BRITISH SOUTH AI RICA POLICE REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATIONUNITED KINGDOM BRANCH

ISSUE N0: 22 WINTER 1992

OUTPOSTLETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN

Dear MembersThe Chairman and the members of theExecutive Committee are elected by you,the members of the Association, to run thcday to day affairs of the Association.However you, the members, have bothprivileges from and responsibilities to theAssociation. The privileges include being amember, being able to take part in theactivities, calling on assistance and electingthe committee of the Association. Theresponsibilities are actively supporting andparticipating in the activities and running

the Association. A healthy soundorganisation of any description must be forall its members, not any one group therein.The two main events of our Association's1992 year must, from the support by themembers, be regarded as a disaster anddoes not bode well for the future. Lookingat the last two years the deterioration insupport is clearly manifest.At the 1991 AGM 40 members attendedand 54 sent their apologies. The 1992AGM was attended by only 31 members

and only 27 bothered to make theirapologies. This means that decisions werctaken on your behalf, including the electionof two thirds of the Committee, by onlyabout 7% of thc membership. This shouldconcern you all greatly.At the 1991 Annual Dinner 100 people satdown, of which 86 were members, in 1992a 113 persons sat down of which 58 wercmembers.I am aware that there was a lot ofcontroversy about the forinat of thc 1992Annual Dinner, with some membersrefusing to accept that it was in fact THEAnnual Dinner because it breached"tradition". Another factor also is tuiancein these difficult times, which we allappreciate.However this decision was not "sprung"on the members but was aired quite fully inthese columns, but again only 25 membersbothered to respond, with a 9 to 8 majorityin favour of the format of the Dinner heldthis year. There have also been remarksmade about the fact that the dinner has

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The Chairman and Committee of the British South Africa PoliceRegimental Association, United Kingdom Branch, wish all membersa very Happy Festive Season and a Peaceful and Prosperous 1993

t utter trutu tive Cliutruuu c r)tttuuu:d:. ...up to now always been held in London,that thc meal is dull, thc surroundings arcdrab, the bar crowded, having to rush fortrains, not being able to bring wives andthe cost of accomn)odation in London.Thc financial situation is always a difficultproblein, but no incmbcr should have beenprevented froni attending thc dinner onthese grounds alone. This is where"assistance" froin the Association couldplay a part. Tradition is a vital andncccssary piirt of 1111y iissocliltloll like ours,but in thc vastly changed circumstances ofthe place where wc started and where wcall arc today, there must bc t1cxibility toIllcct this llew prcscllt. .Thc support of our wives and familiesduring our service in the BSA Police wasmost important when they shared our trialsand tribulations and participated in thework wc did. Surely we shoukl continuethat same support and sharing by enablingthem to participate in our Association now.I believe they deserve nothing less.At the Dinner this year we hail membersand guests from 8 countries outside of thcUK, which niust be a recent recortl. Thewhole atmosphere was relaxed and therewas plenty of time for real communicationand fellowship. It most certainly was not,as one member suggested, a communisttype event because we had organised aninterest visit to Landrovcr! Morc supportfrom members would have made it an evengreater success.A number of mcmbcrs have suggested thatthis format for the Annual Dinner shouldbe held every second year with the morc"traditional" format on the alternates.This, like every other aspect of theAssociation, must be decided by you, thcmembers, by Al L members not by just 5or 10 percent.So, to the whole point of this letter: YourAssociation needs YOUR wholeheartedsupport, from each and EVERY one ofyou. It is your RESPONSIBILITY!SincerelyBrian Gibbs

ROLL OFHONOUR

Member» will be saddened to learti

of thc passing of Frank Eric"Lofty" LLOYD 3271, who died

on the 21st October 1992 followinga stroke. Lofty served from 6th

January 1932 retiring as a Scrgcanton 30th May 1952. Lofty'» loyaltyand support for our Associationwas retlected in his submission ofseveral stories for our Outpost, thclast of which is included in this

issue. In 1965 his book,''Rhodesian Patrols'' waspublished in England, but the eventthat crowned his long life wasmeeting Her Majesty QueenElizabeth The Queen Mother at the

UK Centenary Dinner in 1989.Lofty is survives by his wife Janeand son Charles. After theirmarriage Jane (nec MCCruddcn),formerly a nurse at Sinoia, became127 Woman Corporal Jane WrayLloyd.

Frank William MASON 3572passed away in Worthing, UKduring July 1992. A fter serv iccwith thc BSAP Frank remained in

Rhodesia as a Driving Examiner,finally working for thc Governmentprior to returning to England in

1964 where he took up poultryfarming until his retirement. Frankis survived by his son Richard, hiswife Diana having passed away on21st Junc 1990.

Central Branch advised us of thepassing of Fran FOURIE WP80 inHarare during the first week of July1992, after a recent serious illness.

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ANNUAL DINNER 1992113 members and guests attended this year' sAnnual Dumer held at the Allesley Hotel,Coventry on 26th September 1992. TheGuest Speaker, Paul WHEELER, Chairmanof the NRP Association spoke with someenvy of our Regimental Status and fondlyremembered his service north of the Zambezi

d the assistance received from the BSAP(and returned during the 1954 Wankie Riots!)together with joint actions in Nyasaland in1959. Paul's wife GILLIAN assisted in theraffle in which the main prize of aMicrowave Oven went to Mrs Leonie Butter-worth, whose husband John had organisedthis section of the proceedings. Appreciationwas expressed to all those who had contribu-ted towards the raffle prizes and to MikeColeman for organising the Dinner. Manyletters of praise were received by our HonSec following the event with comments like,"Well above average for this type of func-tion; a very enjoyable occasion; particularlynice to have the Ladies grace our presence;Hotel excellent and staff friendly and effi-cient; catering far beyond what one wouldexpect; the band was very good, if a littlenoisy at times; Hope we have more AnnualDhmers like this; Could we not have thisformat every second year; We had a lot morctime to relax and talk with old friends. " Theadverse comments were, "One missedseveral of the regular faces; Perhaps they hadmisgivings about the occasion; We hope thepraise will tempt them to attend similarfunctions; The members failed to support thefunction; if the numbers we lost is comparedto the numbers we gained, then maybe theold format will have to remain. " Overall the1992 Annual Dinner was very successful andenjoyable for all those who attended. TheCommittee will be discussing reactions to theDinner and the results of the deliberationswill appear in the Committee Report Backsection of this magazine. The more views wehave from members will help guide theCommittee in their discussions.Those attending (alphabetically) were:2906 Percy BARNES, 4822 Jim & Betty

BEALE, Guests John &. Sue BIRTWISTLE,6800 Keith &. Charley BLACK, 5044 Tony& Jenny BRADSHAW, 7212 Tony & JudyBROWN, 8760 John & Leonie BUTTER-WORTH, W/F/R/ Trish CECH, 5685 Ray &Ann CHEETHAM, 6737 Michael COL-EMAN & Mary Allison, 3948 Eric COL-LIER, 6388 Will & Shelley Cornell &. NickyERBER (USA), 6449 Ted and Ros CRAW-FORD, 4882 Peter & Barbara DANCER,5755 Stu & Pam EDWARDS, 5947 Martin &Grace EDWARDS (Portugal), 6349 Mike &Marge EGLINGTON, 4005 Stan & GinnyFORREST, 4584 R.C. Percy & MarionFRASER-MILNER, 5009 Tom FRY &Muriel CHAMBERS, 6050 Brian & AdrienneGIBBS, Guests John & Sadie GOODMAN,9086 Tony &. Joy GRANGER, Guest John &Yvone GRIFFITHS, 3471 Rev. John HALI,4730 Dave HALLWARD & Gill LINDLEY,5703 Hank HANKINSON (Joburg), 6630Jim & Christine HAZLETT, 5242 Martin &Sally-Ann HOWELL, 4559 Ken HUMPH-REYS & his sister Joan (Port Elizabeth),6739 R.M. Johnny JOHNSON, 7875 TerryKEEN (Canada), 5479 Mike & Jan LEACH,3385 Lummy LUMHOLTZ, 5725 Phil &Sheila MEAD, 4572 C.M. (Joe) MERCER,5279 Gerry & Mervyn MOORES, 4708 Peter& Pat MUNSON, Guests Richard & BelindaMURPHEY, 4829 Terry OATT, 4382 Jim &.Maureen PAINE, 6150 Dave PATERSON,6632 Gerry & Jane PAXTON, 7191 Stephan

Lynne POLETYLLO, 6348 Dennis &Norma POOLE, 5398 Tim & Jerry POTTER,4853 Fred & Margaret PUNTER, 7169 David& Caroline QUINEY, P/r 25290 Barry RAE& Sylvia HUNT, 4585 Chris RAITT, 4494John & Beth RESTORICK, W/p 193 JennyREYNOLDS, 5265 Angus & Laura ROSS(Zimbabwe), 6509 Don SCARFF & SylviaWEEKS, 6098 Mark SIMPSON (HongKong), Assoc. Heather SMITH, 6130 RandySYMMONS, 4703 Clive & Vivienne TAP-PER (Cyprus), 7391 Alan & Lynn TOMS,7072 Terry & Jan WALMSLEY, 4240Richard WARWICK, 5427 Lance & RobertWILDER, 4949 Gerry WINCHCOMBE(Spain), 5358 Mick & Helen YORK.

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HOW CORPORAL HAYES-HROMLEY CAME TO JOIN THE

NATIVE DEPARTMENT/y Stars Edsvardv"..conduct to the prejudice of good order anddiscipline. .. in that upon or about thc 26thday of August l926 and at MashumbcraCamp in the district of Marandcllas, he didbecome drunk and disorderly. "FADED INK on thc stained and tom chargesheet told thc rest of the story. Rcgt. No 2801Corporal Hayes-Bromley pleaded GUILTY.Hc had nothing to say, hc called no witnessesand was fined f'3. It was signed by Major F.Hart-Burwcll, President of the Board ofOfficers. In Salisbury, thc Board of Officers,after givmg full weight to Corporal Haycs-Bromley's previous unblemished record withrecommendation for advanced promotion (hisparentage at the Vicarage of St Cuthbert's,Godalming, Surrey, not being an inconsider-able factor in this assessment) ordered that hebe reduced in rank to that of Trooper. ..IT WAS ONE OF THOSE DAYS in theMashumbera camp -;ui escape from aworking party of bandits, R/H Phantom downwith a temperature, a report from JocBlundell of a poaching gang with a deadeland at thc bottom of thc ranch, nativeCorporal Chiatezwi's second wife in difficultlabour in the NP lines and Corporal H-B, duein Salisbury in two days time for a promotionboard, hobbling around with a ferocious boil.Such an affliction in any part of thc bodyother than that affected in H-B's case,arouses, if not sympathy, at least inconse-quence, but this area of the anatomy bringsforth ribald jokes and coarse laughter."It will have to be lancccI, " said Thorpe."By whom?""That orderly down at the clinic fixedFerreira's leg.""I sce a marked difference between puttinghot poultices on a leg and surgery,

" saidH-B."Do it yourself, man, " said Ferreira. "Itonly needs courage - er - a lot of courage. ""You might just be lucky and catch the

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quack at Marandcllas on one of his visits."I don't have time for luxuries. In less that

