2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment

C.S.M. Ernest William Fereday
Army Service No. 5334942

ERNEST WILLIAM FEREDAY
28TH MARCH 1916 - 24TH OCTOBER 1995

2nd Row more or less the same group but include a staff Sergeant, a Regular. He stands on the extreme right. Notice that they all wear medal ribbons, they all served during the war. The next photo is the Guard Mounting Ceremony in the camp at Chickerell. I am the Guard Commander, second from the left.
Bottom Left, first photo is the Regular Warrant Officer once more. Middle photo is again the Regular Sergeant Major and me. The third photo is of me supervising the issue of rations in the camp. It looks as if I have my right hand in my pocket! I hope not! That was a crime for a soldier to be seen with his hands in his pocket.

While we were at Chickerell camp, just outside Weymouth, we again had an invitation to visit a destroyer down in the dock, this was at Portland Bill. We went to sea for a short exercise and the top three photos are of the destroyer...

[LS90-5] Next photo is on a Rifle Range on a week-end camp. The lads are sitting there eating their rations they brought with them and chickens from the local farm are waiting for any crumbs that may be available.

Now at this point, my army career, both Regular and Territorial Army experiences came to a close. For several reasons I found it necessary to finish the TA and in the very long period, after all the photo history of the family exists in other albums. This album is dedicated to my Army experiences.

During this period, it was announced publicly, in the newspapers and on the news media in general, that a lot of changes were going to take place in the Regular Army. Units would be amalgamated with other units, the choice of name were argumentative. The Royal Berkshire Regiment, that is my old regiment, was virtually disbanded and amalgamated with the Wiltshire Regiment. So as far as I knew the Royal Bershire Regiment no longer existed and there were no reunions for the Royal Berkshire. As I was in touch with several of my old comrades, who I have mentioned before, they eventually found that there still was an OCA meeting (Old Comrades Association) taking place at the Old Barracks, Reading and eventually finding out that the next one, we all met there done so ever since.

October 1983

P 1 :: P 2 :: P 3 :: P 4 :: P 5 :: P 6 :: P 7 :: P 8 :: P 9 :: P 10


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Vetera T.A. Reunion
Veteran T.A. Reunion.

Press Cutting
Press Cutting Veteran T.A. Reunion.


Signed Souvenir Christmas Menu India December 1944.

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