CSM of the Company. His other love was the “Northampton Sailability” organisation of which Harry was Chairman and to which he and his family devoted much of their time.
COLE Barry “Nat”
Of Dover on 19th December 2009. He served in 1st Battalion The Staffordshire Regiment from 1961 until 1973.
COLLINS John R Col OBE
during their service in Malaya. On leaving the Regiment, Sid became a Shift Controller at the British Steel Corporation in Scunthorpe.
CRANE William David Maj 90420
Regiment before transferring to the 6th Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles where he remained until leaving the Army in 1979. He then took up an appointment in the office of the Sultan of Brunei until 1984 when he was appointed Assistant Regimental Secretary at Nottingham; he retired in 1994.
CREWS Denys Kingwell Maj 75877
Of Wadhurst, Sussex, on 14 April 2010 aged 72. John was commissioned into The South Staffordshire Regiment in 1957 and joined the 1st Battalion in Luneburg. After Amalgamation, his service included a posting to the Depot The Mercian Brigade in Whittington Barracks, other tours with the 1st Battalion (including both tours to Kenya) and a tour with the Trucial Oman Scouts. He was Adjutant of the 1st Battalion from 1966 - 67 in Dover and, after attending Staff College, he completed a tour in MOD. He commanded C Company in Osnabrück and in Creggan Camp in Londonderry in 1974. After serving as Chief Instructor at RMAS and as SO1 at the Nigerian Staff College, he assumed command of the 1st Battalion in March 1979 during the Battalion exercise in Kenya. This was followed by an eighteen month tour in Londonderry from September 1979 – January 1981: he was made OBE at the end of the tour. For the remainder of his time in command, he served in Weeton and Gibraltar. He was subsequently promoted to Colonel and retired in 1988. He continued to serve the Regiment as a Museum Trustee and then later as a member of Regimental Council before finally stepping down in 2007 after the formation of The Mercian Regiment.
CONWAY David Pte 22005356
Of Rugeley in July 2010. He enlisted into 1st Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment in 1948 and served until 1950 having taken part in the Berlin airlift. After discharge, he was employed by Armitage Shanks where he worked for many years. He was an active member and Standard Bearer of the Rugeley and District WFRA Branch and he also carried the Standard for the Armitage Royal British Legion.
COOK Sidney A WO2 21013006
Of Scawby, Lincolnshire, on 22 May 2010 aged 88. He was CQMS A Coy 1st Bn The Worcestershire Regiment in 1958 when the Company reformed: he remained with them
114 October 2010
Of Southwell on 24 April 2009 aged 92. He served with 8th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters as Intelligence Officer and took part in the 1940 Norway Expedition where he was wounded and taken prisoner. He was held at Oflag Laufen and other camps in Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia including Oflag 79 at Braunschweig; whilst captive, he still managed to send coded messages back to England and, for this action, he was awarded an MBE. After the war ended, he became a Major with the Army Legal Division in Germany. In August 1946, he returned to Nottingham and became a partner at Wells and Hind (later Eversheds) Solicitors until his retirement in 1983. He was a keen farmer in the Nottingham area and also Chairman of Nottingham Brick, a director of Armitage Pet Foods and Shipstone’s Brewery.
CREAMER Reginald Arthur Maj
Of Ilkeston on 6 February 2010 aged 81. Reg joined The Sherwood Foresters in 1945 and served in the ranks for 19 years 19 days before being commissioned as QM in 1965. He went on to serve with 1st Bn The Staffordshire Regiment, The Mercian Brigade Depot and 1st Bn The Worcestershire
Of Malton, West Yorkshire, on 13 May 2009 aged 95. After Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he read botany, zoology and biochemistry, Denys started his career in teaching as assistant master at Cardiff Cathedral School and then St Peter’s School, York. He joined The Sherwood Foresters TA in 1938 and became an instructor at 164 OCTU, Barmouth. Commissioned in 1941, he was promoted to Capt in 1942 when, in November, he joined the 2/5th Bn during Operation Torch with the allied landings in French North Africa, serving until the Axis surrender in Tunis the following May. The following September he landed at Salerno with 46th Infantry Division and was wounded in the advance up the Italian coast. After recovery, he rejoined his Battalion for the attack on the German Gustav Line and the push towards the Gothic Line; it was during this action that he was mentioned in dispatches and also awarded the US Bronze Star for gallantry. He served at the School of Infantry in Palestine between 1945 and 1946. In 1946, he returned to his pre-war occupation of house tutor and biologist at St Peter’s School, York where he took command of the school’s Combined Cadet Force and was elected vice-chairman of the West Riding CCF committee. In 1955, he received the Territorial Decoration and he was appointed MBE for his services to the CCF. In 1957, he was appointed to be Headmaster of Scarborough College and he founded the Society of Headmasters of Independent Schools. He retired from Scarborough College in 1974. Not one to sit idle, he became a teaching practice supervisor at the University of Hull Education Department and took over the Biology Department.
DALZIELL-PAYNE Geoffrey Noël Legh Lt
Of Dresden, Stoke-on-Trent, on 12 January 2010 aged 84. Educated at Cheltenham College, he was commissioned into The Worcestershire Regiment in 1947 retiring in 1948.
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