48 hours I llavc to bc up mounted on thetin" I

hard square. Anyway, are you suggesting

saddle up and ride into Marandellas?"There was a long gloomy pause, then. .."Tltcre's Doc," said Thorpc.Harley Street man but he must have fifixed

hundred of boils in his time. ""Doc" Whiteman occupied a small

near the camp. How he came to acqu. ulfe

ownership, or, in fact, whether he did ownn it,

was unknown. He had some right of prescrip

tion for, forty years carlicr, in thc Rebellion

he had been one of the platoon of Brititis"

South Africa Company Police encampedd at

Mashumbera's to keep an eyc on ChChief

Dingwc. The rebellion over, Doc had pt gg ed

out a small farm and lived there sincetheunchallenged, the meagre income from th

farm helped by a small private income.The problems of the Colony were regular yrl

determined when Doc and the Police got

together at thc farm or in camp over a bottottle

or two.Trooper Whiteman had somehow found hhii

self as medical orderly to the platoon back in

'96 and vivid were the tales of restored lilife

~ icaland limb. Common courtesy precluded any

inquiry as to the source of Doc's medic

training but such an inquiry, if it got down to

fact, would have found that during a spell in

h spital recovering from some disability, heo.had shown himself adept at rolling bandage

taking temperatures and generally assisting

the nursing staff. A complimentary note froin

the MO to Whiteman's OC was thc launch ofa new career. Nonetheless, Doc's reputation

amongst the local native population stoood

high and every morning would see the sic.ick

and ailing from miles around squatting

patiently in the dust of his yard for tooth-

pulling, stitching and dressing of bites an d

wounds and treatment of more personnal

ailments.And so to Doc for advice on H-B's problem.He could lance it, said, Doc, but there wou Id

be no chance of its healing in time. He went

on "There's just one thing you can

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There's no cutting, the painful inflainmationdisappears at once and, with a bit of luck,You' ll be able to ride. You take a bottle, fill itwith near boiling water, cinpty away thewater and apply the opening to the affectedarea. The hot air in the bottle contracts andsucks everything out, clean as a whistle. ""You can't bc serious?""Dinkum. I've done it scores of timesnot painless, of course, but it clears at once."From H-B an apprehensive "Perhaps Ishould withdraw this year. ""Man, you can't chicken out at this stage.

""Right. First we want an empty bottle andI ll help with the first three fingers. ..."CAPTAIN LANCELOT DYKE was standingby to give evidence but in view of the plea ofguilty, he was not called and his statementwas read to the Board."I am Superintendent of Police at Marandel-las. On 26th August I rode into Mashumberacanip on inspection duties. My visit had notbeen announced. Arriving at thc office, Ifound it unattended although this was at 3pm.I was informed by a native constable that theEuropeans were in their quarters. Approach-ing the huts and preparing to dismount, Iheard a loud scream, followed by gales oflaughter. I can only tell the Board that Istared in disbelief as Corporal Hayes-Brom-ley ran out of the hut, his breeches round hisknees, making a hideous noise, his face wildand contorted. He did not at first sec me andnearly ran into my horse's legs but when hesaw me, hc turned and ran round the hut, onehand holding up his breeches and with theotlier trying to conceal a brandy bottle underhis shirt tail. At the same time, troopersniorpe and Ferreira ran out of the hut in astate of paralytic drunken laughter. I orderedthe two men to inform Corporal Hayes-Bromley that he was to report to meimmediately at the office.The two troopers paraded before me. at theoffice. Both smelt strongly of brandy. Myopinion that both were drunk was confirmedwhen I ordered an explanation from Thorpe,the senior trooper, who notwithstanding theseriousness of the situation, appeared to be

uncontrollably light-headed. I ordered themboth to their quarters. A search of the cainpby native corporal Chiatczwi failed to locateCorporal Hayes-Bromley. I returned toMarandellas and arranged for a relief to takeover Mashumbera the following morning.A FIRM NUDGE from a very high Churchlevel in Salisbury encouraged the Secretaryfor Native Affairs to overlook past lapses andex No 2801 Corporal Hayes-Bromleyenjoyed a long successful career as a Guar-dian of an outpost of thc Empire.

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"WE'LL MEET AGAIN"

Channel 4 Oracle News Service publish a"Link-Up" for the Arined Forces onPage 682. At present the messages arealmost 100% cx UK services. The ser-vice is "FREE" and each entry remainson the pages for a week. If it continuesin the new year, we will try to put ourAGM and Rc-union Dinner for 1993"On The Box". Meanwhile thc LondonChristmas Gathering has been requestedfor the week beginning 23rd Novemberfor those who would like to see theBSAP mentioned.

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AROUND ANDABOUT

A.C. "Sandy" RANKIN 6038 made contactwith the Branch. Following his three in theBSAP Sandy returned and joined thc Strath-clydc Police (Formerly thc City of Glasgow)with whom he completes 30 years service thisOctober. Wc arc hoping Sandy will join ourranks soon, meanwhile he i» at 46, King-shcath Avenue, Glasgow G73 2DE. (Tcl: 041649 3219)

Bryan LITTON 5537 and Diana have nowobtained their own Hotel. Thc Glyn Afon issituated in Llandcris, Gwynedd in NorthWales, and nestles at thc. bottom of MountSnowdon. Bryan and Diana would love to scecx members who are nearby or passingthrough and special rates are available forthose who wish to rest their weary bonesovernight and enjoy true Rhodesian hospita-lity. His full address and phone numberappears elsewhere in this issue.

Its a small world. Tcd GALLOWAY 4046settling into his ncw abode in Somersetthought he recalled that John Pearce hailedfrom around those parts so he dropped him aline in Zimbabwe. To his surprise the swiftreply was that if Ted went down the road,turned right, passed the pub (The difticultpart!) then the fourth on the left is a garage,where the proprietor is John's Brother. Ted'schange of address is belatedly publishedelsewhere in this issue (Sorry Tcd for missingout in the last edition)

Jock GEMMELL 9345 responded quickly tothe last Outpost which he finds to be"compelling reading as ever". Jock haschanged his working practice and is nowoperations manager for a Defensive DriverTrai:iing Company which operates out ofEllesmere Port in Cheshire. (Jock has notchanged his address so that is some journey

to commute!) He runs training prograinmfleetwe!I

and traftic safety courses for largeoperators such as ICI, Glaxo and BP as we

as several Health Authorities. Jock is trying

to gct in touch with his ex Member-in-charge

of Chibi in 73-75, Jock MITCHELL! Any

one able to assist please let Jock know at 2

Ash Walk, Strensall, York. YO3 5WY

Peter BURRIDGE 7750 has taken over Itic

reins of Secrct~ in New Zeal&uld from Dick

HOPPER and we wish him well in his new

task. Peter has had recent contactDouglas HUBBARD (Ex Support Unit) who

is in Bucasia, Queensland, Australia,4346 Terry COTTAM has now retired to

Term Nova on the border of New South

Wales and Queensland in Australia.

Richard PIKE 8745 wrote to compliment

those involved in the last Outpost. Richard

shares his concern for natural surrounds

animals and vegetation suffering in

Zimbabwe drought as these can not look after

themselves. Richard advises that he keeps in

contact with 8317 Bob CLARKE.

Bert PICKARD 4310 responded immediately

to 7875 Terry KEEN's request for a Cap

Badge which he forwarded almost by return

of post. He says "last time it was buttons

now a badge - my little box of trinkets has

come to some use after all". Bertsaddened to hear of 4224 Derrick ROBINSON's death, reported in the last issue. They

served as Constables together on T k E Sby

Neal ARDEN 3004 congratulates all concer-

ned in the last Outpost and loved"Somney Story" which he used to open a

recent after-dinner speech with much success.

Peter BRADLEY 5856 has moved to settle in

Rossinver (See change of address section).

Any member who finds himself in the area

would be most welcome to some salmon or

trout fishing in the season!

Bob MORRISTON 4955 reluctantly sent his

apologies for the 1992 Dinner, his first

non-attendance for 28 years!&4k.

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0L fty LLOYD 3271 sent apologies for theDinner. He enjoyed the last Outpost andrecalls that in 1942, after his marriage to hiswife who later becaine 127 WiCpl J.W.LLOYD, he was sent to Miami. Prior totaking lip his post, he and his wife went onan RAF Mct Course for a week, as, onarrival, whilst Lofty did Investigations andCourt, his wife undertook thc Office and Mctduties. In those days a Police Reservist atChirundu phoned in a weather rcport eachmorning which was passni on to Salisbury.The weather did somctiines vary dependanti'pon tlie 'irrival of the weekly bottle ofbrandy at Chirundu! At Miami, each morning

Lofty�'s

wife was greeted by CorporalMuilcmo and there werc always a largeiiumber of African women with babies forexamination by Mrs Lloyd, an ex nurse. Theyhad their own ciittlc and Lofty agreed to sellhis surplus milk to the A.P. at ld pcr bottle.At the cnd of each month Lofty would askthem how much they owed him and the replywas always "I don't know" so he wouldwipe the slate clem and st;ut again. Loftyswears that he heard them laughing at theback of the dare having 'worked a fast one'over him. Good days to rcmcinbcr. (And sosay all of us Lofty!)

Edgar Richards-Everett 2414 comments onthe last Outpost, "It is so good that you willhave problems with future issues. If it's nobetter you will get 'Stick'. If it gets lotsbetter, then it is doubtful if the funds will

enough credit to pay for your nursinghome during your period of recovery - YouJust can not win!" Thank you Edgar for thekind comments and the additional snippets.

Martin Edwards 5947 managed to attend the1992 Dinner f lorn Portugal. It was virtually ameeting of the North America Branch{!) with6388 Will Cornell and 7875 Terry Keen alsoattending. There were other branch membersfrom South Africa (4599 Ken Humphreys)and Hong Kong (6098 Mark Simpson) andCyprus (4703 Clive Tapper) and Spain {4949

Gerry Winchcombe) as well. Wc can not askfor much more support from our BranchMembers than that. Martin has settled in wellin the Vilar do Golf at Quinta do Lago, witha very busy summer season where thc resortwas 99% full. No BSAP so far, but membersarc welcome to make contact for his favour-able rates. The wcathcr in August wasreminiscent of Manicaland and the beachesmuch improved on Bcira.

John TURK 4809 took thc trouble to t:om-municate his views over subscriptions. WhilstJohn favours keeping the subs low for thosein Imancial difficulties (which he supportedwith documentary facts), he has voluntarilyincreased his own subs and placed themunder a covenant. Many thanks for yourpositive response to a difficult problem, John.

Bert SELLEY 4586 enjoyed the Outpost andcomments, "It's funny that for years I hardlysaw any mention of my former squad mates,then suddenly, BINGO! 4571 Jack Lowein,4584 Percy Milner, 4599 Ken Humphreys - Itnice to hear news of them all after all theseyears. " Bert had a phone call one evening inAugust from 4655 Henry Charles WRIGHTwho was on Holiday in thc U K. fromAustralia where he is a successful grapegrower with a vineyard of his own! Henrywas continuing his holiday to RSA where hehoped to meet with 4064 Alan Steve Ste-phens, then on to Umtali to see 4582 JohnJannaway. Thanks for thc news Bert.

