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Shropshire ACF broke its all time record by hosting 368 cadets for our annual festive and fun filled Christmas camp, this was the highest number of cadets Shropshire has ever had on any weekend.

The cadets took part in a series of round robin stands being hosted by recruitments teams of the Grenadier Guards, The Rifles, The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry and Shropshire ACF adult instructors. The cadets enjoyed paintballing, archery, command tasks and a BB range to name just a few activities, as well as competing in three Lucas Tooth competitions - shooting, football and climbing.

In the evening a Christmas dinner was served by the officers and adult instructors, due to high numbers the dinner had to be spilt into two sitting again which had never been done before. Following the meal the cadets headed off to the disco, to finish a great day.

On Sunday the cadets were competing yet again, in the activities of county cross country and first aid. Overall the weekend was a great success and thoroughly enjoyed by all, when the prizes were presented by the Commandant not one detachment dominated with 11 out of 21 detachments coming within the top three of all competitions.

Click on the tabs below to see the photos and the winners of all the Lucas tooth competitions held over the weekend.

   
 


Shropshire cadets once again proved themselves that they are growing in strength every year, by bettering the results of last year’s competition, well done and keep up the great work.

Take a look and the result and team photos below.



 



A Donnington Cadet has received high praise for her actions in a potentially very dangerous situation which arose in June 2011. Cadet L/Cpl Shelby Fynn was present when a diabetic classmate collapsed and started to fit on the school field. Thanks to her calm head and first aid skills, she and two other pupils dealt with the situation which would have been frightening and challenging for even a trained adult first aider. Shelby sent other pupils to get staff, cleared pupils from the area and administered first aid, including adoption of the recovery position and ensuring the air way was kept clear. There is no doubt her actions prevented a difficult situation from becoming a lot worse.




A dazzling display was put on by Shropshire cadets in the regional swimming competition held at RAF Cosford on the 17th September. 17 cadets entered the competition and a staggering 13 came first in their events. This enabled them to secure an overall first place, they will go on to have the largest presence when representing the West Midlands region at a national level later this year.

Junior Boys
Cadet
Detachment
Event
Placing
Class A placing
Cdt Wood
Band & Bugles
Backstroke
1st
2nd
Cdt Wood
Band & Bugles
Freestyle
1st
L/Cpl Hill
Bishops Castle
Relay
1st
L/Cpl Nellins
Market Drayton
Relay
1st
Cdt Wood
Band & Bugles
Relay
1st
Cdt Phillips
Newport
Relay
1st


Senior Boys
Cadet
Detachment
Event
Placing
Class B placing
L/Cpl McEvoy
Wellington
Backstroke
1st
1st
Sgt Livingstone
Bishops Castle
Relay
1st
L/Cpl McEvoy
Wellington
Relay
1st
L/Cpl Phillips
Newport
Relay
1st
Cdt Gilpin
Market Drayton
Relay
1st


Junior Girls
Cadet
Detachment
Event
Placing
Class C placing
Cdt Smout
Shifnal
Breast Stroke
1st
3rd
Cdt Smout
Shifnal
Indiv. Medley
1st


Senior Girls
Cadet
Detachment
Event
Placing
Class D placing
L/Cpl Janzen-Morris
Bishops Castle
Backstroke
1st
2nd
Cpl Allum
Ellesmere
Relay
1st
L/Cpl Janzen-Morris
Bishops Castle
Relay
1st
L/Cpl Swain
Pontesbury
Relay
1st
Cdt Murray
Bishops Castle
Relay
1st



On Friday 24th June 2011, 27 County Adults mustered at the” Week End Training Centre” at Nesscliff in order to prepare for the trip on the Saturday to Waterloo in Belgium, for the annual “bonding weekend”.
To find out more on what happened, please take a look at the photos and read the full story.



Copthorne and Shrewsbury Detachments supplied 9 Cadets for the Flag lowering party’s at the recent Light Infantry and Rifles Reunion weekend Sounding the Retreat Ceremony 10-11 June at Copthorne Barracks, a prestigious event that we are very proud of to be asked to take part in.

The cadets were also invited to pass around canapés at the Offers Mess Cocktail party before the Sounding Retreat Ceremony, where they had the opportunity to met many of Shropshire’s Dignitaries, After the Ceremony the Cadets had chance to mingle with the Light Infantry and Rifles veterans while collecting on behalf of the Rifle Association help the injured charity.



