Chairman’s Spring Update
Secretary writes:
The Chairman's Spring Update is attached. If you have any
comments on any element of its content please send them to me and I will pass
them onto Council.
New Members
Jo Hook writes:
We welcome the following new members into the Guild:
·
David Nunn from Nottinghamshire joins. His
interests are relating Great War literature, especially poetry to battlefield
visits
·
Douglas John Sadler from Newcastle upon Tyne
joins. His interests are WW1 WW2 100 year War Anglo Scottish Border Wars
English Civil Wars Barons’ Wars 1066 Jacobite Wars Holocaust Third Reich
·
Malcolm Clough from France joins. His interests
are D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
·
John Harris from Kent joins. His interests are
WW1
·
Scott Brand from Bedfordshire joins. His
interests are Great War, Western Front, ANZACS on Western Front
·
Brian Gillbanks from Merseyside joins. His
interests are WW1
·
Colin Jones from North Wales joins. His
interests are Normandy
·
Howard McGee from Yorkshire joins. His interests
are Ancient Rome and the Crusades, WW1 and WW2
Annual Membership Fees
Jo Hook writes:
There are still some members who have not renewed their
membership for the coming year. If you have not done so please could you make
your payment as a matter of urgency now.
You can pay directly into the Guild bank account although
please add an identifier e.g. your name or membership number so we can see your
payment. The bank account details are:
Account name
Guild of Battlefield Guides Ltd
Account Number
91657135
Sort Code
40-19-30
BIC/SWIFT Code
MIDL GB 2129P
IBAN
GB07 MIDL 4019 3091 6571 35
Branch
HSBC plc
22 West Street
Dunstable
Bedfordshire LU6 1SY
United Kingdom
Validation Session
Alison Hine writes:
The next Validation event will be at the Battle Honours Ltd
offices at Stevenage on Wednesday 20 May 2015. Assignment One sessions
will be running concurrently and at present we have 9 candidates. It will
also be possible to validate Assignments 5 and/or 6. The event will
start with coffee and registration at 09.30 and end about 16.00. Lunch will be
provided. The cost per head for candidates and audience members is £27.50 which
includes lunch and coffee/tea etc. Joining instructions will be issued nearer
the time.
Please would all those wishing to attend contact Alison Hine
on valsec@gbg-international.com
Ypres Cat Festival
Duncan Barnes writes:
The weekend of 9 and 10 May sees the triennial Cat Festival
(Kattenstoet) take over Ypres. The town centre and ramparts will be very
busy on Saturday 9 May, and closed to traffic for most of Sunday 10 May. On
Sunday there will be events in front of the Cloth Hall in the morning, and the
festival procession in the afternoon. This will depart from the road where most
of us park for the Last Post, pass through the Menin Gate, into the town
centre, along the Boterstraat, and then via Tempelstraat and Stationstraat to
the Station. When the last of the procession has passed (takes a long time)
there will be further Cat and Witch happenings in the town centre.
It’s a fantastic event if you are a spectator (40,000+
visitors in 2012), but a big challenge if you are guiding in the Salient that
weekend!
New Battlefield DVDs
Tim Saunders writes:
Members may be interested to note two new DVD releases from
Battlefield History TV:
The Siege of Bastogne. The second of BHTV’s series of films
on the Battle of the Bulge has been released on DVD this week. Filmed in the
same wintery conditions as the battle was fought in, the BHTV team of Guild
members take viewers to the scene of the action around the vital and surrounded
‘road octopus’ of Bastogne. The battles fought by the 101st Airborne Division
as a whole (not just Easy Company) are of course the stuff of legend but the team
also examine at the battle from the German perspective, as Hitler insisted on
his big solution and the Strike to the River Meuse.
First Battle of Ypres and the Race to the Sea -
The fifth and final title in the 1914 series of films, covers, in two parts,
the redeployment of the BEF north from the Aisne Front to Flanders. Here with
the Schlieffen plan having failed the largest and most terrible battle of the
War so far was fought over the best part of a month. Badged Guild member Vern
Littley joins the BHTV team makes his screen debut, including a scene, as long
serving members would expect, on Nonne Bosschen!
Copies of both DVDs are available from Guild Member Andrew
Duff and the BHTV website.
Best Regards
Tony Smith
Guild Secretary
International Guild
of Battlefield Guides
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