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From the Facebook page of the Royal Scots Greys: | |||
David McCallum Yates: 'Clement Von Franckensteyn was my Troop | |||
Leader in the Royal Scots Greys.in Fallingbostel in Germany, He was | |||
quite a guy so you can believe his stories, he served the same time as | |||
Sir Randolph Twickenham Fiends the Arctic Explorer and the Duke Of | |||
Kent. I like Frankie very much and I believe the feeling was mutual, | |||
Last I heard he had headed for the USA and Hollywood' | |||
Allan Bruce Sinclair: 'I remember Von Frankenstein when I | |||
served 1969 Fallingbostel' | |||
David McCallum Yates: 'When he finally LEFT the Regiment in | |||
Fallingbostel I received a message from our Squadron Leader Major | |||
Anderson, telling me that Frankie had left me his Peerles Sports Car | |||
the only problem being Frankie had wrote the car off on his way back | |||
from Hamburg and it was worth FA and I had two days to get the wreak | |||
off camp. I managed to sell the two seats to another Sgt and disposed | |||
of the rest of the car. And I never got to thank him. Another | |||
Frankie/Davey episode.' | |||
Tom Bolland: 'I did the Hamburg reeperbanh trip and awol got | |||
7days nick' | |||
When I asked what Clement's punishment was: | |||
David McCallum Yates: 'His option was to resign and leave the | |||
Regiment.' | |||
When news that he was in a coma was posted: | |||
David McCallum Yates: 'He was and is a character and some and | |||
a friend to me. He was so laid back and the Jocks in his troop loved | |||
him.' | |||
John Ross: 'The B Squadron burbling baron was indeed a great | |||
character.' | |||
Tam Currie: 'Remember him well Dave, was he the one that | |||
modified his sports car and had a centurion exhaust fitted?' | |||
David McCallum Yates: 'He left me his sport car " a Peerless" | |||
in Fally and our Sqn Ldr Jane Anderson was delighted to tell me it was | |||
was a right off.and I had 24 hours to get it off site. Good old | |||
Frankie.' | |||
William Stevens: 'Iwill finish he got me and paddy smythe to | |||
East Africa on 2 weeks leave I was his his batman for a while he was a | |||
great officer' | |||
He appeared in the following programs: | He appeared in the following programs: | ||