CONGRATULATIONSEric "Joe" SAYER 3983 has been honouredwith the Malta George Cross 50th Annivers-ary Commemorative Medal. Although not aSovereign Medal, Her Majesty has approvedthc acceptance and wearing of it as a 'foreignaward'. Joe was on HMS Ledbury when itescorted the "Ohio Oil Tanker Convoy" intoMalta. This incident has been marked on its50th Anniversary by Her Majesty unveilingthe "Seige Memorial Bell" earlier this yew,and the Bell tolls daily at the specific hourthe Ohio came into harbour. Joe hopes toreceive his medal early 1993.Well Done Joe!

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Ed BODDINGTON 6338 has surfaced in thcUK where he is working with 6269 ChunkyWATSON in the Licensed inns business atThe Punchbowl Inn, Oakwood Hill, Nr.Ockley, Surrey RH5 5DU. (Tcl: 03679 249).Ed was visiting 6495 Tom WAGGOT whoworks in a hotel in Baldock, Hcrtfordshire.Both arc mcmbcrs of the Natal Branch but ifstaytng llere we llope to recruit them!

Stan EDWARDS 3749 was impressed withthis year's Dinner arrangcmcnts, but regrett-ably sent apologies for non attendance,togcthcr with a handsome donation towardsthe evening in lieu. Thc BBC's 'GoneFishing' programme on Kariba bought hackhappy memories of when he was I/cChirundu, and with an A/c took 5 days tohike to the foot of the Kariba Gorge oververy rough terrain in those day». Another taskwas to flnd a possible route from the foot ofthc escarpment on the Sinoia/Chirundu Roadtowards Kariba. With a gang of labour, heactually cut the first mile or two of a roadwhich was later extended and used. Stan says,'We BSAP were certainly adaptable! ' andonc has to agree. Thanks for the interest Stanand the article publishctl elsewhere in thi»issue.

Eddie MATCHETT 4789 was unablc to makethc trip for thi» years dinner but sent a smalldonation to funds and his regards and bestwishes to all his former colleagues.

Kcn MITCHELL 5518 is another who wasunable to make the dinner but hc advises thathe has left Sony Music and is now GroupsAdministrator with SAR Travel, sister travelcompany to SAA in Oxford Circus. (Enjoythe travel and we hope to scc you at moreMonthly gatherings. )

Contact has been made with 3667 CyrilTurner who, in his 80th year is residing inDawlish Devon. Cyril left thc BSAP in April1939 to transfer to thc Permanent Staff Corpsbut despite his departure he remained Honor-ary Treasurer to the Central Fund of theRegimental Association until 1945.

Another of our more elderly colleagues t

surface is 3543 T.R. Bob WADE who Is +Gomshall near Guildford. Thanks to 6

Bob De Quchen for passing on his details.

Ron pETERS 4709 spent thc beginning o

September in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, Eire

where he dropped in on 5586 Sandy

STOKES who is successfully farming ""running a sawmill in the area. Application

fortnshave bccn sent to Sandy to recruit »ninto the fold. Hc is at Kilmorc, Clonmel, Co

Tipperary, Ireland. (Tcl: (052) 25922)

WAS THIS YOU!!A District type went out on his first patrol

from Selukwe and wishing to make an

impression rode at a gallop up toTokwe Ranching and Trading Company'sRanch House. He drew up with a flourish,

jumped off his horse, tied the reins to a

pole on the stoep — and went inside.

Having had his patrol sheet signed and

made pleasant conversation it came the

time to depart. He left thc house and ran

over the stoep to mount his horse with a

flourish. BUT thc horse shied away pul-

ling away the stoep support - and the

whole roof collapsed!

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C.R.H. (Bob) HARDY 5803 was appointed aHtgh Court Circuit Judge in Junc 1992. "[tmay seem some way from 5803 ConstableHardy to 'His Honour Judge C.R.H. Hardy-but being a Judge requires just thc same'lualities of fairness and commonsense expo+-ted of us in the BSAP."Congratulations Bobfrom all members!!

Roy Thompson-Holland P/r 9948 1»vmgpurchased a new motor car (How the otherhalf live!) has just returned from a sho~break in Aberdecnshire. He stopped off for awee dram in Edinburgh where his MsasaWalking Stick taken from his previous homein Prospect, Waterfalls, became a talkingpoint. A local informed him of anotherRhodesian in the area, but Alistair BULMANwas not at home!! Banff and Buchan - theplace, people and clean air was as near toRhodesian Civilization as he has found sinceleaving "Home". The only problem was the"White Horse" trying to steer his car, andthe flock of haggis which just sit like guineafowl in the middle of the road!!Leo HARRIS P/r 3482 acknowledged ourgood wishes from thc last edition and isrecovering well from an operation to remove" polyps from his colon. Several complica-tions resulted in the loss of his RhodesianFront when he dropped from 1801bs to135lbs. However it is gradually returning tonormal, as is his wife who developed severerheumatism following the stress of Leo'sordeal.

John FURNIVAL 5912 sends congratulationsto all concerned in the production of theOutpost which he finds "absolutely excellentin quality, design and content. It is quiteextraordinary how the Association continuesto prosper considering it was disbanded in1980." John still regularly gets together with5895 Peter ELKINS, 5906 Martin WELLSand 5907 Peter WILSON (almost the last ofthe 20 year men!) John seeks to contact HughWILLIAMS who did his three in the mid50's then left for Northern Rhodesia. AnyKnowledge?

John Brian WILLIAMS 5103 in sending hisapologies for this year's dinner advised thathe is off for a winters brcak in the sun. Thistime he and Suzanne are visiting theirdaughter in Australia, via San Francisco andHawaii!!

Roy IRVING P/r 19277 is still temporarily inJohannesburg. Hc could be there at leastanother 12 months!

Bob JOLLY 7438, now has secured employ-ment with Heckler k Koch Ltd. as part oftheir sales and marketing team with a specificresponsibility for Africa!

Wc are sorry to note the departure of 6819Andy GRAY who is returning (albeit tem-porarily) to South Africa. Andy will remain amember of our Branch and we wish him allthe best. (Sce change of address elsewhere. )John MORGAN 4743 recently sent to theSecretary an old copy of a book entitled"African Adventures" written by Allan K.TAYLOR which is a collection of "UncleJock's" famous BBC Childrens Hour Storiesand Adventures in the BSAP. I wonder if anymember has any information about "UncleJock"? Another puzzle is the personal in-scription inside «s the book was given to"Russell for Christmas 1950 from AuntieEileen, Uncle Len, Max and Robbie. " Cananyone shed light on their identities Iwonder?

John VOLLA IRE P/r 16323 in Spain isgetting along very well with his book - TheHistory of Rhodesian Honours and Awards1890-1950. This book will include personaldetails and citations of many of the awardsmade to members of the BSAP and will be ofgreat interest to our Historians. Can anymember lct him have details of Lt. Col. A.J.TOMLINSON's service with the BSAP?(Wasn't the APTS Depot named after him?)He never seems to have had a ForceRegimental Number! and officers in theMMP do not appear to have received anumber either! Any details to John direct, orthe UK Branch Secretary please.

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Mike Cave P/r 15152 sent apologies for thedinner from Vista in Australia. klc cncloscdan advcrtisemcnt from the papers theresccking a "Commissioner of Police" forQueensland. Don't all rush at once, asapplications closed on 9th September, but thcqualifications for both women and mcn maybc of intcrcst:-

a] A commitrncnt to cxccllencc and integrityin thc delivery of policing scrviccs

b] Demonstrated operational and administra-tive lcadcrship at a senior level i» a policing01'ganlsatloi'i

c] Extensive practical policing cxpcricnce and

d] A thorough understanding of modernpolicing policies and practices.

Ken STANFORD-SMITH the Hon Sec. ofCentral Branch is collecting stories of themen, women, horses and dogs etc who didnot quite make it. Satire at it's best of anypart of a "policeman's lot" can includecontacts, ops and past events ctc. His hookwill be in similar vein to "Thc Book OfHeroic Failures — The Official Handbook ofthe Not Terribly Good Club" by Stcvcn Pile.Any contributions direct to Kcn at Box UA9,Harare.

"Too Bright The Vision" Arthur Lewis'autobiography rcccivcd a disappointing res-ponse from members. In order to achieve thebest deal, we have passed on our meagre listto be inchided with those on the list of thcRhodcsians Worldwide. Late orders are stillacceptable.

CHRISTMAS GIFTS +Carl GIBBARD 9495 is beavering away inLincolnshire and he and his wife Ali havecome up with a Christmas Gift Special - 20Letterheads, 20 plain sheets and 20 enve-lopes personalised for J4.00 {not includingpostage).

Why not contact him with an order at"Inyanga House", 35 Abbey Road,Swincshead, Lincolnshire, PE20 3EN

NWhilst mentioning Rhodesian's World&«they are selling on behalf of one of the~

members the following items of BSA

regalia (The descriptions are not mine and the

items have not been viewed) - What offers"

Police Reserve Shoulder Flash - Blues

BSAP Kepi BadgeBSAP Cap BadgeBSAP Chromed 1920 {?)Button

5 BSAP Chrome buttons (KGVI and EIIR)

1 Silver and I Chrome Collar Dog

3 Anodised Buttons (lxL lxM IxS) an

Shoulder Title

1 Whistle circa 1950I Officers Dress Belt (Leather and Gold

Brocade)

GET WELL SOON

Our best wishes go to Bob Berger3363 who underwent a cataractoperation on 14/8/92 in Bulawayoand is recovering. If any of ourZimbabwe readers still have a copyof the Spring '92 edition of ourOutpost Bob would love to havesight of it!

Cecil PAGE 3720 suffered a mas-sive stroke some two years ago and

is completely immobile as his rightside is paralysed. He was recentlydiagnosed as suffering from a skincancer and is currently in the RoyalSouth Hampshire Hospital in South-arnpton. 4382 Jim PAINE hasmanaged to visit his regularly as has4158 Tim WEIMER. We wish youwell Cecil.

Chris SOWDEN 4182 has not beentoo well lately and sent his apolo-gies for the Dinner. Hurry back togood health and your old self againChris!

