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The murder of Sergeant Reginald Watters REME at Glamorgan Barrcks
Found this interesting
Sergeant Reginald Watters REME was employed by the Technical Training School as a NCO Instructor
in the barracks in 1953. On the evening of the 1st December he did not arrive home at the usual time
and his wife eventually became concerned and informed the barracks of his absence. A search party,
led by a (Acting) Sergeant Major Frederick Emmett-Dunn of the same unit, was formed and in their search
of the camp they came across the body of Sergeant Watters hanging from the banister rails of the stairwell
in Block 2, nearby was a overturned bucket. As a married man Watters had lived with his German wife
Mia in a Married Quarter, about 1500 metres from the Barracks.
A pathologist's report led eventually to a verdict of suicide being returned but there was considerable
gossip amongst the soldiers and families in the Duisburg area and this eventually reached the ears of
Sergeant Walters of the SIB/RMP who was involved in the original RMP investigations, and who now
became suspicious.Sergeant Walters started his own investigations and found that Sergeant Major
Emmett-Dunn, who had found the body, had been reported for embezzlement of Workshop funds
and, more importantly, was also rumoured to be having an affair with the wife of the dead man.
This picture is interesting for two reasons. Firstly, it shows a dour faced Emmett-Dunn (left, back row)
and secondly because it appeared in the popular press of the day in relation to the murder under the title:
"One of the orgies in the Sergeants Mess in Glamorgan Barracks".
Read full story at http://36reg.com/id40.htm
Found this interesting
Sergeant Reginald Watters REME was employed by the Technical Training School as a NCO Instructor
in the barracks in 1953. On the evening of the 1st December he did not arrive home at the usual time
and his wife eventually became concerned and informed the barracks of his absence. A search party,
led by a (Acting) Sergeant Major Frederick Emmett-Dunn of the same unit, was formed and in their search
of the camp they came across the body of Sergeant Watters hanging from the banister rails of the stairwell
in Block 2, nearby was a overturned bucket. As a married man Watters had lived with his German wife
Mia in a Married Quarter, about 1500 metres from the Barracks.
A pathologist's report led eventually to a verdict of suicide being returned but there was considerable
gossip amongst the soldiers and families in the Duisburg area and this eventually reached the ears of
Sergeant Walters of the SIB/RMP who was involved in the original RMP investigations, and who now
became suspicious.Sergeant Walters started his own investigations and found that Sergeant Major
Emmett-Dunn, who had found the body, had been reported for embezzlement of Workshop funds
and, more importantly, was also rumoured to be having an affair with the wife of the dead man.
This picture is interesting for two reasons. Firstly, it shows a dour faced Emmett-Dunn (left, back row)
and secondly because it appeared in the popular press of the day in relation to the murder under the title:
"One of the orgies in the Sergeants Mess in Glamorgan Barracks".
Read full story at http://36reg.com/id40.htm