Branch Member Murl Asbrey while serving with B company 2 Royal Anglian Regiment in Aden in 1966.

Murl is stood on a land rover used for anti mine clearance prior to going on the road to Little Aden. Note the anti roll bar that Murl is braced on. The floor of the rover was covered in sand bags.

Vehicles and equipment have changed a great deal since those days but sadly the army is still suffering casualties from the road side bomb.

Things have not changed all that much in the last 40 odd years.

Murl to day in amore reflective mood perhaps thinking where have all the years gone. Recent photo taken at a Remembrance Day service that the branch attended.

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At the Regimental reunion last July I was given this cutting to see if I could shed any light on it.

I have done some research and the Artic patrol was involved in the Russian convoys from 1941 through to 1945.

At first I thought that SC51 was a convoy number but thee is no trace of any Russian convoy bearing that number. In any case it is doubtful if crew members would be given convoy numbers.

I have looked at ships both RN and Merchant Navy but can find no trace of any ship with the name Sonneti. Still looking at armed trawlers.

There is a trace of SC51 which is the pennent number of a submarine chaser of the US Navy but again there is no trace in US archives of Sonneti.

Is there anyone out there who can throw light on this? There must be a Northamptonshire Regiment connection but how? I have a feeling that it does not go back to the 1920s but I could be wrong.

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Tom Fairclough is looking for Les Larson, & Paul Ludbrook who were at Sandhurst 1977-1979

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