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18 Dec 2009

A re-issue of the acclaimed book by Capt John Lincoln MC 'Thank God and the Infantry: from D-Day to VE Day with the 1st Bn The R Norfolk Regt.' £14.99
Your purchase will benefit the R Anglian Memorial Fund. John has arranged that £2.50 from all copies sold through the Association will be donated to the Royal Anglian Memorial Fund.
Order via : The Area Secretary, The Keep, Gibraltar Barracks, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk,  IP33 3RN, enclosing a cheque payable to ‘Norfolk and Suffolk Headquarters The Royal Anglian Regiment’

A new book by Capt Philip Bujak 'Undefeated - The Extraordinary Life and Death of Lt Col Jack Sherwood Kelly VC CMG DSO'
ISBN 978-0-9551902-2-3. It is £9.99 + £2 p&p (UK).
Order through Col David James OBE TD. PO Box 58, Fakenham, Norfolk, NR21 7WZ. Tel 01328 855251jamesandsons@btinternet.com
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Maj Gordon Johnson 7 R Norfolk and 1940 photographs sought
Copy sought by Andrew Thomas of the 2 R Anglian commemorative book of the 1994 Bosnia tour

To See a Fine Lady' book by Peter Barton and 6 Jun 07 D-Day Service at St Mary's Church, North Aston, Oxfordshire
Royal Engineers in WW2 An observation from William Matthews

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113 Dec 09   Maj Peter Farrelly  Frank Gray 

112 Jun 09   Fred Brackstone   Albert William Clarke (Nobby)   Maj Bryan Coward   Lou Dale   Ray ‘Jock’ Fretwell   RV Graves   Bertie Hines   Mrs Micky Jenns   Anthony John Derek Lynn   Clifford Nobbs   George Osborne   Ron Pelster    Mrs Adeline Seymour

111 Dec 08 - Robert Bartlett   William Sheldon Corn   Reg Gunton   Maj John Housego   Bernard Levingbird   Ernest A McMath   Lt Col Oliver Prior MBE TD

Five episodes of 'Ross Kemp in Afghanistan 2007', featuring 1 R ANGLIAN, were broadcast on Sky TV in Jan - Feb 08. A great piece of reporting and fantastic coverage of the battalion, too.
For those who missed it, or did not have Sky TV, Tim Wilkes kindly sent advice that the series is available to anyone with a computer and broadband via ‘YouTube’.
Click the line below for the links:

Ross Kemp in Afghanistan - YouTube
 Sky Press Release - Ross Kemp in Afghanistan

1943 MT Section photograph from WO2 Alf Cooke   1951 and 1952 C Coy photographs by Barry Marsh   1940-1945 with the 70th, 7th and 1st Bns by Alan Solomon   1960s Film Review of Pte Pooley's Revenge

Additional names of any who qualify for the late Maj Bryan Coward obe (Over Bloody Eighty - see B&C 96 Jun 01) or his 'bnn' (Bloody Nearly Ninety - see B&C 104 Jun 05),
or the Norfolk Editor's 'bn' (‘Bloody 90’), 'obn' (‘Over Bloody 90’) and his 'bn1' (‘Bloody Nearly 100’) are invited to inform the Norfolk Editor.
Aug 09
85: Maj John Squire obe 1 Aug, 1st Bn; Thomas Mansell obe 30 Aug, 1 Suffolk & 70th Bn
89: Stan Banks BNN 6 Aug, 2nd Bn
97: William Taylor OBN MA 23 Aug, 10th Bn		 Sep 09
81: John Smith obe 17 Sep, 1st Bn
82: Tony Ground obe 26 Sep, Rifle Bde, SAS & 6 R Anglian (my Pl Sgt)
85: Maj Alec Power obe 5 Sep; Capt ‘Pip’ Page obe, 22 Sep, 2nd Bn
86: Geoff Ransome BNN 16 Sep, 70th Bn, 5th Northants, R Signals
90: Ted Riches BN 3 Sep, 1st & 2nd Bns

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