Annual Membership Renewals
Jo Hook writes:
It was lovely to meet so many new members at the AGM and I
hope you all enjoyed the weekend.
So far 85 members have renewed their annual membership –
thank you. As announced at the AGM for member who wish to pay for three
years membership in one go we will be offering a 10% discount. Therefore
the total cost for three years of membership will be £202.50. This is
irrespective or whether or not there is a rise in Guild membership fees.
For members who wish to do this please either send me a cheque
with your name and membership number on the back or if paying by BACs send me
an email to confirm payment has been made PLEASE NOTE YOU MUST LET ME KNOW THAT
PAYMENT HAS BEEN MADE FOR THREE YEARS SO THAT I CAN MARK UP OUR RECORDS
ACCORDINGLY.
For this members who have already sent their membership fees
through for the new membership year and want to take advantage of this discount
the payment including discount will be £127.50 again please adopt the same
procedure for sending payment through.
If anyone has any queries please contact me on mbr.sec@gbg-international.com
AGM Receipts
Secretary writes:
If you would like a receipt for your attendance at the AGM
please could you drop me a line (even if you have already asked). I will do
them all in a batch next week.
Kenyan Assignment 1
Secretary writes:
Members will be interested to hear that an Assignment 1 was
carried out in Kenya via Skype this week. Stewart Kinloch who some of you met
at the AGM was successful in passing.
AGM 2016
Secretary writes:
The dates of the next AGM will be 13th - 15th January 2017.
We have deceided to go back to Highgate House - so put this in your diaries
now!
Help Wanted
Paul Oldfield writes:
I work with a VC research group, with my part of ship being
mainly WW1 Western Front. However, another researcher is having difficulty
reading the inscription on the grave of John Sinnott VC in Morden Cemetery
(previously known as Battersea New Cemetery), Lower Morden Lane, Morden, Surrey
SM4 4NU. As the chap lives in Bendigo, Australia it is quite difficult for him
to nip out and take a picture himself. Would a kind member of the Guild who
lives in the area be prepared to visit the site, take a clear picture and
e-mail it to me please? Attached is a poor picture of the headstone, with
much of the inscription obscured by grass, and a cemetery plan. Sinnott is
buried in the RC Section, Grave H-10. If the wording is unclear, perhaps a
verbatim written copy could be made?
If you can help please rely to Paul at oldfield118@btinternet.com
International Napoleonic
Society Fourteenth International Napoleonic Congress
John Hughes-Wilson writes:
The International Napoleonic Society congress will take
plave in Dublin in July. The theme is - Shades of 1916: Ireland in
Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe
The venue is Stephen’s Green Hibernian Club Dublin, Ireland
11 - 16 July 2016. Fuller details can be found in the attached flyer.
The Battle for Lake
Tanganyika 1915-1916 Mimi and Toutou Go To War
Frank Baldwin writes:
A lecture and sandwich lunch 12.30-2.00pm Wednesday 17th
February 2016 Hosted by The Fusiliers Museum London in the Officer's Mess of
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers HM Tower of London.
In what was truly a World War, a campaign was waged in the
heart of Africa, thousands of miles from the North Sea and the Western Front.
The Kaiser's ships dominated the waters of Lake Tanganyika, on the western
flank of Oberstleutnant von Lettow-Worbeck's troops in German East Africa.
A small force of Royal Naval vessels was sent to give
battle; in the course of a deployment lasting fourteen months, the
actions of this little flotilla resulted in the capture or sinking of all the
German vessels without the loss of a single RN officer or rating, leaving
Britain and her Belgian ally in control of the Lake. The actions even
inspired a major film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn!
Tim Stoneman is an Accredited Member of the International
Guild of Battlefield Guides who left the RN in 2007 after 35 years as a warfare
officer. He has a wide knowledge of naval conflict, and has been guiding
tour groups on battlefields for many years, both whilst in uniform and since
retiring.
Our hosts will be the Fusiliers Museum and the event
includes a sandwich lunch a glass of wine and the opportunity to network in the
exclusive surroundings of the Fusiliers mess in HM Tower of London. If you
would like to attend this lunchtime talk, please make a donation of £25 for
each attendee (£20 for members of the Battlefields Trust) and email your name,
contact number and any special requirements (dietary/mobility) to helen@battlefieldstrust.org On
receipt, email confirmation will be sent together with directions to the venue.
