Brief Biography
Michael Raven was born in Cardiff of Lancastrian parents in 1938.
He was educated at Towyn Grammar School and Keele University where he studied geology and political philosophy.
He was a keen sportsman and in 1956, at the age of 18, he was the men’s Midlands Decathlon Champion.
He did his National Service with the Cheshire Regiment on active service in Malaya where he was an Acting Sergeant and double Marksman on both the rifle and the Bren light machine gun.
On leaving college he did a variety of jobs from pipe-line labourer to lorry driver before going to Spain to learn flamenco guitar. Shortly afterwards he became a professional musician, writer and researcher into the folklore of the West Midlands.
He has some 80 books and 50 CDs to his credit. He was an active performer both as a solo guitarist and as a member of several groups, including The Black Country Three, which regularly appeared on radio and television. In 1972 he accompanied Mary Hopkin (Those were the Days) for a summer season at Margate and established the Stafford Spanish Guitar Centre. He spent several years full-time teaching at the centre and at Universities and Colleges of Education, and performed and recorded with folk singer Joan Mills.
He then developed a keen interest in local history and photography and his researches resulted in comprehensive and highly- regarded guides to the counties of Staffordshire, Shropshire and Herefordshire, books of landscape photography and original poetry.
All his life he was a dog lover and a supporter of The League Against Cruel Sports.
Michael Raven died on 15th April 2008 at the age of 70. However, he will live on in his books and recordings (see above for sales information). Michael was a guitarist, composer, poet and writer and his vast output will continue to be enjoyed by all those who admired the work of this remarkable and very special man.
Nic Jones by Michael Raven In the late 1970s, at the height of the revival, Nic Jones was probably the most sought after solo performer on the British folk scene. He had an armoury of guitar techniques, a lyrical style of singing, and a varied choice of mostly traditional material that he made modern and …
I first met Lonnie Donegan in 1971 when I was accompanying Mary Hopkin at the Winter Gardens, Margate. She was top of the bill and by then Lonnie was not the name he had been in the Fifties. He was striving to make a come-back and was racing up and down almost daily from Margate …
Michael Raven and Joan Mills’ second LP on the Folk Heritage label. Early 1970s. Only 100 were pressed. This, and the Death and the Lady LP, will cost you £300 each today, if you can find a copy of either one.
HYMN TO CHE GUEVARA CD £9.99 (ALL SOLD OUT) Apply for this CD in contact details.
DEATH AND THE LADY CD £9.99. (SOLD OUT)
Album cover of A Shropshire Lad
A Shropshire Lad
SORRY, ALL SOLD OUT
Michael Raven (guitar) Joan Mills (vocals) Price £9.99 (CD) Click on link below to purchase
CDMR69 An 80 minute CD. 17 Housman poems, set to traditional melodies, alternate with 20 Welsh tunes arranged for solo guitar. Released 1994. A companion book is available. Just as a matter of interest, Housman refused to let his poems be broadcast by the BBC unless they were put to melodies and sung.
A full track listing for this CD is available in the full product description inside the store. Also available in the full product description are some samples of tracks. Click on the link below to view full product description.
Michael Raven Price £5.50 (CD)
CDMR7
Recordings of Welsh airs and dances. The music of all 47 recordings are published in the book Welsh Guitar. Playing time 80 minutes. Straight, honest recordings with no editing or effects. The guitar is a custom-made Lowden. Recorded in 1995 in a cottage in the Welsh borders. Michael Raven was born in Cardiff and went to Towyn Grammar School, near Aberdovey.
Michael Raven (guitar) Joan Mills (vocals) Price £4.50 (CD)
CDMR70 This is a companion recording to the book English Folk Guitar Book 4. Songs and guitar solos alternate. There are 24 tracks in all,, including Raglan Road, Illic Jacet (Housman), Moorlough Shore, Fortune my Foe, Lass from the Low Country, Minuet de la Cour, and Brisk Young Widow, etc. 79 minutes playing time. “Classic performances.” Derek Giffard
Michael Raven (guitar) Joan Mills (vocals) Price £4.50 (CD)
CDMR73 Songs alternate with instrumentals and poems throughout. There are 28 tracks with a playing time of 77 minutes. Titles include Dancing Lady, Robin Hood’s Dance, Trecynon Polka, Adson’s Saraband, Over the Wall, Paris Polka, Cluster of Nuts, etc.
