Welcome to the Harrogate 61C Website
This site is dedicated to the lads of the Army Apprentices School, Harrogate, Intake 61c.
From all points of the compass we converged on Harrogate railway station on Tuesday, 5 September 1961, to be loaded into trucks and driven to Hildebrand Barracks, Penny Pot Lane, where we were kitted out and began our recruit training.
Three years later we passed out into the Royal Corps of Signals as qualified operators and technicians, and went our separate ways.
What you will find here:
- A nominal roll
- Photographs, e-mail addresses and personal recollections
- Group photographs
- Pictures from our fifty-year reunion at Harrogate in October 2011
- A Last Post page commemorating those who are no longer with us
- A message page, links to relevant websites and a brief history of the corps
Please use the buttons above to move around the site. And if you are a member of 61c who has lost touch, or you know of one, we'd like to hear from you. Please contact us via the message page and leave an e-mail address.
What's new...
10-05-12: Acknowledgement to John Coultish added to front page
10-05-12: Memorial detail updated for Joe Baker
10-05-12: E-mail address added for Mick Newall
12-04-12: E-mail address added for John Pennington
04-04-12: Tony Bunclark identified on Senior Squadron group photograph (No 43)
04-04-12: Derek Hume's photographs added
28-03-12: Tony Bunclark's photo page and story added
23-03-12: Derek Hume added to nominal roll
14-02-12: Another story from Phil Crone added
20-01-12: Pete Emmerson identified on Senior Squadron group photograph
20-01-12: Pete Emmerson's photographs added
14-01-12: E-mail address added for Pete Emmerson
14-01-12: Photographs added to Gats Gatenby's page
17-11-11: Tony Chard's's photograph added
14-11-11: Link to Tony Chard's 61c site added to Links page
13-11-11: Reunion photographs moved to Reunion page
10-11-11: Dave Day (B Coy), Alan Sefton (C Coy) added to nominal roll
09-11-11: Photographs added to Steve Holmes's page
07-11-11: Roger Viney added to Last Post page
29-10-11: Rob Gallagher's e-mail address added
19-10-11: Gats Gatenby's photographs and story added
18-10-11: Dave Ray's reunion photographs posted
08-10-11: John Coultish's reunion photographs posted
04-10-11: Gerry Yearsley (B Coy) added to nominal roll
04-10-11: Richard Ross's photograph added
18-09-11: Dave Ray - additional photographs added
14-09-11: John Butler (A Coy) added to nominal roll and Last Post page
14-09-11: Phil Crone - additional photograph added
13-09-11: Dave Ray's story added
09-09-11: Phil Crone's further story added
08-09-11: Paddy McMurray-Taylor added to Last Post page
30-08-11: Messages page added to website
18-08-11: Keith Stanton's photographs and story added
15-08-11: Mick Wells's further story added
15-08-11: Dave Waterhouse's further story added
15-08-11: Phil Crone's story added
15-08-11: Mick Wells's story added
15-08-11: Dave Waterhouse's story added
14-08-11: Memories Page added to website
28-07-11: Mick Wells - additional photographs added
27-07-11: Website moved to harrogate61c.zxq.net