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May I put in a word for the staff who worked so hard at these events, including Mrs VM who sadly passed away recently.
VM - I'm sorry for your loss - must be a tough time for you.
I wholeheartedly agree with you - staff worked very hard at these events and had to deal with a whole load of (usually) drunken buffoons in the early hours (I include myself in that cohort!).
I was just up the road from JHQ at Laarbruch - we had a lovely German chap called Paul that worked in our mess - had been there for years and years and had seen it all. Chatting to him after the final ball (1998?) he just mentioned in passing that he was hoping to have been invited as a guest as a thank you for all his years of service, but it never happened. I so wish he had mentioned it to one of us before the event - many people (myself included) would have had a word with the Mess Manager and paid for him & his wife to attend...