Michael Raven (guitar) Joan Mills (vocals) Price £4.50 (CD)
CDMR68. An 80 minute CD. 24 guitar solos and 13 songs. Released in 1994. Traditional and contemporary. “Quite exceptional”, Nick Beale, Folk Roots. A companion book is available. See under Guitar Music.
Songs and dances of Herefordshire, Michael Raven and Joan Mills
Michael Raven (guitar) Joan Mills (vocals) with guests Pat and Roy Palmer Price £9.99 (CD)
CDMR76. Duration 79 minutes. 16 songs, 10 guitar solos, 3 viola tunes and 4 poems. Some enchanting music, most of it previously unrecorded. Many of the songs were collected at the Ross Workhouse, demolished in 1995. All the music on the CD is printed in the Ross Workhouse Songbook.
Sample Track 7 – Banks of Sweet Primroses
A full track listing for this CD is available in the full product description inside the store. Also available in the full product description are some samples of tracks. Click on the link below to view full product description.
Michael Raven Price £4.50 (CD)
CDMR75. 35 tracks with 72 minutes playing time of solo guitar. Consists of three parts: all the tracks but one from Gipsy: A Variety of Guitar Music (Cambrian SCLP610) recorded in one three hour session in 1973; the Suites in E and D from A Miscellany of Guitar Music (broadside BRO124) recorded in 1977; and An English Collection 1, recorded in 1995.
Taming the Dragon’s Strings, Michael Raven and Joan Mills
Michael Raven (guitar) Joan Mills (vocals) Price £3.50 (CD)
CDMR71. Duration 71 minutes. 23 guitar solos, 2 Housman songs (The West, and Loveliest of Trees), and 21 original poems from Song of the Fox, recited by Michael Raven. Guitar solos include the very popular Spanish Morris, Christmas at Soulton Hall, and Lovely on the Water. Amongst the poems are Foxy’s Flying, Dark-haired Daughters and Pell Wall Hall.
The Reynardine TapesMichael Raven (guitar, cittern, mandolin, bass, organ); Joan Mills (vocal, guitar, drum); John Rose (fiddle); Ado Morris (tin whistle, guitar) Price £3.50 (CD)
CDMR72. Duration 75 minutes. 22 tracks, 10 with Reynardine recorded In 1979. Songs and lively dance tunes. Titles include the band versions of Queen of the Night, Hungarian Hat, and Three Hearty Young Poachers, and the increasingly popular Old Dublin Fireman, recorded by Mike and Joan in 1995. There are also two concert guitar solos – the Lichfield Bower Processional, and the epic Tarantos.
The Halliard : Jon Raven/The Jolly Machine
SORRY SOLD OUT — SORRY SOLD OUT — SORRY SOLD OUT
The Halliard
Nic Jones, Dave Moran, Nigel Pattison, Mike Raven & Joan Mills with Saga (2-LP reissue)
CDMR77. Duration 79 minutes. This CD is a slightly modified reissue of two LP records. The Halliard: Jon Raven (Broadside BRO 106), first issued in 1968, was made for the Halliard’s farewell tour and contains some of their best known songs: Going for a Soldier Jenny, Lancashire Lads, Calico Printer’s Clerk, and Ladies Don’t Go a Thievin’, etc. Two tracks from The Black Country Three (Transatlantic TRA 140) have been included. The Jolly Machine (Folk Heritage FHR 053) was recorded by Michael Raven and Joan Mills with Derby group Saga in 1974. All the songs are in the Jolly Machine book. The Black Country Three end the proceedings with the Dudley Canal Tunnel Song. 29 tracks in all.
My Old Friend
My Old Friend, Michael Raven and Joan Mills
Michael Raven and Joan Mills with guest Johnny Collins – Price £4.50 CD
CDMR80. Five guitar solos – Abbot’s Bromley Horn Dance, Sheba’s Daughter, Squire Mytton’s Gallop, Grey Valley, and Spanish Morris – and 13 songs, almost all by Mike Raven: My Old Friend (for a much missed dog called Pirate), Errol Flynn, Song for Diana, Che Guevara (once released as a single), Is My Dear Lord Asleep?, English Lanes, John Collins, Rebel Leader’s Lament, Maid from the Northlands, My Bonny Lads Away, Loveliest of Trees. All the music and words of the songs and transcriptions of all the guitar solos are printed in a 36 page booklet which comes free with the CD. This highly acclaimed recording was released in 1998. Duration: 60 minutes.
