roy Baker MC, unknown Sgt

The two lower photos were taken outside Caxton Hall on 24th May 1947.  My mother Stella Margurete Phillips nee Caldwell served two periods in the ATS.  Her family lived in Timperley, the family home where I was brought up by my grandmother until I was 7 was 391 Stockport Road Timperley, it was an Italian restaurant when I last visited the area. (Cliff)

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An additional photo from George Swetman.

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And another from George. My father 3rd row up 6th from the left. 3525679 Sgt Arthur Phillips.

Names:

1st Battalion Warrant Officers and Sergeants - Berlin 26 September 1950 . Back row - R Cameron, W Kennedy, Hockram, Lynch, Mc Guire, unknown, unknown . 4th Row - J Marney, Smith, unknown, Martyn, E Pepper, Hannah, Baldwin, J Redwood, . unknown, J McCabe, Higgins . 3rd Row - H Jones, Lowe, unknown, H Bellis, unknown, A Philips, J Farrell, W Porter, unknown, Johnson, Pierce, unknown . 2nd Row - WOII H Emmett, Bennel (Drum Major), J Carney, K Armitage, P McCarthy, L Benson, SSI N Bell (APTC), F Smith, R Hyde, Bousefield (REME), unknown ACC, unknown RAEC, WOII Hill, WOII E Osborne . Front Row - WOII Hawkins, Bandmaster Spooner, RQMS R Jackson, Major H O'Brien, Major Hyde, Lt Col G Frampton, Colonel S P Dawson (Lord Mayor), A E Lomas (RSM), Councillor R S Harper, Bentley, P B Dingle (Town Clerk), Captain E Holt (Adjutant), ORQMS J Ferguson, WOII Hoyle

Added 10th February 2021
Cliff

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Photo from George Swetman

'C' Company in front of their block - Wavell Barracks, Spandau. Berlin in 1950

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Another from George

C Company 1st Bn at Wuppertal, 1949

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This is Cpl, Joe BLAMIRE from A Coy,
Wuppertal 1948 - note no ties as yet and BD Blouse buttoned to the neck.
George.

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First of three photos at the reception following one of the many weddings in Berlin 1951

George

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The reception would have been held in the Cpls. Mess Wavell Barracks.
Berlin. (PS Watney's Red Barrell if I remember rightly)

George

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Definitely Watney's Red but of course some were on the hard stuff also.


George

PS Just remembered the name of the owner of that magificent face fungus 'Lofty' Bill Murray !!

To his left Bill McClure (peeping ) and Lou Kirkham cannot remember the other one.

[Robert Bonner]

The officer in the car is Brigadier DR Morgan the British Berlin Commander - a most excellent officer. The occasion is the King's birthday Parade on 8 June 1950.  The battalion, together with 1st Royal Fusiliers and 1st Black Watch paraded at the Olympic Stadium on the Maifeld parade ground.
Robert

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Thank you Robert
I am fairly sure that I was taken to watch that parade.
Cliff

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I have a feeling that was Capt. Clutterbuck, was't this the year that we did The Spandau Guard under Lt.Sanders.
George.