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    leigh kitchen

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    1. Sword with leather covered scabbard for use in the field, but also the not so commonly seen leather covered guard. King George V cypher on blade & also on the guard by the look of it - I wanted to check if the cyphrs on guard & blade matched or if the manufacturer had used an obsolete King Edward VII guard with the KG V blade as the guard wouldn't be seen). ' alt='' class='ipsImage' width="562px" height="750px">"> ' alt='' class='ipsImage' width="562px" height="750px">
    2. It's the badge for Scout Sergeant and 1st class or senior scouts although possibly used as an infantry scouts badge according to Langley & Edwards 'British Army Proficiency Badges', tho' I haven't a copy to hand.
    3. I would've said the 2nd (Queen's Royal) Regiment of foot, even the style of "2" is the same - but theirs lacks the wreath?
    4. From "The Evening Chronicle", Kate Proctor, Aug 7 2012 A COURAGEOUS war widow is calling on Chronicle readers to back our "Save Our Fusiliers" campaign against army cutbacks. Mavis Hoult, 66, from Washington had just given birth to her youngest son when her husband George was killed in Aden in the Middle East in 1967. During a brutal rebel ambush he and four other North East soldiers tragically lost their lives. Today, to commemorate his sacrifice and other fallen soldiers, Mavis is backing the Chronicle’s campaign to save the 2nd Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers – which the Government wants to scrap to save money. “We’re going to be left with no defence, there will be nobody so that we are safe. I don’t know why the Government have chosen a North regiment, I know there are southern battalions going too but the Fusiliers is about the only northern one left.” Mavis was left to bring up her two young children Gail, now 45, and the late Gary alone when George was tragically killed aged 23. He and nine other soldiers from the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers were ambushed on June 20, 1967, by Saudi Arabian rebel fighters. Five of the men were recruited in the North East and still just in their early 20s. A year later, the Northumberland Fusiliers merged to form the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and this link to her husband’s old regiment is why Mavis feels so strongly that she must support the troops. “I support the campaign against the cuts. It’s a case of trying to keep the battalion up if possible. It’s tradition and it’s part of North East history as well,” she said. The former school worker comes from a long line of Fusilier soldiers and her grandfather Thomas Dent and his four brothers all fought with the Royal Northumberlands. She married her husband George when he was 18 and the couple were based in Germany between 1965 and 1966. The next year he was sent to Aden, which is now part of Yemen. “It was the local battalion and full of local people. He loved army life. “I went out to Aden after it happened – the army paid for relatives to get out there. “It was pretty rough for the men but they had a job to do. He was buried out there. They couldn’t fetch the body home, but taking us out there was the next best they could do. “I remember how smart they were when you would see them marching together.” Mavis went on to work in a theatre and last year was given the honour of laying the wreath at the memorial for the Aden ambush held at the Cenotaph at the Haymarket in Newcastle. She was also awarded the Elizabeth Cross, an honour given to family members of those killed in action, in 2011. “It was just a little something to say that they remembered us.” The campaign to save the 2nd Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was launched after Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond announced his plans to reduce the British Army from 102,000 troops to 82,000 by 2020. As part of his vision for a restructured army, the 2nd Battalion will be scrapped and the 29 Regiment, the Royal Artillery based at Albemarle Barracks in Northumberland also faces an uncertain future. The campaign now has the support of 16 MPs in the North East and more than 1,000 people have also signed a petition launched in the Evening Chronicle. An e-petition launched by Major Chester Potts, chairman of the Fusiliers Association Northumberland, is also available for people to sign online with the hope that the Government’s decision will eventually be debated in the House of Commons. Bill Hall, chairman of the Northumberland Fusiliers All Rank Club, and a former Aden veteran, has put a lot of effort into commemorating the ambush, which was one of the Fusiliers heaviest losses since the Second World War. Thomas Liddell, Leslie Stewart, Walter Crombie and Bernard Wylie were also killed in the incident.
    5. Aged? You mean that my strict regime of preserving myself with alcohol and expanding my body to fill the creases isn't working?. Remember Peter, age and treachery will always triumph over youth and enthusiasm. The voice of reason was a little shrill today, having had a computer melt down over a week ago I've just found out that my desktop hard drive has gone belly up I've spent half the day tapping / punching and unplugging the external trying to unjam it.
    6. Can't compete with you re RNF Graham, I'll have to resort to scanning a few photos. I'll check the tunics Paul, I don't do face book though - too young and new fangled for the likes of me. Waiting for a guy to come and sort out my desk top in a couple of days, depends on whether the problem's with Windows or the hard drive, can't get lap top to link up and I'm on a borrowed lap top for a few minutes now so I can't scan or do a lot else at the moment.
    7. The 3rd photo in Post 50 - are those Polish troops in battle dress?
    8. I think I only have two "school" badges, this Skola Strucnih Radnika badge and a ground forces tehcnical NCO school one.
    9. I'v got a French 1832 pattern infantry hanger (or possibly Russian Crimean I suppose), it has a damaged leathger scabbard which somebody's repaired. The leather along the seam had rotted / broken off for the full length of the scabbard and it's been repaired by gluing on a length of narrow leather trouser belt complete with impressed imitaion stitching, and if you try to peel the belt back, bits of the original leather come with it........ Could always try to sort out the rubbery adhesive with a solvent I suppose.
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