PAUL PENFOLD
Hi Graham,
Tom Scarff put me in touch, we met this week and realized we had both served in 249. I was in Singapore 1966-69 in Comcen. Spent 6 months in the Grand Hotel/Embassy in Bangkok in 67 and about 6 months in Leong Nok Tha in 68 as far as I can recall. Also 6 weeks in Labuan at the end of the insurgency. Lost contact with everyone, but still remember a few names - Ray Drew, John Keohane, Walter Holden, Pete Meadows and Geordie Spearpoint. I was a signalman then and after my tour went to Caterick to train for special sigs.
My wife is from Leong Nok Tha - she was 18 months old when I was stationed there! A small world.
Fascinating to see the website - takes me back a lifetime!!
All the best
Paul
On the Contact Lists we have several people shown in GREEN who don't appear to have furnished us with any sort of contact information or whose contact details are out of date. (Email Address, Telephone Number or "Snail Mail" Address.)
Also many of the names don't appear to have Troop Names and/or Dates Served. I am attempting to update the contact lists so if you are one of the following listed people please get in touch. (Even if you're not listed but can provide useful information please feel free to let me know.)
| DON ADAMS | BARRY CUMMINGS | STEVE EVANS | EDDIE "TAFF" JONES |
| ROGER BARNES | TERRY DAVEY | HARRY FLAVELL | COLIN JOSEPH |
| JIM BALLARD | DAVE DAY | MIKE FORD | JIM KERR |
| DAVE BEATTIE | CLIVE DOBSON | JIM GORE | ALAN KNOTT |
| MICK BERRY | HARRY DOCHERTY | "GRIFF" GRIFFIN | BOB McKAY |
| MICHAEL BROOKE | JOHN DONOVAN | TONY HARRIS | JOE MEREDITH |
| DAVE BROWN | LEN DRAIN | ADAM HAYTON | JOE REGAN |
| CARL BUTLER | PETE DRING | JOHN "PADDY" HEARNS | BRIAN SLY |
| CLIVE COLLIER | RAY EDGEWATER | BILL "MATT" HELME | KEN TOWLSON |
| HARRY COOKE | MIKE "SPIKE" ELLIS | BARRY JERVIS | |
| BOB CROWTHER | JOHN ESPEY | JIM "PADDY" JOHNSTON | |
If anyone has access to obits, which are missing, for personnel on the Last Post page I would be grateful if they could foreward them to me. Or if you have any ideas as to where I could obtain same, again please get in contact.
HELP FOR HEROES
A very worthy cause, especially in light of the numbers of seriously wounded coming back from Afghanistan. (I've seen for myself the medevac helicopters arriving at Camp Bastion with casualties on board.)
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Criteria for joining the
Royal Signals Association.
What it boils down to is this - If you served during the time of 249 FARELF
(which you did) you must have participated in the "One Days Pay"
ruling which entitles you to join the RSA as a Life Member for free. If
you go to the RSA website details are available there. If you do not wish
to join a Branch local to you (and possibly participate) you can join
the RHQ Branch. - Hope this makes sense.
In case it makes it clearer here is a copy off the email that Neville
received.
Dear Neville. Thank you for taking an interest
in this matter. All those who contributed to Corps Funds through the Days
Pay Scheme (DPS) are automatically eligible for free membership of the
RSA. However, they must still apply to join by completing an enrollment
card, which is sent to Assn HQ. Yes, it would be best if I was asked to
check to see if any potential member was already a LIFE MEMBER before
asking for the remittance. The bottom line is that all money received
as remittance for LM goes into the Benevolent Fund for welfare use.
There are still some gaps on the contact lists, where we are missing troops or dates served. This is acceptable when the people concerned are not in contact but in some cases it applies to people who are in touch. If you are one of those please let Graham or myself know so we can update. (Don't be afraid inform us if you know we have got dates or troops wrong. Also any names that are missing of people you know who served) - Thanks