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Dear CONA Colleagues,

Please see below from the RNA General Secretary, Bill Oliphant concerning the RNA Helpline and a message concerning ‘Surviving Isolation’, which I personally thoroughly recommend.

Dear CONA Secretaries,

Following an audit of the online databases, comparing them to the published membership list, it has come to light that many email addresses are no longer valid. The following members are requested to email me at [email protected] using the new address. Without valid addresses I cannot provide you with the magazine electronically, so please look and see if your name is on the list and update me. Thank you.

REQUIEM-REPRISE?

It’s over now, sheep bleat, birds sing,

No field guns roar, no bullets zing.

But growing from the Flanders mud,

A flower, its petals red as blood.

In Tynecot other flowers grow,

White markers and crosses, row on row.

But for the sailors bold and brave,

There are no crosses on a wave.

And those who fought and died on high,

There are no markers in the sky.

The League of Nations, they all swore,

Never again would there be war.

From war they would refrain, but then

Greetings Shipmates

Well after another computer glitch, coupled to the latest Data Protection requirements or something, I have decided to do away with the monthly, that’s a laugh, postings of notices sent to me and reunions listed, and sent to HM Ships Associations, RNA Branches and HQ. Also Royal British Legions where I do have an email address, along with other like minded people. Nearly 600 postings each ‘month’.

Greetings Shipmates and a very Happy and Prosperous New Year to you all.

Very many thanks for the good wishes you have sent me and also the contributions and suggestions, the system works because YOU want it to work, and it works even better if you copy this out to your members or, contact them to have their email address put on the circulation list.

The original members of the Communications Department of 1st Commission HMS Liverpool are holding a reunion in Liverpool on 20th/21st April 2018.
Anyone who has any information of our SCO, Lt (as he was then) George Newlands could you please get in touch.

The MOD have announced that our armed forces will be cut over the next few years. If this happens it means our Navy, Army and Air Force won't be able to defend this country by conventional means, and would have to rely on our nuclear capabilities instead.
You can sign the petition here.

Received via CONA.
THE COMBINED SERVICES ANNUAL CHURCH SERVICE
2018
As has been our custom for the past twenty plus years, this
service will once again be held at
St. George’s Church, St. George’s
Square, The Hard, Portsea. PO1 3AT
on Sunday the 13th. May 2018
St. George’s Church was constructed in 1753 by about fifteen
Dockyard Shipwrights and three gentlemen, plus a grocer, a carpenter and a
Tallow Chandler. Completed in six months it was a Chapel until 1875 when it was

Received from CONA.
 
Dear Branch Secretaries and CONA Colleagues,
 
For your information.
 
3.         Parliamentary Petition – ‘Stop the cuts to RN & RM Amphibious Ships’ Petition
 
Shipmates may wish to be aware that a Parliamentary Petition is ongoing to ‘Stop cuts to the RN & RM Amphibious Ships’.
 
If you would like to sign the petition and it is hoped you will want to sign up.   please follow the link below;