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FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1980

REGIMENTAL WREATHS OF THE VOLUNTEERS WILL BE LAID BY THE HONORARY COLONEL, MR OSWALD CHEUNG AND ITS COMMANDING OFF ICER LIEUTENANT-COLONEL E.J. PEPPER, AND THAT OF THE MIDDLESEX REGIMENT BY MARRANT OFFICER J.A. FROST.

THE MIDDLESEX REGIMENT AND THE VOLUNTEERS FOUGHT SIDE BY SIDE IN THE BATTLE OF HONG KONG.

THE WREATH-LAYING CEREMONY WILL BE FOLLOWED BY THE SOUNDING OF THE LAST POST, A TWO-MINUTE SILENCE AND REVEILLE, AND THE FIRING OF THREE VOLLEYS OF SALUTE,

THE FIRING PARTY, BUGLER AND SENTRIES WILL BE PROVIDED BY THE VOLUNTEERS.

VETERAN MARINE OFFICER RETIRES

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THE DIRECTOR OF MARINE, MR P.E.J. DAVY THIS AFTERNOON PRESENTED A SOUVENIR TO ASSISTANT MARINE OFFICER, MR BOBBY CASTRO AT A FAREWELL CEREMONY TO MARK HIS RETIREMENT AFTER 25 YEARS OF SERVICE.

MR CASTRO, WHOM MR DAVY DESCRIBED AS A MOST WORTHY MEMBER OF THE DEPARTMENT, JOINED IN 1955 AS AN ASSISTANT MARINE OFFICER AND HAS ACTED AS MARINE OFFICER ON MANY OCCASIONS.

FOR HIS DISTINGUISHED SERVICE, HE WAS AWARDED A MERIT TRIP TO BRITAIN IN 1965. ON HIS RETURN HE HELPED TO SET UP THE DEPARTMENT'S CARGO HANDLING UNIT.

IN 1977, HE RECEIVED A PERSONAL COMMENDATION FROM THE DIRECTOR FOR HIS DEDICATED EFFORTS IN COMBATTING THE SERIOUS OIL POLLUTION RESULTING FROM THE STRANDING OF THE ADRIAN MAERSK+,

IN HIS SPARE TIME, MR CASTRO_WAS AN AUXILIARY_FIREMAN AND WAS A SENIOR DIVISIONAL OFFICER WHEN THE AUXILIARY FIRE SERVICE WAS DISBANDED IN 1975. FOR THESE SERVICES HE WON THE COLONIAL POLICE MEDAL FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE AND THE LONG SERVICE AND EFFICIENCY MEDAL.

A MEMBER OF THE HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS, MR CASTRO WAS A PRISONER-OF-WAR THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE OCCUPATION OF HONG KONG IN THE LAST WAR.

HIS WAR MEDALS INCLUDE THE PACIFIC STAR, THE 1939-45 STAR, DEFENCE MEDAL, GENERAL SERVICES MEDAL AS WELL AS THE LONG SERVICE AND EFFICIENCY MEDAL.

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