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MALAYA VETERANS MEDALS WILL BE DISPLAYED TOGETHER IN REGIMENTAL MUSEUM
Mr R Bebb with the Mayala medals
Dickie Bebb, Dixie Dean and Joe Newton served with the 2nd Battalion The Green Howards when they were posted to Malaya at the time the British were fighting against Chinese and Malayan communist terrorists. Joe and Dixie served in the anti-tank platoon – Joe was a dog-handler – while Dickie was in the mortar section. Dixie Dean also served as Captain (later Field Marshal Sir Nigel) Bagnall’s personal guard.
Forty years on from their Malaya experience they met again at a Green Howards Reunion and stayed firm friends until Joe Newton, who lived in Sunderland, died earlier this year. They had always agreed that their Malayan service medals would go to the Green Howards Museum, and they have now been handed to the Museum’s Curator, David Tetlow, for display.
Joe Newton’s medal is distinguished by the addition of the oak leaf that signifies that he was Mentioned in Dispatches for an action in Malaya where he drew the fire of the communists while the rest of his company made a flanking movement.
The three medals will be on display in time for the next visit of Dixie Dean, who now lives in Canada but travels to Richmond each year for a reunion. Mr Bebb, from Barnsley, is a frequent visitor to the Museum. He says, ‘The last time Dixie and I brought Joe to the Museum, last year, he pointed to the display case and said, “My medal will go there”. When he died we, with the support of Joe’s wife, decided now was the time to present the medals. We made good friends and had great experiences in Malaya, and we are very pleased that our time there will be remembered when people see our medals in the Green Howards Museum.’
David Tetlow says, ‘It is more than half a century since Joe, Dickie and Dixie served with the Regiment in the jungles of Malaya, but the comradeship the young soldiers experienced there continued to bind them together, and they made regular visits to the Museum. We are delighted that their medals will now be displayed together to mark that friendship.’
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Malaya - the three medals, with Joe Newton's in
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Malaya - Dickie Bebb (centre) and mortar group in
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Malaya - Joe Newton |
Malaya - Dixie Dean |
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STUDENTS GO BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE GREEN HOWARDS MUSEUM
Scott Featonby (r) and Duncan Dorward from Bedale High School on work experience
at the Green Howards Museum with Susan Langridge Museum Assistant
Two students from Bedale High School’s Year 10 have been finding out about the area’s military history as part of their work experience at the Green Howards Regimental Museum in Richmond.
Scott Featonby and Duncan Dorward, both 15, chose to do their two-week placements at the Museum, where they are under the care of Museum Assistant Susan Langridge. They are learning about the running of the Museum, including how to input data into the computer from military records, to help with the many enquiries the Museum receives from people researching their family history.
They are also seeing behind the scenes, where the Museum’s exhibits are conserved and stored, and learning something of the history of the Green Howards, which dates back to 1688.
Susan Langridge says, ‘Scott and Duncan have been helping to input enlistment records, which has been a great help in enabling searches for family members who have served with the Green Howards. I hope it has also given them a taste of life in a small, modern museum and that they’ll come back and visit us again now they have found out how many fascinating exhibits we have in the Museum.
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PHOTOS OF THIS YEAR'S PARADE AT CREPON
Bryan Hodgson of Guisborough, A former Green Howard, attended this year's ceremony at Crepon and has forwarded the photos below to the website. Bryan can be contacted through Karen Rees (<karen1681@hotmail.com>).There were two groups who attended the ceremony at Crepon, - the Green Howards Association, and the 2nd Battalion 2008 Battlefields Tour group. The Crepon ceremony was held on Friday 6 June, the anniversary of D-Day. On Sunday 8 June, the parties held a ceremony at the tram shelter at Ver Sur Mer near Gold Beach.
Green Howards Standards at Ver Sur Mer, Sunday 8th 2008
Major General Andrew Farquhar (second right) at Ver Sur Mer, Sunday 8th 2008
Green Howards parading at Crepon, 6th June 2008
Green Howards parading at Crepon, 6th June 2008
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