Parade Ground

Guard Duties

As you will recall, a large percentage of our time at Ganges was spent on the parade ground attending divisions and other drill sessions. Being duty guard for divisions was a memorable experience as we spent hours learning rifle drill (with the friendly GIs!...) and how to 'form two deep' from three ranks, how to line up each rank before inspection (done by the right-hand marker), how to march in line and give 'eyes right' without losing position, and generally how to drill in perfect time (up, two three, over, two three, cut! etc.) No doubt we all have fond memories of this part of our time, and the pictures below show we have a right to be proud of how smart we all looked and how well we performed.

The following photos show the 320 and 321 classes going through their paces.

Captain Napper inspecting the rear rank

From left to right: John Nixon, Acourt, Gerry Haines, ?, ?, ?, Mick Ross, Taffy Thomas,
Jim Kelly, Roy Brook, Mick Watts, Jock Peattie, Geoff Huxall, Firth

General salute

Front rank, left to right: Stuart Ostler, ?, ?, ?, ?, Ged Taylor, ?, Dennis Barnard, ?,
Tip O'Keefe, Charlie Moore, ?, ?, Vernon Beattie

Eyes right.....

Finally, here are three photographs of four of us in pauses between drill (presumably taken by the official photographer during stand easy).

Kevin Calvert (at attention) and Terry Rice (at ease)

John Nixon

Tony Evans