Michael Raven Price £5.50 (CD)
CDMR81. True solo guitar recorded in a country house in the Welsh Marches with no editing or studio enhancements whatsoever. Titles are: Lisa Lan/Road to Towyn, Coalisland Massacre, Cat Tails Polka, Lament for Limerick, Captain’s Entrance, First Tuesday in Autumn, Black Joke, Sheepskins, All People that on Earth do Dwell, Tarantella, Barcarole, Circassian Circle, Shepherd O Shepherd, Indian Queen, Maid of Provence, Glendower’s Jig, Be Thou My Vision, Chiapa, Anarchie Gordon. Recorded Autumn 1999.
Outlaw of Loch Lene, Michael Raven and Joan Collins
Joan Mills Accompanied by Michael Raven Price £3.50 (CD)
CDMR83. “Both the instrumentation and the singing are a delight.” Mered Evans, former Head of Light Entertainment BBC Wales TV and Radio. Titles are: Sea Fever, Angel of Armagh, The Inquest, Green Rain, Secret Garden, Outlaw of Loch Lene, I would that the wars were all over, The Woods of Zamora, The Hungry Army, Mary from Dunglow, Sailor Home. Contains some outstanding ballads. Recorded in the Autumn of 1999. “Her unforced, natural approach is absolutely fine by me.” Nick Beale, Folk Roots
Other cassettes, including companion cassettes to books of guitar music are available. Please use the contact form for more information.
Postage and Packaging
For UK deliveries the postage cost will be shown in the checkout. For deliveries outside of the UK, please use the contact form to enquire about cost of postage and packaging to your location. Please indicate what you wish to order so I can give an accurate price.
Recordings 2
Vinyl
Che Guevara
Ravenshead (Michael Raven and Joan Mills)
Big Bear
Price £3.50 (single)
VINYL SINGLE 7″ 45 RPM
A rare vinyl single of the haunting ballad Che Guevara.
Released 1980. Big Bear Records – BB31
Guitar: Michael Raven: Vocals Joan Mills: Written by Michael Raven
Recorded at The Falcon Folk Club, Stafford, with the audience joining in on the chorus.
Sing Che Guevara,
For Che he’s away,
To the forests and mountains
At the dawn on the day.
There’s fire on the mountains,
There’s fire on the hills;
There’s fire in the valleys
No tyrant can still.
And though you may lie there,
Your body all bones,
The sun also rises;
The day always dawns.
No drum to beat Lowly;
No bugle to ring;
No coffin to carry;
No songs for to sing.
No priest for to praise you;
No friends for to mourn;
But the sun also rises;
The day always dawns.
This recording can also be found on the CD “The Folk Heritage Recordings”
Songs of the Black Country and West Midlands Michael Raven, Jon Raven and Jean Ward
Michael Raven Price £9.99
This is a CD of the LP record first released in 1968 by Broadside Records (BRO100).
SORRY – ALL SOLD OUT
Performers: Michael Raven and Jon Raven with Jean Ward. Contents: King Henry IV and the King of France, Bold Robin Hood and the Three Squires, The Rose Tree, Cold Blows the Wind, Come All Yew Blades, Brave Collier Lads, Collier Lass, Ballad of Trubshaw and Green (wrestlers), Wife for Sale, Nailmakers’ Strike of 1862, Wedgebury Cocking, Gabriel’s Hounds, John Wesley, William Booth, Darlaston Dogfight, Staffordshire Hornpipe, Hampton (Wolverhampton) Lullaby, Ye Three Tall Men. Jon Raven is in especially good voice on this recording.
The Black Country Three Price £9.99
CD of the LP record first released in 1966 by Transatlantic Records (TRA140). Performers: Michael Raven, Jon Raven, Derek Craft and a session bass player. Contents: The Boxing Match, Long Ago Far Away, Buttermilk Hill, Song of the Western Men, Three Ravens, Jolly Joe, Row Bullies Row, Wedgefield Wake, Villancico, Wine of Gaul, She Moved Through the Fair, Mission of San Miguel, Riflemen of Bennington, All Bells in Paradise.
