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Derek Eustace John Meaker
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| Date | Rank | Event | Unit | Remarks |
| 01.10.22 | Born Carshalton Surrey | |||
| 14.10.40 | Pte | Enlisted at Brighton | Royal Sussex 70th Home Depot | No 6408454 |
| 10.12.41 | Posted to India | Officer Cadet Training Unit | ||
| 17.12.41 | L/Cpl | Attached to Guards | Depot Caterham | |
| 06.01.42 | Embarked for India | |||
| 08.07.42 | O/Cdt | Discharged from the ranks | ||
| 09.07.42 | 2Lt | Emergency Commission | Indian Army ,Bombay Grenadiers | |
| 23.05.50 | Tpr | Enlisted – Dukes Rd London | 21st Special Air Service (Artists) TA | |
| 30.05.50 | PULHEEMS | No 22513086 (Physical and employment Grade, Upper/Lower Limbs, Hearing, Eyes/Left/Right, Mental state, Stability) | ||
| 08.10.50 | Start Basic Parachute course which counts a days duty for TA Bounty | |||
| 20.10.50 | End of Parachute Course | Para Wings awarded,,, | ||
| 00.00.51 | Absent with leave from training | |||
| 00.00.52 | Attended Training | |||
| 22.05.53 | Termination of engagement in the Territorial Army | |||
| 28.09.56 | Cpl | Start of current engagement PULHEEMS Re-Promoted Cpl | 1st Training Regt RAOC | Temporary paid rank |
| 01.10.56 | Re joined from unpaid leave | |||
| 08.10.56 | Extended Service 9 years | |||
| 11.10.56 | Designated Regt Depot NCO | |||
| 14.12.56 | Next of kin – address change | |||
| 07.01.57 | Personnel Weapons Course, Small Arms Wing School of Infantry, Hythe | |||
| 01.02.57 | End of Course – 'B' Grade | |||
| 03.06.57 | A/Sgt | Posted to Permanent Staff | RAOC/REME Junior Leaders School | Promoted Acting Sgt |
| 19.01.58 | Discharged | |||
| 20.01.58 | A/Sgt | Re enlisted – 12 years Taken on strength | RAOC/REME Junior Leaders School | |
| 18.07.58 | Cpl | Struck off strength and posted (At this time the SAS had a small selection staff at Aldershot) | Airborne Forces Depot Aldershot | (At this time the SAS had a small selection staff at Aldershot) |
| 19.08.58 | Posted to Far East (Malaya) Via Joint Service Air Transport Centre – RAF Hendon | |||
| 16.09.58 | Tpr | Arrived Singapore – Taken on strength – 22nd Special Air Service Regt Reverts to Trooper (Normal for all ranks) | ||
| 12.03.59 | End of Far East Tour | |||
| 19.11.58 | Arrived Persian Gulf | Jebal Akhdar (The SAS were diverted to the Middle East to take part in the campaign to dislodge a rebel group from the Jebal Akhdar (Green Mountain) in Oman. This they did after months of action in the Mountains of Oman. The conduct of the SAS in this action saved them from disbandment!) | ||
| 10.13.59 | Flight out from Bahrain | |||
| 12.03.59 | Arrives in UK | |||
| 08.08.59 | A/L/Cpl | Appointed Acting Lance Corporal | ||
| 13.09.59 | Made false entry on vehicle work ticket | |||
| 25.09.59 | Tpr | Deprived of L/Cpl for offence at Lipstadt | ||
| 01.11.59 | A/L/Cpl | Appointed Acting Lance Corporal | ||
| 04.01.60 | Pte | Posted to 3rd Training Regt | RAOC | |
| 05.01.60 | Cpl | Posted to Permanent Staff | ||
| 09.01.60 | Sgt | Corps Order promotion to Sgt with seniority from 28.09.56 (All SAS members hold shadow rank in old Unit) | ||
| 10.02.60 | CO's Orders – Failed to attend Parade (Awarded severe reprimand) | 3rd Training Battalion | ||
| 02.06.60 | Awarded General Service Medal (Malaya) | |||
| 25.10.60 | Orders for posting to British Army of the Rhine | |||
| 31.10.60 | Posted to Germany | |||
| 01.11.60 | Taken on strength | 3rd Brigade Air Defence Unit | ||
| 12.05.61 | Awarded Arabian Peninsular Clasp | |||
| 01.09.61 | Was objectionable to a Non Commissioned Officer of the Royal Military Police at Rheindahlen | |||
| 08.09.61 | Given a severe reprimand on Commanding Officers Orders | |||
| 01.10.62 | Change of Unit title – 1st Guided Weapons Company | |||
| 13.09.63 | A/S/Sgt | Probationary Acting Staff Sergeant | ||
| 14.09.64 | Sgt | Posted to UK relinquished A/S/Sgt rank | ||
| 15.09.64 | Taken on Strength – Combined Ordnance Depot Donnington | |||
| 18.01.65 | Potential Quartermaster Sgts Course | RAOC – School Blackdown | ||
| 01.03.65 | End of Course | Graded 'A' | ||
| 21.04.65 | Posted to Malaya/Borneo | |||
| 03.12.65 | Passed Colloquial Exam in Malay | 30th Battalion RAOC | ||
| 03.01.66 | Posted ,to Far East | Far East School of Joint Warfare | ||
| 01.04.66 | Taken on Strength of Far East School of Joint Warfare | |||
| 31.10.66 | Struck off Strength of Far East School of Joint Warfare | |||
| 01.11.66 | Taken on Strength | 30th Battalion RAOC | ||
| 28.11.66 | Temporary attachment | 28th Commonwealth Brigade | ||
| 07.04.67 | Absent without leave at Terendak Camp | |||
| 09.04.67 | Commanding Officers Orders – Severe reprimand and fined £10 | |||
| 25.05.67 | Taken off Strength | |||
| 20.05.67 | Taken on Strength | 30th Battalion,RAOC | ||
| 19.10.67 | Posted to UK | |||
| 20.10.67 | Taken on Strength | Regt Depot RAOC | ||
| 27.04.69 | Discharged (Service 22 years 1 day) |