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General Sir Martin Farndale KCB Master Gunner, St James’ Park 1988 to 1996
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1987
Regimetal committee, 13 November 1987
1989
Visit to 9 (Parachute) Regiment Royakl Horse Artillery, 4 August 1989:
Quarter Guard
F (Sphinx) Battery fire Royal Salute, Manor Park
G Para Battery (Mercer’s Troop)
G Para Battery (Mercer’s Troop)
I Para Battery (Bulls Troop)
The Officers 7 RHA
Adrian Waddell
7 RHA Sergeats’ Mess
Departure, Lille Barracks
29 Commando Battery Royal Artillery, 1 to 2 June 1989
Gen Farndale introduced to WO1 (RSM) Gillett by CO, Lt Col AL Moorby
RA
General
salute by Regimental Quarter Guard commanded by Sgt Gee
Recce party deploy to Drake Island
Recce party abseil from Lynx
Sea King and Puma helicopters desploy 79 (Kirkee) Cpommando Battery guns
onto Drake Island Gen Farndale
and Lt Col Moorby observe FOO parties deploy from Drake Island
148 (Meiktila) Commando Battery FOO party deploy from Sea King into
Plymout Soud in a gemini raft
NGFO 4 scale the walls on Drake Island
79 (Kirkee) Commando Battery FOO parties come ashore
Meetig
NGFO 4 led by Captain J McCardle RA
Meeting 79 (Kirkee) Commando Battery FOO partry led by Capt S J O’Gorman
RA
Meeting Bdr Lightfoot, 29 (Kirkee) Commando Battery RA
Talking to Bdr Lightfoot’s gun crew
Meeting the abseil team led by WO2 Porter
Meeting the Puma helicopter crew from 33 Squadron RAF
Leaving the Royal Citadel for the Coronation salute on Plymouth Hoe The RA Band march out
Twenty One gun salute fired by the LBdr leadership course on Plymouth
Hoe
RA Band playing on Plymouth Hoe
Meeting the LBdr leadership course
Presenting Gnr Campbell with best student on the LBdr Leadership Course
1990
Master
Gunner Visit to Kelantan, Malaysia, 20 to 21 March 1990
1991
(Burton Mail, 5
June 1991)
(The
Scotsman, 11 June 1991)
(The Scotsman, 28 July 1993)
1993
The Bicetennial Annoversary of the Royal Horse Artillery, Woolwich, 3
August 1993
(The Scotsman,
4 August 1993)
The Times, 4 August 1993
1994
(Daily Post, 26 September 1994)
A historical document from 1969
1996
(Paisley Daily Express, 6 June 1996)
Farewell as Master Gunner
The Portrait by
Joan Wanklyn as Master Gunner which now hangs at Larkhill