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Inside This Issue Sir John Sutton - Obituary • a Temporary Spell in the Fleet Air Arm What Makes an RAF Firefighter • Strange but True • a Dream Come True ORCE & F D IR E A F L E A N Y C O E R • • F I N R O E I S T E IA R C VI O E FL CES ASS LUS AM SA MI NIS ROYAL AIR FORCE & DEFENCE FIRE SERVICES ASSOCIATION MAGAZINE S ATQUE RUI Inside This Issue Sir John Sutton - Obituary • A temporary spell in the Fleet Air Arm What makes an RAF Firefighter • Strange but True • A dream come true www.rafanddfsa.co.uk Autumn 2014 www.rafanddfsa.co.uk1 Flashpoint Magazine - Autumn 2014 Who To Contact - Officers and Committee Honorary President Air Marshall AREA CO-ORDINATORS Sir John Sutton KCB The Co-Ordinators Co-ordinator Honorary Life President Howard Harper Keith Penfold Member 9 Lincolnshire 80 Pitts Field, Cricklade, Wiltshire SN6 6AW Steve Harrison Tel: 01793 751 536 58 Gospel Gate, Louth, Lincolnshire, LN11 9JZ President Tel:01507 355740 Dennis McCann BEM Member 7 Email: silverfoxy2k@hotmail .com Wood View, St Andrews Close, Alresford, Colchester, Essex CO7 8BL Cornwall, Devon & Somerset Tel: 01206 820 715 Terry Mortimore Member Vice-President 32 Newbridge, Truro, Cornwall, TR1-3LX, Ron Brown Member 294 Tel: 38 Sedgebrook, Liden, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN3 6EY Email: [email protected] Tel: 01793 496 307 George Edwards BEM. Member 238 Email:[email protected] 8 East Close, Ecclestone Park, Prescot, Merseyside, L34 2 RA Chairman Tel: 0151 4265093 Neil Slade Member 934 Email:[email protected] 29 Orchard Close, Ash Vale, Surrey, GU12 5HU North Tel: 01252 492111 Robert Atkinson Member 108 [email protected] 4 Fairway, Stella Park, Blaydon, Tyne and Wear, NE21 4LL General Secretary Tel: 0191 4148176 Mike Clapton Member 704 Norfolk 4 Fairfax Road, Cirencester, Gloucester, GL7 1NF John Savage M.B.E. Member 188 Tel: 01285 655314 3 Mercedes Avenue, Hunstanton , Norfolk, PE36 5EJ Email: [email protected] Tel: 01485 532353 Treasurer Email:[email protected] Trevor Hayes RAF 2 Gypsy Lane, Hunton Bridge, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, WD4 8PR Steve Shirley Member 852 Tel: 01923 331975 16 Rutland Way, Scampton, Lincoln, LN1 2 UJ Email:[email protected] Tel: 07912 658402 Temporary Membership Secretary: South Please contact: Geoff Varley (details as above) John Hurl Member 564 Flashpoint Editor 34 Copt Elm Close, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Adrian Tearle Member 710 GL53 8AE 76 Longway, Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, LA13 0DP Tel: 01242 522503 Tel: 01229 829895 London Email: [email protected] “Jess” Jessup Member 133 Association Publicity 44 Quentin Road, Lewisham, London, SE13 5DF George Edwards and Steve Harrison Tel: 02088 522791 Scotland Alec Robertson Member 753 12 Kinclavin Crescent, Murthly, Perth, PH1 4EU Tel: 01738 710487 Cambridge & Suffolk Howard Harper Member 682 34 The Westering, Meadowlands, Cambridgeshire, CB5 8SF Tel: 01223 292298 Northern Ireland Kenneth Green Member 255 2 Brooklands Drive, Whitehead, Carrickfergus, Antrim, N. Ireland Tel: 01960 372595 Essex Cover Picture Ben Zaccardelli Our late Honorary 98 Lyndhurst Drive, Hornchurch, Essex, RM11 1JZ President, Air Marshal Tel:01708 443593 mobile:07702271537 Sir John Sutton. Email:[email protected] Flashpoint Magazine - Autumn 2014 2 www.rafanddfsa.co.uk From the Editor, by Adey Tearle t is with some sadness I am writing Ithis editorial as I have just been told of the death of Sir John Sutton our Honorary President and latterly our Patron. Unfortunately I only met him once but felt he was a kind, honest gentleman who I am sure will be sadly missed by others who knew him better than I. This sad news reached me after, what seems like only a few days, I was on parade at the Cenotaph with others from the Association who attended to honour the memory of those that fell in the service of our country. It was the first time I had attended this event and I find it hard to express in words the pride I felt at that parade. Surrounded by veterans from all the services, some unable to walk and being supported in wheelchairs, but determined to take part nonetheless. There is that same The Editor with Kev Pateman on Parade in Horseguards camaraderie that you thought you would only ever experience whilst still in the The passing years and failing memory this one, but to a man and woman everyone service. had taken their toll and none was sure of made my wife and I feel most welcome. the exact location so we asked two Traffic Despite the sombre nature of this event The only other person there I had served Cops at Trafalgar Square if they could everyone on parade was in good humour with was Ray Wood and it was really good direct