Buying from a sweet stall

in a Hong Kong village is Bideford solder, 22 year old Gunner Chris Dymond, who is a driver with 25 Light Regiment, Royal Artillery. Chris was posted to the Far East for a two and a half year tour of duty and is based in Sek Kong in the New Territories, close to the Red China border.

The Regiment’s duties include manning border observation points and it also does a lot of work aiding remote civilian committees.

Son of Mrs L Dymond, who lives at 52 Barton Tors, Bideford, Chris attended Bideford County School and worked as a butcher for the local Cooperative Society before joining the Royal Artillery for nine years in 1963. He has served 18 months with BAOR.

He has five brothers and two sisters all living in Devon.

Gazette edition dated 27 June 1969