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400 CLUB WINNERS – SEPTEMBER 2010
MR NORMAN BAIRD
This is a quick note to inform you that Norman Baird passed away on Friday morning after a short illness.
I am Norman's son and I would like to have a notice put on the association website advising friends that the cremation service will take place at Durham crematorium on Wednesday the 1st of September at 11:30am.
Regards,
Gerry Baird MAJOR JACK RIORDAN MBE - THANKSGIVING SERVICE A Thanksgiving service for Major Jack Riordan MBE will be held in St Mary's Church, Richmond on Thursday 16th September 2010 at 11.30 am. All GHA Members are invited by the family to attend. Standards are requested. After the service non-alcoholic refreshments will be served in the King's Head Hotel Ballroom. Cash bars will be open in the hotel. 400 CLUB WINNERS – JULY 2010
GREEN HOWARDS ANNUAL REUNION - 22/23/24 OCTOBER 2010
I can now confirm that the Regimental Reunion will take place on the weekend 22nd/23rd/24th October 2010 at the TA Centre, Coldyhill Lane, Scarborough with the kind permission of the Commanding Officer, 4th Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment.
The cost of a full ticket (Fri/Sat/Sun) is £25.00. Cost of a day ticket for either day Friday, Saturday or Sunday is £9.00, (As agreed at the Executive Meeting 2010). Tickets will only be available from the Headquarters at Richmond.
Individuals are to bid for the number/type of tickets they will require to this Headquarters by Friday 8th October 2010. Due to Health and Safety restrictions a maximum of 350 is imposed.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
1. Friday 22nd October 2010
1800 hrs Reception Opens 2000–2100 hrs Curry Supper 0200 Hrs TA Centre Closed
2. Saturday 23rd October 2010
Breakfast at Hotels/Bed and Breakfasts
1130 hrs Regimental Board and Museum Trustees Meeting 1200 hrs TA Centre/Reception/Bars Open 1230 hrs Darts and Shooting Competitions Commence 1600-1700 hrs Green Howards Association AGM 2000-2045 hrs Toasts (The Queen, HM Harald V, The Regiment and Absent friends). Prize Giving. Social evening and Raffle 2100-2230 hrs Buffet Supper 0230 hrs TA Centre/Bar Closed
3. Sunday 24th October 2010
Breakfast at Hotels/Bed and Breakfasts
1030 hrs Standard Bearers Competition (Square) 1130 hrs Church Parade forms up at TA Centre 1140 hrs March to St Mark’s Church, Coldyhill Lane 1200 hrs Reunion Church Service 1300 hrs Reunion March Past (Yorkshire Corps of Drums) (Deputy Colonel of The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) to take the Salute). Followed by presentation of 50 and 25 Year Badges 1315 hrs TA Centre/Bars Open 1330-1500 hrs Buffet Lunch 1630 hrs TA Centre Closed
The cost of a full ticket (Fri/Sat/Sun) is £25.00. Cost of a day ticket for either day Friday, Saturday or Sunday is £9.00. 400 CLUB WINNERS – JUNE 2010
A QUIZ SHOW HERO
NEW EXCITING QUIZ SHOW The makers of Who Dares Win and In It To Win It are looking for a HERO but not just any hero A QUIZ SHOW HERO Is there a cause close to your heart? Someone who works tirelessly for others in your community? Or a group crying out for help?