us to THE Sherlock Holmes, honest, and there was some really good banter being to see him and his wife again after so that was the name of the pub. Sadly the shared around and I recall with a smile the many years (nearly 30!) But I knew plenty cops were clueless so we soldiered on (I RAF Police veterans being roundly booed of people that other people there knew. promise, no more bad jokes) on their return to Horseguards after the It was a thoroughly enjoyable weekend parade. On arrival the pub was rammed, the unit and would commend it to you all, I will Also, I will not forget the Light Infantry, most in evidence were the highly decorated certainly be going again. veterans of the Airborne Signals. We did who speed marched down Whitehall and I would like to thank members for their manage to get beer and then the lamps straight into the back of the group in front, response to members for items for really were swung. Sadly after only a their column being so long they didn’t all inclusion in the magazine however this is couple I had to leave to get my train back hear the command to HALT!! The fact an ongoing need. I am sure you all enjoy to the Lakes, but next year I intend to make that they did this right next to the waiting reading Flashpoint but without stuff from a full weekend of it. Royal Marines and Parachute Regiment you it is not a viable proposition. If each contingents just added to the sheer joy of In October I attended my first reunion member submitted one article it would witnessing the spectacle. since 2007 and I thoroughly enjoyed it, guarantee the content for a number of Not since 1988 had I seen Kev Pateman, much to my surprise. I say much to my years, so please, send something in. yet he and I were first to arrive on parade surprise because the other one did not and as we introduced ourselves to each have a particularly pleasant atmosphere. other the years fell away immediately and By contrast, I did not know many people at it was like we had only just seen each other yesterday. A picture of us together at the Dear Editor parade appears with this editorial. I would just like to thank Jack Lemon for his information about his ‘On the Job Some of our number chose to seek liquid Training’ as an Aero Fireman at RAF Hullavington and confirming that he never refreshment after our travails of the attending the Fire School. Although a few people have responded I am still keen to morning and dismissed ourselves from receive more examples of RAF Fireman going to other Stations to get their training Horseguards in search of an appropriate or like Jack if they did training on their own station. This is to build up information hostelry. In previous years apparently a for the Museum and the history of the trade. pub just off Northumberland Avenue had My contact details are on ‘Who to Contact’ page. Thanks again Jack. benefitted from our presence, so we strode Kind regards Steve Harrison off manfully in search of said hostelry. www.rafanddfsa.co.uk 3 Flashpoint Magazine - Autumn 2014 CALLING ON ASSOCIATION MEMBERS IN LINCOLNSHIRE hen I gave up the Flashpoint co- Weditors role I thought I would Departed volunteer as a co-ordinator just for Lincolnshire as previously the county It is with great sadness I was only part of a large area represented. must report the passing of the I had envisaged of getting hold of you as following colleagues since the individuals as well as a group. But at the last issue of Flashpoint. recent AGM the Committee said they have been advised that under the Data Protection Brian Bennett Act, co-ordinators are not allowed to Raymond Bond hold personal details of members. It is highly frustrating as companies and the Joe (Gordon) Childs government sell off information about us all the time and like many of you I signed William Harris The Official Secrets Act but we cannot not be trusted with these details. Brian Harrison Despite the Data Protection Act my contact knows of anyone that is going through Mick Hayward details are on page 2 of the Flashpoint illness then I can send them a card or visit magazine!!! So please contact me if you if it is agreeable to them? (If I know their Don Wright wish on any matter. For instance if any address!!) I don’t wish to start a one man members living in Lincolnshire cannot get social service there are far more service Our thoughts and condolences to re-unions because of illness or hardship and civilian organisations that are better are with their families and reasons or cannot drive anymore then equipped to deal with issues than me but friends. maybe I can help. If your only contact if you want an ex RAF fire fighter to have is through Flashpoint as I know a lot of a chat with I can do that.
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