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MARCH, 1962 THE JOURNAL OF THE Is'EAST ANGLIAN REGIMENT (ROYAL NORFOLK. & SUFFOLK) NEW AUSTIN CAR < u u r d a - > <✓> o o You have probably read about or seen the New Austin models. If you would like to go a step further and get more details about any model or arrange a trial run you should con tact our nearest depot. They will be only too pleased to help you. W e are, of course, ex perts in Austin servicing and repairs as well. ERTON 5 PRINCE OF WALES ROAD, NORWICH . 28383 (IVI"™E? O LTD AUSTIN DISTRIBUTORS [8 0TW00DS' MAJOR’S CORNER, IPSWICH . 52271 LONDON - BURY ST. EDMUNDS - KING’S LYNN - LOWESTOFT - FAKENHAM - PETERBOROUGH TOLLY COBBOLD QUALITY ALES Still Marching ahead in East Anglia PAY PARADE IN BALTISTAN A porter makes his mark at Pay Parade in the Himalayas during the R. A. F. Karakoram Expedition o f 1961. GLYNS have made their mark all over the world by being associated with many famous expeditions, including Everest 1952-53; North Greenland 1952-54; Trans-Antarctica 1955-58. YO U T O O will find a worldwide service always available if you bank with : GLYN, MILLS & CO HOLTS BRANCH: Kirkland House, Whitehall, S.W.I Head Office: 67, Lombard Street, E.C.3. Childs Branch : I, Fleet Street, E.C.4 2 ENJOY YOUR DRINK IN THE COMFORT OF THIS DELIGHTFUL OLD ELIZABETHAN ROOM AT BACKS, 3 HAYMARKET, NORWICH. FINEST WINES, SPIRITS AND BEERS. BY APPOINTMENT TO H.M. QUEEN ELIZABETH II BREWERS FINE NORFOLK ALES brew ed by Steward & Patteson Ltd POCKTHORPE BREWERY NORWICH F. A. STONE & SONS MILITARY A N D MUFTI TAILORS S IN C E 1 8 7 4 By Appointment to The East Anglian Brigade SUBSCRIPTION TERMS AVAILABLE LONDON NORWICH YARMOUTH 4 New Burlington 8tre»t PRINCE OF WALES ROAD 15/16 Central Arcade Phone: REG 1313 Phone 25*96 Phone 2383 4 The Jewellers of East Anglia Agents for the Leading Manufacturers of GEM RINGS GOLD and SILVERWARE WATCHES, CLOCKS E.P.N.S. and CUT GLASS SWAN LANE (off London Street) NORWICH Nor 57G Tel. 23051 .IEWSON & SONS LIMITED Timber Importers HARDWOODS, PLYWOODS AND WALLBOARDS MANUFACTURERS OF WOOD FLOORING BLOCKS, DISTRIBUTORS OF FORMICA BOX AND CASE TUBULAR SCAFFOLDING MANUFACTURERS ERECTION, SALE OR HIRE BUILDERS’ MERCHANTS PROTIM SPRAY & ADVISORY SERVICE FOR DRY ROT AND WOODWORM HEAD OFFICE NORWICH PHONE 29391 (10 Lines) Also at Gt. Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Dereham. Diss, Fakenham, etc 5 FURNISHING COMPANY, 37-38. CORN HILL. Phone: 2 3 4 BURY ST. EDMUNDS THIS FIRM SPECIALISES IN THE REMOVAL AND STORAGE OF FURNITURE FOR MEMBERS OF HER MAJESTY’S FORCES. CENTRALLY HEATED STORAGE DEPOSITORY. REGULAR INSPECTION AND MOTHPROOFING ARRANGED FOR GOODS STORED OVER A LONG PERIOD. SMITH’S FURNISHING CO. SELLS EVERY KIND OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND OFFER MANY OTHER SERVICES, INCLUDING THE MAKING OF CURTAINS AND COVERS, CARPET CLEANING AND FITTING, AND THE RE-MAKING OF MATTRESSES. Estimates Free. Personal Attention. Cash or H.P. SPANISH SHERRY TO SUIT ALL TASTES SPORTSMAN’S PALE DRY ...................... 13/- A good Medium Sherry for all occwions BOCAR DO’S FINO ................................. 13/6 Very Dry, the ideal aperitif ROYAL SHOW ................................... 15/6 A very old Brown, sweet wine AMONTILLADO SU P E R IO R ....................... 15/6 An excellent Medium Dry Sherry UNIVERSITY CREAM ................................. 