We are looking for some extra special contestants to take part in a new extra special quiz show. Your general knowledge could change someone else's life forever.......... If you would like to opportunity to be a real life hero then we need to hear from you. If this is you, email us now at hero@12yard.com with your contact details including a daytime telephone number, age and nearest major city. NOTICE Good afternoon, APPEAL Al Hindmarsh is doing a 100 mile run (More like a fast walk at his age) at the end of May 2010. Al is thinking of asking any ex Green Howards to sponsor him. Whilst it won't buy Tom a new set of legs or slippers, for that matter, he is sure that any money will come in handy. AL is hoping that the response will be good as this tragedy could have happened to any of us whilst in Northern Ireland. It's for a good cause so come on you Green Howards, show these Brave Lads what we're made of! Once A Green Howard - Always a Green Howard! XIX Name: Al Hindmarsh THE GREEN HOWARDS' 400 CLUB 2010/11 The current year for the 400 Club ends on 31st March 2010. I am therefore writing to ask if you will kindly continue your membership for a further year. As you already know, this Club is the only source of regular income to back the various activities of The Green Howards Association. Apart from the Annual Reunion, these include the annual Executive Meeting of Branch Secretaries at Richmond and Richmond Sunday. During the current year we sold a total of 425 discs, after payment of prizes and expenses totalling £1,250.00 a profit of £1,300.00 was made for the Association funds. I would ask you to seriously consider continuing your membership, to take out additional discs and to encourage new members. There is no limit to the Club membership and the cost of a disc is £6. For the coming year the total prize money will be £1,180 as detailed below: 4 x prizes per month: 1st prize £20 2nd prize £15 3rd prize £10 4th prize £10 7 x prizes drawn at the Reunion: 1st prize £200 2nd prize £150 3rd prize £ 75 4th prize £ 35 5th prize £ 25 6th prize £ 20 7th prize £ 15 An application form is below. Please return it as soon as possible with your cheque, made payable to 'The Green Howards Association'. ________________________________________________________________________________ To: The Yorkshire Regiment Area Headquarters(The Green Howards), Trinity Church Square, Richmond, North Yorkshire DL10 4QN THE GREEN HOWARDS' 400 CLUB I wish to become a member of The Green Howards' 400 Club for the year 2010/2011 and to purchase .................. discs at £6 each. I enclose the sum of £............. in payment. Cheques should be made payable to The Green Howards Association. Signature: ......................................... Name: ............................................... Address:............................................. ......................................................... ......................................................... ......................................................... Date: ............................. PLEASE RETURN THIS PROFORMA TO THE ADDRESS ABOVE BY 31st MARCH 2010 BATTLE OF THE SOMME - RESEARCH Historian Hugh Sebag-Montefiore is looking for accounts by soldiers who served in the Green Howard regiment, or any other regiment, during the July-November 1916 battle of the Somme. This is in connection with a book on the fighting on the Somme commissioned by Penguin which he is researching. The book will focus on the capture or attempted capture of the chain of villages and strongpoints which had to be overcome if the German line was to be broken and will cover actions involving the regiment’s 2nd, 1st/4th, 1st/5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th battalions including the 2nd and 10th battalions’ valiant deeds on the first day of the battle, 6th battalion’s 28-9/9/1916 capture of Stuff Redoubt, and the 8th and 9th battalion’s taking of Lincoln Redoubt. Contact Hugh Sebag-Montefiore on 0207-435-1035 or at sebags@hsmontefiore.com THE NORWEGIAN CAMPAIGN 1940 - TV DOCUMENTRY A Norwegian film company, Ekko Films is currently seeking British veterans who participated in the ill-fated campaign of April 1940 and are currently putting together a historical documentary for a forthcoming TV program detailing the events in Norway during 1940; German and Norwegian veterans are also being interviewed.
If you would like to be considered for interview then Ekko Films would be very pleased to hear from veterans who served with the Royal Navy, British Army or the RAF and participated in the Norwegian Campaign.
All interviews will be conducted with the utmost respect and sensitivity.
If you would like to be considered then please contact:
Mr Robert Pearson 21 Meadowvale Close Ipswich IP4 4HE
Tel; 01473 716380
E-mail: bakerstreetrebel@yahoo.co.uk THE ELIZABETH CROSS The Elizabeth Cross You will have seen in the press that the Queen is to honour the families of Service people who died in action with the Elizabeth Cross. This is a splendid development and great credit is due to all those involved in MOD and elsewhere. In the announcement the Queen said "I greatly hope that the Elizabeth Cross will give further meaning to the nation's debt of gratitude to the families and loved ones of those who have died in the service of our country". The next of kin of over 8000 Service people who have been killed since 1948 will be eligible to receive the award. At the time of writing more than 400 Crosses have already been issued. For information and an application form call the medal Office Tel: 0800 0853600. AYRSOME PARK BUGLER - DMR LEE MATTHEWS BBC TEESIDE RADIO INTERVIEW RHQ YORKS are looking for Drummer LEE MATTHEWS who used to attend the Home Fixtures at Middlesbrough FC. If any GHA member knows of his whereabouts, could they please forward to RHQ Richmond his contact details. TYVM.
HEROES RETURN 2 From: Secretary Cobseo [mailto:sec.cobseo@btconnect.com] OBITUARIES/INFORMATION FOR THE NEXT GH MAGAZINE
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