24 missile regt RA. Padeborn ( X survey troop )

Anyone from x survey troop around ? Mike sutton.

I was survey troop reme fitter in Paderborn from 1966-1970, went to Norway with them in '66 I think it was.

what happened to the Rear Link Det R Signals hardly a mention

250th Anniversary of the Royal Artillery -   24th Missile Regiment RA

Celebrated at Paderborn   26 – 29 May 1966

Families visited from England (Mums and Dads - living in 51 and 34 Bty Lines)
Regimental Sports Day
Massive Sgts' Mess Ball in the Pader Schützenhalle (near Paderborn East Bahnhof!)
Outings to Möhnesee.

Commanding Officer                                                               Lt Col JI Dawson RA

Second in Command                                                                Maj PB Hartland RA

Adjutant                                                                                     Capt PCR Howes RA

WO1 (RSM)                                                                                WO1 (RSM) TES Egan



2 Heavy Battery (Hinds Coy) RA

Battery Commander                                                              Maj JF Gibbs RA

BSM                                                                                     WO2 (BSM) DL Cator



34 (Seringapatam) Heavy Battery RA

Battery Commander                                                                Maj JL Griffiths RA

BSM                                                                                       WO2 (BSM) FG Greening



51 (Kabul 1842) Missile Battery RA

Battery Commander                                                                Maj MOF Fausset RA

BSM                                                                                       WO2 (BSM) M Quinn BEM



76 (Maude’s) Missile Battery RA

Battery Commander                                                                Maj G Avery RA

BSM                                                                                       WO2 (BSM) GK Booth



Headquarter Battery

Battery Commander                                                                Maj HPL Saunderson  RA

BSM                                                                                       WO2 (BSM) CC Rayner



Workshops REME
Officer Commanding                                                               Capt H Dennis REME

Historic film applies to all Missile / Heavy regiments in their own sweet way!


https://www.facebook.com/conflictsvietnam.com.br/videos/2508623579381815 Kit and Caboodle and Guns and Vehs

My father, ASM 'Bob' Penny was LAD REME with 24 in 1962-65.

[quote="MIKE S"]Anyone from x survey troop around ?   Mike sutton.[/
Hya Mike
I hope this the same Mike I'm thinking of.
I was in x survey troop from 1966 until April 1969.
My name is Bill Rawnsley.
At the time our BSM was Ed Rayner and our TC was Capt. Short

HQ Bty (where X Svy Tp lived when not out "calibrating", as did  R Signals Radio Rear Link Det and the Stores Section RAOC)   all funnies in a Msl RegtRA) in May 1966

Headquarter Battery

Battery Commander                                                                Maj HPL Saunderson  RA

BSM                                                                                       WO2 (BSM) CC Rayner

at a later stage the  BC was a Maj Arthur Harvey - leader of the .22 LR shooting team.

Putting 24 Missile Regiment RA Paderborn back in view for the not many left who served Honest John or 8 in towed Howitzer, back in the day.
39 Msl Regt Sennelager and 50 Msl Regt Menden  complete the set each consisting 4 Firing Batteries and HQ Bty with echelons.

Missile Regiments had a large manpower establishment,  an extensive G1098 and respectable vehicle park, the composition included:
a roaming Survey Troop (S tradesmen) covering most of Germany with pegs, and noting where they were
(and each HJ/Gun Bty had Regtl Svyrs (A Tradesmen) with Correction  of the Moment (CofM) trailers with weather balloons and anemometer) and Bty Svyrs (B Tradesmen) -  theodolites/directors are us)
a Rear Link Detachment R Signals for long range communications (can remember them setting a long aerial above the roof ridge of HQ Bty  Block (Blk 15)  Barker Barracks to communicate with elements (at different times) in Norway and Denmark and Camp du Larzac in France, and Bad Kissingen or Grafenwohr and the Ski Team - anywhere from Silberhutte to Kärnten).
a Workshop REME - back then we had Mack Trucks and towed howiters, a variety of International Harvester long bodies/launchers and wreckers (cranes) and Pole Trailers, Land Rovers, Bedfords, Champs, Commer and Fordson Box bodies and motorcycles
a Stores Section RAOC - with such a varied Equipment Table and Vehicle Park, needed an extensive range of UK/US  spares.

Petrol was the only fuel back then - no tankers, just a Bedford per Bty loaded to the gills with filled jerricans, for major exercises  filled jerricans were stockpiled beside roads - it was easy to drop off empties and replen with filled cans - but hardwork swinging 50 lbs of jerrican on to the Bedford at night.  All replen was by night, in the dark. (Our Bty POL Bdr in the late 1960s (now deceased) only "discovered" he was colour blind after demolishing a Shell petrol station with his truckload after failing the traffic light test following a very long and tiring night move. Nothing blew-up but locals had no pumps for a couple of days. And after he had cross-loaded his jerricans off a bent Bedford on to one that had hurriedly had canopy and superstrcture removed, our Bdr could not even be employed as co-driver anywhere. Not comfortable in the back of the Q Bedford.)