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Dear Shipmate Secretary
HEADQUARTERS ROLL NEWSLETTER November 2011 1 Dear Shipmate Member, Welcome to the Autumn newsletter, it is packed with great info and news about the RNA, I hope you enjoy it and something catches your eye. I would like to open with a thank you and well done for the many ways in which RNA branches and HQ Roll members led their local communities during Remembrance week. It was marvellous to see so many positive reports and so many shipmates turn out. I was particularly proud of the RNA contingent at the Cenotaph parade which had many HQ members; it got good coverage on the BBC. The National Vice President, Keith Crawford laid the wreath on behalf of the RNA. The Biennial Parade went very well with a moving speech by the First Sea Lord and a very good turnout from our shipmates in the Irish Naval Association. We had almost 500 on parade and 62 Standards. Everyone enjoyed a buffet and party in the Civil Service club afterwards, the Irish won the singing we won the drinking! You will be pleased to hear that the Shipmates campaign is off and running, with our new AGS, Andy, visiting the resettlement offices to ensure that all Service leavers are aware of the help and support that the RNA can provide, we are getting the first of their resettlement addresses now. Any HQ role member who would like to help a naval redundees please give me a ring. I hope you agree that our poster is very eye-catching. I am also thrilled to report that the mentoring of Phase 2 trainees by RNA members in HMS COLLINGWOOD has got off to a great start, we have volunteers to fill commitments until May, but would welcome anyone who would like to come and spin some dits with some keen and lively young sailors here in Portsmouth, even submariners and waffoos are welcome! The idea is to give the young sailors an idea of the traditions and history of the Navy – the first session had to teach the lads what ‘handsomely and roundly meant!! Our Member-get-Member campaign has been in full swing, I hope you have recruited your member. -
House of Lords Official Report
Vol. 791 Thursday No. 157 21 June 2018 PARLIAMENTARYDEBATES (HANSARD) HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICIAL REPORT ORDEROFBUSINESS Introduction: Lord Tyrie ..................................................................................................2093 Questions MV “Empire Windrush” ..............................................................................................2093 Turkey: Pride March.....................................................................................................2096 Childhood Obesity: Yoga..............................................................................................2098 Cannabis-based Medicines............................................................................................2101 Business of the House Timing of Debates.........................................................................................................2104 Carers Action Plan 2018-2020: Supporting Carers Today Motion to Take Note.....................................................................................................2104 EU Settlement Scheme Statement......................................................................................................................2134 G7 Summit and Future Trade Relations Question for Short Debate.............................................................................................2147 Defence Fire and Rescue Project: Capita Statement......................................................................................................................2160 Armed -
MARKET Forces with Improved Security in Nad ‘Ali South, the Locals Are Taking Control Combatbarbie NANAVIGATORVIGATOR
chart toppers: singing chelsea pensioners go gold DefenceFocus Royal Navy | Army | Royal Air Force | Ministry of Defence | issue #248 FEBRUARY/11 MARKET forces With improved security in Nad ‘Ali south, the locals are taking control combatbarbie NANAVIGATORVIGATOR kings of the road: the chelsea PoP STAR Pensioners P32 p 12 My MastIff day out Regulars Ian Carr on tour with the Royal Irish p5 In MeMorIuM p16 bastIon on tap Tributes to this month’s fallen Fresh water from the desert p11 bIg pIcture: eye of a snIper p36 tales of Valour A sniper en route to Camp Shawqat Medals exhibition celebrates heroes Lifestyle p18 podIuM The Sun’s Duncan Larcombe on Wikileaks p26 photo MoMents Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey p22 Verbatim DG HR Susan Scholefield on MOD changes p29 My Medals Sergeant Stewart Clarke looks back p30 SHARP BLADE Exclusives Two pocket tools to give away p8 stabIlIsIng helMand P16 p39 free skIwear Changing pace in Nad ‘Ali £500 worth of skiwear could be yours FEBRUARY 2011 | ISSUE 248 | 3 EDITOR’SNOTE Danny Chapman Of course the main focus for the MOD DefenceFocus and Armed Forces remains Afghanistan The Christmas and New Year break seem where ‘normal’ routines took barely a For everyone in defence a long time ago now and like us I am sure moment’s pause over the Christmas Published by the Ministry of Defence that staff across Defence have fallen back season. In fact our reporter Ian Carr Level 1 Zone C into the normal routine of the working almost found himself in Helmand on MOD, Main Building day. -
Communicating War Through the Contemporary British Military Memoir: the Censorships of Genre, State, and Self
Newcastle University ePrints Jenkings KN, Woodward R. Communicating War through the Contemporary British Military Memoir: the Censorships of Genre, State, and Self. Journal of War & Culture Studies 2014, 7(1), 5-17. Copyright: © W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2014 MORE OpenChoice articles are open access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 3.0. DOI link to published article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1752628013Y.0000000007 Further information on publisher website: http://www.maneyonline.com/ Date deposited: 9th October 2014 Version of article: Published This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License ePrints – Newcastle University ePrints http://eprint.ncl.ac.uk journal of war & culture studies, Vol. 7 No. 1, February, 2014, 5–17 Communicating War through the Contemporary British Military Memoir: the Censorships of Genre, State, and Self K. Neil Jenkings and Rachel Woodward School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK This paper is about military memoirs—the published autobiographical reflec- tions of those who have participated in armed conflict—as a mechanism for communication about war. In this paper, we consider the controls exerted by functions of genre, military organizational censorship and self-censorship as influences on the possibilities for the military memoir for communicating war. Drawing on memoirs published about experiences with the British Armed Forces from 1980 to the present and interviews with a sample of authors of memoirs, the paper considers the factors which shape and con- strain the accounts these memoirs contain. We look first at the conventions of the genre, considering how authors may or may not accept or reject its established modes and forms, and consider censorship as a capacity of the conventions of the genre. -
Facts and Figures About the Victoria Cross and George Cross
The Lord Ashcroft Gallery Press Information: Facts and figures about the Victoria Cross and George Cross Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross was created on 29 January 1856. The Victoria Cross recognises acts of extreme bravery carried out under direct enemy fire. Since 1856 1,354 people have been awarded the Victoria Cross (although awarded 1,358 times). The Victoria Cross is hand-made, traditionally using bronze taken from a gun captured in the Crimean War. The Victoria Cross was deliberately intended to have little actual value. Its value lies in what it stands for and what people do to earn it: be extremely brave. The inscription on the Victoria Cross is “For Valour”, a traditional word for bravery. It was personally chosen by Queen Victoria, after whom the medal was named. The Queen turned down the first suggestion, “For the Brave”, explaining that all her solders were brave. A Victoria Cross or George Cross act has to be seen by several witnesses. After being carefully considered, it is sent for approval by the monarch. The two youngest recipients of the Victoria Cross were Thomas Flinn in 1857 and Andrew Fitzgibbon in 1860. Both were 15 years and 3 months. The oldest recipient of the Victoria Cross was 69 year old William Raynor who defended an ammunition store in Delhi for five hours in 1857. Three fathers and sons have earned the Victoria Cross, including Major Charles Gough in 1857 and his son Major John Gough in 1903. Four pairs of brothers have earned the Victoria Cross, including Major Charles Gough and his brother Lieutenant Hugh Gough in 1858.