Some of My Time at Harrogate in the 1970's

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Snaps after target shooting in 1973     -  and an earlier snap of me drumming in the band (to the left of the right-most Trumpeter)

Several snaps were caught right before our 1973 graduation day…     -   -   -   -   - 

Those AAC squadron pictures…     - 

Out for the evening in town…     - 

Some views of the college…     -   - 

My 1973 Harrogate AAC Graduation! My achievement prizes    Bournemouth Echo article   with my "15-minutes of fame"   "A Bournemouth boy has graduated from the Army Apprentices' College, which produces technicians & telegraphists    for the Royal Corps of Signals, with 4 top prizes. No-one has ever done it before.   "He is Apprentice/Telegraphist Corporal Donald Shave, aged 17, of 70 Elmes Road, Moordown.   "In front of more than 500 apprentices (and his family), Donald collected his prizes from Major-General    A. J. Woodrow, late Royal Signals.   "His prizes were the Signal Officer-in-Chief's Award for the best All-round Tradesman of the Senior Term    (a medal held by me in the picture, sadly lost); the Royal Signal Corps Committee prize for the apprentice    who made best use of his opportunities at the college (an unremembered lost book, held by Mum);    the prize for Best Radio Telegraphist (a toolkit/still around, held by Dad) and the College Prize for    Education (a mislaid encyclopedia, Hutchinson's 1970 release, held by my young brother, Alan).   "Donald is pictured with his parents and brother, who had traveled especially to Harrogate    (a 300-mile/4+ hour drive from Bournemouth) for the graduation parade, holding his four prizes."