Just to let you all know why I ve been absent over tha past weeks. My youngest son David past-away peacefully yesterday (Sunday) after a short illness. He was only 29 years old. He had served two tours in Iraq in the Royal Engineers. My heart aches for him. Hopefully I will soon be back to normal and will get round to sorting out the Denbury Days website. I know you will all say a small prayer for him being an ex-squaddie. Love you all Tony Gask

Tony Please except our heartfelt sympathy for your loss. We too have a 35 year old son who has just left the army. We can only feel for the loss you and your family are going through at the moment. You are in our prayers

tony very sorry for your loss Rose and I will say a prayer if we can help in any way just ask by email regards skip and rose harding

Fao Eddie Owens how are you holding up haven t heard from you for awhile. We dont have to go far for the sun this year just like being in Spain. Take care Paddy Coates.

hi all iam not in spain ive been hacked if you get any mail from haytor1. be careful. you can of course still send the 2k asked for in the spam email . I have had over 140 calls from all my contacts thanks skip

Hi Tony Still having major problems with the new site?

Hi had our trip round UK and Spain met up with some lovely people from our Denbury days. in particular Dave and Rena Lister Lofty Foster and lovely lovely wife Len and Maggie Laming in Spain lovely couple if you know them try and get an invite first class and a tall Jamie in Aberdeen.

birthday wishes today to Jackie good on you and all the vry best. terry and brenda.. kohima etc..

happy birthday wishes to John Hamer good on you John.. terry and brenda..

I am back in the New Luce Saddle after a quick trip over the water to Larne and a visit to John in his sick bed. I met with Ian and Sheila Hutton who also gave me a bed and fed me for the night. Ian and I served (along with Chalky White and others)with the Sappers after Denbury. Although we obviously found John to be very poorly he had a sparkle in his eyes with a smile a mile wide. He definitely thought and relished the fact that he was on parade. We had a good chin wag with the help of Heather who is holding up very well despite her obvious worry and stress. John had in his possession an Album with quite a few Denbury Pics (Heather has said she will make sure that Steve Wright has sight at the appropriate time) He also had a Denbury welcome booklet with yours truly featured along with Phil Castle climbing some on some Rocks down at the coast. I seem to remember the Yeti doing a tumble down the rocks shortly after taking the picture. We discussed quite a few of you scalawags at length as well as other aspects of his military career including 7 22 and 40 Sigs. We tried really hard but could not find a good word to say about any of you. Ian and myself being the exception to that rule. However the mention of Topper and a few others elicited deep throated chuckles. It would appear that some if not all of our night time adventures were discussed at length by the PS (we thought we were so cunning) some even before we carried them out. Apparently it was decided by Gregory et.al. that boys will be boys and as long as we did not go too far we would be given a little space but would also be shit on if caught. Ian and his lovely lady have departed in their van for quieter places for a while (it is the 12th of July thousands of Scots with their Trumpets Pipes and Drums descend on the area) Cairnryan port was throbbing as I disembarked yesterday afternoon. I only met John once and that was after Denbury. He gave me a bollocking which he and I both remembered-We could not remember why-You can bet it was well deserved. I have said farewell to John-A good soldier and mentor of Denbury Boys. Have fun Harry Waugh (K Troop 60-62)