CLIVE SWATTON

          The silver grey Landrover hearse                                                                                                          Seventeen HSF veterans from Clive’s Company 

IT IS WITH GREAT REGRET

THAT WE MOURN THE PASSING OF

CLIVE SWATTON

LATE OF THE CORPS OF ROYAL ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS

     &

E COMPANY,  THE 6TH (VOLUNTEER) BATTALION, THE ROYAL ANGLIAN REGIMENT,

     FORMER CHAIRMAN OF HIS COMPANY’S LOCAL HSF VETERANS ASSOCIATION,

     &

AN ACTIVE  MEMBER OF THE WORKING PARTY WHICH BROUGHT ABOUT

THE HOME SERVICE FORCE GROVE

                   AT THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL ARBORETUM, ALREWAS, STAFFORDSHIRE.

  THE GROVE WAS CLIVE’S IDEA.

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The Funeral was held on Friday 24th May at 12 noon.

and he lies close to his late wife at North Watford Cemetery,

North Western Avenue , Garston, Watford, Herts, WD25 0AW

 

Clive leaves a son,  living in the Colchester area, and a married daughter living in New South Wales, Australia.

The Home Service Force Association thanks Clive’s family and close friends for their extremely kind hospitality,

and extends a welcome to future gatherings and to the HSF Grove at The National Memorial Arboretum.

Born in 1939 in India, Clive was the son of an army major, and World War Two had an strong effect upon his early childhood in the south of England.

He later joined the REME with early training at Arborfield, becoming an Optics Technician, rising to Sergeant.

 Clive served with one of the pilot HSF Companies, raised in 1982, under the late Major John Dixie Churchill,

before it became E (HSF) Company 6th (Volunteer) Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment.

In 1985 the HSF expanded officially, and part of the Company split off to form F Company.

E Company eventually had four Platoons: two in Bedford, one in Cambridge, with a detached Section at Wisbech,

and a fourth raised later, by Major John Standring (2nd and last OC),  in Bury St Edmunds

from a group of senior and influential Royal Anglian veterans with nothing better to do.

Thus the great reputation of the HSF, of resourcefulness, resolution, and intrepid rule-bending spread

through Great Britain at that time.  

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The man was an expert at vision.

 

 

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