Dickie Fulloway

I’m a horse soldier, timeless, through and through🐴 #ProRegeEtPatria🦅

[Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 @DefenceHQ]

We pause today to remember Lance Corporal George Hooley as he returned home to the UK.

Before his passing, Lance Corporal Hooley wrote a letter to his family and friends to be opened in the event of his death. At their request, we now share his words with you.

Our thoughts remain with his family, friends and colleagues. May his words bring comfort to all who read them.

[Dickie Fulloway @rusty_buckles]

@Ned_Donovan Time to retvrn to the Parks of old - highwayman and duelling 🔫

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@Ned_Donovan I was at Sandhurst with him, a really top guy👏🏻

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@youngvulgarian “YOU DIG JAZZ?” I yell at another woman in the club, sensually

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@shilpa_poppadom the US army guys I’m with in Latvia have all heard about it

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@Ned_Donovan Should definitrly also include some of the excellent English Indianisms: Expired, prepone, good name etc.

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@shilpa_poppadom @yngvlgrn I asked to not be objectified, be careful what you wish for I guess🥲😢

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@youngvulgarian @LaurenMaeve please stop objectifying my people 🥩

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@Ned_Donovan That’s where @TheWelshCavalry (one of many units on duty that day as crowd marshals) were accommodated during Her Late Majesty’s funeral #dragoonfacts

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@HarryTaylr https://t.co/G2fR0yWBw6

This is broadly agreed to be the St Clement’s in the song!

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@yngvlgrn yes I am but obviously no, I will not be proposing you hahahaha.

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@pinstripedline Just because you believe it is confined to a tiny number of dinosaurs, doesn’t make it so. I also don’t think that silencing women in the service who wish to discuss it - or disparaging those that host their voices - is helpful or fair.

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@yngvlgrn at this charming little lighthouse cafe/champagne bar in Folkestone otherwise I’d happily pop in for a cup of tea and some cleaning 🧼

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@yngvlgrn I love doing dishes. Very cathartic activity for me.

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@yngvlgrn speaking of DUNE did you know that the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays) fought at the Battle of Gabes Gap amongst the dunes of Tunisia in WW2? @Ned_Donovan

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@yngvlgrn I didn’t get to see it in cinemas first time round so I’m so down??

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@Ned_Donovan Pictured there being briefed by the QDG in Beirut - a tour that @TheWelshCavalry were awarded the Wilkinson’s Sword of Peace for.

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@Ned_Donovan “I shall never forget his words. I remember it like it was yesterday. He leaned across the table, he looked me straight in the eye, and he said "Aubrey... may I trouble you for the salt?"

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@yngvlgrn Idk what it is but count me in