20/6 A rare old Oloroso of great age OBTAINABLE FROM WHITMORE AND CO. DOWNING STREET - - CAMBRIDGE Tel. 52971 6 All the latest FERRANTI models You can place your Commissions with Also a wide selection of other well-known makes in Confidence T.Vs, RADIOS, RECORD PLAYERS, TAPE RECORDERS, etc. IF YOU PLACE THEM WITH Be sure to visit T. F. ARNOLD P E A K S of Commission Agent CAMBRIDGE & KINGS LYNN 4 GUILDHALL PLACE TEL.: CAMBRIDGE 59413 CAMBRIDGE KINGS LYNN 2188 A. W. MORLIN LTD. BUILDING & CIVIL Builders' Merchants and Ironmongers ENGINEERING CONTRACTORS HAVE A LARGE SELECTION OF Distinctive Fireplaces JOHNSON Sanitary Ware and & Bathroom Equipment BAILEY Domestic Oil Fired and Solid Fuel Boilers, etc. L T D . 148 - 152 H ills Road, Cambridge NORFOLK STREET, CAMBRIDGE Tel : 47293 5 9 6 9 4 7 ROYAL DOULTON Translucent China for Everyday Enjoyment This is one of many open stock patterns from which to choose. Separate pieces may be purchased at reasonable prices niNNER SET FOR SIX .. £12-1-0 TEA SET FOR SIX . £5-13-0 23 - 25 MAGDALEN STREET NORWICH, NOR 39P. Tel. : 20212 (3 lines) Customers Car Park (Entrance Fishergatej ESTABLISHED 1797 TELEPHONE No. 1 T. H. Nice & Co. Ltd ©liver & Son MOTOR ENGINEERS * Renowned for Quality Foods and Wines for over 150 years Distributors for --------- D e p a rtm e n ts ---------- MORRIS - WOLSELEY - M.G. CARS GROCERIES PROVISIONS MORRIS-COMMERCIAL VEHICLES COOKED POODS FROZEN FOODS CONFECTIONERY BISCUITS NUFFIELD TRACTORS WINES. SPIRITS AND BEERS — Deliveries to ail parts of the District — RILEY DEALERS ABBEYGATE STREET * Bury St. Edmunds BURY. ST. EDMUNDS Our resident Manager, Mr. W. V. Clarke would be very happy to give your enquiries Telephone 2801 (3 lines) his personal attention, and our constant endeavour is to render a service which Also at THETFORD (2204) and ELY (2952) will merit your unstinted admiration ( For C O A L and all other Fuels THE UNIVERSITY ARMS HOTEL CAMBRIDGE MELLONIE & EAST ANGLIA’S GOULDER Ltd LEADING HOTEL Ipswich Telephone 51241 TELEPHONE — — — 57361 Send your enquiries for PRINTING to . THE MORECAMBE BAY PRINTERS LTD. BRIDGE ROAD MORECAMBE LANCS. “ For Patisserie Perfection ” BURTON, SON & SANDERS & ASSOCIATED COMPANIES IPSWICH, SUFFOLK Tel. No. Morecambe 129 SUITS TROUSERS SPORTS JACKETS AVAILABLE FROM GOOD CLASS OUTFITTERS THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN PHILLIPS & PIPER LTD CHRISTCHURCH WORKS — IPSWICH NAAFI At the push ot a button... , . a cup of hot soup, a carton of fresh dairy milk, a cup of coffee or a packet of cigarettes. In camps and barracks all over the world Naafi's 24-hour Automatic Sales Service makes these and many more goods available to the customer at the push of a button. Naafi has already installed well over 2,000 slot machines and the number—and the variety— continues to grow. One more example of Naafi’s aim to keep in step with the Rocket-age Services. IMPERIAL COURT, KENNIN0TON LANE, LONDON, 8.E.11 H .M . Forets’ Official Trading Organisation 10 m “The Britannia and Castle’’ JOURNAL OF THE 1st EAST ANGLIAN REGIMENT (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk) All Editorial Contributions to be forwarded to The Editor, The Britannia and Castle Journal, Britannia Barracks, Norwich. U Moss Bros COVENT GARDEN W.C.2 THE COMPLETE MAN’S STORE Open Thursdays till 7 p.m. Nearest station Leicester Square Norwich Branch 50 London Street, Norwich, NOR 02E Norwich 22344 1 2 1st EAST ANGLIAN REGIMENT (Royal Norfolk & Suffolk) [9 and 