an instructor at the Indian Military Academy in March 1946 and then transferred to 1st Battalion The Royal Leicestershire Regiment in UK, moving to Hong Kong in 1948. He was appointed Intelligence Officer of 27 Brigade in Korea in June 1950 before joining 2nd Battalion The Sherwood Foresters in July 1952 in BAOR. He moved to Eaton Hall as an Instructor in March 1953 and he became Adjutant 5th Royal Leicestershire Regiment in June 1955; he was posted to 1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters as Company Commander in Malaya in 1958 and then to 1st Battalion The Warwickshire Regiment in BAOR as Company Commander in August 1962. He moved in August 1963 to 1st Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment in Borneo as a Company Commander. He went on to serve as Ground Liaison Officer (GLO) Far East (Singapore) in December 1965, GLO UK in September 1968, GLO BAOR in January 1971, GLO UK in December 1973 and then Permanent Selection Officer at the Recruit Selection Centre, Sutton Coldfield, in July 1976. Dick retired from the Army in 1978 and became the Bursar at a state boarding school and environmental studies centre in North Wales.
GREEN Desmond Elliott Maj 121379
On 28 August 2009 aged 93. Born on 4 December 1915, he was a pupil at Highgate School and, in November 1934, he attended OCTU at Sandhurst. Commissioned in February 1940 into 7th Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment, he went to France with the British Expeditionary Force, was wounded and evacuated from Dunkirk, recuperating in hospital in Sedgefield. In 1941/2 he was stationed in Norton Barracks as a Captain and, in 1943, he was posted to 21st Army Group and attached to 2nd Army as a Major. He was Mentioned in Dispatches on 22nd March 1945 for service in Europe. He was demobbed in January 1946 and he became a Company Director. His Grandson, Capt Harry Porteous, was commissioned into The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment and is still serving in The Mercian Regiment.
GREEN Norman “Son”
Of Evesham on 28 March 2010 aged 91. Born in Brailes on 19 March 1919, he served in 1st Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment from 15 December 1939 until 9 May 1941 when he transferred to The Royal Army Ordnance Corps; on 1 October 1942,
The Mercian Eagle
he transferred to The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and was discharged on 11 June 1946. He was a good football player: one of the highlights was to play against Les and Dennis Compton of Arsenal and Tom Gally of Wolverhampton Wanderers in a representative game in Holland. He developed an interest in refereeing while in the Army and refereed several matches in Europe where he met Jimmy Hill. He was the co-founder in 1945 of Evesham United Football Team.
HACKETT James Oliver Maunsell Maj 472551
with 3rd Battalion The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment in Newark before returning to Northern Ireland in command of the Northern Ireland Training Establishment at Ballykinler. This was followed by a staff appointment in HQ 1 (BR) Corps in Bielefeld at the end of which, having squeezed in a five month tour in the Falkland Islands, he was posted to HQ London District in Horse Guards as SO2 G3 Trg/Cadets. His final tour was with 49 (East) Brigade in Chilwell running the Service Leavers’ Support Team before retiring and becoming Assistant Regimental Secretary (Nottingham) in 1997. He delayed his retirement from this post in July 2007 to help with the Formation of The Mercian Regiment and he retired officially in March 2008. He was not replaced so he continued to act as Curator of The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment Museum (Sherwood Foresters Collection) until April 2010. He was also Secretary to the Nottinghamshire Committee of the Army Benevolent Fund The Soldiers Charity from 2000 to 2010. His father, Brig Jimmy Hackett, was the final Colonel The Sherwood Foresters and the first Colonel The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment. His younger brother, Jonny, was the final Colonel The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment and his youngest brother, Richard, was also commissioned into the Regiment but is now serving with The Royal Welsh Regiment.
HALL J C Capt
Of Wynberg, South Africa, in September 2009. He served with The South Staffordshire Regiment.
HALLIDAY Douglas Niall Pte 30034253
Of Newark on 30 October 2010 aged 68. Born on 17 July 1942, he was educated at Cheltenham College before entering RMA Sandhurst in 1960. He was commissioned into The Sherwood Foresters in 1962 and was posted to the 1st Battalion in Palace Barracks, Holywood, Northern Ireland. He remained with the Battalion until 1968 serving in UK, Cyprus and BAOR before becoming Adjutant The Junior Infantrymen’s Battalion at Shorncliffe. He was posted to 1st Battalion The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment in Warminster in 1971 (Demonstration Battalion) from where he went on the Battalion’s first Op Banner tour in Northern Ireland. When the Battalion moved to Berlin, he went to the Royal Signals Training Brigade at Catterick as Infantry Adviser. In 1977, he was appointed SO3 G Trg HQNI returning to 1 WFR two years later in time to return to Northern Ireland on an emergency tour. After a tour as DAA & QMG at UKCICC in Wilton, he took up the post of Training Major
Of Wallasey on 23 June 2010 aged 20. He joined 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment on 28 January 2008 following basic training at the Infantry Training Centre, Catterick. He started his career in B Company and then moved to C Company, serving in Northern Ireland and Kenya and on operations in Afghanistan. Pte Halliday died in the incident with three of his colleagues from the Police Advisory Team. He was a strong, fit and very capable individual with a bright, if mischievous, future. He will be a loss to the Battalion which has lost one of its real characters. He undertook extensive Mission Specific Training in both UK and Kenya in preparation for the deployment on Op Herrick 12. He moved back to B Company and was assigned to the Police Advisory Team in Gereshk, Helmand Province. His team has been advising the Afghan National Police in order to further develop
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