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Duke of York School Combined Cadet Force Kenya Regiment (TF) |
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The Duke of York School Combined Cadet Force was affiliated to the Kenya Regiment in which many of the pupils resident in Kenya (as opposed to Uganda) went on to do National Service. Like most schools in the fifties, membership of the Combined Cadet Force was compulsory. The term Combined Cadet Force is still somewhat misleading; it is called that because the officers are teachers at the school concerned - not because the three sections of the armed forces are represented. In the UK many schools at that time, and to this day, have only one section and where this is the case it is usually the army. |
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The CCF Band in front of the Tower in 1960 - PHOTO Malcolm McCrow |
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| 1958. General Inspections were held annually on a Saturday morning each October. The CCF Band leads the parade out to the Games Fields. PHOTO Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| The above photograph shows the Naval Section marching along Brooklands to the playing fields for the 1958 General Inspection. CCF membership like in most schools at that time, was compulsory and was generally not popular. Pupils not in the CCF because they had not yet achieved the age of fourteen-and-a-half had the morning off classes, but were obliged to don Town Dress and observe the proceedings (right above). In 1958 CCF Naval Sections were dressed as seamen, like the Sea Cadet Corps, but in the 1980s the Royal Navy decided to dress its CCF cadets as officers, unlike the Army and the Air Force. PHOTO Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Unfortunately a damaged official school photograph of the CCF Band heading past Upper Junior during the 1958 General Inspection - PHOTO Duke of York School | |||
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During the 1958 General Inspection Major I C Reid - extreme left - accompanies the Inspecting Officers from the Playing Fields after the parade had been inspected. PHOTO - unknown pupil |
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| December 1960and the CCF Naval Section is on parade for the last time. The Navy, being the senior service, is to the right of the Army, now kitted out in the then new Kenya Regiment shirts and shorts which replaced the khaki drill bush jacket and trousers worn up till then for formal parades. This parade is rehearsing for the Speech Day Guard of Honour - PHOTO Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Vintage 3 ton army lorries - some rather more vintage than others - pause for a break on the way to Annual Camp in Nanyuki. The cadets are wearing "monkey suits" which were simply brown boilersuits. The Convoy, which included Prince of Wales School CCF was made up of a motley collection of vehicles including police lorries and even some open top trucks from the Ministry of Works. PHOTO Malcolm McCrow | |||
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Second Lieutenant Eddy Green in GDs and beret at the Isiolo check point at the entrance to the NFD. With him is Captain Lloyd C. Hailstone - seconded from the British Army - and at the time 2 i/c of the Kenya Regiment Training Centre at Nakuru. Lloyd's son, Barrie, was a member of the Prince of Wales School CCF - PHOTO Malcolm McCrow |
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| Archer's Post - an artificial oasis in restricted the Northern Frontier District (NFD) - PHOTO Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Swimming at Archer's Post, CCF Annual Camp 1961 - PHOTO Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Most of that week at Nanyuki it rained - and continued to rain. This was the only glimpse we got of Mount Kenya, just visible one morning before reveille - not much of a photograph, but that was it. PHOTO Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Thursday afternoon parade. Until the Force was issued with the then new pattern Kenya Regiment uniforms, normal dress for parades had been Grey Drill school uniform plus beret, army belt, boots and gaiters. The Naval Section wore blue shorts and a non-conforming "blue" front except on formal parades when they wore No 3 Rig (blue sailor suits). PHOTO - unkown pupil | |||
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1962 General Inspection By then only the Army Section was left. |
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1962 General Inspection - "Right Dress" - PHOTO Malcolm McCrow |
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1962 General Inspection - "Slope Arms" - PHOTO Malcolm McCrow |
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1962 General Inspection - "General Salute, Present Arms" - PHOTO Malcolm McCrow |
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1962 General Inspection - "General Salute, Present Arms" - PHOTO Malcolm McCrow |
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| GOC East Africa Command takes the salute as the CCF Band leads the parade around Brooklands after the Inspection - PHOTO Malcolm McCrow | |||
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Cadet CSM (Company Sergeant Major) at head of parade after the CCF Band - PHOTO Malcolm McCrow |
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| March Pass of the 215 CCF Cadets - October 1962 - PHOTO Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Cutting from the East African Standard covering the Annual Inspection, October 1962 | |||
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The way it was - 1939 Prince of Wales School CCF Inspection - CCF in the Quad - Empire Day 1939 |
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