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A LETTER HOME7th lvluvh l535 Trooper Ao 395

ivrote to his mother u~ Oslo, ltlorcvay. Aftc'r&»dly (and fortcumtely) trmslztiszg it fromthe itiorcvegian, the former Trooper gives adelightful account of his fiat hvo ivan'patrolMy dear Mother,Well, as you see from the date it's now four'»»ths since I left Depot, as a so-called"Trained man". I say "so-called" as it' s»ly when one has to do proper police workyou understand how little you know.Anvway, the sergeant thought I was ready tobe chucked in at the deep end and sincew~iting last I've completed my first mountedarea patrol, but not without unscheduledhappenings.Gwelo is the police headquarters of the whole

the Gwelo Police district. It is in thecharge of Captain Harry Bugler known to all«us as the "Skipper" and the sergeant incharge of the District Police details (usMounties) is Dorrington. Our Skipper is oneof the finest men on earth, very fair, excellentdisciplinarian and never talks more than heactually has to. Dorrington is a delightfulcharacter, very sincere, always in a hell of ahurry, which has earned him the nickname of'Windy" which is unfair as he is one of the

kindest men I know.lou'd laugh if you saw this headquartersbuilding which is an ancient wood and ironbungalow built about the time of Rhodes andfull of creaking floors, dust and cobwebs.Strangely enough the main hospital is along-side us and is equally old and primitive. Butthe troops regard this as convenient for as Iunderstand it we police and the nursesseemingly have much in common and domuch together, including marriage.On area patrol, the trooper is provided with apackhorse carrying all his camping gearincluding a small tent plus "skoff" forhimself, his two NC's (African Constables)and the two horses. The patrol is out abouttwo weeks, the idea being to boost the moraleof the rural population irrespective of colouror creed. On this occasion my senior NC was

one Kambuza, a delightful character withsome eight years service who even speaks alittle English and who taught me quite a bit.No doubt this was Sergeant Dorrington'sintention too. My riding horse was RHMoney and I was warned to look after himwell as he had the habit of getting himselfloose anywhere and making tracks for home.I felt quite proud of our little caravan gettingout of town trying not to seem eitherself-conscious or apprehensive especiallywhen the Convent school girls lined theirfence and made rude remarks at us. Our firstport of call about twenty miles from townwas the farm of a Captain Chamberlain. Witha reputation of being pro-Police I accepted aninvitation for tea during which I was told ofdistrict gossip, always an essential part of our"intelligence" collating.Imagine my dreadful consternation on emerg-ing from a pleasant tea-drinking session tofind that Money had simply vanished withouttrace. As I was contemplating the ghastlythought of walking back to Camp one of thefarm boys reported he had seen a policehorse without a rider trotting briskly into oneof the paddocks in Gwelo's direction. As ithappened, however, Money had fortunatelyentered a camp without an exit and stoodwith his nose against a fence pointingtowards town when we arrived to takecommand of the situation.Another unscheduled incident happenedwhen I called in at the farm of Mr Hein,known as "German Settler", having arrivedsome twenty years ago. He had a "com-plaint" he said, as one of his farm boys hadbeen absent for three days without leave andnow should be punished. I talked about theMasters and Servants Act which I knewabout, but Mr Hein was adamant, and said"No, what you must do is to give him agood thrashing. That's what old TrooperBrown used to do." Well, I hadn't beentaught how to handle this kind of situation atDepot, but NC Kambuza came to my rescuesaying "Leave it to me, Sir" and carted themalefactor quite cheerfully off behind thetobacco barns but what happened there I

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never discovered.Before setting off Serge;mt Dorrington gaveinc specific instructions not to accept hospita-lity of any kind at Safgo Farm without,howcvcr, saying why. Much to my surprise Iwasgrcctcd by niothcr and daughter livingalone, both cxtrcmely cham)ing and goodlooking, who took one look at nie and almostpushed mc into the parlour for tca. Well, Icouldn't refuse, could I? One thing led tomother and before, I knew wlierc I was thcladies cxplaincd that I was to sleep in thc"Blue Room" tonight which hiid a bcdespecially inadc up. Of course, ScrgcantDorrillgtoll s advice calllc back to n)c Ilotwithout some alain), I might say, and I canassure you Mother dear that it was with thegreatest difficulty I managed to extricatemyself from what could have become a mostembarrassing situation.One night we reached our camping destina-tion well after dark and I told thc NC's topitch camp on a nice grassy slope near theGwelo River. I thought it strange I didn' thear their friendly chatter during the night butslept all right and was grcetcd by Kambuzathe following morning who came to find outhow I had coped. It was only then that Idiscovered myself in thc middle of a nativecemetery. Very superstitious Africans are,you scc, they having camped down a goodquarter of a mile away. Kambuza must havethought I would bccomc haunted or some-thing. Hence his concern.Never having been to a mission station Iwondered what to expect when I airrived at StPatrick's Mission in the middle of the QueQue Native Reserve. I was greeted by acharming lady, wife of the Rev E.D.K.Wood, who immediately. called out to hcrhusband, "Here is the police trooper, dear,please go and tell the boy to get his bathgoing, I'm sure he needs it." The Woods,apparently, had known that patrolling troo-pers needed a bath more than tea. Quitecharming people they were. I cvcn attendedone of his native services whilst I was there.Craigevar Farm was owned by the districteccentric, Mrs Jeanie Bogie, a shrivelled-up

extremely Scottish old lady. I simply couldn "

resist accepting her invitation for dinner tha

night. When I arrived in my khakis

appeared all regally attired in a long ballroom

dress from the turn of the century. The dinner

was served by two native servants dressed fo

the occasion. Mrs Bogie was deeply religious

and belicvcd in life hereafter. Hcr hush'i»d

had been buried near the house in front o

their garden pavilion so as to bc handy for

the resurrection. What she didn't say was that

according to the natives she produced hcr

husband's bones every so often and ga«then) ii good polisll.On thc tenth day I rcndezvoused by arrange

ment with Sergeant Dorrington who ha"

ridden out from Gwclo to call me back to

base as all mcmbcrs of the Force were on

stand-by due to disturbances at thc Wankie

Coal Mine about a hundred miles north of

Bulawayo.As we couldn't make it back to Gwelo that

same day I was instructed to outspan at a

convenient site but having seen that

sergeant only had a bedroll on his saddle I

wondered where he'd be sleeping. "In the

tent, of course", he said, "where else?

Well, you sc' the tent was barely big enough

for one Ict alone two and I was worried o«rthe prospect of sleeping in such clo~~

proximity with a sergeant. Nobody at Depo t

had instructed us how to react on such an

occasion, you see. Anyway, Mother dear, we

spent a restful night in spite of the sergeant s

snoring and made Gwelo without incident.

Now I'm hanging around waiting for some-

thing to happen at Wankie and at least domg

something useful and writing to you. Thanks

by the way for your last letter with all the

family news. I' ll just answer your one query

very quickly, no I am not a "cadet" and

haven't been made an officer yet. My pay is

F12.10 a. month and like all the others I

manage to get by.Lots of love from Ludvig.

Seen on a car sticker recently:

"I owe, I owe — it's off to work I go"

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MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING(MLM)

Is it the siren song of "Get rich quick" or apotential good business?

ery simply it is a method an organisation«es to sell its products by using independent«self-employed agents who have the right(and are actively encouraged) to recruit theirown agents to build a "Sales Network".As iii all sales organisations, rewards are paidaccording to results. This is where the

Network" comes in. Because not only doyou receive rewards from your own direct'ales you also receive "bonuses" from thesa!es Blade by your own agents, and, becausethey have recruited agents, from the sales ofthose agents. Theoretically this can go on adinfinitum. The greater your "turnover" themore you make in bonuses. Thc greater~umber of agents in your Network the greateryour turnover.I can hear the conmient - That is pyrmnidselling. rong! Pyramid selling in the VKillegal. ~hat is the diffcrcnceselling involves the sale of goods down thecham, with the hope of the lower nlembersbemg'able to sell it to tile public. At each steI)the price is raised, and becomes the "profit"of that seller. The only ones to really makemoney were those at the start of the chain.hy is Multi-Level Marketing or Networkingdifferent?

Start-up costs are minimal, normally lessthan XI00.00.2. NO risk to capital.

The "agent" does not need to purchaseany stock, but may on a "buy-hack"agreement.4 All household products, such as cleaningmaterials and make-up, are guaranteed.5. Items, such as electrical goods arc fromwell known manufacturers, carrying theirnormal guarantees.6. The purchasing power of and the reductionof overheads by the "core organisation"results in very competitive prices.7. Other services, such as insurance andholidays, are offered at competitive rates.8. Costing virtually nothing, it can be done

on a part-time or full-time basis depending ontime available.9. Everything is done in your own time — youare self employ&, hut with support.So is it the panacea of all our financial ills,particularly those of us suffering unemploy-ment, falling pension values and other Iman-cial problems?Thc answer has to hc NO! Wiy?1. It requires hard work and dedication.2. It is not "short terni3. It is "selling" pure and simple. Selling theproducts and selling the concept to potentialagents.4. It relies for personal success on thesuccessful formation of a "Network Team".S. It is NOT a shortcut to riches.An interesting statistic is that 409o of thcJapanese Gross National Product results fromNetwork Marketing - and they know a goodthing when they see it.It does work and works well, as proven hythc number of different organisations that usethis method of marketing their products andthe numlx", r of such organisations is increas-ing. Many people have made a very goodliving from the technique.With thc reputable organisations the productsoffered are of an exceptionally high qualityand the back-up service is excellent. Support,advice and assistance to "agents" is verygood.Like all good ideas and systems, there arcpirates, and anybody contemplating thi» formof business should fully check out thcorganisation, attend a presentation, ask ques-tions, read the literature thoroughly andalways seek legal advice before signing anycontract.Multi-Level Marketing is potentially a verygood business, but the rewards, like mostthings in life, depend entirely on the effortyou are prepared to put into it. Mostimportantly it is NOT an easy way to gct richquick!If anyone would like more information or tofind out how to contact some "checked out"organisations contact Brian Gibbs on 070757771.

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Man, I Gotta Boy!/)& $5'pp

Tobacco Fanning can bc trying and many ofthc Inyadzodzi farmers tended to employlaboui' througll thc various labolir sllpplyagencies who recruited from areas outsideRhodesia. Thc result, very often, was acontented labour force but in many othercases thc cmploynicnt of foreign labourcaused no end of problems. There werelanguage and cultural diffcrcnces to contendwith and to add to this there was thc 1'act thatmany of Inyadzodzi's Tobacco Assistants hadbeen rccruitctl directly from the rugby fieldsand not froiu the tobacco ticld».At thc cild of cilch tobiicco sc;lsoil therewould be a niceting it the Inyadzodzi RugbyClub to assess which of the young tobaccoassist'nits would be moving Out of the districtand what effect this would have on the nigbyteam."Hcnnic's leaving to start up on his own inBanket. ""Ja, and so's Daanic Jones. And I hear thatJohn Baker will bc losing that young Eric ofhis. ""Hcy! Bokie, you' re getting mdala now. Areyou going to play one more season for u» orare you going to pack it up this year?"The end result was that thc Inyadzodzifarmers would go off for their annualrecruiting drive to thc South African Schools"'Craven Week" rugby tournament, armedwith a list of what positions ncedcd to befilled for thc coming rugby season.Wc certainly had thc finest rugby team inRhodesia but they were not necessarily thefinest controllers of labour. There were peaktimes during the season when the ChargeOffice telephone never stopped ringing andthc despairing voice on thc line would alwaysopen the conversation with "Man! I gottaBoy. You must send a Blachwatch to sorthim out, man!"The pleas were heart rending and the crunescommitted by these "Boys" were horren-dous! "Man, no matter what I do, I can't gethim to pull the w~s and leave the tobacco.He keeps pulling the tobacco and leaving the

I" Orwccds! You nuist sort him out, man.

