| Description | BFES Monthly email bulletins sent out to members. These discuss arrangements for meetings, membership updates, events, the work of the BFES honorary archivist Walter Lewis, donations to the archive.
Issues from 2021: Feb; Mar; May; end of May/June; July - September.
Complete run January - December 2022.
January - August 2023.
These monthly communications by Christine & Hugh Ritchie (Membership Secretaries) complement the Association’s seasonal Journal.
They cover a range of material, usually provided to the editors by individual members, by email. There is a significant amount of archive material referred to and copied.
Examples would be:
- January 2023: pupil’s experience at RAF Changi Grammar School, Singapore in the 1960s; Reunion for pupils of St Georg’s School, Hong Kong;
- February 2023: Focus on St David’s Infant School, Mtarfa, Malta; boarding King Alfred School, Plon 1949-1956;
- March 2023: RAF Changi Group, Singapore;
- April 2023: More on a return to Singapore a reunion at Alexandra Grammar School; includes the grave, in Kranji, of Mr Hugh John Wheeler, past headmaster of St John’s Army School. Focus on Muster Garrison & schools.
- May 2023: Curry lunch & connection between Jane Tull (committee member) & a Gurkha Regiment.
- May (2) 2023: AGM news; RAF Club; Focus on Munster ; Music MOD schools; St Andrew’s School, Malta 1975. (this is possibly a mistype on the email and meant to be the June issue)
- July 2023: More focus on Munster – Edinburgh School;
- August 2023: AGM news; Focus on Cyprus, example of text book from early MOD school; Morris dancing; BFG. |