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Howard Cuell
February 22, 2025
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Howard John Cuell
February 21, 2025
Raymond Edmund John Cuell was known incircles of both scouting, RAF, Salvation Army, sought-after for his deportment as salesman for London firms, performer for both RAF and Salvation Army. The connect to the salesman was the belief in the universal soldier. A firm friend of Ralph Reader CBE for over 21 years but 21 years regularly in the company of, I witnessed the skill of 'my two fathers, and I refer to Ralph as my second father because he taught me the skill of communicating through music, my brother Kenneth Raymond Cuell meeting Ralph for the 21 year close association of my family as he called his family.
The 1930s saw Raymond make two visits to Germany to perform with the Salvation Army's famous Chalk Farm Band in Berlin. There is a picture of Ray in September 1936 playing on Kaiser Franz Josef Platz, and he told me he was also on the 1934 tour.
Born into a poor family in Pitcroft Road, Portsmouth in 1919, her was sent by his mother to take potato-peelings to a lady musician down the road, so that she could feed her chickens, that is how poor they were despite living into the viscinity of Horatio Nelson's flagship Victory which survived the October 1805 Battle of Trafalgar..
Too young to be conscripted to France (for Dunkirk) in 1939, his 1939 marriage to Evelyn Gladys became distant in his call-up in 1940. Wherein, his training in Morse code in Wiltshire and his curious demeanour of aloofness, served to elect him to the service of the Royal Air Force, where he served around Britain in then training.
He entered RAF Air Training Command band in 1941 under RAF Bandmaster A.E.Sims, Cranwell, and served in the Mediterranean at Malta and Italy.
Ray wrote the three marches during his service in the RAF, they are
Field Service
Scarborough Citadel
Salvation Banner
Scarborough Citadel is still played on the net, and Field Service by the Maidenhead SA Band.
My father was also a self taught pianist, and was asked by Liberace manager Seymour Heller to play for the London St Martin In The Field funeral service for Liberace the world's greatest piano entertainer.
I followed in my father's footsteps as trumpeter and pianist, and I am msfernandoray on the internet.
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