12] Britannia superimposed upon the Castle and Key. The Castle and Key superscribed “ Gibraltar, 1779-83 ” and with the motto “ Montis Insignia Calpe ” underneath. Dettingen — Minden — Belleisle — Havannah — Martinique, 1794 — Seringapatam — India — Rolica _Vimiera__ Corunna — Busaco — Salamanca — Vlttoria — St. Sebastian — Nive — Peninsula — t'abool, 1842 — Moodkee — Ferozeshah — Sobraon — South Africa, 1851-3 — Sevastopol — New Zealand — Afghanistan, 1878-80 — Kabul, 1879 — Paardeberg — South Africa, 1899-1902. The Great War — 42 Battalions — Mons — Le Cateau — Retreat from Mons — Marne, 1914 — Aisne, 1914 _ La Bassee, 1914 — Givenchy, 1914 — Ypres, 1914, ’15, ’17, ’18 — Neuve Chapelle — Gravenstafel _St. Julien — Frezenberg — Bellewaarde — Aubers — Hooge, 1915 — Loos — Somme, 1916, ’18 — Albert, 1916, ’18 — Bazentin — Delville Wood — Pozieres — Guillemont — Flers Courcelette — Morval — Thiepval — Le Transloy — Ancre Heights — Ancre, 1916, ’18 — Arras, 1917, ’18 — Vimy, 1917 — Scarpe, 1917, '18 — Arleux — Oppy — Pilckem — Langemarck, 1917 — Menin Road — Polygon Wood — Broodseinde — Poelcappelle — Passchendaele — Cambrai, 1917, ’18 — St. Quentin — Bapaume, 1918 — Lys — Estaires — Messines, 1918 — Hazebrouck — Bailleul — Kemmel — Bethune — Scherpenberg — Amiens — Hindenburg Line — Epehy — Canal du Nord — St. Quentin Canal — Beaurevoir — Courtrai — Selle — Valenciennes — Sambre — France and Flanders, 1914-18 — Italy, 1917-18 — Struma — Doiran, 1918 — Macedonia, 1915-18 — Suvla — Landing at Suvla — Scimitar Hill — Gallipoli, 1915 — Egypt, 1915-17 — Gaza — El Mughar — Nebi Samwil — Jerusalem — Jaffa — Tel’Asur — Megiddo — Sharon — Palestine, 1917-18 — Shaiba — K ut al Amara, 1915, ’17 — Ctesiphon — Defence of Kut al Amara — Mesopotamia, 1914-18. The Second World War — Defence of Escaut — St. Omer - La Bassee — Dunkirk, 1940 — St. Valery-en-Caux — Normandy Landing — Odon — Caen — Le Perier Ridge — Brieux Bridgehead — Falaise — Venraij — Rhineland — Hochwald — Lingen — Brinkum — N.W. Europe, 1940, '44-’45 — Johore — Muar — Batu Pahat — Singapore Island — Malaya, 1942 — North Arakan — Imphal — Kohima — Aradura — Mandalay — Burma, 1943-45. Korea, 1951-52. Agents:— Messrs. Glyn Mills and Co. (Holt's Branch) Kirkland House, Whitehall, London. S.W.l. Regimental Headquarters:— Britannia Barracks, Norwich. Regimental Journal:— "T he Britannia and Castle," Britannia Barracks, Norwich. Regimental Association:— The 1st East Anglian Regiment Past and Present Association, Britannia Barracks, Norwich. Uniform — Blue Piping — Yellow Facing Colour — Yellow Regular Battalion: 1st—British Guiana, B.F.P.O. 9. Territorial Battalions: 4th Bn. The Royal Norfolk Regiment — Norwich The Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Regiment — Ipswich Allied Regiment of New Zealand Military Forces: The Auckland Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own) Colonel-in-Chief:—H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, C.I., G.C.V.O., Col.-in-Chief 15th/19th H., R.H.F., Q.A.R.A.N.C., Princess Louise Fusiliers (Machine Gun), Women’s Royal Aust ralian Army Corps and Royal Canadian Infantry Corps (Militia). Colonel :— Maxwell, Brigadier, R.H., C.B., 29th August, 1959. 13 LOCATION LIST OF OFFICERS (Compiled from official records and information available 21st January, 1962). (a) REGULAR ARMY Thain, P. 1st Battalion. Lt.-Cols. Lywood, K. C. G. School of Infantry. Warminster. Brinkley, W . H., p.s.c. Deputy O.