LCol Warren inspects Ridley Cadets at attention

LCol Trumbull Warren, OBE inspects Ridley College cadets – 1981

LCol Trumbull Warren, OBE inspects the lower school cadets of the Ridley Cadet Corps on May 8 1981. There were 150 Lower School Ridley Cadets and 352 Upper School cadets on the inspection ceremony. The photo is from the Ridley College year book.

LCol Warren had attended Ridley College in the 1920s. After joining the 48th Highlanders in 1934, Warren went overseas in 1939 with the 48th then became Aide de Camp to General Montgomery in North Africa, then Field Marshal Montgomery’s Personal Assistant in the Italian Campaign, the D-Day landing in Normandy and France and the Netherlands to the end of the war.

Classification
Images
Era
1939 – 1945 (WW 2), 1946 – 1999 Late 20th C.
Location of artifact
Research room – temporary storage
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