Michael Raven and Joan Mills Price £4.50
CD of the LP record made by Michael Raven and Joan Mills in Utrecht for Munich Records called Can y Melinydd (MU7430). Contents: Katie Cruel, Maid of Tottenham, Owain Glyndwr, Tenpenny Jig, Bedlam Boys, Constant Lover, Clerk Colvill, Burning of Auchindown, Brisk Young Widow, Night Visiting Song, Young Jane/Lord McDonald, Brave Nelson, Widow Woman’s Daughter, Can y Melinydd.
Michael Raven and Joan Mills Price £5.99
CD of the majority of tracks from two LP records made by Michael Raven and Joan Mills and released on the Folk Heritage label: Death and the Lady (FHR047); Hymn to Che Guevara (FHR054). Contents from Death and the Lady are: The Jolly Highwayman, Lisa Lan, Ladies Don’t Go a-Thievin’, Robin Hood’s Dance, Sarabande, Captain’s Apprentice, Can y Melinydd/Troseg y Gareg (instrumental), Sarah Collins, White Gloves, La Russe Waltz/Paris Polka, Queen of the Night. Tracks from Hymn to Che Guevara are: Belle Star and Jesse James, Twenty Years, Melancholy Pavan, Hymn to Che Guevara, Great Train Robbery, Magpies in Picardy, little White Donkey, Dancing Lady.
Michael Raven and Joan Mills with Saga Price £5.99
CD of the LP record made by Michael Raven and Joan Mills with folk group Saga in 1974 for the Folk Heritage label (FHR053). Subtitled: Songs of Industrial Protest and Social Discontent from the West Midlands as printed in the book of the same name. Contents: Chartists’Anthem, Nailmakers’ Lament, Charlie’s Song, Needlemakers’ Lamentation, Landlord Don’t You Cry, Freedom and Reform, John Whitehouse, Potters’ Chant, Waiting for Wages, Wednesbury Town, Jolly Machine, Colliers’ Rant, Tommy Note, Dudley Canal Tunnel Song (Push, Boys, Push) performed by the Black Country Three.
There’s a nice review from sublimalsounds.se about this album. Click here to read review, scroll to bottom of the page for the review.
GUITAR MAGIC
Guitar Music – Michael Raven
Michael Raven Price £4.50
CD of Michael Raven’s first solo guitar LP record made for Transatlantic (XTRA 1046) in 1966. This is a record of flamenco music and was made in one three hour session in Birmingham. Contents: Jota Aragonesa, Bulerias, Black is the Colour (as a Granadinas), Zambra, Romance d’Amour, Bobby Shaftoe (with flamenco variations), Alegrias, Garrotin, El Vito, Freight Train, Soleares, Farruca.
Michael Raven Price £3.50
CD of the entire contents of the book of the same name. (See the Guitar pages of this website.). Previously only available as a cassette. Contents: Eton Boating Song, Schubert’s Serenade, Cwm Rhondda, Lovely Joan, Geordie, Fur Elise, Tom Dooley, Freight Train, Rosalita, Frankie and Johnny, Bill Bailey, Grandfather’s Clock, Ash Grove, John Brown’s Body, Juanita, Bluebell Polka, Be Thou My Vision, Old rugged Cross, Walsingham, Red Flag, Scottish Soldier, Blarney Pilgrim, Crimond, Loch Lomond, Tango Argentina, O Sole Mio, Greensleeves, Lillebulero, Prelude in E Minor, English Tarantella, Going Home, Daisy Belle, French Popular Song, Abide with Me, Don Giovanni Minuet, Claire de Lune.
The Dutch Connection – Michael Raven and Joan Mills
Michael Raven (guitar) Joan Mills (vocals) Price £1.50 (Cassette)
Side One was recorded in Holland in 1976. Contents: Katie Cruel, Maid of Tottenham, Owain Glyndwr, Tenpenny Bit, Mad Tom of Bedlam, Constant Lovers, Clerk Colville, Young Jane, Lord McDonald, Burning of Auchindown, Brisk Young Widow, Miller’s Song, Come Live with Me, Rogue’s Wedding, Night Visiting Song, Improvisation, Ludlow Recruit, Rex Gloria, Robin Hood and the Tanner, Little Birds of the Mountain, Tarbolton Lodge, Longford Collector, Sailor’s Bonnet, etc. (The last four titles with Reynardine.) 60 minutes playing time. Cassette only.