"Man, I told him to wash thc bath and thc

next thing he's taken all his clothes ot f and

climbed into the bath for a wash. You nu 'nuist

coillc and sort hilll out.Thc boss, who had been in the business long

enough to know thcsc things, ncvcr answc '. wcrcd

the telephone during thcsc peak irritatitation

times. With a close ear to thc ground and a

sixth sense hc knew the signs and kept «out of

thc way. Mike was starting to catch on p rctty

fast with a few more years of experience than

"the boy" who always sccmcd to get caul' u~ht

by these calls. How thc b&)ss and Mike

always sccillc(l to kllow which calls were

"Gotta-boy" calls and which were genuine,

the boy never did find out but hc got caught

every time.It was coming up to Christmas again an

Mike and the boy werc sitting in the mess

discussing how they would spend the festive

season. Every year so far they had had a slap

up meal in the Mess between the two of them

on Christmas Day but their real Celebration

had always been the Christmas Party. They

could never be far from the phone on

Christmas Day because of the likelihood of a

call-out and so their Christmas Dinner was

simply a matter of keeping tradition."Why don't we book a table at Brackenridge

for Christmas Dinner?" said the boy."Too far - and you know what happened thc

last time we dined out at Brackenridge. We

ended up half way to Bcira on a body

cliascl"Yeah! You' re right. The Inyadzodzi Hotel's

not too far though. Wc could give Ida a ring

and arrange Cluistmas Skoff there. "The idea was appealing and, after a brief chat

with the boss to square things with him, Ida

was contacted and all was arranged.On the evening of Christmas Eve, the boss

was disturbed by a knock at his door. It was

Ida in a terrible state of agitation."Boss!"she shrieked, "You must do some-

thing! I' ve never seen anything like it. Blood

everywhere! The Chef's still chasing the

kitchen boy with a meat cleaver and the rest

of them are too drunk to know if it's night or

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day!! ' ~

lrere was a twinkle in the boss's eye as herud "Man, I Gotta Boy! OK, Ida, I' ll send

+e boy down and he' ll sort them all out!"Ida had been right. The most sober member« the Hotel staff was the kitchen boy and he"ad a meat cleaver sticking out of his back!Not one of the others was capable of speech

alone mobility! With the aid of theSarMajor and Constable Jonas, they were all

sorted out" and the regular inhabitants ofe cells had to face the indignity of sharing

accommodation with this evil smellingcrowd of drunkards.Ida was distraught. "What can I do? Thc»tel's full of visitors from Salisbury andoverseas who are here for Christmas. Howcan I feed them with no staff?" she wailed.

Don t worry, Ida! We' ll think of something.Remember we' ve booked for Christmas Din-ner and we' ve never gone without one yet.

"Once back at the station, Mike and the boystarted working on their "Emergency Drill".After looking through the Occurrence Bookfor the past two months, they came up with alrst of names which they then passed on tothe telephone operator to contact one by one.As each call came through the message wasgiven by Mike or the boy:

ls that you, Frank? - Man! I Gotta Boy!"'What do you mean you Gotta Boy?"Remember those boys we sorted out for

you? Well, we' ve got our own problem now.You' ve got to get down here tomorrowmorning to help us sort this out. "'But tomorrow's Christmas, man!"Ja, that's why we need you. You won't beusy in the lands. "

The next morning Ida couldn't believe hereyes. The Police truck pulled up outside thehotel followed by a convoy of pickups, jeeps,motorbikes and trucks. Nervous guests peered«om behind their bedroom doors and thenhastily banged them closed again.Mike and the boy led the way into the hotel."Right, Ida, where do you keep the cleanuniforms?"'OK blokes, once you' re kitted Ken, Frank,

Koos and Willem, you go down to the

kitchens with the boy. Ida will show youwhat to do. Boet, Frikkie and Nick come with

me to the dining room and I' ll teach you how

to be waiters! Anyone spare grab a mop and

start cleaning this place up. Remember, if yousec a guest you call them, "Sir" or"Madam" and you wish them a HappyChristmas! "Christmas that year was magic!Ida was tlrrilled. The guests were impressed.The meal was excellent and the serviceimpeccable! The tobacco assistants, who had

all been facing the prospect of a lonely, day

far from family and home, had thc time oftheir lives.And us?. ......We got our Christmas Dinner. ......but boy, we

worked for it!

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATIONDue to planning building problems, it will beEaster 1993 before P/r 3482 Leo HARRIScan offer self catering accommodation for upto 6 adults and 2 children in bunk beds at15% discount off normal seasonal prices. Thelarge grounds boast a swimming pool andBraai, with fishing and boating on theDordogne only two and a half miles away.Why not check the prices direct with Leo andsee for yourself&

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THE 6TH INNISKILLINGDRAGOON S

THE BRITISH SOUTH AI'RICAPOLICE.

by R. Tom&g).sr&n-ii'c&iizru/

The First War of Independcncc (1880/I)resulted in the defeat of the British at Majuba,thus the South African Repulilic (later to beknown as the Transvaal) was secured forPresident Kruger from the British incursionthrough Natal.British influcncc from thc Cape w;is beingextendcxl into Bechuanaland so to counter thisand gain new ground in what was thenborderland territory, the Afrikaaners from theSAZ established two small new Rcpublics in1884, Stcllaland near Vryburg and Goshen atRooi Grand, near where Mafeking is nowsituated.Also in 1884, Germany annexed AngraPcquena (Ludcritz Bay) and these two movesposed a threat to British ambitions forexpansion northwards from the Cape.Responding to a call for assistance from thcCape Government the British Governmentpromoted Sir Charles Warren to MajorGeneral and sent him out to lead a Britisharmy to rc-establish British interests inBechuanaland.Thus, Sergeant O'Harra of the 6th Inniskil-ling Dragoons was inspired to write of hisadventures whilst serving with the Bechuana-land Field Force BFF).Following this, Bcchuanaland became a Brit-ish Protectorate and the policing of theterritory was regularised with the formationof the Bechuanaland Protectorate Police(BPP),into which force various members ofthe 6th Inniskilling Dragoons transferred.Cecil John Rhodes, being granted a RoyalCharter for his new British South AfricaCompany and having succeeded in securingthe "Rudd Concession" from KingLobengula of the Matabele, made plans tomove north of the Limpopo and into Mash-

onaland by iuitering Matabelcland across the

Shashi River.For thi» purpose about two hundred settlers

were recruited into the Pioneer Column of the

BSA Company and for their protection, once

it was agrccd that Rhodes wouldpaymaster, thc Imperial authoritiesthat the initially proposed escort strength o

onc hundred strong was not adequate a"dwith "belt iuid braces" prudencc raised the

strength to five hundred.So it was that the British SouthCompany Police has the distinction of being

raised to police a country which had yet to beestablished.The first man to be engaged to recruit for the

BSACP was William Bodle of the 6thlnniskilling Dragoons who having by thentransferred to the newly-formed Bechuana-land Border Police and serving as theirRegimental Sergeant-Major, was sclectcd byRhodes himself in October 1889 to seek and

attest suitable men for his Company Police.The first attcstations into the BSACP were on2nd Noveniber 1889 and Bodle himselfjoined later as RSM; whilst the first Quarter-master Sergeant, J.H. Hillier, had actuallycharged with the Light Brigade at Balaclavain thc 8th Hussars. Bodle was later to beLt-Colonel and Conunandant of the BSAPolice.Thc Pioneer Column crossed the Shashi Riveron 11th July 1890.The first OC was Lieutenant-Colonel EdwardG. Pennefather of the 6th Inniskilling Dra-

goons, as also werc Major Raleigh Grey; and

Captain Patrick William Forbes who was alsoin the BFF.

RHODESIAN PATROLS

With reference to our Roll of Honour,our Hon Sec advises that copies ofLofty Lloyds book, "Rhodesian Patrols"are still available and if anybody wouldlike a copy please make contact withhim and he will supply full details.

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THE BECHUANALAND FIELD FORCE - 1884/85THE BFF TIN-POT MEDAL

(&p' Serge'erat 0 Rzn;z, 6th /rmi ~Ãilil~q~ Pn~vrnn~

"Oh, Father! tell us father, whose cyc is bleared and dim,Like some ancient tallow candle, an unsnuffcd and seedy glym:Oh, tell us of thc medal you wore upon your breastWhen you marched up thro' Stellaland, a-chucking of a chest."And tell us of the battles and the victories you won,And thc hardships you encountered there beneath an Afric sun;Relate to us thc legends of the Dutchtnen whom you slew,Though often told they' re beautiful and wonderfully true. ""I will, my son", the old man said, in beery voice and low,"lt happened 'twas in '85, that's forty years ago,That brave Sir Charles Warren, he, with twice two thousand menMarched bravely up thro' Stcllaland, and then marched down again."And oh, it was a goodly sight to sec each gallant boyIn his putties and cord breeches and his coat of corduroy;But midst this pomp and splendour, why thc thing that looked the best,Was the medal of the BFF, each wore upon his breast."Ay! that was a medal surely, lad, no bright and shining stm,No bronze gew-gaw for marching that, and glittering from afar;But a simple tin-pot medal, with this touching legend stamped,The number of the tramper, and the corps with which he tramped."Nor was it worn outwardly, as if for side or show,But jealously lay hidden, down all the depths below;Amidst those lively animals we picked up on the veldt,The fleas and ticks and others, that with Norfork Howard spelt."It was a stout and goodly force, composed of the Dragoons,Of Yolunteers three regiments and some Pioneering coons:Three batteries of Artillery were also with thc chief,Besides thc mcn who fcd the troops on wretched Bouilli Beef."Then there were the Telegraphists, there poles all in a row,Which when they had not tumbled down, brought news from down below,Brought us news of other soldiers, and the victories they won,Whilst we sat still and grumbled, for our sport had not begun."And we also had a corps of Guides, some gents of sable hue,Though why they called them Guides, I don't think anybody knew;Unless it was that they were unacquainted with the way,So 'Domine direge nos' we howled when led astray.One day the Engineers, who possessed of a balloon,Sent the old chief Montsioa up (a captive) towards the moon;And it was a spirit-stirring sound to hear his women swear,As they saw their lord and master floating gaily through the air."For 'tis the usual belief, in Montsioa's town,That when a chieftain dies he takes a lengthy journey down;While a missionary murmured, as he gazed up to the sky,

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"How strange that soldiers are thc first to send my flock on high."

"But at last there came an order just as if some fairy wandHad sct us all in motion and we marched on Rooi Grond:And there we saw the Dutchman's flag float bravely o' cr the plain,So we played at body-snatching* and we then sneaked home again."Of course there was a grand review, a true red-letter day,When all the Dutchmen came and grinned and grinning rode away;So each put back his sabre in obedience to the call,And bethought him of his medal, which made amends for all."So then we marched from Mafeking and Sitlagoli too,through Vreiburg, Taungs, in fact we marched the whole of Bocrland throAnd trekking down West Griqualand, at last we reached the Cape,Each man convinced that he at least had played the garden Ape."Thus you see, my lad, the medal that I once wore next my skin,Is no blood-stained medallion, 'tis a simple bit of tin:But the sight of it reminds me how I wore it on my breastWhen I marched up 'thro Stellaland, a-chucking of a chest."But, youngster, there's a moral, just to end my simple rhyme;Don't you ever go a-soldiering in all your future time:But if you should bc mad enough, of Africa keep clear,And what'eer you do, you idiot, "Don't ever volunteer!".* Refers to the exhuming of the body of Captain Bcthcll,who was murdered in cold blood by the Boers.

