MT Engagement Diary
| Document type: | Declassified documents |
|---|---|
| Source: | Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/5 |
| Editorial comments: | Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room following MT's resignation but before 1992. The handwritten original has also been studied and material from that source has sometimes been added in, with explicit notes to that effect. The handwritten volumes are now being deposited at TNA in the series PREM32; PREM32/17 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/5 the typed one. |
| Importance ranking: | Minor |
| Word count: | 1p |
Wednesday 21 September 1983
0730
Left Flagstaff House for RAF Wildenrath
0755
Left Wildenrath
0840
Arrived RAF Gutersloh
Left by Puma for Eberhard
0900
Arrived Eberhard
Met RAF Gutersloh Station executive officers
0905
Briefing on Harrier
0930
Briefing on 4 aircraft attack mission scenario
0940
Visited GLO/Authorising cabin
Listened to telebrief
0955
Watched 4 aircraft strip take-off
1005
Watched Operational Turn Round
1020
Watched 4 aircraft recovery plus Chinook
1030
Met aircrews
1040
Departed Eberhard for HQ 22 Armd. Bde., Hohne
1120
Arrived HQ 22
1125
Visited Montgomery Service Children's School
1205
Departed for Munster South NATO Training Area
1215
Arrived
1220
Watched firing of M109s, Abbots
Met gun crews
1245
Lunch
1330
Press Conference
1400
Departed for Soltau/Luneburg Training Area
1415
Arrived
Visited HQ20 Armed Bde.
1435
Moved to exercise location
1440
Watched and followed attack by 4/7 DG Battlegroup
1600
Tea with 4/7 DG Battlegroup at GR ND 573858
1615
Left for GAF Fassberg
1630
Arrived
1635
Departed by VC10 for Bonn
1730
Arrived Cologne Airport
1800
Arrived Residence
1815
Drinks
1845
Left Residence
1900
Talks and dinner with Chancellor Kohl at Kanzleramt
2130
Left for Airport
2200
Left by VC10 for Heathrow