12:19pm Tuesday 9th June 2009
By Bill Lee
The countdown has begun to celebrate Armed Forces Day on Saturday, June 27, by councils up and down the country.
The main event will be in Chatham this year, but wherever you are there will be special events and parades.
In the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas the names of 67 servicemen and women who have been killed in action recently have been added to the memorial wall to bring it up to date and plans are underway to replicate the Basra Memorial Wall and erect that replica on site.
Special flags have been produced for the day and one will be flown in Centenary Square in Bradford.
* Were you involved in Beira off East Africa in 1966/1975?
The Navy News is producing supplements covering events using the experiences of officers and ratings who were actually there.
They are also interested in the Cod Wars from 1958 to 1972. If you have photographs, anecdotes or personal memories to share please get in touch by sending brief details to Beira Patrol or Cod Wars, Navy News, HMS Nelson, Portsmouth PO1 3HH. Photographs will be scanned and returned.
* The National Service Veterans’s 2009 annual dinner dance will be held on Saturday, June 27, in the Clarendon Suite, Stirling Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. Full details from Derek Hughes on (0121) 3553145 or Ron Burne (0121) 6891591, or e-mail zekehughes31@hotmail.com.
* This year’s reunion of the Royal Signals 6 (B) TR will be at Beverley in October. Full details can be obtained by telephone from Mick Teague on (01670) 360044.
DIARY DATES: Today (Tuesday): Royal Marines Association meets in the Dovesdale Club at 19.30 hours.
Guiseley Branch of the Royal British Legion meets in the parish room attached to Martha’s Ale House in Guiseley at 19.00 hours.
Tuesday (June 16): Bradford Branch Royal Naval Association meets in the Feversham Street headquarters of the Bradford Sea Cadets at 20.00 hours.
Prince of Wales Own meet in Bradford Moor Conservative Club at 19.30 hours.
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