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Topic: Cyprus '84 Dukes Coy...not Charles...sorry. (Read 1115 times)
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I've learned two things this evening, 1) "We were soldiers once.....and young...." ; and 2) I was a lousy photographer
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Just for an FYI. If you cursor the picture and R button click, the image opens in a much larger format.
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1RCR 1977-79 Depot (Italy PL), B Coy, Mortars, Pioneers, D Coy (CFB London)
3RCR 1979-82 M Coy, Pipes & Drums, Sigs, Mortars. (CFB Baden-Soellingen)
1RCR 1982-88 Mortars. Dukes, Cyprus-Welfare NCO 84-85, Injured, WO&Sgts Mess, (CFB London)
1988-92 Med-remuster to HELL/ 35 DU, CFB Baden
1992 Medical release. God Bless you all!
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Hey Johnny, looking good (rambo-like) on the gate
xmas dinner: Joe Henry in back(now in Gagetown MSE OP); Pete Simpson(remember whisky dolly); and my good friend and fellow Newf,Dave Smith...i missed that dinner as I was on the line at ?Frezenberg House
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1RCR Duke's Coy '82 - '87; Cyprus '84 / '85
LOTPed medic 1988; CFH Halifax '88 - '90
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2RCR medic '95 - '00; SFOR Bosnia, 2RCR Roto 4 '99;
42 Hlth Svc Gagetown '00 - '02
CFRC Gagetown / Fredericton '02 - '06; 'retired' Aug '06
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John was that the Camp maple leaf gate 
Now I remember like yesterday 
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back of the picture said golf gate...yep, maple leaf...jammy post for a day.
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John your right you take a crappy photo
The days before digital
Imagine if we had digital then  
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Imagine if we had digital then
Good god no! too much incriminating evidence! LOL
[i][/i]'What happens in the field, stays in the field'...&...'work hard, play hardier'...
By the way John, Tom medically released a few years back as a refrige tech; him and Laurie retired to his hometown in northern NB, 'Jagoe Beach' or something like that; not too far from Bathurst; he is still as crazy as ever; great guy at a party. We both were at our last two postings: Chatham & Gagetown.
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1RCR Duke's Coy '82 - '87; Cyprus '84 / '85
LOTPed medic 1988; CFH Halifax '88 - '90
119 AD Bty medic, CFB Chatham '90 - '95
2RCR medic '95 - '00; SFOR Bosnia, 2RCR Roto 4 '99;
42 Hlth Svc Gagetown '00 - '02
CFRC Gagetown / Fredericton '02 - '06; 'retired' Aug '06
HMCS Jolliet, Sept-Iles QC, medical staff / 'tiffy' (reserves)
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Tommy and I were assigned a room together in Lydra palace...always wondered why i never had clean gitch....he used to take them, wear them and stick them back in my laundry...lol
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Pic 3 I see riv Kennedy in the back ground
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were either of you on my flight back from Cyprus? One of the jr or snr nco's, don't remember his name but he was of the impromptu Toga party fame...stood up as the flight attendants were serving meals and yells, "Now we eat...soon....... we shall mate!" I'll have to dig out my Eight Point Star issues tonight and see if i can put a name to the face.
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Last Pic
Tom Lochre, ?, John Bergen, Dave Downie
Dale Cole , ?
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Pete Murphy...I was going to say Bill Munro, but Bill didn't smoke...and bill was taking the picture..doh.
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Great pictures, if you don't mind, I'm gonna copy a couple of em as all my Cyprus photes were lost in the great deluge....
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1RCR 1977-79 Depot (Italy PL), B Coy, Mortars, Pioneers, D Coy (CFB London)
3RCR 1979-82 M Coy, Pipes & Drums, Sigs, Mortars. (CFB Baden-Soellingen)
1RCR 1982-88 Mortars. Dukes, Cyprus-Welfare NCO 84-85, Injured, WO&Sgts Mess, (CFB London)
1988-92 Med-remuster to HELL/ 35 DU, CFB Baden
1992 Medical release. God Bless you all!
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I will gladly share. I'll post some more irrelevant Cyprus pics for that purpose as well.
(by irrelevant i meant not specific people etc.)
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Thanks John. Yer a good man!
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1RCR 1977-79 Depot (Italy PL), B Coy, Mortars, Pioneers, D Coy (CFB London)
3RCR 1979-82 M Coy, Pipes & Drums, Sigs, Mortars. (CFB Baden-Soellingen)
1RCR 1982-88 Mortars. Dukes, Cyprus-Welfare NCO 84-85, Injured, WO&Sgts Mess, (CFB London)
1988-92 Med-remuster to HELL/ 35 DU, CFB Baden
1992 Medical release. God Bless you all!
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Clair "Whytie" Whyte
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Hey boy's, great to see some great cyprus pictures from the past. Was in C Company and recognize some faces from the first picture, Dave Blake and Jeff Redsell (they were in C as well, not A).
The time spent in Cyprus 84 has to be one of the highlights of my life, the beaches, the bars, the women, the OP's (okay, maybe not the OP's) but everything else was a blast.
Really miss my days in 1 RCR and often wish I hadn't jumped ship so early, youth can really make you do some stupid things.
I now work for the Strathroy-Caradoc Police Service as a communications operator and Communications Co-Ordinator for our Emergency Response Unit. I love my job and living in Strathroy but miss alot of the old friends from 1 RCR London.
Hoping to see more pictures posted from our trip abroad and hearing from any old C Company friends.
Clair "Whytie" Whyte
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I have all those matching pictures from that set John, somewhere in my basement or somewhere. When I find them I'll get my son to show my how to upload them here. Should be good for a laugh. We WERE young once!!! Respects Bill Munroe
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Do any of you have pictures from the RCR 66-67 Cyprus tour?
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I found a few photos in a shoebox.... Blue Beret Camp...
Home sweet home... at least briefly...
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1RCR 1977-79 Depot (Italy PL), B Coy, Mortars, Pioneers, D Coy (CFB London)
3RCR 1979-82 M Coy, Pipes & Drums, Sigs, Mortars. (CFB Baden-Soellingen)
1RCR 1982-88 Mortars. Dukes, Cyprus-Welfare NCO 84-85, Injured, WO&Sgts Mess, (CFB London)
1988-92 Med-remuster to HELL/ 35 DU, CFB Baden
1992 Medical release. God Bless you all!
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...if you don't get that camera out of my face by the time I get these glasses off, Sergeant, I'm gonna...
Yes, sergeant major....
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1RCR 1977-79 Depot (Italy PL), B Coy, Mortars, Pioneers, D Coy (CFB London)
3RCR 1979-82 M Coy, Pipes & Drums, Sigs, Mortars. (CFB Baden-Soellingen)
1RCR 1982-88 Mortars. Dukes, Cyprus-Welfare NCO 84-85, Injured, WO&Sgts Mess, (CFB London)
1988-92 Med-remuster to HELL/ 35 DU, CFB Baden
1992 Medical release. God Bless you all!
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