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The Summer Term Field Day was held at HMS Neptune. Applications for summer camps and courses remain high: like last year we shall be sending boys on a variety of activities, canoeing, communications, engineering, gunnery, submarine acquaintance and medical. This enthusiastic participation augurs well for our future.
W.G.W.
ARMY SECTION
NCOs as at 4th May 1983:
Cadet CSM A. L. Law; Cadet Sgts J. L. Smart, P. J. Stewart, M. J. Strachan, W.B. Gillespie; Cadet Cpls A. J. Davidson, S. J. Gray, J. C. Hair, D. R. Laird, L. D. Wilson, G. Grant, C. Hutton, P. D. Collie, L. M. Ingram, A. C. B. Cameron, S. W. Murdoch; Cadet L/CplsJ. J. Gold, S. J. Gordon, P. J. Johnston, P. J. Marr, R. J. Proctor. G. J. Rae.
CCF Adventure Training. Islay
Last Summer's Camp was a pleasant change from the usual. Brigadier Marston has contacts on the island of Islay and made arrangements to spend our camp at Ballygrant - an old lead mining village in the middle of
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the island. We had a very pleasant two and a half hour sail from Kennacraig to Port Ellen thence by 'bus to an old drill hall - currently used as a Youth Centre. The accommodation was slightly less palatial than that which we have been accustomed to, but none the less adequate - the local population producing bits and pieces from far and wide to make our stay as comfortable as possible. As we had a good meal on board, nothing much was required before bedtime.
Due to previous Pipe Band engagements in Germany, we were, for the first time in eighteen years, without Jimmy Shaw to look after our culinary needs, and with the advent of contract catering it is rather sad that we shall no longer have Jimmy's services at camp. I think it was Jimmy's home cooking that kept everyone happy after a few days on compo and biscuits AB. For the first time in my life I discovered what AB meant. I should like to thank him for all his help to us in two camps a year over that long period of time.
Twenty-one cadets set off in ideal conditions from Ballygrant to Ballygrant via a few odd hills and bogs, and true to form it was head down and bash on who needs a compass! As one might expect they followed the wrong fork in a burn, putting an extra hour and a
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