 
On the 11th September 2011 SI Bateson will be participating in the Lake Vyrnwy half marathon, he will be collecting for help for heroes on this event and would be very grateful if you would MAKE A DONATION by going to his online collection page.

As a detachment the cadets enrolled in D of E will also be fundraising by collecting sponsorship for SI Bateson to cover their volunteering section of the award scheme.

He is hoping to raise quite a lot for what we all agree is a very worthwhile Charity. So he would be very grateful if you would give what you can, all you need to do is click on this link and follow the page instructions.





The following Cadets passed the 1 star testing board:-

Church Stretton, BUTLER Church Stretton, COLLIER Church Stretton, LEWIS Copthorne, BRISBOURNE
Copthorne, EMPSON Copthorne, SMITH Donnington, AMES Donnington, PENSWICK
Donnington, BUTTERS Donnington, COWLAN Harlescott, BRADBURY Harlescott, JONES C
Harlescott, JONES R Ludlow, CLARK Ludlow, CLEWLOW A Ludlow, CLEWLOW D
Ludlow, Davies Ludlow, GIBBON Ludlow, GOOD Ludlow, GOWER
Ludlow, JONES Madeley, EVANS J Madeley, EVANS R Madeley, HEMMING
Madeley, KIRKBY Madeley, LENEVEU Madeley, MEADOWS Madeley, PAYTON
Madeley, PERRY Madeley, PURCELL Madeley, ROBERTO-SOUTHALL Madeley, ROBERTS
Madeley, SALVIDGE Market Drayton, FURNIVAL Market Drayton, SENIOR Bridgnorth, NICHOLAS
Dawley Bank, THOMPSON Newport, DAVIES Oswestry, MURR Shifnal, BOWMAN
Shifnal, CUTHBERT Shifnal, EVERILL Shrewsbury, MORTIBOYS Shrewsbury, STUBBS
Shrewsbury, VERRILLI Shrewsbury, CLOUGH    


The following Cadets passed the 2 star testing board:-

Broseley, BEDFORD ML Church Stretton, ANDREWS J Church Stretton, BEAUMONT REL Church Stretton, MOLLOY C
Church Stretton, PRATT BC Church Stretton, PRATT SD Church Stretton, REIDY BB Donnington, DAVIES-NEWTON SJ
Donnington, FYNN SA Donnington, GOUGH KM Donnington, HOWARD TE Madeley, EVANS A
Madeley, EVANS MJ Market Drayton, GODSMARK R Market Drayton, NELLINS STC Newport, PHILLIPS AJ
Newport, PHILLIPS GA Newport, RANDALL LEI Newport, ROBERTS E Oswestry, DURRELL T
Shifnal, BLOOR Shrewsbury, HIGGINS DC Whitchurch, FORRESTER JF Whitchurch, HUGHES J  


The following Cadets passed the 3 star testing board:-

Band & Bugles Walker JD Bishops Castle Augusto BAF Bishops Castle Mason DAA Broseley Schofield T
Newport O'Toole T   Newport Scarisbrick B Wem Clarke LJ  



The following Cadets passed the LSW teach & test phase:-

Church, Pontesbury Augusto, Bishops Castle Hurdley, Broseley Beaumont, Church Stretton
Carpenter, Donnington Jefferies, Market Drayton Braddick, Shrewsbury Birkett, Wellington
Everest, Wem Bonwick, Whitchurch Mason, Bishops Castle Schofield, Broseley
Neilsen, Donnington McEvoy, Wellington Jones, Whitchurch Murray, Bishops Castle
Fernig, Wem Leeman, Whitchurch Reeves, Wem Wright, Whitchurch
Walker, Band & Bugles Hill, Bishops Castle Janzen-Morris, Bishops Castle Clarke, Wem
Evans, Whitchurch      


The following Cadets passed the LSW Shooting phase:-

Hurdley, Broseley Carpenter, Donnington Braddick, Shrewsbury Birkett, Wellington
Everest, Wem Mason, Bishops Castle Schofield, Broseley Neilsen, Donnington
McEvoy, Wellington Murray, Bishops Castle Fernig, Wem Leeman, Whitchurch
Wright, Whitchurch Walker, Band & Bugles Clarke, Wem Evans, Whitchurch





