ABOUT US
Our Patron
The Henry Euler Memorial Trust [THEMT] is honoured to have as its Patron,
His Excellency, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, Lieutenant General Richard Cripwell CB, CBE, who was sworn in on 15th February 2022.
Commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers in August 1982, Richard Cripwell served on operations in Northern Ireland, the Middle East and the Balkans where he commanded 26th Engineer Regiment. Following a number of training appointments, he served in the Defence Intelligence Staff and the Ministry of Defence, before again undertaking overseas operations in Iraq as Commander Engineers in the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps and Director of the Strategic Transition and Assessment Group in HQ ISAF.
As Commander British Forces in Cyprus he also served as Governor of the Sovereign Base Areas, before being appointed British Defence Attaché in Washington and Head of the British Defence Staff in the United States. After acting as Deputy Commander of Operation “Resolute Support” in Afghanistan in 2017, his final Army appointment was that of Deputy Commander Allied Land Command, the standing headquarters for NATO land forces based at Izmir in Turkey.
Ken Tough O.B.E.
Born in Guernsey in 1948, he was educated there and at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, where he read history. He joined the Guernsey civil service and from 1981 until retirement in 2011 held office as HM Greffier, being Registrar or Clerk of the Royal Court of Guernsey and the States. He was responsible, inter alia, for the archives of the Royal Court, which document the independent jurisdiction of Guernsey from the 14th century to the present. He is a longstanding member of the Channel Islands Occupation Society, La Société Guernesiaise and the Fortress Study Group. He has organised numerous tours and conferences in the Islands and overseas. He was appointed O.B.E. in 2012.
Jurat Neil Hunter
Born in Sale, Cheshire (1954), Neil Hunter joined the former Midland Bank and worked in the north-western regional office and various local branches until 1991, when he was appointed Manager of the Alderney branch (now HSBC). He is currently working with an Alderney accountancy practice. He was sworn in as a Jurat of the Alderney Court in 2009 and has been Chairman since 2012. He is a past President of the Alderney Golf Club, enjoys following sport and fishing in island waters. He was appointed a Trustee of The Henry Euler Memorial Trust in 2010.
Jurat Colin Partridge O.B.E.
Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (1941), he lived in Guernsey for six years before moving to Alderney in 1978 and served for 22 years in the Court of Alderney, sixteen of those as Chairman before retiring in 2012. He was appointed O.B.E. in 2011 for voluntary service to the Court of Alderney. He continues to run an architectural practice and worked for twelve years as Military Historical Consultant to the ‘Fortress Guernsey’ programme. He is a lecturer and author of books on Channel Islands’ military and naval history. He was a close, personal friend of the late Mary Euler, and was a founder Trustee of The Henry Euler Memorial Trust.