Tentative plans are being made that this year we will have an annual Christmas Lunch/Reunion as an alternative to our usual evening dinner. This has come about due to the needs of some of our aging veterans who have been a bit reluctant in the past in coming out on a cold December night and then having a late journey home. So this year we will try a a Christmas lunch during daylight hours instead.

In addition, we have often faced similar problems in early January for our annual general meeting and again getting members out on a cold January day.

Once again in June our Association, in two buses, embarked on our annual great crusade of remembrance to Normandy for the 65th Anniversary. As before, we had managed to obtain grants to cover the costs of taking a group of school children with our veterans for a unique learning experience about the 6th of June 1944. In addition giving everyone the opportunity to meet old comrades, visit museums and share the experience. The school pupils also had the opportunity to take part in the various memorial parades and write their own personal messages on the poppy crosses that they laid.

The full story and pictures is in our Autumn newsletter in this website.

We are delighted to announce that in conjunction with the London Borough of Barnet, we have been granted the use of the hall at Chipping Barnet Library to set up our annual exhibition for Veterans’ Day, which this year falls on Saturday, June 27^th. Watch this space as the programme is developed.