South Yorkshire Times : Saturday, December 12th, 1970

Photo Guide Of Usa Tour

While 18-Years-Old Coldstream guard bandsman, David webster, has been touring the United States and Canada on a three months’ musical tour, his parents have received a picture guid of his travels.

For David has sent home more than 30 postcards from every place he has visited, and these include pictures of sunny San Diego, in California, and snow-covered Winnipeg in the Canadian plains.

One of five children of Mr Albert Webster, a miner at Cortonwood colliery, and his wife, Lotty, of 2 henry road, Wath, David joined the guards when he left Wath grammar school at 15, stationed at Chelsea barracks, David only learned to play the clarinet when he joined the band. Changes in climate Mrs. Lottly Webster, one of whose daughters, Mrs. Dorothea Johnson, is in Singapore, where her husband is stationed with the R.A.F., said: “the places David has visited are so far apart that he has been experiencing big differences in climate. Some places are in winter, while some are summer climates.” David, who returned to Wath on Tuesday, told the “South Yorkshire Times”: “I have enjoyed the trip very much – except for the travelling it was very tiring as we some times travelled 400 miles by bus in one day and then had to play in the evening.”