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At the Association AGM held at
Southend in April 2001, I was asked if I could take on the task of building a
new 260 Signal Squadron web site, to provide a 'Virtual Home' for the Squadron.
To help re-establish our affiliation with 8th U.S. Signal Battalion through an
internet link and to research and record the history of 260 Signal Squadron
(SAM).
Having accepted the challenge to build a website for the
Association I set out with great enthusiasm only to discover that the task was
a lot greater than I had first realised, and just obtaining photos and content
for the website was a challenge in itself. So I decided to travel to Blandford
to attend the Corps Reunion in June 2001 and hopefully to obtain some
photographs of the B70 which I believed was on display and perhaps obtain some
information from the archives.
Prior to attending the reunion, I
wrote to the Archives and to the Museum to inform them of my plans to visit
Blandford in order to carryout some research, and to photograph a list of
artefacts which had belonged to the Squadron and which were known to have been
deposited with the Museum in 1977, following the disbandment of the
Squadron.
I received an encouraging response from Tim Stankus in
the Archives so I was looking forward to my visit. On arrival at Blandford I
headed straight for the Museum, only to discover that the B70 was not on
display, and that the Scrolls, Medals and other artefacts which the Squadron
had been so proud to own, no one knew anything about them.
I
asked to speak to the Curator to express my disappointment and was assured that
every effort would be made to locate and record the artefacts. Since that
meeting the staff at Museum and Archives have been a great help to me and I am
pleased to report that a B70 is now 'On Display' and that the other Squadron
artefacts have now been found. I asked the Curator to have these items
photographed so they may be displayed on the
website.
Since that time our Association has gained much
recognition within the Royal Signals Association and I am sure if you were to
ask anyone at the Museum or the Archives what they know of 260 Signal Squadron
they would give you my name and refer you to our web site.
So you
may ask what is the purpose of this page. As time moves on so do people and
quickly memories are lost, therefore my aim is to secure a small corner in the
Corps Museum where the artifacts which were once the property of our Squadron
can be displayed.
To this end I would like to hear from anyone
who has any Squadron Memorabilia like this Mug which was commissioned to mark
the Squadron's tour of duty in Portadown.
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Portadown Mug
This one is held by the
Royal Signals Museum Blandford
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Do you
have a similar memento of your time with the Squadron?
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Does anyone have a 260
Signal Squadron Plaque similar to this one?
If you do or you
have any Squadron Memorabilia then please contact the Webmaster A.S.A.P.
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My grateful thanks to John Hatch who writes. The badge on the News
Page was designed on our last tour in NI in 1976/77 and appears on the mugs we
had made to commerate the Squadrons last tour of Duty.
The badge
above was sent to us by Cliff Lord of New Zealand and has the words 260 Signal
Squadron (SAM) along the ribbon at the bottom. It is in the form of a transfer
but the image we have is very poor and we would like to obtain a better
one.
If you
happen to have a spare transfer lying around you have no further use for please
contact the
Webmaster.
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