15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars - Paderborn 1977 - 1984

Deployed with 3 Armd Div to BAOR and became active 1 January 1978. 3 Armd Div Recce Regt until autumn 1984.

Your comment has been added to the Alanbrooke Barracks page, under your previous contribution.

Paul.

I,ll dig out some of my photo's and put them on when I figure out how to do it. To tired at the moment

a belated welcome to the site ,i too served in the regt from 67 to 71 at witch time 1 transfered to the AAC.

Katrice Lee disappearance (child of the Regiment) Nov 1981
24 Sep 2019
https://www.forces.net/news/royal-military-police-arrest-person-connection-katrice-lees-disappearance

The arrested person has been released without charge 25092019

Enquiries continue  (also reported in German papers)

Pborn4 wrote:

Katrice Lee disappearance (child of the Regiment) Nov 1981
24 Sep 2019
https://www.forces.net/news/royal-military-police-arrest-person-connection-katrice-lees-disappearance

The arrested person has been released without charge 25092019

Enquiries continue  (also reported in German papers)

Katrice literally disappeared on my shift. I'd married in August and moved into a private hire to await a quarter. We were allocated a quarter in the last week of November. I booked local leave to move our possessions.

In iirc February 1980, while I was crewing HMSTY Sabre, the Army's entry in the Tall Ships Race from Gosport to Gibraltar on her way to the start, a colonel was murdered by IRA terrorists near Corps HQ in Bielefeld. This led to garrisons providing patrols around quarters estates and the garrison area.

I was volunteered for such a duty on Saturday 28 Nov 81 despite my local leave. Not impressed. Rocked up at the Provost Company HQ in the Squadron Leader's FFR Land Rover to be briefed, then set off on 8 hours driving around the garrison.

Because we hadn't had the chance to shop in the local NAAFI at Elsenheide yet, on one pass through the grounds of the main Schloß Neuhaus NAAFI, I called in to pick up bits and bobs. It was absolutely heaving. We drove through the NAAFI grounds a number of times before, about 1600 we were refuelling the FFR at end of task when the radio squawked. We were to get back to Schloß Neuhaus immediately, where a child had gone missing.

There were a number of duty personnel present, but there was nothing to be found. We were eventually knocked off. Back to camp, park up FFR, take own car home.

Following (Sunday) morning, back to the hiring to continue moving stuff. I was struck by a sudden severe stomach pain, and bluelighted into a Krankenhaus, where I spent a week. Friday afternoon, allowed home.

My wife had called in on Monday morning to let the squadron know where I was. The squadron assumed she'd come to see me and told her everybody was scouring the countryside. They hadn't missed me.

It was only on Friday afternoon that I learned that the missing girl was daughter of my friend Richie Lee.

That week has been with me ever since.