Newsletter - October 2009


Hot off the press is our latest newsletter... the printed newsletter should be dropping through your letterboxes anyday now, for which I have enclosed some Christmas Draw tickets - please give the draw your fullest support as this is now the main source of income for the
Association.

Please keep your letters coming in and I hope you enjoy reading the many great stories inside this excellent issue !

Also in this Newsletter are details of the 23 Pnr Regt Medal Parade and March through Bicester on 28 November 2009.. all members of the Association have been invited to spectate at these events and I hope to see you there.

• News section with details of past and future events
• Final part of George Pringles story
• Falklands - After the Battle with photos published here for the first time
• Lancastria Fatality
• Pioneers on D-Day
• My service with 120 Company
• Life and death of Horsley Hall
• Dieppe Memories
• Blast from the Past
• Massive Photo gallery
• Your letters
• Book reviews
• Last post / Obituaries
• Lost trails

and much, much more !

Nov 15th 2009

 Newsletter - April 2009


Hot off the press is our latest newsletter, a week or so before it drops through your letterbox ! Please keep your letters coming in and I hope you enjoy reading the many great stories inside this excellent issue !

• Massive news section with details of past and future events
• George Pringles story Part II
• Frank Nichol remembers his time in Munster
• Normany to Neumunster - D-Day with 67 Pioneer Company
• Final part of life in a wartime smoke company - Smokey Joes
• Photo gallery
• Your letters
• Book reviews
• Last post / Obituaries
• Lost trails
• Pioneer humour

and much, much more !

Mar 28th 2009

 Newsletter - October 2008


Hot off the press... online for the first time ever before its through your letterbox !

• Latest news with details of past and future events
• George Pringles story
• My Life 1938-1946
• The Fred Hall story
• Prisoner of War story
• Reunion Weekend photographs
• Your letters
• Tragedy of the Lancastria story
• Smokey Joes story
• Book Reviews
• Last Post / Obituaries

and much, much more !

October 2008

 Newsletter - May 2008


Now online! Inside you will find...

• Service in West Berlin by Maurice Grange BEM
• Where is tomorrow story by Dorothy Spencer
• National Service by Bill Goode
• Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace
• 23 Pioneer Medal Parade
• They lost their freedom fighting for yours by H P Weiner

and much, much more !

May 2008

 Newsletter - October 2007


Now online! Inside you will find...

• The complete book 'It don't cost you a Penny', published in 1955.
• Quick Visit by ex Pte Leonard John Hooper, 190 Coy Pioneer Corps
• A 13 Year Old in 1939 by Cpl J Stout.
• Diary 1945 by Pte Charles Henry Warner
• Introduction to Demob by Peter Bowden
• Passout Parade Photos

and much, much more !

October 2007

 Newsletter - April 2007


Now online! Inside you will find...

• Royal Visit to 23 Pioneer Regiment RLC
• The Party 1937 by Arthur C Cole
• Pioneering A.M.P.C to P.C. by Charles Thursby
• A Piper in the Army by Iain Insch
• My Army Years by Ex Pte Leonard John Hooper

and much, much more !

Aug 30th 2008

 Newsletter - October 2006


Now online! Inside you will find...

• Pte J Tancred, 187 Coy PC
• Approaching Normandy
• Liberty of Bicester Parade
• Six Years in the life of a Pioneer by Ex W02 PG Smith

and much, much more !

Aug 30th 2008

 Newsletter - April 2006


Now online! Inside you will find...

• St Davids Barracks
• Pioneering Days at Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps by W G Ford

and much, much more !

Aug 30th 2008

 Newsletter - October 2005


Now online! Inside you will find...

• Hospitality by Alex Dickson
• Reminiscences of a WW2 Pioneer Officer by Captain I W Haxell
• Pioneers in the Blitz

and much, much more !

Aug 30th 2008

 Newsletter - February 2005


Now online! Inside you will find...

• VE Day
• The Pioneer Corps during WWII
• Salerno by G D Pringle
• Acts of Bravery by members of the Pioneer Corps during WWII

and much, much more !

Aug 30th 2008

 Newsletter - September 2004


Now online! Inside you will find...

• Recollections of Harry Ratner on D-Day by Harry Ratner
• Remembering Cassino

and much, much more !

Aug 30th 2008

 Newsletter - February 2004


Now online! Inside you will find...

• Pioneers on D-Day
• Pioneers on Anzio

and much, much more !

Aug 30th 2008

  Newsletter - September 2001

Details on ladies dinner night, quiz, book worth reading, mr ron harrop, minutes of last AGM, history bit and list of members.

September 2001

  July 2001 - Northampton Branch

A small newsletter with an obituary to Ron Harrop.
"To have known him was a privilege to have had him as a friend was an honour".


July 2001