"Monty" inspects

"Monty" inspects Kingham Hill School army cadets.

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery KG, GCB, DCO, PC. inspected the CCF detachment of our army cadets at our army camp in June 1961.

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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.

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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.

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Teddie Cooper, Warden, escorted by no less than two county Lord Lieutenants to inspect his troops.

 

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