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ADUNI Memorial Dedication (6 Sep) DVD now available
RAF Police Dog Handlers/Kennelmaids and Friends Reunion 2009 pictures (19 June)
Whilst I was on permanant days the NCO i/c Dog Section RAF Steamer Point got me to cement up the cracks in the broken walls to deter ticks between the spells of tracking excercises I was doing. I didn't have the heart to tell him he didn't know what he was talking about.
Mel Price
X Group Aden 1963-1965 Khornmaksar
Dog Handlers Reunion at RAF Netheravon in 1989.
Back Row
Ken Huxtable Frank Grimson Jim Babb Bev Stapleton Mick Chidgey Geordie Jordison Bill Sanderson Ted Johnson John McWhirter
John Wardley Eddie Heal Andrew Dane Jim Hogan Harry Evans Peter Trehane Al Murray John Field Al Whitelaw Ian Soulsbury
???????-Clive Gilmore Red Kennedy Paddy Lyons Vic Jones Dennis Cockerill George Clapperton Roy Jessup Jim Dishington
Jim Williamson Daz Fry
Centre Row.
Mel Price Bill Booth Dave Remnant Mick Freeman Bob Pike Mel Owen Dick Findlay Andy Hamilton Dick Coulson Geoff Rowe
Ben Mason - Tom Crowley Terry McHaffie - John Ancell Viv Ancell (nee Hart) Sheila Gilmore Johnson Betty Heal Eddie Snailum
Roy West Bob Bruce Dave Guthrie Tony Blakeham Phil Andrews Trev Figgins Denis Mew Andy Andrews.
Front Row
Taff Davies Cyril Mills - ???????? Mrs Freeman - ??????? Sue Findlay Margaret Hamilton Chris Coulson Chris Rowe Lil Wardley
Betty Mason Brenda Mew Mr Fricker Maggie Owens George Irvin Cindy Davies (nee Rathbone) - ?????? Mrs Snailum - ???????
Mrs Bruce Jenny Guthrie Rosemary Finbow
This is an incomplete photograph in the Archives.
Just a trip down memory lane for some but can anyone complete the picture with the names of the missing marked with ?????
Thanks in anticipation
John
From Matthew Geuyen - Cloggie
If you are the owner of one of those dangerous "FIGHTING DOGS",
and you also have a small child running around the house....
Please be warned!!!
NEVER, EVER leave the dog alone with the child !!
Under no circumstances !!!
This owner left his child behind with the dog...only for a short while...
and this is what happened.....
RAF Police Dog Handlers
& Kennelmaids
Those of
you
that regularly enter the Forum on the Web
Site, may be
aware that I have produced an Instrumental CD of music for
the Dog
Handlers & Kennelmaids
All the Tracks on the CD where selected
by members of the
RAFPA, except one
which my wife chose. I
Arranged all the tunes, Played
them,
Recorded them, Mixed
and
Edited them all. One track, the last one, QPD I wrote
especially for this CD.
There are only a limited number for
sale at the
If you are not
attending the reunion and would like to reserve a copy
please e-mail me at the
address
below and I will send you
details of how to get one. You
will receive it
on the
Mike Neville
I thought that some of our older handlers
may find the programme
of the 1962 trials
interesting.
Note that not only was the parent unit of the
competitors listed but also the police district.
Keith Bell
As a member of the ADU-NI
Association I can update you on this topic.
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The Association was formed in October last year and membership is open to those who were awarded the distinction of being awarded their 2nd Cap Badge i.e. the Red Paw which is only ¼ inch in size and is worn to the left and above the holders parent badge, and had been members of the unit.
The Cap Badge was authorised in 1974 by the then GOC NI to those Dog Handlers attached to the ADU NI. Although the basis of the unit was RAVC staff they were very few in number and were not normally Operational it was down to the handlers from the 22 Regiments and Corps attached to the unit, who were out on the ground.
