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22817927 J. M. Bennett, Sept 1954 – 1957
Following my completing basic training at Caterham and Pirbright. I was posted in as a Trained Soldier at Caterham and successfully took two squads through their training in the time allotted.
During December 1955 I was posted to the 3rd Battalion at Pirbright. Where I attended a drill course in No 4 coy on successful completion of this I was promoted to L/Corporal. The Battalion being stationed at the Chelsea Barracks in 1956 following trooping the Colour, I was posted to the Headquarters the 1st guards Brigade within the 3rd div in June 1956. Served in the Brigade Intelligence Section being promoted L/Sergeant 1957.
In November 1961 I joined T/A 597 Company R.A.S.C. and served with the T/A for 14 yrs attaining the rank of S/Sergeant with 217 squadron R. C. T.
I then Started work with the MOD driving school at Leconfield as Instructor Driving in July 1976 being promoted to Driving Examiner July 1987 until retirement in June 2001.
I joined the Army Cadet Force in march 1979 with the rank of C S M , being Commissioned 1981 I held the posts of Detachment Commander, Area Staff Officer, Company Commander and Adjutant. I retired with the rank of Major on December 31st 1999.
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I am 65 years of age & was born in Kingston Upon Hull, on the 22 November 1937.
I am married with two children, Steven my eldest son served in the Regiment for 12 years.
I worked for the local firm of Reckitt & Coleman, before being called up for national service in 1956.
On entering the recruiting I remember my father saying, before I left home if you decide to join the army as a regular, join a regiment that will teach you a trade, it will come in handy when you leave the army." The recruiting sergeant was in the Coldstream Guards; he would have made an excellent living as a used car salesman. That day he bought one Guardsman 232066882 Alan Dent.
My three months drill training was done at Caterham barracks, in Codderington block, this was followed by three months weapons training at Pirbright.
Apart from banging my feet around & throwing a 303 rifle about, I was taught phases like, I’ll stuff this pace stick up your nostrils & stir your brains up, I’ll smash this pace stick so hard over your head, you will wake up, look through your ribs, & think you are in the guard room.
Although posted to the second battalion, due to representing the Coldstream Guards at football, Boxing, & athletics, I spent most of my three-year career on the staff at Pirbright, in 16 company. I was under the command of Major Miles-Marsh, & C S M Jan Hooper.
I left the regiment in 1959, & joined the Hull City Police Force, later to be amalgamated with the East Riding, Grimsby, & other police forces, to become the Humberside police force as it is now.
I served four nearly thirty-four years, reaching the rank of chief inspector.
It is true to say that nearly my entire policing career was spent at the sharp end, working with the C I D. Regional crime squads, & drug squads.
The most exiting time of my career was spent on secondment in the Royal Cayman Police force on the Cayman islands, I was in charge of the drug squad, & worked in liaison with the drugs enforcement administration in Miami.
I spent two years of my life there with my wife, who worked for a driving lodge on the island
I retired from the police force some ten years ago. I keep show rabbits as a hobby; & devote some of my spare time to voluntary work.
I am the treasurer of the Coldstream Guards, Hull branch, & the chairman of the Humberside National association of retired police officers; I represent the police pensioners on the Humberside police welfare committee. I am also the secretary of the Humberside police Bowling club (green bowls) & the co-coordinator of the neighborhood watch in the area in which I live.
My ambition in life is to live to be seventy years of age, but at sixty-nine I may have other ambitions I can truly say that I am a happy man, & if I had my time over again I would not change a thing.
If any one wants to contact me, I am not on the Internet, in fact I have just learned to use the telephone, the number of which is 01482 802320.
I look forward to hearing from any of my past comrades.
All the best to you all, Allan Dent.
Jack Jamieson (23206741)
I joined the regiment in February 1956 & after surviving the rigors of both Caterham and Pirbright I was posted to No 2 support Coy 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards, stationed at shorncliffe. From there the Battalion was stationed at Hubblerath West Germany for the next two years. (oh for those days at an exchange rate of 12DM to the £1). On demob in February 1959, I had a number of boring, mundane jobs including salesman & milkman. Fed up with the tedium of civilian life, I joined up again in 1969, alas for my sins, in the R A F, where I spent the next 23 years serving within the UK, Gan (Indian Ocean), Gibraltar, Germany, Cyprus and the Falkland islands (twice). Enjoyable times yes, but I never felt the same camaraderie experienced as in my time with the regiment. Upon discharge in March 92, I was employed by Hull City council as a local Government officer, mainly dealing with council tax bills. Well some one has to do it!). I took early retirement in 2001 to concentrate on my garden, annoy my wife in general, support Hull FC and muddle through as secretary for the Hull Branch Coldstream guards Association,
Jack Jamieson.