The Story of our Museum and Admiral Doenitz's Pennant

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This month, in a delayed episode, Col Andy Taylor and Rev Paul Roberts dodge the rain clouds and stay warm inside the Regimental Museum, exploring the history of Suvla Barracks, the Museum itself and one of it's prized possessions - Grand Admiral Doenitz's Car Pennant, liberated by the Regiment from Flensburg on the arrest of the Third Reich's final government in Operation Blackout on 23rd May 1945.
Though despite not stretching their legs, they do manage a beer to quench their thirst with a beer made in Poperinge, Belgium. This town, seven miles west of Ieper (Ypres) was known as a wartime centre of shopping, recreation and rest - although not safe from long distance shelling - and is home to Talbot House, or Toc H an all ranks club opened by Army Chaplain, Tubby Clayton. Poperinge Hommel Bier has been made from hops grown in the town since 1981 and is delicious, if not dangerously strong!
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Theme Tune - The Lincolnshire Poacher, performed by the outstanding Haverhill Silver Band.

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Theme Tune - The Lincolnshire Poacher, performed by the outstanding Haverhill Silver Band.

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