St Neots Detachment celebrated their Annual Mess Meal on the 13th December at a local restaurant. The mess meal is a great opportunity for the cadets to dress up smartly and enjoy a formal Christmas meal, and also to present awards and promotions to cadets in recognition of their hard work during the year. The detachment was lucky enough to be joined by some special guests from Coy HQ (Maj McAllinden and Lt Burgoyne) as well as three former St Neots Detachment Commanders, SSI Stagg, SMI Gardiner (Retd) & Lt Grogan, all of whom have previously helped continue this long annual tradition. A new addition this year was an optional Secret Santa organized by NUV Holdaway. This was very popular and will definitely make an appearance again next year.
St Neots Detachment's Annual Mess Meal
A number of awards & presentations were handed out this evening.
Cpl Ollie Dooley - Royal Anglian Plaque (a leaving present)
Cpl Lottie Walker - Best NCO
Cdt LCpl Byng - Best Cdt
Cdt Byng was awarded Best Cadet.
Promotions to Cdt LCpl
LCpl Marcham
LCpl Lucy Kite
LCpl Martin
LCpl Sargent
LCpl French
Cpl Walker was awarded Best NCO.
Bronze DofE Awards
LCpl Jed Kite
LCpl Turner
Lots of fun chocolate medallions awarded for various other accomplishments, Including ‘tallest cadet’ aka ‘right hand marker’, ‘most improved brew maker’, ‘most entries on the list’, ‘CFAV with the least amount of hair’, ‘worst choice of pizza topping’ etc. All in all, it proved to be a great fun evening.
Cpl Dooley being presented with a leaving gift.
Text by SSI Dale Irving. Photos by Lt Konrad Burgoyne.
