Educated at RMA Sandhurst, Tony Amos was commissioned into The Royal Leicestershire Regiment from RMA Sandhurst in 1959, and served with 1st Bn in Germany, Watchet and Hong Kong. He was a fine athlete, and excelled in the Mile and at Cross-Country running.

In Hong Kong in 1963 in the ‘Round the Colony’ Race he led A Company’s team to 7th place, the second non-Gurkha team. That year he was posted to the Infantry Junior Leaders Battalion at Oswestry.

His disappointment at consequently missing The Tigers’ operational tours in Borneo in 1963/64 and Aden in 1965 was more than compensated for by meeting Diana in Chester, whom he married in 1965.

As a Captain he returned to Regimental Duty in 4th R Anglian where in Malta he was Assistant Adjutant/Intelligence Officer in 1966/67 and 2IC B Company in 1968, while their young children, Andrew and Annabelle, spent their earliest years ‘having fun in the sun’.

In March 1968 Tony led Exercise Bachelor’s Fling, an adventurous training expedition in Libya, 21 men driving in seven vehicles across the desert from the coast at El Adem via Jalo and Kufra Oasis towards the Tibesti Mountains in northern Chad, a 2,200-mile round trip.

He retired from the Regular Army in 1969 and worked for 14 years in a civilian job, in 1982 joining the TA as a Major in 7th (V) R Anglian. A year later, at his own request he reverted to the rank of Captain (NRPS) and became PSAO at Clare Street TA Centre, Northampton. Throughout his many years there he was outstanding in his support for The Northamptonshire Regiment Association and well as for The Royal Anglian Regiment.

He subsequently retired from military service in 1993, and with his wife and two grown-up children went to live at Alicante in Spain. Diana having predeceased him in 2014, Tony died near Alicante on 9 September 2019, aged 80 years. Requiescat in pace.

MKG