Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery
KG, GCB, DCO, PC. inspected the CCF detachment of our
army cadets at our army camp in June 1961.
Pipes and drums on the hill for the march past.
Captain T A Bowker was our commanding officer, Lieutenant
Benson our second in command, and Sergeant Major Clarkson.
Inspection of our cadet corps.
Our detachment at this time was badged to the Oxfordshire
and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, the force that captured
the Pegasus Bridge in the opening hours of D-Day 6 June
1944.
Teddie Cooper, Warden, escorted by no less than two
county Lord Lieutenants to inspect his troops.
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