The Folk Heritage Recordings – SORRY, ALL SOLD OUT
The Folk Heritage Recordings – Michael Raven and Joan Mills
Michael Raven (guitar) Joan Mills (vocals and guitar) Price £1.50 (Cassette)
Selected tracks from the LP Death and the Lady (1972): Jolly Highwayman, Lisa Lan, Ladies Don’t Go a Thieving, Robin Hood’s Dance, Sarabande, Captain’s Apprentice, Can y Melinydd, Troseg y Gareg, Sarah Collins, White Gloves, La Russe Waltz, Paris Polka, Queen of the Night. Selected tracks from the LP Hymn to Che Guevara (1974): Belle Star and Jesse James, Twenty Years, Melancholy Pavan, Hymn to Che Guevara, Great Train Robbery, Magpies in Picardy, Little White Donkey, Dancing Lady, Midnight City. 60 minutes playing time. Available as cassette only.
Michael Raven (Guitar)
Price £1.50 (cassette)
CassMR78 A cassette consisting of tracks taken from CD recordings of flamenco and flamenco-inspired arrangements of British tunes. Tracks are: Troseg y Gareg/Rakes of Mallow/Tanguilio, Chattering Magpie, Lovely on the Water/Hills of Sarajevo, Lichfield Bower Processional, Pavan for a Dead Princess, Willow Rag, Soleares, Black is the Colour, Bolero, Road to Lisdoonvarna/Road to Towyn, Maid of Provence, Spanish Morris 38 minutes playing time.
Irish In Me, Joan Mills with Michael Raven
Michael Raven (guitar)
Joan Mills (vocals)
Price £1.50 (cassette)
CassMR79. Joan’s mother, Margaret “Jeannie” Meehan, came from Ballindrait, Donegal. The contents are: Maid from the Northlands, Errol Flynn, Sally Gardens, The Backwoodsman, Old Dublin Fireman, Johnny Gallagher, Moorlough Shore, Widow Woman’s Daughter, Brink of the White Rock, Star of Belle Isle, Irish Girl, Raglan Road. 46 minutes playing time. Cassette only.
Other cassettes, including companion cassettes to books of guitar music are available, please use the contact form if you want more information.
Postage and Packaging
Postage cost for delivery to UK addresses will be shown in the checkout. For deliveries outside of the UK please use the contact form to enquire about the cost of postage and packaging to your location. Please let me know what you want to order so I can get you an accurate price.
A E Housman
A E HOUSMAN CD & BOOK
A Shropshire Lad: CD £9.99 Book £9
Combined CD and Book package £14
The Recording of ‘A Shropshire Lad’ by Michael Raven and Joan Mills
The Recording of ‘A Shropshire Lad’ by Michael Raven and Joan Mills
General:
Michael began setting Housman poems to music in the early 1970s and continued to do so on and off throughout his life. These recordings are of typical concert performances – one guitar and one voice, with no multi-tracking, no editing and no special effects. They were all made at Michael’s studio in Ashley, near Market Drayton in December 1993, except Along the Fields, Goldcup Flowers, Bredon Hill, Shrewsbury Jail and Come Pipe a Tune, which were recorded at the Great Hall, Penrhyn Castle on 11th September 1976. These were all genuine ‘first takes’ and you can hear the wonderful natural echo provided by the Great Hall. In 1976 both these sets of recordings were amalgamated into a CD called ‘A Shropshire Lad’, which proved to be one of our most popular CDs.
Sources
The Housman poems are all from A Shropshire Lad, except The Deserter, In Midnights of November and Half Moon which are from Last Poems. All the tunes are traditional, fitted by Michael Raven, except those of The Deserter and Is My Team Ploughing which were composed by Michael Raven. The Welsh tunes are all traditional, arranged for solo guitar by Michael Raven, except Galaru and Rhoslan Reel which were composed by him.
Guitars
The Penrhyn Castle recordings were made using a 1966 Ramirez flamenco guitar. The rest were made with a 1993 steel strung Lowden 032 with an extra wide custom neck (49 mm at the nut), and a Ramirez A1 Classic. The Lowden was played very hard in the folk-blues style called English Folk Guitar, characterised by string slapping, vibrato, chord damping, heavy ornamentation and, above all, a fiercely rhythmic attack. This is especially suitable for performing the ‘wild laments’ such as the Bard’s Dream and Farewell to Llangyfelach, both typical of what scholars believe to be survivals of very ancient pre-Celtic melody. (The Welsh are a predominantly short, dark people of Iberian blood, who adopted the language of the invading tall, fair-haired Celts.)
