Regimental art

[Bob Lake]

Colonel Richard Sinnett has discovered a very interesting BBC site showing much of our Regimental Artworks. Try the following URL

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/<wbr>yourpaintings/paintings/<wbr>search/located_at/royal-welch-<wbr>fusiliers-regimental-museum-<wbr>6909_locations (http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/search/located_at/royal-welch-fusiliers-regimental-museum-6909_locations)

Bob

[ap1]

Thanks Bob,

Pleased to see Norman the Goat Major included in the collection, that picture is a great story in its self.

[richie264]

By pure coincidence, Lee Cello was on the DELTA'S REUNION FB page enquiring as to where he could get a copy of the Powys Castle, Tercentenary picture from ?

The best live show myself & half my family have witnessed, well they were local & I'd come up from Shorncliffe, I wish I was on it. I do have the video of this & of HM The Queens visit to Warminster, I will mesg JMac & ask him if he still has the means to copy them on to disc & put them on here.

[dcdl12976]

Some wonderfull art work there, i enjoyed looking.

[Dai72]

You can copy them has I have started too, so should be able to put them on here.

[richie264]

I wouldn't know where to start I'll drop Jmac a line he only lives up the road. Looking at the NI 81 picture, which I've never seen before, The NCO's seem to be wearing large black Chevrons, at the time we wore the small squares with the stripes embroidered on & I don't think the Bn have ever worn black stripes certainly in this era, also many seem to be wearing full belt order including gas mask pouches !, Although I do remember later in the tour we had to carry fire extinguishing kit within in the team, so a possibility there ? however by then we were not allowed to wear denims as they melted on to your legs when set on fire.Mac McCarthey !!

[Dai72]

Rich

Click on the link, then open the picture . Right click then Save as and you can save to your computer.


I wouldn't know where to start I'll drop Jmac a line he only lives up the road. Looking at the NI 81 picture, which I've never seen before, The NCO's seem to be wearing large black Chevrons, at the time we wore the small squares with the stripes embroidered on & I don't think the Bn have ever worn black stripes certainly in this era, also many seem to be wearing full belt order including gas mask pouches !, Although I do remember later in the tour we had to carry fire extinguishing kit within in the team, so a possibility there ? however by then we were not allowed to wear denims as they melted on to your legs when set on fire.Mac McCarthey !!

[richie264]

Oh sorry Dai I thought you meant loading videos :twitcy: Yeh I can do the photos fine.

[ap1]

I wouldn't know where to start I'll drop Jmac a line he only lives up the road. Looking at the NI 81 picture, which I've never seen before, The NCO's seem to be wearing large black Chevrons, at the time we wore the small squares with the stripes embroidered on & I don't think the Bn have ever worn black stripes certainly in this era.!!

Think he's used a bit of artistic licence Ritch. I think I can recognise, Lt Col Reece, JCW, Des Williams 54. It also looks like Jimmy Hawkins supervising the Loading Bay, with Williams 13(I think) from 2 Pl stood off to the far right. It looks like a mixture of personnel from across the Bn. I note it wasn't finished until a decade after the event.

[richie264]

Yeh I was saying to the guy's on FB I think it was a bit of a mish mash, looking at the print I thought the C/gt might be Alun Ankers & the tall guy behind Jimmy God he was a tall Cpl, was it Thomas ?? Good picture though, like the little observation of the guy at the loading bay having his sling hooked onto his the carrying handle.

[ap1]

I don't think Al was a SNCO then? I think the artist has possibly sketched Des and Jimmy (Des was Jimmy's boss, same platoon), also The CO and JCW. Both JCW and Des look chunkier than they actually were.