The Ordnance Society’s very successful ‘National Artillery Survey’ has involved a number of museums and organisations which have in turn, resulted in some publicity for the Society.  We received an invitation to submit an article describing the Ordnance Society to the 2021-2022 Annual Review of the Army Museum’s Ogilby Trust.  The following link to the AMOT website describes in detail its work and has the 2021-2022 Annual Review available to view and download.  The Ordnance Society article is on pages 28-29. 

https://www.armymuseums.org.uk/annual-review-news/

The latest Newsletter is now included in the INDICES, which are in the PUBLICATIONS pages

Newsletter No. 139 is now available for download from the DOWNLOADS sub-page of the PUBLICATIONS page; and is available for members only.

Apologies for the late publication of the October edition.  Printed copies have now been posted.

Ordnance Society Chairman

Notice of AGM – Sunday 30^th October 2022

The AGM is to be held during the Society’s visit The Vickers Machine-Gun Research Association Collection near Swindon, including a tour, talk and live-firing demonstration prior to the AGM. Lunch and tea/coffee will be provided. There will be no charge to members for the visit.
Lunch from 1300, departure about 1600.

Joining details will be sent to paid-up members confirming in advance their intention to attend. Please confirm your attendance to the Chairman by Monday 24^th October at the very latest.

The Board hopes that the special programme laid on for us at this most interesting site will ensure good attendance at our AGM.

Attendance Forms and Voting Forms are available on the ORDNANCE EVENTS page.

The Ordnance Society is pleased to announce the 4^th Release of its WORLDWIDE SURVEY OF BRITISH ARTILLERY (of Breech-Loading and Quick-Firing guns).

This update has increased the number of different guns listed by seven to eighteen, which includes 15-inch to 40mm.  A total of 163 guns are now in the Survey.

There are still a large number of unrecorded British Artillery guns in many different countries across the world and details of any that are sent to the Ordnance Society will be gratefully included in the next version of our survey.

Newsletter No. 138 is now available for download from the DOWNLOADS sub-page of the PUBLICATIONS page; and is available for members only.

Apologies for the late publication of the July edition, which has been due to a combination of technical hitches, holidays and the handover to the new Newsletter Editor.

Printed copies are planned to be posted this weekend.

Updated 20th August 2022:

The indices have again been updated by Alastair Fyfe, and are available on the PUBLICATIONS page and its DOWNLOADS sub-page.

There are two events highlighted on the ORDNANCE EVENTS page  which you might be interested in.  They are on the 3rd and 16th July, so if you want to participate you need to book quickly!

The Ordnance Society is now pleased to be able to almost DOUBLE THE SIZE OF ITS “NATIONAL ARTILLERY SURVEY” DATABASE with the addition of a large amount of valuable data from the Royal Artillery Collection, managed by the Royal Artillery Museum.  This UNIQUE DATABASE IS THE FIRST OF ITS KIND and includes most of the Breech-Loading (B.L.) and Quick-Firing (Q.F.) guns in the U.K.

There are now 566 guns in the database. Co-ordinated by the Friends of the Royal Artillery Collections the inclusion of this new data has been possible following significant research by members of RA Museum staff. It represents, for the first time, details of many guns in the RA Collection, available online and searchable by researchers. This is a significant move forward and we hope that in the future similar data on artillery equipment in the RA Collection and other museums and collections can be made available more widely on the internet. The Ordnance Society looks forward to working with all of its partners in making this information freely available.

With the imminent resignation of the current chairman, Trevor Parker, at the end of May, the Ordnance Society Board meeting on the 8th May discussed solutions to the impending vacancy.  Neil Grant volunteered to take on the role of Temporary Chairman until the AGM and this offer was gratefully accepted by the OS Board.

Neil is currently the excellent Ordnance Society Visits Secretary and also a Trustee of the Royal Armouries.