With their annual camp only six weeks away, the Bolton Artillery, the town's only Army Volunteer Reserve Unit, held a special training in May, 1969.
While recruits practised on the guns at the Fletcher Street headquarters, a group of NCOs and trained soldiers took part in an exercise on the moors around Belmont. Sgt. Maj. J.O. Keefe (second from right, kneeling) briefed the men on their next position on the map.
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