Newsletter for Branch AGM on 17th March 2020 CANCELLED
Please note any information for the newsletter to be
passed on to Jan Bridle by the last Saturday before the next meeting; also if anyone has changed their email address or set
up a new one could they please let Jan know.
Branch subs
This year they are
reluctantly increased to £17 and are due to be paid to the treasurer now if not
already paid. Please send any cheques, made out to REA Bournemouth, to the
above address for John Cusack.
Monthly
Informal Lunches
As usual
held on the first Tuesday, menu lists on the table at evening meetings. Contact John Cusack for any information or to
book/choose from menu if not at meeting.
Bournemouth Branch REA -- Memory
Lane 1986 – 1998
Having been given (for safe-keeping)
back copies of Branch Newsletters by Phil Webster, Peter has been reading
through them and here are some of the interesting snippets he has collected for
us:-
1986 The branch is now 4 years old, Colonel Jim Joiner is the President
and we then met at Boscombe RBL Club.
1988 The cost per member for the Christmas Dinner and Dance was £1
(ladies free of charge).
1992 It was noted that as from 1993 we could no longer use Boscombe RBL
Club as the ladies darts team had claimed it on Tuesday nights.
1997 Subscriptions were £3.
1998 Bob Hucklesby receives a Poole Civic Centre Award for Outstanding
Service, for leading the Raglan
Housing Association.
Departed Friends Eric Thurston 1988 – Harold Hardwick 1991
– Ted Plowman 1992
Graham
Booth 1998
Social The Ladies Afternoon Tea on 8th March at Truly's of Westbourne, arranged by Debbie Perry, was a great success with a wonderful spread which would put the Ritz to shame. We had a fun quiz and a tombola, with a lovely donated prize for everyone. The ladies from ‘Ashley’s Birthday Bank’ explained that their charity was raising funds helping underprivileged children and families in the BCP area and supporting the Women’s Refuges, Victims of Human Trafficking, and Mother and Baby Units. Money raised by the tombola was donated to them.
Welfare
On
Tuesday 10th March John and Val Cusack very kindly drove Bert and
Dot Martin to Salisbury
to visit with Roy Robinson who has moved into the Millford House Care Home
there. They found him in very good spirits and looking much better. He was very
pleased to have this visit and would welcome any more visits from anyone who is
able to make the trip to Salisbury .
Next meeting on
date 15th April 2020
will be another talk by speaker
Mike Randall about his days as a Headmaster. Those of you who came to his talk
about being the ‘Son of a Spy’ will remember how entertaining he is.
Forecast of National Events 2020.
15 – 17 May Gibraltar
Weekend
30 May Trooping the Colour - Major General’s Review
04 June Royal Hospital Chelsea Founder’s Day Parade
6 June Trooping the Colour – Colonel’s Review
10 & 11 June Beating Retreat, London
13 June Queen’s Birthday Parade
TBC Chilwell Weekend*
24 – 26 July Minley Weekend*
12 - 13 September Corps Memorial Weekend*
10 October REA AGM and Annual Dinner *
11 October Sapper Sunday at Royal
Hospital Chelsea
05 November Field of Remembrance, Westminster Abbey
08 November Remembrance Sunday
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