If you have any questions, please ring 0207 387 6620. We look forward to
welcoming you.
In order for you to be receive a pass allowing you access to
the RRF Building inside the Tower of London and be included in the catering you
must book at least 48 hours before the event.
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The Guild Golf
Championship 2016
Graeme Cooper writes:
The Guild golf championship will be held at the John O'Gaunt
Golf Club not John O'Groats as previously announced!!
Memorial Museum
Passchendaele
Secretary writes:
The Memorial Musuem has a new website - see http://www.passchendaele.be/en
Napoleonic Events
Suzanne Brunt writes:
Events with a Napoleonic theme, compiled by Suzanne Brunt,
63 Playstool Road, Newington, Sittingbourne, Kent ME9 7NL suzanne.brunt@talktalk.net 01795
842992
Please send me full details of any events in your area.
WATERLOO ASSOCIATION AGM Tuesday 12TH April 1800 The Council
Room, Kings College, The Strand, London.
2016 Opening times for Lord Hills Column, Shrewsbury.
28 Mar 1100-1600 09 Apr 1300-1600 30 May 1100-1600
18 Jun 1100-1600 17 Jul 1200-1600 20 Aug 1100-1600
11 Sep 1200-1600 Booking essential £5 per person l.r.hayes@btinternet.com 01743
244668
08 Feb 1800-2000 Hyatt Regency, 30 Portman Sq, London Andrew
Roberts 'Churchills' view of Napoleon' tcc.membership@chu.cam.ac.uk
01223 331646
11 Feb 1930 Peterborough Museum £5/£4
Paul Chamberlain 'Norman Cross:the lost town of
Huntingdonshire'
12 Feb 1900 Shrewsbury Castle £10, £7 for Friends. Rev
Richard Hayes 'Lord Hill'. tickets from Castle shop www.shropshireregimentalmuseum.co.uk/shop
18 Feb 1930 St Davids Church, Exeter opposite Exeter
College. Professor Jeremy Black 'The Battle of Waterloo' Free entry. www.stdavidschurchexeter.org.uk
Robert@gtrooprha.co.uk
27 Feb 100-1600 Regency Dance Workshop, Shawford Parish
Hall, Pearson Lane, Winchester SO21 2AA http://www.hrd.org.uk/
info@hrd.org.uk
03 Mar 1930 St Davids Church, Exeter [as above on 18
February] Robert Pocock 'Gen Alexander Cavalie Mercer, hero of Waterloo'
04 Mar Friends of Daventry Museums,The Abbey,Market
Sq,Daventry NN11 4XG
1900 Nick Lipscombe 'Waterloo: Wellingtons greatest victory,
or Napoleons biggest blunder?' 01327 844894
05+06 Mar 1000-1600 South East Re-enact & LARP Market.
Blue Barn Equestrian Centre, Great Chart, Ashford Kent. http://www.nlhf.co.uk/ 01933 225674 Free
entry
09 Mar Friends of The British Cemetery, Elvas, Portugal
SPRING RECEPTION at The Cavalry and Guards Club, 127 Piccadilly. £30 from
1900-2130 full details from Major Nick Hallidie nickah3559@gmail.com 01787
880445
12+13 Mar 1000-1600 South West Re-enact & LARP Market,
free entry.
Stretcholt Equestrian Centre, Bridgewater Somerset TA6 4SR www.nlhf.co.uk
12 Mar 1845-2330 The Pump Room, Royal Leamington Spa, Warks.
A Regency Rout http://thesparout.weebly.com/
25-27 Mar 1000-1600 Whittington Castle Siege, Oswestry SY11
4DF 'The Siege of Badajoz' http://whittingtonsiege.co.uk/
info@5th60thrifles.co.uk 0782 692
8890 £2/£1
02+03 Apr Living History Fair, Cressing Temple
Barns,Braintree,Essex
CM77 8PD
info@livinghistoryfairs.co.uk
01305 831720
02 Apr Der Grosse Jane Austen Ball, Ansbach Germany
12-14 Oct The Friends of the British Cemetery Autumn
Symposium at The Bull Hotel, Long Melford, Suffolk is now booking. Contact
Major Nick Hallidie for details. nickah3559@gmail.com
01787 880445
Best Regards
Tony Smith
Guild Secretary
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