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  • CHRISTMAS LUNCH/REUNION/AGM
    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.
  • 65th ANNIVERSARY IN NORMANDY - 6th JUNE 1944-2009
    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.
  • D-Day Commemorations
    The Association is now making the final preparations for the annual Pilgrimage of Remembrance to Normandy for the 65th Anniversary of D-Day (6 June 1944-2009) commemorations.  Unfortunately, this year sees the last of the nationally organised events.
  • Veterans Day / Armed Forces Day

    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 27th. Watch this space as the programme is developed.

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Latest News from the MOD

  • Ainsworth sets out risks and benefits of Operation MOSHTARAK
    People should be prepared for British casualties resulting from the upcoming major offensive in Helmand province, Operation MOSHTARAK, which will involve thousands of ISAF troops clearing parts of central Helmand of insurgents, Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth has said.
  • Military search dog to receive animals' Victoria Cross
    Treo, an eight-year-old black Labrador, is to be honoured for his heroic actions as an arms and explosives search dog in Afghanistan by veterinary charity PDSA.
  • Defence Secretary and CDS pay tribute to 255 fallen in Afghanistan
    The deaths of two further soldiers in Afghanistan mean that the same number of British Armed Forces personnel, 255, have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001 as were killed in the Falklands Campaign.
  • 2 YORKS - Mentoring the ANA in Helmand
    Since they arrived in Afghanistan four months ago, 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) [2 YORKS] have been undertaking a critical task in the long term strategy for British involvement in Afghanistan - mentoring soldiers from the Afghan National Army. Report by Tristan Kelly.
  • Two soldiers from 1 SCOTS killed in Afghanistan
    It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that two soldiers from The Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (1 SCOTS), part of the 3 RIFLES Battle Group, were killed in Afghanistan yesterday, Sunday 7 February 2010.
  • Air Cadet Instructor in second mountain rescue
    Air Cadet Instructor Flight Lieutenant Will Close-Ash has led a three-hour rescue mission to save a walker who had plunged 250ft (76m) down an icy ravine in the Scottish Highlands. Report by Ashley Nettleton and Steve Willmot.
  • Head of NATO forces in Afghanistan says situation is no longer deteriorating
    While still serious, the security situation in Afghanistan is no longer deteriorating, the head of NATO forces in Afghanistan said at a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Turkey yesterday, Thursday 4 February 2010.
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