1954/55 Soccer

Image supplied by Leslie Holah.
Back L to R:- Dickie Bond; Jim Dotson; ????; Brian Crawshaw; Ginge Kirkham; Paul Munton; Del Webber.
Front L to R:- Ted Pilot; Paddy Bergin; Leslie Holah; Roy Parker; George Todd.

Now for a different sport - the 1956 cricket team

I recognise at least two Smiths, Whitaker, O'Neil, Gardner, Mayhew and Hayes. Perhaps someone can provide the names for the rest.
Looking back I can't believe we played sport in those temperatures.
"Mad dogs and British servicemen etc etc" to (mis)qoute Noel Coward.

1955/6 Football Team

I received copies of this from Leslie Holah and Tom Kaney. Thanks fellows.
L to R
Standing
Mike Devine; John Moxon; Leslie Holah; John Samson; Dennis Barrett; Tom Kaney; Norman.
Sitting
????; Del Webber; Mike Hancock; Bert Hughes; Dennis Ferguson.

I know that Les Holah has a picture of the previous seasons team (1954/5) which I will cadge from him. If anybody can turn up an image from the final winter (1957/58) we will have a full house.

Brian Rogers

On another website a lady is seeking information about her uncle LAC Brian Rogers 4076469 who served on 123 SU, probably in 1954/55. Can anyone help?.

1956/57 Unit football team

(11 of Britains finest)
From left to right ;
standing:-John Smith, Derek Gardener, Peter Whitaker, Benny Goodman, John Samson,
?? Smith,
kneeling:- Tom O'Neil, Dennis Barret, Brian Unwin, Arthur Batty, Keith Pritchard

I have been in touch with, or know the whereabouts, of John Smith, Derek Gardner, Peter Whitaker, Benny Goodman, Tom O'Neil and Arthur Batty. Where are the rest?
Jim

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123 Signals Unit

123 Signals Unit was a Ground Controlled Interception Radar unit on the plateau outside RAF Habbaniya, Iraq. It was formed in July 1954 and closed in October 1958. The unit had not been operational since the military coup in Baghdad on 14th July 1958. 123SU was reborn in 1964 at RAF Steamer Point, Aden and transferred to Bahrain in1967. Was it still a GCI unit?
 I have been in touch with several ex 123ers, mainly at the annual meeetings of the RAF Habbaniya Association (check out their web site at www.habbaniya.org) and other means, and wondered if it was possible to provide a site where anyone who served on the unit could make contacts, leave comments and messages, photos etc,etc.
This blog will most likely change shape several times or even die a lingering death due to lack of interest from anybody or laziness on my part.
I am now off to sort out some suitable photographs.