THE GOLDONIAN
2nd COY. 1st "C" BATTALION.
 HERTFORDSHIRE REGIMENT.
COMPANY NOTES

Since our last notes we have carried out a steady programme of training and have shown training films, but we shall look forward to the light evenings when a more active training programme can be carried out.

We have been honoured by being asked to be hosts at the annual Battalion inspection which is being held at Goldings; that will be a parade and inspection and then the Battalion marches to a service in our own chapel. A guard is being trained to turn out and pay compliments as the Battalion marches to and from the service. A report of this parade will be in our next issue. This will be the last Battalion parade of our Commanding Officer, Major A. Vigus, M.B.E., who is being succeeded by Captain R. E. Stevens, M.B.E., who is at present Adjutant. Captain Stevens is well known to us and we welcome him to his important appointment.

A good number of entries for the A.C.F. boxing this year, fourteen in all, came from this Company and although one only, Cadet Parry, got into the National Semi-finals, our boys did very well. Cadet Parry did not win in the semi-finals but he gave an excellent performance against a possible A.B.A. champion. I would like to congratulate all who entered on a very plucky attempt.

Congratulations to the following Cadets who are playing in the Battalion football team for the Hertfordshire A.C.F.: A/L/Cpl. T. Davison and Cdts. Merrifield, Howe, Murray, and S. Rane; they are doing well and are keeping their end up.

We are hoping during the coming months to be able to send more of this Company to the week-end training camps at Letchworth, for this is of great benefit, more can be done than on a normal training evening. The opportunity for ·22 shoots has been very limited but here again, with the co-operation of H.Q. Company, we may be able to make use of the range at Port Hill, Hertford and Letchworth.

I was pleased to welcome ex-Cadet Sergeant A. Bassett when he spent a week on leave with us. Anthony is now in the 3rd East Anglian Brigade and will shortly be posted to Ireland. He received the medal for the best recruit of his intake and I was pleased to know that his Cadet training with us had been of great help to him.

Many of our ex-Cadets are now on service in H.M. Forces all over the world and in the several trouble spots where British troops have been called in. I often think of them and am always pleased to receive letters from them telling me of their activities in sport and in their service lives.

I would close these short notes by telling all ranks that they too, have an aim in life whatever they do after they leave us; for it is by attention to detail and personal pride in themselves that they can aim at the stars and be a successful and useful citizen in the battle of life.

A. P. CULVER, Captain, O.I.C

From Company notes The Goldonian Spring 1964