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Information that was in the OLD Guestbook that was Shut Down ?? !!
as from 23th Feb. 2007 till 3 Sep. 2007
57 Regt RA Club - 1950/60's era -
OLD - Guestbook
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13 entries on 1 page(s)
1083 hits since 2007-Feb-23 20:15:31
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Date: 2007-09-03 17:42:01
Pete Thomas ( peteatthetop@yahoo.co.uk / no homepage) wrote:
Just found this website having read your comments on 27 regt RA guestbook. My father served
with 57 in Orsett camp and was discharged in 59 but would like to contact anyone who remembers him, his name was Tal Thomas,
and I believe he was the RQMS on discharge
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Date: 2007-08-29 18:25:36
Maurice Harper ( mauriceh@fish.co.uk / no homepage) wrote:
I served with 108 Bty and was Adjt with Col.Tailyour followed by Col.Coldstream, from
1948 to 1951. Brig.Turnbull was Bde Comd. I was posted to Mons OCS, Aldershot,then Manobier Gunnery Staff Course, then Singapore
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Date: 2007-07-22 19:21:35
Charlie Knock ( cjk615@hotmail.com / http://msn.uk) wrote:
Worked in Pay Office 160 Battery 57 HAA Regt from 1949-1952 then 5 years TA
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Date: 2007-06-16 16:01:56
Bob DAY ( bobday.bobdays@virgin.net / no homepage) wrote:
I served as a gunner with 57th HAA Regt.RA at Orsett Camp from about May 1948 until the
end of 1950. When the Royal Signals vacated the camp, gunners had to be found to man the camp switchboard. I was one of the
chosen few. The Lance Bombadier in charge was Mike O'Reardon a failed officer cadet. It was quite a cushy number with no guard
duties, no piquet duty.
57 Regt was part of 6 AA Bde and the Brigadier was named Tailyour. (forgive the spelling) Before
the switchboard days I used to have to go out to AAOR Vange and man it for inspection. It was so hot in there I was often
caught asleep and got a rollacking for it. Happy days. I eventually rejoined as a regular and was posted to 27th Missile Regt.
where I became a clerk and ended my days as Sgt(AC) 1st Artillery Brigade, Dortmund. I belong to the Artillery Clerks' Association
and have attended reunions at Woolwich - next year will be at Larkhill. I am also Hon. Sec. of the local RAA Association.
Happy memories!
Bob
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Date: 2007-06-16 15:47:55
Bob DAY ( bobday.bobdays@virgin.net / no homepage) wrote:
Delighted to sww Bill Robertson's photograph of 57 HAA Regt RA pointing out Harry Spinks.
A fine soldier. He lived just down he road from me and I often visited him because he was a very ill person. Sadly he passed
away last year and the local branch of the RAA was well in attendance at the cremation.
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Date: 2007-05-14 11:10:51
RON SIMMONS ( PMSIMMONS@HOTMAIL.CO.UK / http://GOOGLE.HUDDI.COM/) wrote:
I WAS IN THE 104/57 HAA. BATTERY FROM AUG1950/AUG1952 AT ORSETT CAMP GRAYS ESSEX LIKE TO HEAR FROM ANY
OLD PALS
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Date: 2007-04-05 10:37:47
mr land ( keithwland@hotmail.co.uk / no homepage) wrote:
me a voleenteer for grays museum. i love your web page of the 57.
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Date: 2007-04-01 20:28:41
Dennis Reeve ( cdreeve@freeuk.com / no homepage) wrote:
Am about to join the club. Was in 100 Regt at Orsett Camp from May 1947,100 Regt was redesignated
57 Regt about early 1948, am still in touch with one of my pals from those days, Ted Lloyd and hope to get in touch with others
from those days
Dennis
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Date: 2007-03-27 14:48:21
Colin Prewett ( colinprewett@aol.com / no homepage) wrote:
Hi I have already put a message on this siteI am so pleased about this site as I had thought
about it and talked about it for a long time.
I have found a few lads that had been in the 57 Regt at the same time as
me and after me and we have become good friends from letters and E-Mail.
It doesn't matter when you were in either Orsett
Camp or Milton Barracks you are still a 57 Gunner so please come and join us.
