Entertainment and Education

 

Entertainment and Education

There were musical rides, gymkhanas and all manner of sporting events with never a dull day. Rivalry between regiments was fierce and many a time my brother Tom and I would sneak into the Garrison gymnasium to hide in the balcony and there watch, enthralled, many a bloody fight in the inter unit boxing contests. Two names spring to mind – L/cple Tim Wigmore as he was then, who be came one of the finest Welterweights the Army has ever had – I was to meet him many years later when he was at the height of his carer as a WO in the Army Physical Training Staff. Then there was Bugle Major Bendrey, whose name was a byword in Army Boxing. What tremendous displays these two used to put on.




My father doesn't mention family outings, but evidently there were opportunities for these as this photo of a charabanc outing shows.



This boat trip may have been part of the outing pictured above. My grandmother is seated in the middle of the picture, wearing a dark cloche-type hat, looking away from the camera with the 3 small children to her right.

School for us, was only a stones throw from the quarters – our teachers were members of the Army Education Corps. All wore cap and gown. Apart from the three Rs, our other main subject at school was the History of the Army and the British Empire!

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