Minutes of the Annual General Meeting

MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE QUEEN’S OWN HIGHLANDERS REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION (INCORPORATING THE SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS) HELD IN THE SEAFORTH CLUB NAIRN ON FRIDAY 17 th JULY 2009

1 ACTION Present BY Major General P Grant Peterkin President Major General J Hopkinson Vice President Brigadier N J Ridley OBE Chairman & Trustee Lieutenant Colonel C E Gilmour MBE DL Trustee Lieutenant Colonel I J Murray DL Trustee Major A F Blincow MBE Association Treasurer & Treasurer Highland Branch Mr D E Loftus Association Secretary, Trustee & Secretary Southern Branch Mr P Finlayson Trustee & Chairman Highland Branch

Major G Burns Association Pipe Band Mr D Carruthers Secretary Edinburgh Mr W Gardner Secretary Aberdeen & North East Branch Major G Givens Chairman Edinburgh Branch Major R Haugh Chairman Aberdeen Branch Captain T Lewis Chairman Northern Ireland Branch Mr G R MacDonald MBE Secretary Caithness Branch Mr G Monaghan Chairman Strathclyde Branch Mr D M Oag Caithness Branch Mr A Paterson Chairman Caithness Branch Lt Col R Towns Highland Branch Pipe Major A A Venters Association Pipe Band

Welcome The Chairman extended a welcome to all present and thanked them for attending the Meeting. Apologies Lieutenant Colonel G S Johnston OBE TD DL Trustee Colonel A S Duncan Chairman Southern Branch Mr W Gunn MBE Caithness Branch Major J C MacLellan Chairman Western Isles Branch Mr D MacLeod Secretary Western Isles Branch Mr D Terron Secretary Highland Branch

Obituaries The Chairman asked everyone to stand in memory of those who had died in the last year and whose names had been notified to the Association. Mr W Aitchison Mrs J R Baillie Mr J A Bateson WO2 R Hardie Mr I Kerr Lt Col D A W Lochhead WO2 (BSM) K M J MacSween Colonel W G McHardy Mrs W G McHardy WO2 (ORQMS) J Murray Major J H Nason Mr G Peters Mr R Petrie Mrs I S Ridley Mr P Snell Mrs J Squair PM T Stockdale

387 Minutes of the Previous Meeting

It was proposed, Lt Col R Towns, and seconded, Mr P Finlayson, that the minutes of the previous meeting on 18th July 2008 be accepted as a true record of the proceedings. This was agreed by all present.

388 Matters Arising from the Previous Meeting 2 (i) Newsletter: the Chairman expressed concern that the reporting and writing of obituaries was not working. In the case of the death of a former officer RHQ were accessing information from records but in the case of O/R’s it was reliant upon a person who knew the deceased to write an obituary. It was felt that it was not necessary to always have an obituary but in lieu of that should 3