Printed music
All the songs, accompaniments and guitar solos have been fully notated and published in a companion book also called A Shropshire Lad. The guitar music is printed in both staff notation and tablature. The book measures 9 inches by 12 inches and has 64 pages. It can be obtained from this website.
About A E Housman
A E Housman was an outstanding Latin scholar and in 1892 became a professor at Cambridge University. He spent 18 years there, during which time his father died a penniless alcoholic. In the spring of 1895 he experienced a sudden upsurge in creativity. Although born in Worcestershire, and only having visited Shropshire once or twice, Housman’s imagination was fired by looking westwards from his home towards Shropshire and the Welsh hills. A Shropshire Lad was first published in 1896 and sold out in two years. The success of the book caused him to make several walks to check on geographical details of places mentioned. His worst mistake was Hughly Church and its non-existent steeple. The book was much loved and was often carried by soldiers in the trenches in the First World War. It is not commonly known that Housman refused to allow his poems to be recited on the radio and insisted they be set to music and sung
Housman originally intended to call his collection of poems “The Poems of Terence Hearsay”, which doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. Fortunately, he was persuaded by his friend Alfred Pollard to call it “A Shropshire Lad”. The poet died in 1936 and his ashes were taken to Ludlow Church. At the time of his death he was described as the most learned Latinist in Europe. In his lifetime he refused all honours including the Order of Merit.
In the Dark Ages Shropshire was ruled by the Princes of Powys and Welsh blood still flows in the veins of many a Salopian. There is a link, too, between the poetry of A Shropshire Lad and the pre-Celtic Iberians from over the border, namely a melancholy of mood. Sombre, brooding melodies are as typical of the Welsh as jigs and reels are of the Irish. As to our poet, Housman’s epitaph might well have been “With rue my heart is laden”. The ancient music of the Welsh and the timeless verses of the English bard travel well together. However, these glum companions do have their lighter moments and these are also represented here.
Notes to Some of the Songs
Come Pipe a Tune
Housman was a very introverted, conservative person who largely shunned society and was devoted to his work. However, he wasn’t all doom and gloom and on occasion he would visit the music hall with a friend and enjoy a drink, and we think he probably had one or two when he wrote this poem. It compares poetry with alcohol, and poetry comes off second best. A memorable line in this poem is: “Malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man”. The tune used here is a Morris tune.
The Land of Lost Content
This song comprises two one-verse poems which Michael put together to form one song. These poems contain some of Housman’s most memorable lines, in particular, “blue remembered hills”. These poems were thought to be some sort of declaration of love for his friend, Moses Jackson. Unfortunately for Housman, this was not reciprocated and soon afterwards Jackson left to live in India, only returning briefly to get married. However, they continued to correspond until Housman’s death in 1923.
The New Mistress
The New Mistress is the Army and in this song the young man is obviously hoping that his new mistress will be more faithful than the old one.
The True Lover
This is a song that has a rather creepy and unsettling feel. It tells of a young man who calls on his sweetheart intent on committing suicide, and does so by cutting his throat so that the blood drips all over her neck. The last line is rather ambiguous and seems to imply that he kills her as well, although this not actually said. We know that Housman read a lot of traditional ballads and a common theme is people of differing social scales being unable to marry, resulting in suicide. The tune is the Shropshire version of Cold Blows the Wind.
Wenlock Edge
Wenlock Edge runs from Much Wenlock to Ludlow and is a limestone escarpment, which is heavily wooded with naturally regenerated hardwoods. This song tells of the seasonal changes on Wenlock Edge.
Illic Jacet
Housman’s youngest brother, Herbert, died in 1901 fighting in the Boer War. This event inspired one of Housman’s most moving poems Illic Jacet (there he lies). It is a dark portrayal of a dead soldier lying in a darkened room covered only by a common blanket and far from family and friends. This poem can be found on the CD ‘Recital’.
he was an Acting Sergeant and double Marksman on both the rifle and the Bren light machine gun.
