Suffolk ACF Camp 2007 was in Barry Buddon, Scotland

 

Suffolk Army Cadets deployed on Exercise Celtic Cadet for their 2-week annual camp at the Barry Buddon Training Centre, Angus and Dundee, Scotland, 21 Jul-3 Aug. The 270 cadets were accompanied by 86 adults. A vast range of activities were undertaken: Adventurous Training, Assault Course, Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award Expeditions in the Glen Esk area of Strathmore, Campcraft, Cycling along the Scottish coastline, Fieldcraft, First Aid, Initiative Tests, Kayaking on the Monikie Reservoir, Military Training, Orienteering, Paintballing, Sailing and steering a motor launch on the River Tay thanks to Dundee Sea Cadets, Skiing on the Royal Marines dry ski slope at RM Condor, in Arbroath - home of 45 RM Commando, Small and full bore shooting, Sports, Survival Techniques.

On the Barry Buddon training area is a memorial garden to 13 members of 45 Commando who died during the Falklands War. As it was the 25th anniversary of the conflict, a Drumhead service of Remembrance was held, attended by 90 cadets and adult staff. Among them was Falklands Veteran Sergeant Mick Hammond, now Detachment Commander at Felixstowe, who, with Cadet Corporal Thomas Lillycrap of Kesgrave Detachment, laid wreaths at the stone memorial, which had been brought from the Seven Sisters Mountain in the Falkland Islands.

 

 

 

Click here some Barry Buddon, Scotland, 2007 photographs.

 

 

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