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[eric harding]

jab / john acton brown sadly killed in cyprus?john was my best man at my 2nd wedding and proved he was best when he scored with the best bridesmaid haha ...hope he is lookin down and and laughin?.he also liked a drink as we all did which saddly contributed to his demise i believe ? however the good times with jab were some of my most memorable with 1rtr R I P .

[Alan (Smudger) Smith]

Remember JAB mostly from Tidworth where he had (at the time) the car of my dreams - a Datsun 120Y - and to make me even more envious he had his initials JAB on the gear knob. Great guy and a sad loss

[Mike Kemble]

I can remember the name, I knew him. But, like the passage of time, faces fade. RIP Johnno.

[Tiny Hart]

Jab & and I were on the same crew commanders course together, back in the early days (1978/9) of this course when it was a 3 month piss up. He got on well with every one on that course including Tony Ricard (2RTR) who was very upset when years later he was asking me about JAB and I had to pass on the sad news of his death. JAB was also the CO's driver in Omagh and got caught up in the bomb and riot at Carrickmore in in 1974.

[Bill Kinsella]

Remember JAB when he arrived at the regt ,had been on potential officers course very posh voice which he soon lost.
Was in the same block of quarters in Herford had good times there with John and Ann.

[Dave Harmon]

Smudge - didn't somebody in our flat have a silver table ornament with JAB's initials on it? Might have been Chris - or maybe Fred Dove, eitherway there was a story attached?

Dave

[Mark Sanders]

I remember JAB...what a really nice bloke...this is such a sad part of this forum....I to remember his posh voice...RIP JAB.

[Paul Ramsay]

Jab passed out with me - Mad dog Madden - Graham Smethurst and Paul Fisher (who hung himself in Leeds).

His wife Anne was walking past the Sqad all lined up to march on with the shortest of minis on!! One big gob said he would like to do rude things to her so Jab kindly informed him that it was his wife and he filled him in after the parade........

Remember John in lots of ways - Kind enough at Carrickmore to wind his window down so the brick hit him in the face and didnt damage the COs car window - where was Herr Young when this was happenning???'

Remember Sparky evans the Canute who started that riot as well

Jab liked a game of cards with the boys as well

Tragic to end his life that way and if my grey matter serves me right we had a fancy dress(TOGA) party for him in Herford and a Monkey got run over outside Reginas tryi g to stop us having fun??

Good days

El rambo

[eric harding]

yes paul he liked a game o cards and dice ....a great lad .oh and tommy mac says that regina died as well ....a good un also

[Paul Ramsay]

Come on lads lets do a regina memories page!!

Sure there is lots to tell about her bedsit down the stairs!!!!!

Played dice and won an hour in there with a lovely German Maiden!!

El Rambo

[Dave Harmon]

I just thought for a moment about playing SHOCK at Regina's with a gutfull of Persico/Aquavit mix - and it made me cry! :cry: God Bless Her

[JP]

Remember Sparky evans the Canute who started that riot as well

A man of unparallelled brilliance, Paul. I was so itching with envy about not being able to serve in his troop (and see all the mishaps firsthand!)

But that would have meant being in B squadron, which at the time was below anyone's dignity :mrgreen:

[keith Hudson]

JAB Name comes into this old farts head thinking back to B Sqn in Cyprus , and Tidworth . The Kape Tour in Liverpool , Lanc,s and Leeds areas come to recall happy day,s was it nearly 30 years ago god were,s me wheel chair.
Does anybody know were he is bones rest?

[Paul Ramsay]

daft question but is this keith hudson - ex household cav or some other pufftah regiment??

[Paul Ramsay]

J P was Sparky not in A Sqn??

Man got into more xxxt than Alan Ellis another disaster area in his youth - remember the QMs Ellis file very well - we still laugh about it!

Psycho Roberts - Terrorists captured - Schoolteachers threatened - flooded campsites - upturned canoes on the swollen Rhine - all in a weekends work and I was supposed to be keeping an eye on him!!

Memories again!!

El Rambo

[Mick Bell]

Paul,
Sparky was 'A' Sqn. 3Tp. supposed leader for a while after the Carrickmore fiasco I think he was shunted off to another job somewhere,
he was truly dangerous it would have only have been a matter of time before he had some kind of accident.
Dinger ;-)

[Paul Ramsay]

Duinger - as I remember rightly he was going back to Canada and it was his last patrol and wanted to see some action - boy he got it that day - even got me out to help!!!

Must carry thes conversations elsewhere or uncle Mike will shout at us :D :D :D :D

[Mike Kemble]

Shut it rambo :roll: There is now a privvie for those who want to expunge on a more literal theme, keep main site clean ya buggar!

[Gus Daniells]

As with Tiny remember JAB doing his Carrickmore 3 point turn during that minor skirmish. A very pleasant guy with a rotten perception of how fast a staff car can turn when in the middle of a rioting crowd. RIP.

[Alan Levi Hodges]

My old dear now lives in Larnaca and holidays are cheap!!

The tree still stands, for those who remember the sad loss

Levi :evil:

[Mike Kemble]

There is an image of JAB, in A Sqn I think, on site.

[Eddie Short]

R.I.P JAB

A nice guy, and a tragic loss. :(


Eddie.

[chris woolley]

Just browsing and found this about John, I was working in a wine store a couple of years ago and Johns daughter came in she has grown into a lovely young woman and is now a nurse at a hospital near us. Apparently all the family are well and her mum re-married just thought you might like to know.

Chris Woolley.