I am also sending my praises to the man
who as put the time in for this site I think he as done a great job and CONGRTULATION TO MICHAEL (CABBY)HUGHES GOD LUCK MICHAEL
COLIN PREWETT
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Date: 2007-03-19 19:54:25
william robertson ( robertson310@aol.com / no homepage) wrote:
I was staioned at orsett camp essex 1957 then the 57th moved to milton barracks and leaving
feb 1959 then I joined the TAs aberdeen for a year. and i was on 4 years reserves
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Date: 2007-03-01 11:16:19
Brian Beedham ( brianbeedham@economist.com / no homepage) wrote:
Great to see (and hear) memories of long ago. Let's keep in touch.
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Date: 2007-02-25 15:07:11
colin prewett ( colinprewett@aol.com / no homepage) wrote:
I was at Orsett camp Grays Essex from Aug 1948 to April 1950 I was first in 104 Bty and
did my Basic training and MT drivers coarse then when passed out I went into 108 Bty .
I came to Orsett from Oswestry
and I made pals with three other lads that came with me and we stayed pals until we came out .
Jack Smith from Worksop
stayed in and should have gone to Hong Kong .the other three of us parted company on St Pancras St Station April The 5th 1950
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I had been trying to find them up until 2003 when I made contact who had moved to Canada him and his wife came over
to see us ,two weeks after they had gone back I found another one in Sheffield and we keep in touch.
The other one jack
Smith I am still trying to trace him , I was driving to all the gun sites and for the QM in RHQ when I came out
Cheers
Colin
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Date: 2007-02-23 20:38:26
Michael Hughes ( the57regtraclub@aol.com / http://57regtraclub.trypod.com) wrote:
Hi,
Myself (Michael Hughes) & (Colin Prewett)- have started this website & Guestbook
to bring togather the LAD's that served with the 57 Regt RA in the 1950/60's era. You can leave your messages here - so your
Buddies can read them and make contact.
GOOD LUCK - Michael & Colin
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IT'S Good Bye -
Info from the people that ran our Guestbook for us !! ??
Fri, 05 Oct 2007 (Philemon)
- With the last change yesterday, we introduced a glitch that resulted in a parsing error or entries displayed several times.
The problem is fixed now. We also cleared the guestbook dump cache where needed, so that you can download a corrected version.
Sorry for the inconveniences.
- For those whose guestbooks received new entries since they downloaded the dump, we also cleared the guestbook dump cache
once. Since no new entries are possible, this will be the final version.
Fri, 14 Sep 2007, ongoing (Philemon)
- Today I have sad news. The guestbook service will be discontinued.
It's been 11 years now. Those of you who have been with us for a long time know us for taking quality seriously. With the
years, a lot of things happened and some years ago focus changed away from the guestbook service. We did not want that to
affect you too much and so continued to provide the service for you. But for some time now, we have come to a point where
our high quality of standards cannot be met with the resources available to the guestbook service. That is why we have come
to this decision.
Let me explain the timeline: (current step is bold)
- Add possibility to download the guestbook entries as dump. -> done on 2007-09-14
- Add link to download guestbook dump to Control-Center -> done on 2007-09-19
- Wait at least 2 weeks -> done on 2007-10-03
- Disable posting of new entries -> done on 2007-10-04
- Wait at least 2 weeks -> done on 2007-10-18
- Replace guestbook's by download link -> done on 2007-10-24
- Wait at least 4 weeks
- Shut service down.
This timeline is chosen to have a balance between discontinuing the service and giving you the opportunity to handle the
situation, i.e. save the entries, maybe smoothly transfer to a different service and so on. There is a time window of 2 weeks
during which the service is not affected at all. Another 2 weeks with only posting being disabled. Only after a month the
guestbook pages will be replaced, that should give most users the chance to react.
You find the link to download the mentioned guestbook dump on your Control-Center, which is linked
to from the bottom of your guestbook in all default styles.
Update: Thank you for all your offers (e.g. giving a one-time or yearly donations) and suggestions, but rest assured that
we spent quite some time to consider all options over the course of the last couple of years, and none satisfied our ambitions.
From a solution we expect more than being able to run the service for another year or two (been there, done that), but to
enable us to envision a future another 11 years from now.
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