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The Naval Dockyards Society is holding a one day conference entitled: –
‘We stand on guard for thee.’
Dockyards and Naval Bases in North America, the Atlantic and the Caribbean
on 30th March 2019 at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. There is a call for papers and full details are on the ORDNANCE RELATED EVENTS page.
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The Ordnance Society AGM will be held on Sunday 23rd September at the EXPLOSION museum at Priddy’s Hard, Gosport. Full details available soon.
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Newsletter No. 122 has now been printed and will be posted tomorrow, Friday 10th August.
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The untimely death of Bryan Martin has resulted in a delay with the printing of the July Newsletter, No. 122. It is hoped to have it printed and posted by the end of this week and an update on the situation will be posted later.
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I regret to inform members of the sad passing of board member Bryan Martin on Wednesday 27th June this year at the age of 61. Bryan suffered a severe heart attack last autumn and seemed to be on the road to recovery with the support of his many local U3A friends.
Bryan ran a small business, D P & G Publications, producing various re-prints of military books and pamphlets and had been printing the Ordnance Society Newsletters since 2013. He was instrumental in helping to modernise and improve the Newsletter as it incorporated colour and changed to an A5 format, which reduced our postage costs.
Bryan’s enthusiasm and range of ideas and suggestions will be missed.
Trevor Parker
Chairman
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A membership renewal form has been added to the MEMBERSHIP page and is available for download in two formats, ‘Word’ and PDF.
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English Heritage have launched a fund-raising appeal to help conserve the many guns and artillery at English Heritage sites, particularly those sites on or near the coast. The link below is to their web-site page describing the situation and asking for donations.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/support-us/our-appeals/save-our-cannons/
At the recent Ordnance Society board meeting it was agreed that the Ordnance Society would contribute £100 to the fund.
If you would also like to contribute the details are on the web-page above.
