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Ray was a great sportsman enjoying boxing (light heavyweight champion in the battalion), rugby (Army Team) swimming, water polo and the 120 yards hurdles. In 1965 he was appointed College Sergeant Major of Old College and so started his love affair with Sandhurst.
Ray Huggins joined 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards in Hamburg in 1946. The place, he said ‘was rubble’, and one of the less pleasant tasks given to the Grenadiers was to guard the internment camp at Neuengamme.
Raymond Huggins, MBE, Grenadier and academy sergeant major, was born on March 22, 1928. He died on May 13, 2022, aged 94. When Raymond Huggins completed his time as regimental sergeant major of the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards in 1970, he was offered a commission. To the surprise.
Apr 12, 2019 · Anecdotally, Mr Huggins was passing across the front of Old College and, noticing a freshly minted young gentleman, threw up his usual Brigade salute, which was ignored! A stentorian roar of “Mr X, I am saluting you sir” received a very languid reply (it was a cavalry type, allegedly) of “and so you should, Sgt Maj”.
Apr 12, 2019 · Ray Huggins retired during my SMC - his last Sovereign's Parade was December 1979. Very, very moving as we all smashed our rifle butts into the ground in celebration as he arrived to march us off to Old College Square.
May 13, 2022 · In 1966, on being promoted to Warrant Officer Class 1, he was appointed regimental sergeant major (RSM) of Old College, Sandhurst. He subsequently served as RSM of the 2nd Battalion at Wuppertal and Münster, western Germany.
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Chelsea Pensioner Ray Huggins was honoured at The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst yesterday. As the longest serving Academy Sergeant Major; serving 10 years between 1970 - 1980, "The Huggins Block" was unveiled in front of current staff and former Governor of the Royal Hospital, Gen Sir Redmond Watt.