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HMS Ajax RPVA for £20 Per Person Or Through the H.M.S. Ajax & River Plate Veterans Association NEWSLETTER MARCH 2016 CONTENTS Chairman's Remarks Newsletter Editor's Remarks Membership Secretary's Report Battle of Cape Matapan 75th Anniversary – Clive Sharplin Uncle Pat – Stuart Birrell Captain Mackenzie - Obituary Gordon Humpleby – Peter Danks 25th Anniversary River Plate – Vic Wilson Eric Maycock Papers Car Sticker & Pens – Mike Fox Archivist Update News from Town of Ajax – Colleen Jordan Memories - Dave Forrest Ireland's Own – Malcolm Collis More Memories – John Hitchen River Plate FAQs NEC QUISQUAM NISI AJAX 2. 3. H.M.S. AJAX & RIVER PLATE VETERANS ASSOCIATION. CHAIRMAN/SECRETARY ARCHIVIST/WEBMASTER/ Peter Danks NEWSLETTER EDITOR 104 Kelsey Avenue Malcolm Collis Southbourne The Bewicks, Station Road Emsworth Ten Mile Bank, Hampshire PO10 8NQ Norfolk PE38 0EU Tel: 01243 371947 Tel: 01366 377945 [email protected] [email protected] The congregation MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE TREASURER/ SECRETARY STANDARD BEARER included the First Sea MEMBER Lord, 2 Admirals of Mrs Judi Collis John (Vic) Wilson Alf Larkin Lime Kiln Cottage the Fleet, 8 Admirals, The Bewicks, Station Road 9 Ashleigh Avenue Ten Mile Bank 2 Easton Lane 40 Vice Admirals, 9 Norfolk PE38 0EU Egham Portland Commodores, 15 Tel: 01366 377945 Surrey TW20 8LB Dorset DT5 1BW Captains and 7 Mobile: 07736 929641 Tel: 01784 439630 Tel: 01305 457259 Commanders, all [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] serving or retired. Peter and Alan are top www.hmsajax.org left. CHAIRMAN'S REMARKS I hope all our members had a most enjoyable and illness free Christmas and New Year holiday. Certainly in the South we have enjoyed a pretty mild winter but I am sure some of you will have NEWSLETTER EDITOR’S REMARKS enjoyed the winter snow. A huge thank you to all the contributors – without the material there would be no Newsletter. A plea to you all, if 2016 will see the Association changing its annual format and I do hope the change will enable you to you have something interesting to share please put pen to paper and send it in. get to as many of the events as possible. Holding an event in Staffordshire will allow members living The NMA event will be upon us very soon – if you haven't let me know you are coming please do so urgently as in the North to join us for one of our events. I need to book with the NMA. Herewith a copy of the email I sent out earlier: On April 9th we will be holding a Remembrance Service followed by lunch at the National Memorial “Dear All Arboretum near Lichfield, with the Service around the Association Memorial starting at 1200. Lunch Regarding the Memorial event at the National Memorial Arboretum in April and my earlier circulations on this will then follow at 1300 in one of the marquees on site. This will provide an opportunity for those subject. Thank you to those who did respond - the numbers are not great but we have decided to continue with members who were unable to attend the Dedication two years ago to see the wonderful memorial the day. which has been created next to the Falklands Islands Memorial in the Royal Navy area of the site. The Memorial event will be held on Saturday 9th April 2016 at the NMA (Croxall Road, Alrewas, Staffordshire There will be time either before the service or after the lunch to look around the wonderful arboretum. DE13 7AR Tele. 01283 245100 www.thenma.org.uk) If you have not yet been in touch with Malcolm, please do so as soon as possible as he needs to submit The site is open from 9am until 5pm - no admission fee but £3 for the car park including disabled spaces. numbers for the lunch. A memorial service will be held around The Battle of the River Plate Memorial at 1200hrs before making our way back to the Rose Room (now moved to one of the pods) for 1300hrs for luncheon (2 course). The cost will Later in the summer, Malcolm and Nigel Masters are co-ordinating the visit to Canada to mark the 40th be £20. anniversary of the frigate visit to the town. This will allow time either before or afterwards, or both, to visit the rest of the site - well worth a visit. The On Saturday 1st October, the annual dinner will be held at the Royal Beach Hotel at Southsea – a very centre provides, at a cost, a land train (£4.50) or buggy tour (£5) and I can probably arrange a guided walking popular venue for the 75th anniversary lunch held in 2014. The AGM will be held at the hotel at 1630, tour if there was enough interest - please let me know. The NMA also hire mobility scooters that should be pre- with Up Spirits at 1830 and dinner at 