HMS OPOSSUM ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER CHRISTMAS 2018 1945-1958 Welcome to our Christmas Newsletter. As a result of contacting the Navy News, Alan Waite [ex-Royal Marine] of HMS Newfoundland Association and other Colony class cruisers, Gambia, Kenya and Ceylon have offered, through Isle of Wight Tours [tel:-01983-405584] that Opossum Association could join them for a reunion next year. This was settled with the tour company, the reunion to be held at The Queens Hotel, 469-471 South Promenade, Blackpool FY4 1AY Tel:- 01253 336980 over the weekend Friday 12th April – Monday 15th 2019. [The weekend before Easter] I sent a prospectus of the reunion events to all members in July. I would like as big an ‘Opossum’ turn out as possible. I have visited Alan at his home in Leicester who said 80 of his group membership attended their last reunion in Bristol, I’m hoping we can muster at least 15. Your Treasurer and I have already paid our deposits, we assume other interested members have done likewise, full payment is required by 18th January 2019. Please make a big effort to attend. In July Sam and I met-up at Aldershot with our Chairman Lewis Trinder and his wife Vera for an enjoyable mini-reunion and pleased that we had our next reunion organized. A MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR TO ALL Chairman Lewis Trinder 106 North Lane, Aldershot, Hants GU12 4QT 01252- 323861 lewistrinder@gmail Secretary/Editor Eddie Summerfold 28 Greymont Road, Limefield, Bury. O161-764-8778
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