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"Territorial Army, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Home Guard and Cadet Units in Bedfordshire" Official handbook compiled by Lt Colonel M F T Baines OBE DL JP, secretary of the association.

1955, with addendum to c.1957

From: 1955 To: 1960

Contents: - Territorial Army, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, and Home Guard Units with loctions of Training Centres. - National Serviceman and His Part-time Service. - Headquarters 162nd (Independent) Infantry Brigade Group - Bedfordshire Yeomanry (305th Medium Regt RA) - 248th Field Squadron RE (The Bedford Squadron) - 249th Field Squadron RE (the Luton Squadron) - 61st HQ Army Signal Regiment - 5th Battalion the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment - 162nd Infantry Brigade workshops REME - Women's Royal Army Corps (TA) - 1959th and 1961st (Air OP) Flights Royal Aux Air Force. - Home Guard in Bedfordshire - Pre-Service Cadets Organisation - Sea Cadet Corps - Army Cadet Force -Air Training Corps. Includes: -Advertisements for Hunting Percival Aircraft Ltd, John P White & Sons Ltd, Charles Wells Ltd, F Gamman & Sons Ltd, Charles Franklin Ltd, Vauxhall Motors, Wells & Winch, Cryselco Lamps, Our Boys, Whitbread Beer, Electrolux, and Charles Bird & Sons Ltd, Luton. - Photographs of 'The Lord Lieutenant presenting the Standard to 305 (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Medium Regt RA (TA) [Beds Times], Firing the Salute on the occasion of the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, in 1953 [Beds Times], 4.5 in BL Gun of B Troop, P Battery, Biggleswade, firing the salute on the occasion of the Coronation, 1953 [Beds Times], Guard at Annual Camp, Wouldham, 1854, 248 Field Squadron RE (TA) Cutter Crew, 1954, 249 Field Squadron RE, Wouldham constructing Class 80 Extra-Wide Pontoon Bailey Bridge, 1954, Completing class 100 Heavy-Girder Bridge. Unit transport passing on bridge as last two ramps are being placed, Wouldham 1954, Bridging Party. Lieutenants Tibbitt and Platt left and right of party, the new TA Centre at Marsh Road, Luton, Unit at Sudbury, Suffolk, taken on August 20th 1914 on mobilization, Corporal Hinton, 162nd Independent Infantry Brigade Signals Squadron taking the water splash at Sizewell during the Regimental Motor-Cycle Trails, 1954, New Colours being marched past the Colonel of the Regiment Lieut-General Sir Reginald Denning, KBE CD at the Laying up of the Old Colours Ceremony, 26th September 1954 [Beds Times], Corps of Drums and Band leading the Battalion back to Kempston Barracks after the Laying-up of the Old Colours at the Church of the Transfiguration, Kempston, 26th Sept 1954, Staff Sergeant D Rayment demonstrating the use of a mobile machinery lorry during coronation celebrations at this Unit's TA Centre, Capt J Cameron REME giving technical instruction to a local company of the Army Cadet Force, A field exercise on Salisbury Plain, during Annual Camp. The result of a preliminary Recce. being given to the Commanding Officer, Lt G James, Capt A H Harvey, Sgt D Nicklinson, Major S M Brown and Cfn R Smith [Home Counties Newspapers], A Jeep road casualty recovered by 162nd Infantry Brigade LAD REME during Annual Camp. Lieutenant P J Britton conducts an inspection of damage, Opening ceremony of the New TA Centre at Vauxhall Motors, Luton for 162nd Infantry Workshops REME, Sergeant Redmond instructing members of the Transport Company WRAC at Kempston Barracks [Beds Times], Auster aircraft spot landing on a field, 1959 Air (OP) Flight Royal Auxiliary Air Force present regular and TA Officer nucleus with Section vehicles, HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother inspecting the 5th Bedfordshire Battalion Home Guard after Presentation of New Colours to the 1st Battalion The Hertfordshire Regiment (TA) and the 5th Battalion The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (TA) [Home Counties Newspapers], 5th Bedfordshire Battalion Home Guard, Cloth Model Exercise, Colonel G A Anstee OBE MC DL JP Sector Commander Bedfordshire Home Guard, leading the Parade past the Saluting Base, Sunday 20th June 1954, 1st Bedfordshire Battalion Home Guard, led by Lieut-Colonel E G Fanning MC at Kempston Barracks on Armistice Day, 1954, General Sir R Denning KBE CB Colonel The Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, inspecting the 1st Battn Bedfordshire Home Guard at the Regimental Summer Gathering, 1954, 2nd Bedfordshire Battalion Home Guard, at Miniature Range, Biggleswade, 1954 [Biggleswade Chronicle], 3rd Bedfordshire Battalion Home Guard, sten Machine Gun instruction [Home Counties Newspapers], 3rd Bedfordshire Battalion Home Guard, prior to attending Remembrance Day Parade at Dunstable [Home Counties Newspapers], 4th Bedfordshire Battalion Home Guard, Church Parade, Luton [Home Counties Newspapers], 4th Bedfordshire Battalion Home Guard, Annual Dinner [Home Counties Newspapers], Drill for a Guard of Honour, Sea Cadets carrying out WT training, National Cadet Rifle Meeting Bisley, 1954, Corporal Webb, Team Captain Bedford ACF. Company receiving the Frankfort Shield Team Trophy from Air Chief Marshal Sir Ivelaw-Chapman KCB, KBE, DFC, AFC [London News Agency], Bedford Bugle Band marching past St Peter's Bedford [Beds Times], Annual ACF Camp at Landguard, Felixstowe, 1954, Annual Inspection of the Bedford, Cambridge and Huntingdon ATC wing.

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Baines, M F T,
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother,
Elizabeth II,
Tibbitt,
Platt,
Hinton,
Denning, Reginald Francis Stewart,
Rayment, D,
Cameron, J,
James, G.,
Harvey, A H,
Nicklinson, D,
Brown, S M,
Smith, R,
Britton, P J,
Redmond,
Anstee, G A,
Fanning, Eric Gerard,
Ivelaw-Chapman, Ronald,
Hunting Percival Aircraft Ltd,
Franklin, Charles

BEDFORD, LUTON, KEMPSTON, Wouldham, BIGGLESWADE, photographs, Territorial Army, Sizewell, Sudbury, cadets, Home Guard, coronations, Bedfordshire Yeomanry, 5th Battalion (T.A.) Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, Air Training Corps, Sea Cadet Corps, Women's Royal Army Corps, J.P. & Sons Limited White, F & Sons Gamman, Charles Wells Ltd, Vauxhall Motors, Wells & Winch Limited, Cryselco Limited, Whitbread and Company Limited, Electrolux, Charles Bird & Sons