1900. booked. There will be a 4 course meal, with tea/coffee There are various accommodation nearby - Judi & I have booked the Friday & Saturday night at the Premier and mints and the cost will be £35 which will Inn Lichfield North East A38 Hotel which is attached to the Fradley Arms with bar & restaurant and is close to include a drink for the loyal toast. the NMA. Application forms for the Dinner and If you wish to attend please send me a cheque (Malcolm Collis The Bewicks, Station Road, Ten Mile Bank, Accommodation will be published with the Norfolk PE38 0EU) made payable to HMS Ajax RPVA for £20 per person or through the "donate" button on June newsletter. Please put this date in your our web page. diary. Please let me have the following details: On the 20th January, Alan Phillips and I Attendee full name attended a Service of Thanksgiving for the Guests full name and relationship life and work of Admiral Sir Peter Charles Any dietary requirements for the above Abbot GBE KCB, who had been Captain of the frigate, at the Portsmouth Cathedral. The Assistance to/from memorial Yes/No - a distance of approx 300 metres. service was very well attended with many I shall circulate further details nearer the time senior Royal Navy Officers, past and present Regards” in attendance. Numbers are so far disappointing so if you can make it please support your Association. 2. 3. H.M.S. AJAX & RIVER PLATE VETERANS ASSOCIATION. CHAIRMAN/SECRETARY ARCHIVIST/WEBMASTER/ Peter Danks NEWSLETTER EDITOR 104 Kelsey Avenue Malcolm Collis Southbourne The Bewicks, Station Road Emsworth Ten Mile Bank, Hampshire PO10 8NQ Norfolk PE38 0EU Tel: 01243 371947 Tel: 01366 377945 [email protected] [email protected] The congregation MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE TREASURER/ SECRETARY STANDARD BEARER included the First Sea MEMBER Lord, 2 Admirals of Mrs Judi Collis John (Vic) Wilson Alf Larkin Lime Kiln Cottage the Fleet, 8 Admirals, The Bewicks, Station Road 9 Ashleigh Avenue Ten Mile Bank 2 Easton Lane 40 Vice Admirals, 9 Norfolk PE38 0EU Egham Portland Commodores, 15 Tel: 01366 377945 Surrey TW20 8LB Dorset DT5 1BW Captains and 7 Mobile: 07736 929641 Tel: 01784 439630 Tel: 01305 457259 Commanders, all [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] serving or retired. Peter and Alan are top www.hmsajax.org left. CHAIRMAN'S REMARKS I hope all our members had a most enjoyable and illness free Christmas and New Year holiday. Certainly in the South we have enjoyed a pretty mild winter but I am sure some of you will have NEWSLETTER EDITOR’S REMARKS enjoyed the winter snow. A huge thank you to all the contributors – without the material there would be no Newsletter. A plea to you all, if 2016 will see the Association changing its annual format and I do hope the change will enable you to you have something interesting to share please put pen to paper and send it in. get to as many of the events as possible. Holding an event in Staffordshire will allow members living The NMA event will be upon us very soon – if you haven't let me know you are coming please do so urgently as in the North to join us for one of our events. I need to book with the NMA. Herewith a copy of the email I sent out earlier: On April 9th we will be holding a Remembrance Service followed by lunch at the National Memorial “Dear All Arboretum near Lichfield, with the Service around the Association Memorial starting at 1200. Lunch Regarding the Memorial event at the National Memorial Arboretum in April and my earlier circulations on this will then follow at 1300 in one of the marquees on site. This will provide an opportunity for those subject. Thank you to those who did respond - the numbers are not great but we have decided to continue with members who were unable to attend the Dedication two years ago to see the wonderful memorial the day. which has been created next to the Falklands Islands Memorial in the Royal Navy area of the site. The Memorial event will be held on Saturday 9th April 2016 at the NMA (Croxall Road, Alrewas, Staffordshire There will be time either before the service or after the lunch to look around the wonderful arboretum. DE13 7AR Tele. 01283 245100 www.thenma.org.uk) If you have not yet been in touch with Malcolm, please do so as soon as possible as he needs to submit The site is open from 9am until 5pm - no admission fee but £3 for the car park including disabled spaces. numbers for the lunch. A memorial service will be held around The Battle of the River Plate Memorial at 1200hrs before making our way back to the Rose Room (now moved to one of the pods) for 1300hrs for luncheon (2 course).
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