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Individually Donated Photographs,
- Les Etherington, 1957 - 63
Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment (19th Foot). The North York Militia, The North York Local Militia & North York Rifle Volunteers
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Les Etherington (lesetherington@yahoo.co.uk) has kindly submitted the following photographs. Please write in and let Les know of any names to fit faces if you recognise them.
Les served in the Territorial Army between January 1957 - May 1963 with the 4th Green Howards seconded to 150 Infrantry Brigade HQ. Les has written account of his years in the TA and this is attached beneath the photos as a PDF file for you to read.

To obtain a large version of one of the images below, simply click on it. To close the image, click anywhere within the image. The file sizes for each image are about 100K in size.
 
 
1959 - Barry Buden Camp, Carnoustie
 
Map Reading training in Commondale, - CQMS P Etherington on left.
 
HQ Company, Stamford
 
 
Scenes from Weekend Training
 
 
Christmas Party for Children
in Yarm Drill Hall, the 1960s.


Les Etherington's account of his years in the TA is provided here as a PDF file. To read this file, you must have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your PC. Adobe Acrobat Reader is widely available as a free program with magazines and other programs. If you need to downlaod a copy, you may do so from Adobe's own site.

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