TI~Ls ve~eis rluotc:2 on y&a~"e 272 otLOSTLEOLOltlA R V lA'SOUTH ALRVCA

"by Colorjol G H'milton-Brow nc,,probe «lzodby T. 8 orner Lyric:, C/iti ord.'s inn London.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

THE GRAND XMAS GET TOGETHER

on Tuesday 1st December commencing 1730 hrsat Trenchard House, Broadwick Street, London

Bring wives/husbands, family and guests. All will be welcome.PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR ASSOCIATION

NORTHWEST GATHERINGon Saturday 12th December at the New Inn, GalgateFor details contact Alan Day on Telephone 0923 771573.

REGULAR EVENT1st Tuesday of each month: London Get Together at Trenchard House, BroadwickStreet, London. Closest Tube: Oxford Circus. 1730 hrs onwards.

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CHANGESOF ADDRESS

Jon ALLEN P/r 15488 - "Hexworthy"Haigh Road, Alresford, Hampshire SO249LX. Tel: 0962 733968Ch~les BENNETT 111697 "The OldlVIanse", 25 Drumlegagh Church Road,Ncwrtonstewart, Co Tyrone, Northern IrelandBT78 4HF. Tel: (H) 16626 61867.Rowland BLAKE P/r 1119 - 9 PortlandPlace, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire OX75AG. Tel: 0608 642894

Gough BOTHA 7883 - The WheelersArms, Watfield Road, Naughton, Suffolk IP77BS Tel: 0449 740496Peter BRADLEY 5856 - Eden Quay, Rossin-ver, Co Leitrim Eire Tel: Eire 010 353 7254201Alan 6055 and Liz CASTLE are now inSpain at - 23 Las Colinas De Marbella, 29670San pedro Alcantara, p.O. Box 400, Spain.Brian CHALK 4711 - "Empageni", Incle-borough Close, East Runton, Norfolk NR279PU.Andy DOUGAL 7002 - 206 Burton Road,Manchester M20 8LW. Tel: 061 445 2444.Ted GALLOWAY 4046 - "The Old SquashCourt", High Halsway, Crowcombe, Somer-set TA4 4BB.Tel: 09848 224.Andy GRAY 6819- now temporarily C/o LesLLOYD, Banksia, School Lane, West End,Watlham St. Lawrence, Berkshire RG10ONU.hn JACK 8197 - now at 170, Farnham Road,Slough, Berks SL I 4XA. Tcl: (H) 0753572058, (0) 0753 539726.Bryan LITTON 5537, Diana and Robert-The Glyn Afon Hotel, High Street, Llanderis,Gwynedd LL55 4HA. Tel: 0286 872528O.J. McKEAN P/r 28925 - I Park View,Patterson Road, Howick, Natal 3290, RSABugs MORAN 8199 - 11 College Road,Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol BS9 3EJ.Alan SMITH P/r 18998 - 62 Burlands,Langley Green, Crawley, West Sussex. Tel:(H) 0293 523808

Johnny Vye 5143 - now The Crown Inn, 29High Street, Littlehampton, West SussexBN17 5EG. Tel: (H) 0903 731784Fred WHITE 4090 - 1509 Comox Avenue,Comox, British Colombia V9N 3Z5, Canada.Tel: (604) 339 3475.G T WILSON 5740 - now 2, Church Road,Welling, Kent, DA16 3DYJohn L. WOOD 5400 - 18 Wheelers Green,Thatcham, Berkshire. Tel: (H) 0635 866921]

NEVf MEMBERS

John BRYAN 7343 - 114 DalmellingtonRoad, Ayr, Scotland. KA7 3PS. Tel: 0292263680Geoffrey Redmond CLEMENTS 8218 (8911)

C/o 208 High Street, Treorchy, MidGlamorgan, Wales.Colyn Philip JAMES 7418 - Royhall, Mony-musk, Aberdeenshire AB51 7JJ. Tel: 04677206David Gordon PATERSON 6150 - C/o 35Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Bridge Road, Lon-don SWI W 8RG. Tel: 071 730 4693]Maj. Cyril Bernard TURNER 3667 - 25Prospect House, East Cliff Road, Dawlish,Devon EX7 OBJ. Tel: 0626 863699.Thomas Robert "Bob" WADE 3543"Samarkand", Station Road, Gomshall,Guildford, Surrey GU5 9LQ. Tel: 0486412236.

CAN ANYBODY HELP

We welcome the arrival into the UK ofGeoff CLEMENTS 8218/8911 who isseeking a position of any descriptionanywhere in the UK because his child hasto obtain specialised medical treatmentfrom Great Ormond Street. We wish youwell here Geoff.IF ANYBODY CAN HELP GEOFF he canbe contacted at the following address:c/o 208 High Street, Treorchy,Mid Glamorgan, Wales

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THE I I AG OF ST GEORGE

h/ 4/5Ã

Thc actual date that the tlap, a rcd cross on awhite background was adopted as thcnational tlag of England is not clearlyascertainable. Old records do not give muchinformation although there arc a number oflegends of St George in the Middle Ages.Accounts of his life and death vary consider-ably. Fle becanie popular among Crusadersbecause of thc miraculous intervention accrc-ditctl to hini iii bringinp, victory on severaloccasions during the rcipns of Richard IIIand Edward I. The tlag was in use inEngland as the natio;ial eniblcm in 1271.St George is also reported to have had adecided influcnce in bringing victory to theBritish at thc Battle of Crecy in 1346 and torecord this for all time Edward III foundedthe Chapel of St George at Windsor in 1348.About 1349 hc instituted the Order of theGarter and had the St George Cross placed inthe centre of the star which forins part of theinsignia of the order.Records show that his cross was worn as adistinctive mark on both thc front and backof a surcoat, over the armour, by all soldiersof Richard II, when in 1385 they went northto repel a tlucatencd invasion by the Scots.After the Battle of Agincourt in 1415Archbishop Cricheley referred to St Georgeas being "as it werc the patron and specialprotector of England. "The flag of St George was the flag of battleand is seen in the old prints and drawingsthat deal with military operations both onland and sca. It was the flag under which thegreat seamen of Elizabeth I's reign traded andexplored or fought. Drake bore it around theworld.Today it is the proper tlag of a BritishAdmiral. When there are two or morcflagstaffs on a Government building in theUK, the flag of St George may be flown inaddition to the Union Flag on St George' sDilv.A pronouncement by thc Earl Marshal on

February 11th 1938 settled a long contro-versy as to what is the proper flag to betlown over a church. Common practice was

to fly the flag of St George. It was theii

decreed that, as far as any church within tlie

province» of Canterbury and Yorkconcerned thc Cross of St George may be

otflown within the first quarter of the Arms o

the See in which the particular church was

ecclcsiastically situatixt.

SS GRANTULLY CASTLEReading an old biography of Sir WinstonChurchill recently the name of the ship SSGrantully Castle jumped, as it werc, from the

printed page and sparked off memories of the

old Castleline Ship of that name which had

carried some 20 recruits from London Docksto Capctown, via Lobito Bay, in March 1939The authoress was recording her visit toBristol docks in January 1915 to wavefarewell to friends who included the poetRupert Brooke.They were going off to war, setting out onthc ill fated Gallipoli campaign aboard the

Grantu1ly Castle.My interest aroused, I wondered if this was

the same vessel on which I set out for my

new career and as such I contacted theMaritime Centre at Greenwich who advisedthe following details:-GRANTULLY CASTLE built 1910 at Glas-

gow, January 1915, Troopship. March 18th at

Murdos with five troopships for the Gallipolicampaign. Alnwick Castle and BalmoralCastle were with her. When, due to mines,the navy failed to force the DardinellesStraight the ships were held 5 weeks in alluntil April 23rd, when the troops were landedin the face of, by then, vastly rc-inforcedTurkish opposition. May 1st left for Malta.June 22nd commissioned as a hospital shipwith 552 beds. 1919 March 11th, reverted tothe Union Castle Line and was broken up in

1939.So our journey on her to Africa was probablyher last before she went to the breakers!'/h'1$ 'Mutswi ' John Pastel/

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NEVfS FROMOVERSEAS

CENTRALP

+c have recently received Hugh Phillips'September Newsletter, No 38 and publish thcrelevant extracts below.Hugh's extensive Mailbag included coin-tnunications froni Brian Pym telling of arecent trip to Natal there meeting MauriceB~aver, lain Laing and the new ChiefConstable of the Durban City Police, AlfTaylor. Ron Warren 4271 recounted hisrecruitment and progress to South Africa onthe "Athlone Castle" in the company of StanBrowning, Ken Rowland, Vince Hustler, JeffStutchbury (who passed away recently),Steve Moore-Stevens, Rohbie Mein, DaveBrownless, ? Leatherhead, Jeff Wakefield,Peter Graham, Paddy Gallagher, Jack Dcnley,Derek Bennison, Shaun Reese, John Coulter,P~ter Ashworth and "Spud" Murphy. W.P.Hogan 4865, now at the Executive Hotel inHarare, mentions meeting Moira Stenner inEngland and meeting Gordon Best 7264 andBob Hardy now a Circuit Judge. Dave Young6783 met Duncan Stewart 8281 who hasbeen holidaying from Flagstaff, Arizonawhere he is an officer with the County Police.His address is 6060E Sunset Boulevard,Flagstaff Az86004. Bill Greig who took overthe Camp Hospital in 1938, (shortly afterLord Trenchard visited Depot) recalls SirHerbert Stanley's feathered headdress fright-ening a police escort and sending the horsesinto total disarray; and races in rickshawsfi'om the Palace Theatre with the runnersitting bolt upright on the seat whilst theyoung policemen raced each other up to theDepot}The Alan Rich query about the Depot PostOffice produced an answer from, of allplaces, New Zealand!, Peter Burridge 7750,now the NZ Branch secretary of 226 Lake

Road, Takapuna, Auckland 1309 has a copyof a privately published book hy R.C. Smithentitled "Rhodesia; A Postal History". A listof post offices and agencies includes a postalagency at Salisbury BSAP Camp which wasopened on 17th Dcccmber 1915 and closedon 30th June 1957. Peter also said that ifanyone knew thc whereabouts of CharliePiscopus, a patrol officer in Salisbury in the70's, please would they write to him.The AGM of Central Branch was held inMay, with 36 incmhers attending and apolo-gies from 24. As Syd Bristow was out of thecountry, the meeting was chaircd hy BillEl}way, who announced that after 9 years atthe helm of the Association, Mr Bristow wasstanding down. Bill Ellway was later votedin, unopposed as President with Hugh Phil-lips as Vice and Ken Stanford-Smith asSecretary/Treasurer.Attending the AGM were:- Alan Stock, JackWood, Dave De Burgh Thomas, Ron Eamcs,Ron Jarvis, R. Bull, Eve Chapman, RalphThompson, "Shiner" Wright, Tony Martin,"Taff" Morgan, Al Patterson, Jack Bale,"Taffy" Phillips, Chris Johnson, Hugh Phil-lips, Cyril Vowles, Dudley Naude, NelsonGraham, Bill Ellway, Ken Stanford-Smith,Jack Bacon, "Spike" Hughes, D. Adams,Mike Rowley (now voted in as a member ofthe Central Committee), Mrs Beryl Lindsay,Derek Humberstone, Ron Warren, PeterShield, G.A. "Robhy" Robertson, RonBlackmore, Olaf Read, Chris Looker and RodF1 illl i gall.Hugh makes special mention of one of thcapologies. "A fcw days after our meeting,"Fran" Fourie died in St Anne's Hospitalafter several weeks of suffering from cancer.The manner of her going, thc courage andstrength of purpose with which she faced herfinal illness had to he seen to bc believed.Seldom do words fail me and I can onlyrecord that shc was an exceptional and very,very brave lady.Which in a roundabout way, brings me to-aletter from Johnny Walker (5843) fromDurban, who writes, "I saw some veryhelpful people who advised me that if you

