We congratulate those attaining these ages in 2006:

80: Victor Chapman 27 Mar, 2nd Bn; Geoffrey Lawson 26 Jun, 1st Bn; Kenneth Winfield 9 Jul, 1st Bn & Suffolk; Alexander Hackwill 31 Jul, 1st Bn; Gordon Reynolds 26 Oct, 4 Suffolk, 4 R Norfolk, E Anglian & 5 R Anglian; Maj Kenneth Lywood 23 Nov, R Norfolk.

81: WO2 Alec Barr 15 Feb, BW, 4th Bn & 6 RAnglian; W Plain 25 Feb 1st Bn; William Oliver 1 Oct, 1st Bn; Maj Roy Jenns MBE, 17 Dec, Essex, R Norfolk and R Anglian.

82: John D Sear 17 Jan, 70th Bn; Albert Clarke 5 Feb, 2nd and 70th Bns; Capt John Berney 17 Feb, 2nd and 70th Bns; VJ Wooley BEM 6 Jun, 70th Bn; Leonard Prior 14 Jun, 2nd and 70th Bns; Nevil Griffin 4 Sep, 1st Bn; Maj Alec Power 5 Sep; Capt Philip Page 22 Sep, 2nd Bn; Ronald Chambers 10 Dec.

83: Frank Staples 18 Jan, 1st Bn; Arthur Brighty 16 Mar, 1st and 70th Bns; Maj John Squire 1 Aug, 1st Bn; Thomas Mansell 30 Aug, 1 Suffolk and 70th Bn; Geoff Ransome 16 Sep, 70th Bn, 5th Northants, R Signals; Francis Chivers 14 Nov, 1 Suffolk and 70th Bn; Tony Moody 18 Dec, 70th Bn.

84: Bill Ladmore 5 Apr, 1st, 2nd and 4th Bns; Ernest Callen 14 Oct, 70th Bn and 1 Suffolk; Jack Fletcher 5 Dec, 7th Bn.

85: Norman Baker 2 May, 70th & 1st Bns; John Bracey 19 Jun, 4th Bn; Stanley Barber 21 Jul, 4th & 8th Bns; Capt Maurice Franses 15 Oct, 2nd Bn; George Snape 12 Dec, 1st Bn; 4th Bn Royal Norfolk Regt Officers’ Dinner Club, founded 1921.

86: Maj Tony Ferrier 13 Jan, 1st, 2nd and 5th Bns; Frank Madle 20 Feb, 1st Bn; Capt Eric Gibbons 25 Mar, 7th Bn; Maj JB Watson MC 8 Apr; Revd Bud Fisher 12 Jun, 1st, 2nd and 70th Bns; Capt Tom Higgs 25 Oct, 2nd and 5th Bns.

87: Billy Cotton 12 Jan, 2nd Bn; Capt Gus Gilding 1 Feb, 2nd Bn; Henry Hall 2 Feb, 1st and 2nd Bns; Maj Ernest Ridger 19 Feb, 1st, 7th and 70th Bns; Frank Browne 11 Mar, 1st, 2nd and 6th Bns; Col John Petit OBE 10 Jun, 2nd Bn, 1EA and R Anglian  (d 31 Oct 2006); Lt Col Adrian Robertson 6 Jul, 4th Bn and PARA; Stan Banks 6 Aug, 2nd Bn; Ted Riches 3 Sep, 1st and 2nd Bns; Ted Thackeray 12 Dec, 4th Bn; Gen Jack Dye CBE MC DL, 13 Dec, 1st Bn; Alf Cooke 15 Dec, 1st Bn.

88: Bill Ace Eagle Eye Seymour 1 Mar, 2nd Bn; Arthur Storey 29 Apr, 2nd Bn; Maj Bryan Coward BNN obe ('Bloody Nearly 90' and 'Over Bloody 80' !) 17 May, 2nd and 5th Bns and 2 Suffolk; Capt Lew Edgley-Pyshorn 27 Jun, 1st, 5th and 9th Bns; EA McMath 28 Jun, 7th Bn; Maj Tom Eaton OBE TD DL 13 Oct, 4th Bn; Harold Culley 11 Nov, 1st, 2nd, 70th Bns; William Bullock 2 Dec, 5th Bn.

89: John Slapp 8 Feb, R Signals, 1st Bn, Essex and KAR; Col Bob Knight MBE 18 Apr; Sidney Tuck 6 Jun, 2nd Bn; George R Osborne 1 Jul, 1st and 2nd Bns; Len Batty 26 Nov, 2nd Bn; Lt Col Eric Cooper-Key MBE 8 Dec, 1st Bn.

90: Charles William Carpenter 4 Feb, 1st, 2nd and 5th Bns; Maj Ben Chapman DSO 15 May, 1st Bn; Arthur Loombe 15 Jun.

91: Maj Peter Farrelly TD 16 Oct, 1st and 4th Bns; Maj John Knox Forte MBE 2 Nov, 1st, 2nd, 4th and 7th Bns.

92: Ernest R Leggett 18 Sep, 2nd and 4th Bns.

95: William AT Taylor MA 23 Aug, 10th Bn.

98: Fred Burton 21 Sep, 1 Norfolk. (d 31 Oct 2006)

102: Royal Norfolk Regt Officers’ Dinner Club, founded July 1904.

These records are from the Regimental database and we would be grateful for notification of errors especially if you know of anyone who lied about their age and is younger!  Additional names of any who qualify for the Bryan Coward obe (Over Bloody Eighty - see B&C 96 Jun 01) or his BNN (Bloody Nearly Ninety - see B&C 104 Jun 05) are invited to inform the Norfolk Editor.
[ B&C 105]