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	Sgt. Charles Wallis arrived at Cour Henri IV on 30 January 1954 and was assigned the post of RASC Secretary until 10 July 1956. After his military service Charles signed a contract to work as the Secretary to Manager of Grace y Cia. (Bolivia) S.A., a subsidiary of W.R. Grace and Company of New York, for three years. Returning to Britain he determined that life in the UK was not for him so he returned to Montréal, Canada where he had spent the five years of  WW II with relatives. He quickly secured employment with Canadian National Railways where he was appointed as Secretary to a Vice-President and then several other functions within the Purchasing Department ending up in Information Systems until his retirement in 1995. Charles married Sally, a New Zealander, in Montréal and they have two children, both married, and three grandchildren.  One son works for Air Canada and lives in Montréal, the other works for Research in Motion (makers of BlackBerries) and lives in Oakville, Ontario.
	Sgt Jess Weir (Royal Signals) was posted to the SHAPE Commcentre in March 1951 and remained there until July 1953 to take up duties in the War Office in Whitehall but remained there for only one year when he was off to Boddington near Cheltenham for the opening the Army’s biggest Commcentre ~ later to become RAF Boddington on the rationalisation of our Defence Communications. Whilst Jess was at Boddington his 8 year commitment came to an end. He accepted the £150 Bounty offered to extend his Army career. Jess went on to complete 40 years seeing service in Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, MOD London Communications have been Jess’s working life and he is still an active ham ~ Call Sign G4GJX. Jess is an active member of the Royal British Legion in Poole where he resides.
	Cpl Peter D Williams (RASC) was introduced by Tim and Linda Hunt. Peter arrived in June 1961 to work in the Orderly Room at BACSU (HQ LANDCENT, Quartier Chateau) before transferring the following August to the Intelligence Division at HQ AFCENT In Cour Henri IV. He then moved to Camp Guynemer (Staff Duty NCO in Building 2, AG Div, HQ AFCENT). In December 1964 Peter left for Sandhurst at which time he had married and had 2 sons. In January 1968 he returned to HQ AFCENT which had relocated to Brunssum, The Netherlands. Promoted to Sergeant he worked in the Petroleum Branch and on further promotion in the Cosmic Registry. In July 1971 Peter purchased his discharge from the Army and took up a position in the Language Services, HQ AFCENT as NATO civilian translator reporting to Bill Payne a wartime RAF Flight Sergeant. Bill's brother who served in the Army at Fontainebleau in the mid 1950s later ran a bar in Pigalle. In December 1986 Peter became TA Press Officer and saw active service in the 1990/91 Gulf War and twice in Bosnia 1994 and 1996. Retiring from NATO at the end of 1997 and from the TA in July 2001, with the rank of Major, Peter and his wife Gill settled in Sticklepath, Devon where he is busy with voluntary work for the Parish Council, Village Hall and Dartmoor Conservation. He is the secretary of the local Royal British Legion. Both sons are married one lives in Paris and the other in Bilbao.
	Sgt. Dave Wright, RASC spent an enjoyable 16 months from October 1954 as a shorthand writer in the Public Information Office, HQ Allied Forces Central Europe working alongside fascinating colleagues of various nationalities from whom he learned a great deal. Never an enthusiastic militarist how he managed to be made up to sergeant remains a mystery to him. It was the first time Dave had been abroad and he made the most of it. Rather than going home on leave, and at week-ends, he hitch-hiked all over France and into Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and low countries. After National Service Dave got down to some serious studying and qualified to became a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, working for many years in the water industry before taking up the post of Economic Development and Property Officer for the city of Worcester after which his professional career was completed in Harrogate. His work took him all over mainland UK and apart from the South West, there is hardly a city, town or village he did not visit. Privately Dave has travelled in Canada, America, Australia and New Zealand and is now rediscovering Europe. Last month he was in Monte Carlo for the first time since his hitch-hiking days and he found the actual site of the bench in the palace grounds on which he spent two uncomfortable nights. This later trip was rather different - a luxurious bed on the QM2. Dave now lives with his wife Dorothy in the village of Houghton between Carlisle and Gretna.
	Lance Cpl John Wright was conscripted for National Service in the Army when he was in Cambridge serving his apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker and joiner so his enlistment was deferred until completion of his apprenticeship. After two weeks basic training at Oswestry John was posted to Woking to join the Royal Military Police. After the long training his squad passed out and were bound for France. The As to Vs were sent to SHAPE, Paris. John was one of the lucky ones bound for Fontainebleau in the late winter of 1952, a very good posting, with one sergeant, two corporals and fourteen lance corporals mainly on security duty apart from the International patrols with the American, French and British Police. Whilst at Fontainebleau John boxed for the Royal Military Police team. Leaving Fontainebleau in the spring of 1954 he was posted to Church Street, Kensington, London to complete his service after which he resumed his trade in Civvy Street. The company was taken over by a firm of builders who had a small funeral directing business with which he became involved. After qualifying he managed a company in Cambridge and then in 1976 moved, to start a new life in Chester taking up a more demanding position as manager of a large firm in Chester. They in turn sold to the Co-op and John stayed on to become Area Manager covering Cheshire, Wirral, Shropshire and North Wales. John still lives in Chester with his wife Jenny.
	SAC Ron Young After 3 years service in the UK was posted to A.A.F.C.E in June 1955 with five others who met in London, one of them being Joyce his future wife. They travelled to Dover in the back of an army lorry due to a rail strike. Ron and Joyce were married at the British Embassy in Paris followed by a church service on Camp Guynemer conducted by Wing Commander Gutteridge and a reception in a room near the cinema. Ron left Fontainebleau in April 1958 for demob. After this Ron did some lorry driving before joining the North Riding Police Force. He had major heart surgery in 1994 and now enjoys holidays in Spain and visiting relatives in Canada. Ron and Joyce are living in North Allerton in Yorkshire.

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