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arc a men)her of PSMAS being an ex-mciuhcr of the BSAP you can claim medicalcxpcn»cs anywhere in the world ...for what iti» worth, it may hc useful I'or ex-Police who;lrc not nlcmbcr» ol' thc Society and who havethe mc'm» of paying their»uhs in Harare, viaa pension for example, to write to Box 885and make enquiries. My ignorance recentlycost mc, R12500 for an ahdonlinal operationin South Africa. .."While on the subject of advice, Kcn StanfordSmith has clarified thc po»ition on widows'pension»:"In effect, thc widow rcccivcs the sameamount as thc pensioner did for onc yearafter the date of death. This enables her toadjust to her ncw financial circumstances.After that the pension of 55% is payabletogether with any increa»c» which may hegranted to thc civil »crvice. This pension isfor life, , whether she rc-marries or receivesanv other pension."I managed", continues Hugh, " to gct offon my travels in May: this time to Durbanwhere my son was one of the 12000conlpeting in the up-hill ConlradesMarathon. It was my first experience of thisunique, punishing ordeal hut I wouldn't haveinissed the occasion and I hope the youngidiot docs it again next year! Fortunately Icoincided with thc nlollthly gct-togctllcl' atthe Natal Mounted Rifles Club on the firstFriday of thc month. A splendid venue,excellent snacks and many old friends includ-ing Jeff Murray 4806 now with the SADFand whom I remember pushing weights inDepot in '5 l; Rob Bristow 8303 whoprovided snacks (and an absolutely gorgeoussecretary!); "Scotty" Macaulay 5480 whoseson has the same idiotic tendencies as mine!Then there was Dick Isemonger 5958 whomI'd met at the Police Club in Harare only acouple of weeks before; Jack Copley 5647;Jock and June Knoetze 7639; Phil Kensettwho in a subsequent letter to me lays claim tobeing the oldest man in police uniform stillserving -at the agc of 67. Phil, an Auxiliarywith the Durban City Police, certainly carrieshis years lightly. Other old friends who don' t

seem to agc a bit included Derek Starr 5842still in the secondhand business; Ian Chalk7078 who unblushingly told me that he had"retired", Brian Perkins 8276; Keith Rawson4281 now managing the Natal Branch; OliverKcsby 3594; Ed Bush 7541; Chris Driver7706; Jerry Rickson 7612; Ben Hustler 4048employed on security duties with the Stan-dard Bank; John MCCallum 5572; NevillcBoniface 6014, now sporting a heavy fungusaround his chin and living and working inGriqualand East. Peter PR 9586 and Pan)WPR 805 Taylor send good wishes to oldfriends especially Syd Bri»tow, Peter Shield,Jack Hammond and Bill Buchanan. LastlY,but no means least in that happy gatheringwere Bob Jones PR 12682, Harry Sage380327 and that once mighty lock forwardand now car hire specialist John "Ox'Barritt 8961P. On my way back I called inbriefly at Ballito and passed a few minuteschatting to Pat and Heather Knight 4717 inthe laundry they' re presently managing.The Bulawayo Branch hasn't been inentionedfor some time but when I see that the!rsecretary is none other than Ray Herran Ialmost long to attend their committee meet-ings to hear the dry wit that delightedmembers of Celebrity Concerts here inHarare when he filled a position on ourcommittee. Ken MacDonald is in the chair,the branch has 100 Life and 8 ordinarymembers and the following attended theirrecent AGM: K. Gowen 5961, L. Morgan6387, R. Hall 5117, G. B. Dodd 4816, R.Herran 9229, I. Jones 7435, J. Godfrey 4435,E. Cooke-Yarborough 6518, G. Kay 3714, C.Armstrong 4320, K. MacDonald 5247, A.Craig ie 5172, B. Conunerford 17661, F.Chiweshe 11855. Ray asks if anyone knowsthe whereabouts of John Webher Harris, sonof the late "Ginger". He was for a time atthe Trojan in Bindura and later at Filabusiand may now be in SA. His brother wishes toget in touch.We' ve had a couple of informal socialevenings during the last few months. The firstat thc Police Club celebrated the presence ofDick Isemonger in from Natal and saw

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p esent: Tony Alford, Rod Finnigan, Tony"chin, Jack Bacon, Dudley Naude, Wallymn&ond, Chris Johnson, Taffy Morgan,

eter Shield, Nelson Graham, Robby Robert-Dixie Bruce, Ron Blackmorc, Aileen

Coetzer, Harry Kefford, Spike Hughes andavc Blake. A smaller gathering greeted Tom

Meekin on holiday from Ireland and alsoS«ve Glover, who finds England not to hisaste and would like to return herc. Some of

osc present on that occasion were: NigclRoche, Bill Linfield, Alan Stock, Austin+ihnot and Dave De Burgh Thomas.

!case, as Fred Punter has done, if you' re

likcoining over herc on a holiday and would'ke us to arrange an informal drinks session

with old friends, give mc a few weeks notice.managed to get travelling again in Augustis time to see the Australians narrowly

"efeating Northern Transvaal in Pretoria andhe following day, the Test Match at Ellisark between the South Africans and thc All

Blacks. Chris Jolinson, Justin Kennedy andEric Hurd were down there at the same timebut only I managed to escape to the EmoyeniClub for the Jo'burg Branch social on thefirst Friday of the month. I found many oldfr!ends in the panelled comfortably appointedbar Among them were; 5251 John and CarlaDolby, 7727 J. Lara, 8274 P. Adams, 8725 J.Sutton, 7921 C. J. Holland, R. A. Moore-F4gerald, 6823 Les Thornberry, 5509Scouse Jones, 6164 Arthur March, 5526 PhilDevlin, 67412 Graham Walker, 8647 PGough, 10753 A Stassen, 6145 Alee Fraser,Jack Bacon (now on the Eastern Seaboard ofthc US), 4726 Dickie Dyer, 6846 Jim Blain,6769 Dick Glanville, 10429 Mike Spencer,5703 Hank Hankinson, 4426 Guy Brook-Smith, 76592 and 20731 Collin and VandaWalker, 5663 Peter Huson, 9329 Roy Hunt,9785 C. A. Murray;, 8446 Derek Waters and7915 D. Beveridge. Great interest was shownIn how we are facing up to and coping withour many problems; and some worries wereexpressed over the present situation in theRepublic. By and larg'e though, there waswhat commentators call "guarded optimism"and that was good to see."

TRANSVAAL

The first edition of the new Transvaal BullSheet is in a ncw format which aims to cutthe cost of the larger Transvaal Outpost butstill keep in touch. The editor is stillChairman John Sutton who makes a plea forsponsors in order to produce it more fre-quently. The branch is actively tracking downstrays to help uicrcase their numbers.A very successful curry and rice was held atthe Parktown MOTH Club on Friday 12thJune in spite of the cold, wct wcathcr. Some60 members, spouses and guests attendedincluding: Dave Sloman 5695, Dick Latilla7651, C. Nixon, Jock Waugh 4889, E. Wilde7499, C. Walker 7650, V. Walker 200731, G.Brooke-Smith 4426, M. Abbotts 5975, HankHankinson 5703, L. Ibbitt 6059, John Sutton7670/8725, Dick Glanville 6769, Alex Bun-dock, J. Sheward 382960R, M. Joyce (IPA),L. Wirlopoldki 6764, M. Jones 5509, W.Pratt 3356PR, Lynn Carlise 6235, RichieAllum, Ian Rawsone, D. Walters 8446, E.Worton 6185, P. Stanton 5809, A. Glover7319, C. Mason 185PR, J. Redfern 780315,Phil Smith 9449, B. Beer, M. Sullivan, W.Johnson 6567, M. Allen 6674, P. Hillier5171, I. Edwards 9214, L. Thornbcrry,MacDonald, G. Schrieber, R. Evans, A. Bins,J. Evans, Eric Robb, Guy Houghton 4456, P.Devlin 5526, C. Holland.Duncan Beveridge 7915 and Clive Murray9785 paid another visit to thc Transvaalrecently. The former is resident in Botswanaand the latter has also taken up short tennresidence there after running a game lodge inthe lowveld. Unfortunately Duncan left thcEmoyeni to find that not only had his carbeen broken into but the main gate waslocked so he had to perform gymnastics toget out! He says his visit was memorable.

WHEREABOUTS SOUGHT: Peter SCOTTand Hilton KOBUS (ex Forensic Science)may have taken up residence in Australia, theformer in Perth. If any members can helptrace these two, please write to the Hon Sec,Dick Glanville.

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1993 TRANSVAAL TO FAR EAST TOUR

There has been such a flood of enquiriesfron& members who partook of the Londontrip for thc 1989 Centenary Celebration. i thatEric Robb is organising a threc-week tour ofthc Far Ea it - two weeks in Honmg Kongand one week in Singapore. The price is stillbeing negotiated.(How nice it would bc if our situation inBritain inq)roved sufttciently so that wc couldorganise such a tour!-Ed)

EASTERN CAPE MYSTERYBrian Burstein (6570) prcsentcd thc Editor ofthe Algoa Outpost with a real puzzle. In thehope that in «11 of you the "Policeman'smind" lives on, someone somewhere will beable to solve the mystery.It all started in 1986 when Brian was stillliving in Cape Town prior to moving to PortElizabeth. He rcceivnI a letter from WestGermany, which is as follows:-"Dear Mr Burstcin",You may be somewhat surprised to receive aletter out of the blue from someone you havenever heard of bcforc and from such aremote part of thc world.But perhaps you might be pleased to obtainthese little newspaper cuttings which Ienclose. One of them bears your address onthe back, so maybe there are some happymemories they evoke. It's strange how theyever made their way here. I found them in ahook published some 10 years ago in thenRhodesia, a biography of Ian Smith, "Ana-tomy of a Rebel" by P. Joyce in fact, from alocal antiquarian bookshop over here. When Ibrowsed through it I discovered a lot ofphotographs and newspaper cuttings likethese betwccn the pages. Most of them wererelated to the savage bush war of the 70'sand thus I presume the book must havebelonged to a Rhodesian security forcemember who collected them as a kind ofsouvenir of the country's past but forgot totake them out again when he parted with thebook. Well, I don't know how the pictures

came to be included and in what away youare related to them.Unfortunately I have never been to Zi»babwe, but I know South Africa quite wellas I spent 3 months there during universityvacations (I'm a student at FrieburgUniversity). A German company in Braam-fontein kindly employed mc for 8 wcc«,before I had 4 weeks off to sce a bit of thcrest of SA and SWA. It was a mostremunerative stay, in particular as first handexperience helps to put things into perspec-tive - against the background of so muchmalicious and biased mcxlia report over here.So I' ll definitely make a return visit, inparticular as people treated me so kindly.May I wish you all the best. And shouldn' tyou have any connection with those peopleshown in thc pictures then please accept myapologies for troubling you.Yours faithfully,

'

Ulrich Dohr.Enclosed with this letter were pictures takenby Brian at a Regimental Dinner in Johannes-burg in 1983/4. One photograph is of thcBoyd family — John Snr, John Jnr andMalcolm, Dcs Howse, Ricky Summers andGwillam Ward. Another photograph includesAlan Rich, Jim Prior, Alan Poultncy, TomPilkington, Brooke Cunliffe, John Moray-Brown and a guest Max Barker. Unfor-tunately no force numbers are included in thecaptions. However, these were apparently cutout of a Zimbabwe Outpost and mounted onblue manila-type cardboard. A third photo-graph of a piper from the Transvaal ScottishDivision, whose name escapes Brian, wasmounted the same way.Since then, Brian has corresponded occa-sionally with Mr Dohr, but would still like toknow for interest sake, how these photos withhis name and address on the back, landed upin a book in Germany.Anyone who can throw any light at all onthis subject is asked to forward informationto the Algoa Outpost or to Brian Burstein c/oP.O. Box 27648, Greenacres, Port Elizabeth6057. Any information will be gratefullyreceived.

