The news of Private Steve Walsh's death at the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital Woolwich on Thursday 20 April 1989 has shocked all members of 53 Ordnance Company.Steve suffered a brain haemorrhage on November 16th last year whilst on Exercise Packsaddle. He was placed on the Very Seriously ill List and after extensive hospital treatment was eventually casevaced back to UK on 2 March.Sadly he suffered another brain haemorrhage on Sunday 16 April from which he never recovered.Steve was an ex-Apprentice who joined the Army in 1980. His first posting on leaving RAOC Apprentices College was to SI Ordnance Company in Aldershot. It was during his time with 81 Ordnance Company that he served in the Falkland Islands Campaign at the age of I7.He was next posted to COD Donnington in January 1984 and it was here where Steve met and subsequently married Andrea in 1987. Steve joined 53 Ordnance Company in 1987 and quickly built up a reputation as a "bit of a character'.He was a cheerful and likeable man who was extremely popular with all members of the unit and those of the Battalion that knew him.He will be sorely missed by all and to his wife Andrea and his mother Mrs Joan Finn we extend our deepest sympathy. His death has been a loss to us all.
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