The following Cadets passed the three star shoot:-

Allum, Ellesmere Fletcher, Shifnal Husbands, Ellesmere Chetta, Ellesmere
Godsmark, Market Drayton Phillips, Newport Murphy, Newport  

The following Cadets passed the two star shoot:-

Godsmark, Market Drayton Nellins, Market Drayton Janzen-Morris, Bishops Castle Hill, Bishops Castle
Clarke, Wem Phillips, Newport Murphy, Newport Carpenter, Ellesmere
Duffy, Ellesmere Arthur, Oswestry Evans, Whitchurch  





Bishops Castle win the county athletics competition with 408 points beating Donnington by 5 points.

The final results were:

Pos
Detachment
Points
Class A (Boys)
Class D (Girls)
1 Bishops Castle 408 1 Bishops Castle 1 Newport
2 Donnington 403 2 Oswestry 2 Shrewsbury
3 Newport 388 3 Shifnal 3 Dawley Bank
4 Shifnal 336        
5 Market Drayton 324
Class B (Boys)
Class E (Girls)
6 Band & Bugles 315 1 Market Drayton 1 Bishops Castle
7 Wem 295 2 Shifnal 2 Shifnal
8 Dawley Bank 288 3 Whitchurch 3 Harlescott
9 Madeley 277        
10 Broseley 274
Class C (Boys)
Class F (Girls)
11 Shrewsbury 251 1 Whitchurch 1 Donnington
12 Whitchurch 247 2 Donnington 2 Market Drayton
13 Wellington 213 3 Ellesmere 3 Band & Bugles
14 Oswestry 198        
15 Ellesmere 197        
16 Harlescott 159        
17 Bridgnorth 150        
18 Copthorne 124        
19 Pontesbury 65        
20 Ludlow 54        





The Cadets that attended the weekend show just how easy it really is to fire the new weapons system with an impressive 39 out 46 cadets passing their 2 Star shoot.

The following Cadets passed:-

Cdt COLEMAN Band & Bugles Cdt DOWDING Band & Bugles Cdt MURRAY Bishops Castle Cdt BEDFORD Broseley
Cdt CARR Broseley Cdt HICKMAN Broseley Cdt PENGELLY Broseley Cdt ROBINSON Broseley
Cdt BETTS Donnington Cdt LCpl COWLAN Donnington Cdt DAVIES-NEWTON Donnington Cdt DAVIES-NEWTON Donnington
Cdt FYNN Donnington Cdt HODGKISS Donnington Cdt HOWARD Donnington Cdt NIELSEN Donnington
Cdt LCpl BURNS Harlescott Cdt LCpl PRICE Harlescott Cdt TRAFENE Harlescott Cdt LCpl VAUGHAN Harlescott
Cdt DAVIES Ludlow Cdt FIDOE Ludlow Cdt HALE Ludlow Cdt LCpl EVANS Madeley
Cdt LCpl EVANS Madeley Cdt HYLAND Madeley Cdt KIRKBY Madeley Cdt LCpl LAVELL Madeley
Cdt SMART Shifnal Cdt HIGGINS Shrewsbury Cdt PRIEST Wellington Cdt WILLIAMS Wellington
Cdt LCpl BATE Whitchurch Cdt BATESON Whitchurch Cdt BONWICK Whitchurch Cdt HUGHES Whitchurch
Cdt JONES Whitchurch Cdt LCpl THELWELL Whitchurch Cdt WILLIAMS Whitchurch  




SSI Fortune, SI Yau and their supporting team showed what can be done at detachment level with a little imagination. The cadets that attended gained a great sense of achievement, pride and fun all in one day. To see the full story of the competition between Madeley and Dawley Bank see the link below.


The County acquitted themselves at the Regional Cross Country and Football on Sunday 27th February 2011 at Lichfield.

Results were:
         •Cross Country - 2nd overall (but 3 points from 1st)
                                    The junior girls came 1st in their class.

         •Football - 2nd in the Junior Boys, losing on goal difference in the league, they lost out on first place by 2 goals.
                          3rd in the Senior Boys.

The County are sending 6 cadets to the National Cross Country Competition at Warcop on Saturday 19th March 2011.