REME / RAOC

36th Heavy Air Defence Regiment |

REME / RAOC

7 Guided Missile Coy RAOC

All ex REME / RAOC out there, please contact us with your details, photo's and memories

for publication on this page. Remember this is your page, please use it!

36 Heavy AD Regiment Workshops

The Workshops were the largest 1st Line type in operation. Commanded by a Major but each of the two systems

Platoons had a Major in charge. They also had their own ASM, so the Workshop had three in total. The three

Platoons were K, L and M. M Platoon were the black hand gang supporting three Batteries (10, 111 and later 43),

and supporting 260 (SAM) Signal Squadron. The accommodation in Napier Barracks was located in the compound

at the far end of the Camp in the old Luftwaffe buildings and the Wksp HQ was in the Air Traffic Control Tower.

The majority of the men worked out on the runway where the Radars were always operational.

Where are they now?

If you know the whereabouts of the following REME

Personnel from D Troop, Dragon Battery please contact me.

Ginge Cheshire	George Bedford
Tony Heathcote	Tony Thompson
Pete Matthews	Joe Moreland
Ken Hugill	Adam Faith
Dave Stevens	Harry Hunt

Please Contact

John Langdon (Horace) served with REME 36 in Duisburg as an ECE. John would

like to make contact with any of his old comrades. John's contact details are listed

on the E-Mail Contact Page.

Please Contact

Keith Drew served with REME Workshops attaced to B & C Troops, 10 Bty between 1973-77.

Keith would like to make contact with anyone who remembers him.

Please contact Keith on the following Phone Number: 01446 676730

7 Guided Missile Coy RAOC

I recently received this message from Michael Frend who served with 7 GM Coy at Wulfen,

do you remember him? if so please contact him at the link below.

Hi Keith,

My name is Michael Frend and I wonder if you could possibly help me ?

I served with 7 GM Coy in Wulfen Germany from 1971 and was one of the last RAOC soldiers to

leave after it's disbandment, a total of 6 years service, the best years of my life without doubt.

I arrived in Wulfen as a Private and left as a corporal. And accompanied 36 Heavy Air defence

to Aberporth once a year on live firing exercises. Plus many field exercises in and around Germany.

I was a Supply Specialist, but also transported and built the "Thunderbird 2" missile.

I also drove the very old but very able "JUMBO CRANE" before the AEC heavy recovery

vehicle took over the lifting duties. I have a few pictures of the missile whilst we were on

exercise plus a few of me loading railway wagons in Wulfen with Missile "cigars" which would

have been their last journey as they were destined for the Car Crusher.

I would particularly like to hear from any person who remembers me during my time

spent with 7GM in Germany and 3 tours in Northern Ireland.

If You could possibly help by telling me how to make myself known (on your fantastic web site)

to any of my past comrades I would be extremely grateful.

Thankyou very much for all your help.

Kindest regards.

Michael.

Your Photos are wanted

E-mail them Today!

This is the Fuse Key presented to Ken Brown E Troop REME in 1972

My thanks to Ken Brown for passing this on.

Many thanks to Trevor Guest for the following photos of 60 Battery, when the whole Battery

got bogged in on Exercise with Thunderbird 1 in 1966. They show what can go wrong

when you don't reconnoiter your position properly.

Duisburg Camp

REME on the Bridge

Moving through Village

Digging out the 10 tonner

Radar stuck in the mud

Radar stuck fast

In deep

Help, get me out

Winching out the Radar

Doesn't look good

Could be worse, could it?

Stan Blachford and Geoff Earnest

on Exercise with 60 Bty.

The Defence Troop, 36 Heavy 1973, East Belfast

Pete Joe - HMS Maidstone '73

Pete Roy - Ballymacaret 73

Shylock of Belfast '73

Repairs in Northern Ireland 1973

Northern Ireland 1973

John Miller, RAOC 1968-1975 would like to hear from any of the

above who worked on the Ammo Dept in Sharjah 1970-71.

Contact through me please.

Keith Holderness 2001-2006