| Description | BFES Monthly email bulletins sent to members by Christine & Hugh Ritchie (Membership Secretaries) complement the Association’s seasonal Journal.. These discuss arrangements for meetings, membership updates, events, the work of the BFES honorary archivist Walter Lewis, donations to the archive, memoirs from individual members. There is a significant amount of archive material referred to and copied.
There is a A4 page list of all the contents of the Bulletins from January 2022 to February 2024.
Issues from 2021: Feb; Mar; May; end of May/June; July - September.
Complete run January - September 2024.
Bulletins from 2023 - 2024 listed below with a snapshot of contents (this is not a complete list of contents):
- 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.
- June ‘23 - focus on Munster & Malta
- 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.
- September ’23 – Rheindahlen, Windsor School, ARK school
- October ’23 – AGM at RAF Club, Cyprus, Malta Reunion
- November ’23 – Hobbies – photography; Sardinia school;
- December ’23 – Rheindahlen
- January ’24 – Curry Lunch, “Turbulencitus” by David Aubin, Reunion, Windsor School.
- February ’24 – Curry Lunch, Wyvern Club (King Alfred School, Plon), Fees; Bettina Blum; In Remembrance.
- March: Lost locations; National Arboretum; Naval School Malta; Singapore reunions; Banned items in schools!
- April: Garden Bloomers; SSAFA; Keeping fit.
- May: Winchester Curry Lunch; Collecting silver; Hong Kong Reunion
- June: Lunch & AGM; Silver;
- July: Lunch & AGM; Plon reunion; Trolley Dolly.
- August: National Arboretum; Bill Bowen writes “Pupils by their parents”; In remembrance’
- September: Malta Reunion; Mount Pleasant School, Falklands; Writing your own memoirs.
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