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GATHERINGS

NORTH WEST

The Northwest Regional gathering was heldGalgate on 12th September with high

whlds and drizzle restricting those attendingto the faithful few. Apart from the convivialcompany of ex members, thc "dish of theday" of Golden Honey Roast Bacon Chopwith peaches, creamed potatoes and vege-tables was a worthwhile reason in itself forattending! (I hope this trend does notcontinue or no one would ever attend anyfunction in the UK!!). P/r 3188 AndyJOHNSON celebrated his 80th birthday a fewdays earlier and was about to depart for a"oliday in RSA. 4182 Cluis SOWDEN isrecovering from a laser operation on his eye.Hc is about to return to Hospital for a smallgrowth removal from "somewhere inside"and the Hospital authorities are consideringmaking Chris a "Consultant" there. Regrett-ably the "Rhodes and Founders Braai" hadto be called off but the efforts of John andLeonie BUTTERWORTH were commendableand it is hoped that 1993 will see it back onthe calender. Those who did attend included4041 Allen DAY, 4182 Chris SOWDEN,4572 Joe MERCER, 5639 Mike & MoragHOGGARTH, P/r 3188 Andy JOHNSONand P/r 28844 Mick & Terry COLEMAN.Please make a note of the next gatheringwhich will take place at the same venue on12th December 1992.

QUICK QUIZHow many of these can you identify?I) UNHCR 2) UNHRC 3) UNIDIR 4)UNCIP 5) UNCA

'6) UNCAS 7)

UNCDCVAnswers on Page 27

KUM-A-K YEThe U K Branch of the Rcgimcntal Associa-tion exprc»ses its sinccrc gratitude to HankHankinson for obtaining a copy of the»hecttnusic for our Regimental March "Kum-A-Kye" and sending it to Terry Oatt.The following letter was attached, written onthe lctterhcatl of Barnficld'» Music of Pictcr-maritzburg, signed by "Miles" (?), giving alittle of the history of the March. Wc nowhave the musical arrangements for solocornet, piccolo, oboe, solo clarinet, Itr»tclarinet, 3rd and 4th clarinets, alto saxophone,bassoon, 2nd cornet, 1st and 2nd Frenchhorns, 3rd and 4th French horns, 1st trom-bone, 2nd trombone, bass trombone, bas»csand drums. These will bc held in our archivesby our Hon. Sec.Dear Hank,The Regimental March of the British SouthAfrica Police "Kum-a-Kyc" wa» adoptedfrom the Gold Rush days in the ChisholmTrail in Canada. It was really a ribald barrackroom ballad.Colonel B.G. Spurling CBE was stronglyopposed to using "Kum-a-Kyc" as theRegimental March. In 1939 when Col. Spurl-ing was then a Captain or a Major, he wasinstrumental in forming what we know todayas the BSAP Band. His choice of RegimentalMarch was the "Charter March" composedby Charles Warren Day, at one time Band-master of the BSAP.Day also wrote "Rhodesians Bold", anothermarch frequently used by the BSAP and inlater years adopted as their regunental quickmarch."Rhodes!an» Bold" was for many years theRegimental March of the Rhodesian StaffCorps, thc nucleus of the Rhodesian Army.Colonel Spurling even approached the PrimeMinister, Sir Godfrey Huggins and asked himto listen to and approve the "Charter March"as the Regimental March of the BSAP; thisrepresentation was obviously unsuccessfuland "Kum=a-Kyc" remained the March.The ballad was arranged as a march bySuperintendent M.A. Sparks, (MBE, LLCM,A. Mus, LCM) then a Sergeant.

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VISITATIONS

Rcg VINCENT 4171 continues to do battlewith his MP over our Pensions. Thanks forkeel)ing the Hon Scc up to date with theposition Rcg. Reg and Dcc have just cnter-taincd Allan and Molly Richmond fromMutarc. Allan will be renicmbered by theSoccer Players in the force having played forRhodesia and the Rhodesian Air TrainingGroup. Allan passed on news of JohnJannaway, John Cooke, Harry Went, to namea but a few who Reg recalled.

Sandy JOHNSTON 4327 had an Augustvisitor in 4493 Tom MERCER from Zim-babwe. Tom retired for a second time afterservice with the Ministry of Commerce andindustry, and for a third time followingservice with the Canadian High Commissionin Harare. Tom and his wife were on their "3months holiday of a lifetime" during whichthey visited family in Guatemala and NewYork and then Liverpool where his Motherand Brother reside. On his return, Tom andIsobel will settle in their cottage near GrandReef in Manicaland, just on the Odzi side ofChristmas Pass.

Tom MEEKIN 5615 spent the summer inSouthern Africa. Taking their grandson Tom,Tom and Joan steed off in Kloof, where hisbrother Michael showed them the sights ofDurban and Tom reciprocated by attendingthe monthly gathering in Natal. To name buta few Tom renewed happy memories withJack Copley, Terry Albyn, Bob Vincent,Keith Rawson, Rob Bristow, Peter and PamTaylor, Henry "Nobby" Clark and DerekStarr. Ten days followed in Zimbabwe, wherethey spent 5 days on Lake Kariba with Peter"Paddy" Stranix. The game, fishing andCastle were terrific (not necessarily in thatorder). He also managed to visit 4789 Eddie

MATCHETT's son Paul in Borrowdalc. Thenback to the New Club where Tom inct 5617Austin Wilmot, 5610 Nigel Roche, 5608Dave deBurgh Thomas, Tony Mach;m, BillI.infield, Alan Stock, Jack Bacon and HughPhillips (again to name but a few!) Finallyback to Ramsgate, then Newcastle in Natalwhen time was spent with Colin and DebbieMclntosh. Sadly he had to terminateholiday at Kruger Nation Park following thesudden death of his father (See RollHonour). In summary, thc price of beer at theNew Club was fantastic and as a tourist bod&countries are recommended as very goodvalue for money in light of thc current rate ofexchange.

Jeff QUICK 6681 wis a visitor to the UK inAugust and made contact during his fourweek holidays from Botswana. Jeff is partowner of a Gasket factory in Francistown.

Robin JOHNSON 5087 thoughtfully contac-ted our Secretary during his month longsummer visit to thc UK. Robin also managedto look up 2873 Tommy THOMPSON MBEin Newcastle before his departure.

Rod 5917 and Laura FINNEGAN werc in theUK during July and managed to see 9184Andy BASSETT and Associate Tony MOONon thc Isle of Wight.

Peter MUNSON 4708 and his wife Pat spentthe night at Ryde on the Isle of Wight withJackie Willoughby (widow of 4759 ChrisWILLOUGHBY) in June and the followingmonth had lunch with 4709 Ron and Mar-garet PETERS who were in Kent staying with4180 Ricky MAY where they had met RonEAMES. Another visitor to the Munson'swas Hazel Shaw who was over from Jo'burg.Hazel is the. niece of Julian Greenfield the SRMinister of Justice in the 50's.

Lynn VENTERS P/r 8739 made contactduring a summer holiday from RSA. His sonIan (Ex Regular?) is in the UK and will makecontact with a view to joining the Branch.

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LEGGINGS — BSAPISSUE and USE OF:

(Post Disbandment of Our Force)+«eric o: flic c,' Si,'1ntlirq» Orden; Er::D~x~, Vsc Ot; Po.vt DtvArndisjclnt, nnd n.'le-I"Nt etre nhr note'. ~'.

of Leggings - Other than for Dress"ulpOseS:

(Post Disbandment Recommendations)

) For the conveyance of glass vesselscontaining liquid gold - Wino's for the usef Only to be used for the conveyance of

AOC and "quality vintage". (Not to he usedWIth VDQS or Vin Du Pays). A proscribedProcedure being to encase the bottle in thcIegging - secured as m dress usage - thenPosition in a convenient place within a motorvehicle ensuring thc verticality of the com-Posite bottle within legging thereby conscrv-tng the quality the "quality" en route.

2) For the use of those wino's aforesaid inthose auctions for the said liquid gold, wherethe winner of the quality liquid gold has theleast bruises in acquiring the said liquid goldhaving protected the lower limbs as in thePurpose of dress usage.

3) There are many other uses for theViticulturists, Horticulturists which should hcself evident to the reader.

For the 'Bon Viveur' the leggings BSAP arcan indispensable aid."Vinocrvt - 4$$4"

(if any other members have "alternative" usesfor former issue items, 'please let us havethem. Ed.)

ANSWERS TO QUICK QUI7.

I) Unitccl Nations High Coimnissioncrfor Rcl'ugccs2) United N;Itious Human Rights Com-nlisslon3) United Nations Institute for Dis-arlnamcnt Research4) United N itions Conullission forIndia and Piikist;in5) United Nation» CorrespondentsASSOCIatlcn6) Uncas - The last of the Mohicans ..read thc book!7) Union Nationale des Caves et Distil-leries Cooperatives Vinicoles.

MONTHLY GE'I' TOGI' I'HI':RS

The regular monthly meetings at TrcnchardHouse have been quite well supported andthose attending the August to October meet-ings have included: Terry Oatt, guest MaggieWallis, Tim Weimer, Peter Phillips, CliffRogers, Brian Gibhs, Stewart Edwards, StanBolas, Pctcr Dancer, John Rcstorick, AbbyBolas, Glyn Morgan (son of Taffy), HeatherSmith, Barry Rae, guest Sylvia Hunt, fromBotswana Geoff Quick 6681 and wife Fiona(forincrly in Forensic Science Lab, Salis-bury), Randy Syrnmons, Charles Bennett,John Milner, from Namibia Bill Birch, fromSA FIank Hankinson and Ken Humphries,and from USA Will Cornell, wife Shelley anddaughter N icky.It is hoped that morc members will attend the1st Tuesday of each month - you never knowwho you will meet, with guests, and just areminder of thc Xmas Gathering on Tuesday1st December, at Trenchard House, Broad-wick Street, London.

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