B/S/G Training 16-18 Oct 1970

Internal Key     O1970BSG  
Description      B/S/G Training 16-18 Oct 1970 
 
Date (Season)    OCT 1970     (1971)
Area             NDOWNS
Place            RAF West Malling Sick Quarters
Key Date         17 Oct 1970

KeyWords
Staff Leader Colin Marshall 5th Cambridge BB Admin. Dave Hollands 1st West Malling BB Group Gold A Instructor Nye Price 2nd Strood BB Instr. 2 Ray Colechin 3rd Maidstone BB Member 1 Trevor Dadswell 3rd Maidstone BB Member 2 Brent Greenwood 5th Cambridge BB Member 3 Peter Jones 1st Chatham BB Member 4 Alec Mercer 3rd Maidstone BB Member 5 Terry Whitlock 1st Maidstone BB Group Silver A Instructor Michael Sayer 3rd Maidstone BB Member 1 Adrian Hipkins 1st West Malling BB Member 2 Michael Hobden 1st West Malling BB Member 3 James Nankervis 1st Maidstone BB Member 4 Keith Thomas 1st Maidstone BB Member 5 Michael Thomas 1st Maidstone BB Member 6 Brian Uttridge 1st West Malling BB Group Silver B Instructor Greg Wright 1st West Malling BB Instr. 2 Ewart Austin 1st West Malling BB Member 1 Malcolm Barr-Hamilton 3rd Maidstone BB Member 2 Peter Gibbons Maidstone Grammar - Boys Member 3 Christopher Sayer 3rd Maidstone BB Member 4 Geoffrey Steel 1st West Malling BB Member 5 Brian Taylor 3rd Maidstone BB Group Silver C Instructor Peter Rowell 1st Meopham BB Instr. 2 Peter Lines 1st Meopham BB Member 1 Colin Bradford 2nd Gravesend BB Member 2 James Hamilton 2nd Gravesend BB Member 3 Stuart Hodge 3rd Gravesend BB Member 4 Michael Trimm 2nd Gravesend BB Group Silver D Instructor Martin Harris 2nd Gravesend BB Instr. 2 Paul Cheney 2nd Gravesend BB Member 1 John Cheney 2nd Gravesend BB Member 2 Peter Elliott 2nd Strood BB Member 3 Christopher Johnson 2nd Strood BB Member 4 Andrew Musselwhite 2nd Strood BB Member 5 Mark Rogers 2nd Strood BB Group Bronze A Instructor Jim Kelly 2nd Gravesend BB Instr. 2 Andy Gibson 2nd Gravesend BB Member 1 Keith Francis 2nd Gravesend BB Member 2 William Luchford 2nd Gravesend BB Member 3 Graham Melrose 3rd Gravesend BB Member 4 Martin Payne 3rd Gravesend BB Member 5 Brian Rackham 2nd Gravesend BB Group Bronze B Instructor Robert Hardy 2nd Gravesend BB Instr. 2 Alan Marshall 2nd Gravesend BB Member 1 (X) Andrew Freed 6th Gravesend BB Member 2 Dereck Guildford 3rd Gravesend BB Member 3 Martin Sutton 6th Gravesend BB Member 4 (X) Andrew Thomsett 5th Cambridge BB Member 5 Keith Whitnell 3rd Gravesend BB Group Bronze C Instructor David Thilthorpe 2nd Gravesend BB Member 1 (X) Clive Cooper 6th Gravesend BB Member 2 (X) Martin Edwards 2nd Tonbridge BB Member 3 (X) Roger Hannington 6th Gravesend BB Member 4 (X) Graham Morley 2nd Tonbridge BB Member 5 (X) Barry Whitlock 2nd Tonbridge BB Group Bronze D Instructor Dave Berry 1st Maidstone BB Instr. 2 Robert Hawkins Not specified / Unknown Member 1 Alan Cameron 3rd Maidstone BB Member 2 Stephen Filmer 3rd Maidstone BB Member 3 David Gunner 1st West Malling BB Member 4 Keith Stone 1st West Malling BB Member 5 Andrew Webber 3rd Maidstone BB Member 6 Anthony Nash 1st Maidstone BB Group Bronze E Instructor Steve Unsworth 2nd Strood BB Instr. 2 David Kent 2nd Strood BB Member 1 Stephen Baker 1st West Malling BB Member 2 Stephen Brookes 3rd Maidstone BB Member 3 Richard (Dick) Furniss 3rd Maidstone BB Member 4 Dawn Battersby 5th Milton Guides Member 5 Helen Glanville 5th Milton Guides Member 6 Paul Hicks 1st West Malling BB
Note This was the first ever Training Weekend to include any girls. They were trained in a Bronze group under Ray Colechin although they were actually Silver level.
References
Referenced by 1970P013 Letter re 1st female candidate 1970P014 Letter from Maidstone GB 1970P011 Programme, Training Oct 70 1970P012 Summary, Training, Oct 70 E1970002 First Girls at a Training w/e