BRIAN COLLINS
22-06-2008, 13:08
email rec'd from Fred Griffin :-
I was in the R E M E attached to the Head Quarters of the R W F from 1951 onwards and for about 20 months.
I was in Jamaica . There was a hurricane whilst I was there, when the Penitentiary wall came down and many prisoners got out, all going to the women’s quarters rather than elsewhere. I got to know more Welch lads than others. One in particular Derrick R Phillips, and Peter ? both clerks at HQ. both were School Teachers, I have since learnt Derrick, signed on for twenty five years in the Army Educational Corps, and became a Major. Also a PHD of Philosophy. I know he is alive and living in Gwent. I am now age 76 and living in Cornwall. So everyone I knew would be 75 +. I assume there are records of the names of those who where in Jamacica during 1951/53. I would recognize the names of those in the HQ, plus others if I saw them. Can you assist in tracing any of them.?
fredgriffin@btinternet.com
Thanks, Brian
I was in the R E M E attached to the Head Quarters of the R W F from 1951 onwards and for about 20 months.
I was in Jamaica . There was a hurricane whilst I was there, when the Penitentiary wall came down and many prisoners got out, all going to the women’s quarters rather than elsewhere. I got to know more Welch lads than others. One in particular Derrick R Phillips, and Peter ? both clerks at HQ. both were School Teachers, I have since learnt Derrick, signed on for twenty five years in the Army Educational Corps, and became a Major. Also a PHD of Philosophy. I know he is alive and living in Gwent. I am now age 76 and living in Cornwall. So everyone I knew would be 75 +. I assume there are records of the names of those who where in Jamacica during 1951/53. I would recognize the names of those in the HQ, plus others if I saw them. Can you assist in tracing any of them.?
fredgriffin@btinternet.com
Thanks, Brian