The Royal Green Jackets Regimental Association
E-zine NEWSLETTER Volume 5 Issue 3
15 December2013
FOREWORD by Brigadier Hugh Willing CBE Chairman of the RGJ Regimental Association
Brigadier Hugh Willing CBE
This edition of the E-Zine will be the last in our thrice-yearly series. From 2014 we are reducing the number of publications to one E-Zine to be issued each summer – probably in September, and the annual flagship magazine ‘Swift and Bold’ which is published each year in March. Please help the editorial team by continuing to send in your interesting articles and updates by the respective deadlines. Next year will also see the launch of the RGJ Museum Appeal seeking support for the Battle of Waterloo Bicentenary Exhibition and Learning Space project. The Heritage Lottery Fund has contributed £100,000 towards the cost of the exhibition, which includes a refurbishment of the Waterloo model and the first floor of the Museum to incorporate a Learning Space, ready for the Waterloo Bicentenary in 2015. The Appeal is to raise £100,000 to match the HLF grant. The Association committee has fully endorsed General Christopher Wallace’s proposal and encourages all Riflemen to support this most worthy and fitting fund-raising Regimental project. Once again thanks and congratulations are in order for the excellent arrangements made by the Winchester Branch for this year’s Veterans Day Gathering in July. Whilst the weather might have been too hot for comfort, all those who attended much enjoyed the good fellowship and tall stories that such a reunion will always bring. Make a note in your diaries for next year’s Gathering – Saturday 12th July. And finally a warm welcome to Lieutenant Simon Booth-Mason as the Deputy Chairman and to Major Michael Leeming as the President of the Central England Branch. The Branch goes from strength to strength and is organising the ‘Greenstock’ Music Festival for Riflemen at Bramcote Barracks near Nuneaton during the August Bank Holiday 2014. My best wishes for Christmas and 2014 to all fellow Riflemen. Hugh Willing E-Zine 2013
Contents Page Title 3. Foreword 4. RGJ Museum Shop Christmas 2013 6. Forecast of Events Regimental ringtones 7. RGJRA Contact List 8. From the Editor 9. The History of The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum 11. The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum Ba le of Waterloo Bicentenary Exhibi on 13. She’ll miss me 14. News from the Branches 26. The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum 28. KRRC Tapestry 29. 3,000 mile Campervan Tour of Germany 31. Wiltshire Branch Revisit The Rock of Gibraltar 32. The platoon in C Coy 1st Green Jackets that went chasing pirates in 1963 37. The Scent of History – Frankincense 38. Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust (SOFO) 40. Riflesdirect 41. In Memoriam “Why the Poppies?”
Editor: Kevin Stevens Copyright 2013 © RGJRA This publica on contains official and personal contact informa on. It should therefore be treated with discre on by the recipient. The views expressed in the ar cles in this journal are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the policy and views, official or otherwise of the Royal Green Jackets Regimental Associa on or the Ministry of Defence.
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