Photographic > Photographic Print

4/6th Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment - A black and white photograph of the very successful battalion Duke of Edinburgh's Trophy team at Buckingham Palace, 10th February 1967. Back Row L to R, Private Colin Smart [Reading], Sergeant Roy Day [Tilehurst], Private John Wilson [Reading], WO2 Bruce Walles (team members), Third Row Corporal  Brian Chaplin [Sunningdale], Corporal Robert Bishop, [Reading], (Team Members) Corporal Raymond Tilley [Bracknell] (Reserve),WO2 Harry Beckman (Trainer) Second Row Private Anthony Parker [Earley],  (Team Member), Sergeant John Byles [Yateley] (Reserve),  Private Nigel Coward [Earley] (Team Member, Private Ivor Lovegrove [Thatcham] (Reserve) Private Graham Beckinsdale [Sunningdale], L/Corporal Alan Overton [Caversham] (Team Member). Front Row L to R Private David Chilton [Newbury], (Team Member and the top individual scorer overall,) Captain Colin Shaw-Stewart [Cambridge] (Team Leader), Captain Peter Long (Chief Trainer and reserve), Lieutenant Colonel John Sellers, Commanding Officer, Major Sandy Fraser (Adjutant), WO23 Thomas Baynham MBE [Reading] (Trainer).  They won the shield as winners up, by half a point to the 4th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment in the 1966 Duke of Edinburgh's Trophy Competition, a 36 hour test of shooting, marching, running and swimming. The 12 man teams of these two TA Battalions beat eight regular and four other Territorial teams. 

Persons(s): Smart, C, Private; Day, R, Sergeant; Wilson, J, Private; Walles, B, WO2; Chaplin, B, Corporal; Bishop, R, Corporal; Tilley, R, Corporal; Beckman, H, WO2; Parker, A, Private; Byles, J, Sergeant; Coward, N, Private; Lovegrove, N, Private; Beckingdale, G, Private; Overton, A, Lance Corporal; Chilton, D G, Private; Shaw-Stewart, C, Captain; Long, P, Captain; Sellers, J, Lieutenant Colonel; Fraser, S, Major; Baynham, T, WO2;