Terry was born in Westminster in 1935, the youngest of 5 children. He was evacuated along with his brother Pat to Somerset at the start of the Second World War, returning after 18 months. He spent the rest of the war growing up in Catford, SE London.

In 1953 Terry was called up for National Service and followed in his father’s footsteps by joining the Royal Fusiliers. Terry’s grandfather was born in Cork, Ireland and Terry’s father served in the First World War, initially with the Royal Fusiliers then with the Royal Munster Fusiliers.

Terry spent most of his National Service in Sudan and Egypt, mainly in the medical centre as a RAP driver. He was also part of a very successful Regimental boxing team, weighing in at Lightwelter.

After being demobbed in 1955, Terry returned to the printing trade in Camberwell, South London, where before National Service he had met his future wife Betty. They married in 1958.

During the seventies Terry took an interest in model making and in particular military models, some of which he successfully entered in competitions. He joined the Royal Fusiliers Association in the late seventies and was asked to become secretary in 1982, a post he held for nearly thirty years. When Terry took over the role membership was less than 100, but within a few years this number had increased to well above 450.

Soon after becoming secretary, Terry decided a newsletter should be produced in order to keep the growing number of members informed of events and other news concerning the Association. ‘The White Hackle’ began as an A5, 8 page photocopied newsletter, published twice a year.  Such was its success funds were made available – with plenty of encouragement from Terry – for it to be professionally printed in full colour as A4 and 12 pages. Terry was editor and main contributor. Spanning 27 years, his last ‘White Hackle’ was published in November 2010.

Terry became the Standard Bearer for the Association, a duty which he took on with a huge amount of pride. He was a familiar site at the Menin Gate in Ypres, a place he loved and very much respected. 

In 1997 he was awarded the ‘Regimental Certificate and Medal of Merit’ from Col. Patrick Shervington, for services to the Regiment.

When Terry and Betty moved to Hawkinge, near Folkestone in 2004, he joined the South East branch where they both made new friends and enjoyed a social life that was local to them.

Terry was a much loved and now a much missed husband, father and grandfather. More than 150 people, including five buglers and two Major Generals, attended his funeral.