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Demob Party, Downtown Jever - 1958/59.   Anyone recognise where?   Clive Roberts writes: "Could this have been taken at the 'Oase'?   I remember that this Café/bar was owned by an ex-serviceman from Bristol who resembled the chap in the photograph and had left the Forces and married a local girl.   This seemed to be a popular course to take.   Does anyone remember W.O. Costin of M.T.?   He, Henry Costin did a similar thing, he divorced his wife and married a local girl.   In 1974 my wife and I went on a camping holiday to Holland, Germany and Belgium, when we left Holland we went to a camp-site near Schillig so that I could show Jenny (my wife) Jever and its environs.   As we pulled into the camp-site I drove round the indicated area to find as grassy a pitch as possible, when a brown man came up to the window and rattled off a lot of German, I said 'Langsam, langsam' whereupon he fell about laughing.   I was a little miffed at this, as I thought he was laughing at my poor German.   "I'm English you know!" he said and introduced himself as Henry Costin.   'I know you' I said 'You were the examiner when I took my driving test in a 31/2 ton Magirus Deutz truck'.   "Yes, Costin the Bastard they used to call me" he said.   We became quite friendly and he invited us to his flat for coffee, he still lived in Jever and indeed he worked on the Camp in one of the Messes.   When we went to his flat we met the chap from the 'Oase' who by that time had, I think, given it up but still lived locally.   Later on, 1980, we were posted to Civilian Wing at 9th Signals Regiment, Cyprus, and whilst talking to a W.O. neighbour he said he liked Germany better and on enquiring where he had been he said Jever!   When I asked him if he knew Henry, he said 'Oh yes'.   The Regiment seemed to be billeted at Jever when they visited Brockzetel.   (Thanks Brian Salter and Clive Roberts.)
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