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Jan
Summer Camping trips for the Boys’ Club
During the war years there was an Army Cadet Corps based at the Boys’ Club run by Sergeant Major George Wilson. To encourage the boys to ‘knuckle down’, he would give some of his junior soldiers “rankings” within the Cadet Corps. Jack Carruthers was elevated to the three stripes of a sergeant. One weekend the Cadet Corps sent a group of members to the rifle rage at Ponteland which was run by full time army staff. Jack was among the lads sent there and on arrival all the juniors had to stand on parade to meet the commanding officer. The... Read More