The Association have started on the 1st January this year to raise funds for a memorial plaque to those handlers who lost their lives whilst Operational and permission has been granted for it to be positioned at the National Arboretum, and for it to be dedicated in October this year on the 2nd anniversary of the disbanding of the unit. If you look at the Association website you will see that our own memorial features as an example.
The following link will take you to the Association website:
http://www.armydogunit-ni.co.uk
Came across this the
other day,might be of interest to guys who served at
Roetgen
Grant
Thorneycroft
Dave is
65 today (15/9/08) and has officially retired and is now
an OAP. He used to work
in security
for the Royal Bank of
Scotland. I
sent him a text this
morning
saying-
Breaking News Flash: The Royal Bank of
Scotland
has gone into
liquidation.
From today all Scottish
old
aged pensioners will have to
go
to
England
to get their
Pensions.
My wife
sent him a
card that she made which had this photo on
it.
Mel Price
This is my 12 year old bitch Penny at RAF Gutersloh in 1970 being taken for a ride by a young male beau. I don't think he got anything out of her do you? - Mel Price
RAF Police Dog Trails - Kai Tak and Seletar - 1958 programme from Mitch
2006 RAF Police Dog Trials - pictures
John Porsch MBE, Chairman of the RMPA, Chichester is also the owner of a specialist security company. He would like to talk to anybody who might be interested in consultancy positions. He is very interested in talking to people with specialist knowledge on dog training. If anyone is interested please contact John on
WARNING FOR THE RAF POL QPD!! 
I received a phone call today from George Clapperton about a book he is writing. He asked me if I could contribute to it in any way from an ex kennelmaids point of view. Apart from supplying him with photo's, I also said I would post a wee note here to requesting any ex dog-handlers to get in touch with George or e-mail me personally and I will pass any details they need to get in touch with George. He told me he has wrote to a lot of people already (Jim Henry being one of them) but hasn't got much so far from kennelmaids. I was a kennelmaid from 1979 to 1986 and served at, apart from Newton, P & S.S. Rheindahlen up to my discharge. If anyone can contribute towards George's book it would be very much appreciated.
Finally, are there any kennelmaids in this group apart from me?? Take care - Liz Rush (nee Waugh) Ljakrush@btinternet.com
'The story of the RAF Police Dogs' by Steve Davies
Is this a dog handlers wife?? has been
asked
the reply has come back:
You have got it wrong mate,the photo must be a
provost or Station policemans wife who wished
she had married into
the cream of
the RAF Police (Dog
Branch)
Sad but
probably
true.
Please forgive the intrusion ...my name is Tom
Newton and I though you may be interested to learn, that
I'm about to add an
article on the
history of the RAFs
Police Dogs,
kindly written for my
page, by
your
own
Stephen Davies,
for: K-9
History: The Dogs Of
War!
http://community-2.webtv.net/Hahn-50thAP-K9/K9History/index.html
Below is the url for what will eventually become the new RAF Police
Dog history page, once it is published; I thought, that
perhaps you may wish to
add a link
to it on your page, for
your former
RAF K9
membership.
http://community-2.webtv.net/Hahn-50thAP-K9/K9History30/
Oh, by the way, I was a former U.S.A.F. K-9 handler at Hahn AB, West
Germany, back in the early
sixties.
Also, and
I
realize it is alot to ask, I would
like to please request the use of a few of
your own K9
photos; Mr. Davies has
use quite a number of
names within
his
article, that I believe match up
with
quite afew
of
your own
photographs.
I have some
current RAF dog photos, that I can use on the page, but it
might be nice to use
some of your
older ones to illustrate
the piece;
that is, if you don't
mind, I
would
apprecaite
it.
Thank you
for your
consideration!
Best
regards,
Tom
(Newton),
USA
ps: I
realize,
that you're Royal Air
Force, but by
any chance do
you know, if the Royal
Marines are still
using
canines
today? I've spent
hours on
their official website, and
heck if I could
find anything
about
their
current use
...other
than that some British Army units do
support them, but no mention of their own
use of dogs
today.
