22 Engineer Regiment

6 Sqn memory lane

Name	Dave Meacher
Memories	I remember Joining 6 Field Park Sqaudron, in Aden in 1964 from Bomb Disposal, for an emergancy tour, along with a lot more plant people to beef up the sqn for its role of buiding a section of the dahla road from thumier to sheik othman, any body else remember it?
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Name	Ian Bevan
Memories	I joined 6 in January '83, having arrived in Tidders before Xmas during leave. I met up with the Scammel section, part of Plant tp, and soon found a couple of characters. Bill Atherton; Chris Lynch and the "Old Codger" (Who's name escapes me just now). Amongst names that spring to mind in Plant tp are SSgt Mal Smith; Bren Barr; Pete Burrows (Now the braincells are hurting ...) and many others who's faces I can see in my mind, but names escape me. My first memory is of going to Denmark with the Scammels loaded with plant, and finding the RCT had routed us under bridges that were too low. We had to unload the semi-trailers at least a dozen times on route and were 24 hours late reaching the harbour area.
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Name	Nigel Stubbs
Memories	I was prompted to add a few lines here when I saw a name from my dim and distant past. Ian Bevan this is your fault. I servedwith 22 Engr Regt twice, I was with 6 sqn from 75-79 then 8 sqn 81-83 and ending my time back in 6 sqn 83-84. Ians photo from Cyprus gave me a chance to see my old mate Doug Gordon again. I was not aware of all the changes that have taken place in the old regt. I emigrated to Canada in 1988 and have not made it home for 10 years.
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Name	Bob Graves
Memories	I was in 6 Sqn from 1976-78 and I think that my photos from Blair Athol will show Nigel Stubs next to me.
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Name	Peter Melia
Memories	I remember Blair Atholl, Vaguely, anybody know where Pat Moran is now. Oh and I remember Chester notably the entertainment I managed to lay on
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Name	Chris 'Scouse' Markham.
Memories	Just to let the lads from 6 squadron know I like reading your comments about what went on after I left the service. I joined up for two years in November 1955 and after training was sent out to Tripoli, North Africa, ending up in 6 Field Park Squadren, as it was then called. Never seen anything on the net about possible reunions though. It would be nice to see some of my old mates from 50 years ago Wish I had some pictures of them to share with you, they looked horrible then. God knows what they look like now !
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Name	Steve (ZED) Zielinski
Memories	Joined 6 Fld Supp Sqn just before it became 6 HQ Sqn. Spent most of my time in the carpenters workshop. Along with Capt Bell and Capt (retired) Phil O' Brain, and a number of clerk of works. For a short time I was the Ord Cpl under the watchful eye of WO2 Andy Reed. Left the army in 1995 after 22 years. If anyone still remembers me drop me aline
E-mail	stephen@szielinski1.wanadoo.co.uk

Name	Bob Graves
Memories	Hi Pete do you meen the strippers on our last niht in Chester.
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Name	Bernie Beirne - Ludgershall - MACC task 1981
Memories	Back in 81(swing the lamp) me, that�s Bernie, Stu Howarth and I think Jim Hicketts were posted outof 6 Fd Spt Sqn during our yearly jaunt out to Cyprus, so we were stuck in Perham Down as rear party. ( and with your girlfriends ha ha ha) We had a Macc task or more probably a Military Aid to the Military Community if there was such a thing. We had to build a car park in the depot at Ludgershall. Just on the right before you got to the rail bridge that led to 6 Sqn�s local pub, the Queen�s arms or something like that. (and that wonderful Chinky!!!) Everything had been organised and all we Lcpls had to do was to lay the hardcore, the fines and level it and roll it into a dirt car park. Then bugger off to Nienburg. It was a stinking hot July / August and we milked it for every second. Stripped down to the waist we drove the Muirhill, Aveling Barford dump truck and MK 2 Grader (I�ve forgotten the make) to Ludgershall. After introductions to the camp commandant he happily let us continue, confident in the ability of these local Sappers to make his car park. We stripped the top soil over a couple of scorching days, inter spacing the work with visits to our local pub. Returning only after it had closed to sunbathe shitfaced in the blistering heat. Then the �hardcore� turned up! It came from a demolished stable / G1098 store / landrover garage down in Tidworth and was full of parts of brick wall some 1 yard in diameter! We had to break it up but couldn�t get a crusher and one of my memories of this event is of Stu, stripped to the waist, smashing the rubble with a sledge hammer in the white hot sun. We were a chain gang and the visits to the pub got longer and the work day shorter. Eventually one of us, I can�t remember who, but as I�m writing this, I�ll claim it as me, went to the camp commandant and asked if they had a crusher. After all they stored all the army�s war reserve. They must have. They only had A class vehicles, tanks and the like. A crusher was a C class vehicle, which were in � god knows, I forget now. But� he offered to lend us a Cent Bridgelayer without the bridge. We could drive up and down on the rubble and crush up the big bits. Oh what fun. I (my story right?!) jumped at the chance and Stu and Jim were agog when I drove up onto the car park rubble in a huge Centurion bridge layer. With Rommel Goggles from the G1098 we drove up and down on the rubble all day, the cent�s tracks throwing up a huge cloud of brick dust that embedded our hair, skin and lightweights. When the Bridgelayer ran out of fuel, we simply went to the Depot�s POL point and filled it up. The supply was endless! It took us two weeks and a lot of brekkys, pies, beer and diesel but we managed to complete the task. The depot now had a reasonable car park with which to park their cars on muddy days. It wasn�t until we got to Nienburg that I heard through the grapevine that we had used up nearly the entire Squadron�s yearly allotment of diesel.
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