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Beds & Herts ACF - Web News Bulletin

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Bishops Stortford Cadets Clean Up

23/01/2012 - Webmaster

Cadets from Bishop’s Stortford Detachment spent a very frosty Saturday morning helping out in the town. They were working with a group of local volunteers called Tidy Up Bishop’s Stortford...

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5 Company "Launch" Poppy Appeal

29/11/2011 - SI Varley

ARMY CADETS daringly launched this year's Poppy Appeal for Bedfordshire. To mark the start of the appeal one brave cadet and one adult instructor teamed up to launch themselves from BodyFlights...

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Tony Holmes Receives Lord Lieutenant’s Certificate

08/08/2011 - Col. Sharwood-Smith

At the recent Armed Forces Day Flag raising event at the Central Bedfordshire Council Offices, Chicksands the Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, Sir Samuel Whitbread KCVO, presented CA Tony Holmes with...

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Colonel Cockman Hangs Up His Boots

02/08/2011 - Col.Sharwood-Smith

In June Colonel Keith Cockman finally decided that it was time to hang up his boots after a staggering 62 years of service. Colonel Keith had been involved in Sports within the ACF for many years and...

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Rock Climbing, Canoeing, Abseiling and Climbing Snowdon!

01/08/2011 - Lt. Ziemelis

What have you been doing so far in your summer holidays?...

43 cadets and 5 instructors from Beds and Herts ACF went to Capel Curig Adventure Training Camp in Snowdonia, North Wales...

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Senior Cadets Go The Distance

17/07/2011 - SI Varley

Last weekend 3 senior cadets endured a privately organised 270 mile bike ride in a bid to raise cash for Help for Heroes. Targeting to raise £5000, Sgt Wright (Stotfold), Sgt Weir (Stotfold) and Cpl...

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Celebrating Cadet Pedal Power

15/07/2011 - SI Varley

On Monday night more than £3,500 was handed over to Bedford & District Cerebral Palsy Society as a result of the Army Cadets 286 mile exercise bike-a-thon, the distance from London to Paris.

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Cadets go "Nuclear" at Beds County Show

15/07/2011 - SI Varley

Once again the ARMY CADETS give thanks to the organisers of Bedfordshire’s County Show. Organisers provided the pitch in return for the local detachments help with stewarding and car parking.

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Sgt Kirumba Promoted

08/07/2011 - Borehamwood Times

A TEENAGER from Borehamwood is celebrating a promotion, which makes him the most senior cadet in his company of the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Army Cadet Force (ACF).

Lewis Kirumba,...

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Vintage Cadet in Community

30/06/2011 - SI Varley

Cadets from New Cardington, Bedford & Kempston Detachments were praised by organisers of the large Haynes 100 Classic Car Show for their invaluable support with marshalling and site coordination.

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