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Secretary’s Notes Letters to the Editor Field of

Merry Christmas and a ACC Association from Around the Regions Dreams 2023
Happy New Year Executive Council 2024 Dates for the diary Haverthwaite, Cumbria
They say that time speeds Chairman & Council All the dates and events are subject to change: By Ian E Scott
up as you grow older, I can members elected by Dear Editor
certainly vouch for the saying, the membership: Friday 22 March Officers’ Club AGM / Reunion To all those decision makers that Another great event this year with
as 2023 has gone by with a Lt Col Nigel Shepherd dinner at the Norton Park Hotel contrived to have thousands of us nearly 100 ex ACC/RLC attending
Chairman drawn from various backgrounds and with a couple of ex-Navy and RAF to
blink of an eye. There has been
Major Erik Crichton TBC May ACC Association visit to the turned into men. To the ACC for the improve the banter!
so much activity in 2023, both
Members’ Representative NMA with lunch. education, disciplines, foundational The weather was reasonably kind this
at a national level and from
Mr Colin Slade skills and experiences that provided a
a corps perspective; there was the Coronation in Wednesday 6 June Founders Day at Chelsea year and the spirits were high.
Members’ Representative life worth living
May 2023 which filled me with immense pride to Mr Brian Henderson Hospital As always, the entertainment is
have served in the ACC/RLC. Then there was the Jones Was it easy, I’ll say not, was I often provided In-House and this year apart
RLC 30-year anniversary in June; although not of Members’ Representative Friday 7 June Officers’ Club Summer outing fearful, sure. But was it worthwhile, from the previous performers, there was
to Denbies Wine Estate absolutely!
the same grandeur as the coronation, it was still a Ex-Officio subsidiary a sparkling new talent in the form of
day to remember and reflect on what the Corps ACC organisation Saturday 22 June Ex Sustainer – 167 Regt RLC Trying to March up Princess John Maxwell.
would look like today if we had not merged all members: competition in Grantham Avenue toward day one at St Omer. Bugle calls, blanco, steel wool polished John is a sprightly 80 year old ex
those years ago. Maj Mark Harris buckets, the cold, the NAAFI, sport ACC National Serviceman, who served
ACC Officers’ Club Sunday 7 July Corps Sunday at The Royal and a thousand more memories, all between 1957 – 1959 in such far flung
Getting back to the job in hand, there are
Representative Garrison Church Aldershot part of our lives forever. Thank you. outposts such as: Ramillies Barracks,
some great articles in this edition of the Flaming
Mr Dave Butterill followed by lunch at the
Cauldron; apart from finding out what associa- Ivor Davies Lichfield, Chester at Saighton Camp and
ACC & RLC (P&P) Village Hotel, Farnborough
tion activities had taken place since the summer Sergeants’ Assn A Squad, Easter intake 1962 the Castle with the Cheshire Regiment.
edition, there is an article by Tremaine Corish Representative Friday 9th August ACC Officers’ Club versus PS I’m very well, still cooking, and Strange that he should find his way
(pages 24 -25) of his time served, albeit curtailed as Lt Col Tony Monk Worship Company of Cooks living in Far North Queensland, into the ACC, when he was already
he was discharged for being a gay man – how times ACC Golf Society golf match an apprentice welder with Massey-
Representative Australia. Ferguson in Trafford Park, Manchester,
have changed. TBC September ACC Association (all ranks)
As I have highlighted before, the magazine is Administrative & Buffet Supper and Entertainment prior to being called up for his NS, but
only viable if you the members send in your contri- Co-Opted members: at the Village Hotel, Farnborough Duty Chef sadly that’s the way the system worked.
Major Eric Lewis He would have been better using that
butions and although this edition has had sufficient By Paul Rowcliffe
Association Secretary knowledge in the REME or RE than
articles, this is not the always the case. The ACC Saturday 7 October Ride the Wall – National
Mr Colin MacDonald I looked at the rota and what did I see eggs to shell, 90 hard boiled,
Executive Council met on the 28th November Memorial Arboretum welding pies together!
Web Master, Media &
2023 and discussed cutting the magazine from 2 Communications (date TBC) October ACC North Regional reunion – duty cook for the day was little ole me adrenaline pumping On completion of his National
editions to 1 per annum due to the paucity of arti- Mr Mike Coyle Grand Hotel, Blackpool (POC I went to the office and looked at like a spring that’s coiled . Service, John returned and completed
cles. Although the proposal to cut to one edition 167 Catering Support Mick Joyner) the list The telephone rings you dread his apprentiship and became a welder
was accepted by the committee, there is a stay of Regiment Liaison with Massey-Ferguson. In his mid-20’s
Representative Friday 25 October Officers’ Club Ladies Dinner how will I do this, the boss must be the call he set up his own welding business in
execution till 2025 to garner association members pissed
Night at the Aviator Hotel, another 50 late meals Manchester and although now retired
thoughts and with the aspiration; that more associ-
Farnborough six gallon of gravy he still works on the odd commission.
ation members submit articles. oh!!! is that all???
Now to 2024, the association instigated 2 new Thursday 7 November 2024 Opening Ceremony of 50 late meals what shall I give them So what is this man’s special talent?
events in 2023, an association visit to the Museum the Field of Remembrance at 3 sacks full of carrots this wasn’t on the cards This Manchester lad produced a
in March 2023 and a BBQ in Jul 2023, both were Westminster Abbey you know how it feels banjo out of its case and proceeded to
well attended, and all seemed to have enjoyed the 50 egg beano’s belt out old George Formby songs on
Sunday 10 November Cenotaph Parade (tickets limited there’s chips that need blanching it for half an hour on two consecutive
experience. The Executive Council have instructed there that wasn’t hard!!!
to 50 – via the Secretary) and nights, leaving everyone present in awe
me to organise 2 similar events in 2024. The first and scotch eggs to make
lunch at the Victory Services Club more milk to the guard room?
will be a visit to the National Memorial Arboretum what’s that you can smell? of his energy and wit. He even got his
(Staffordshire), with lunch in May 2024 and a Sunday 10 November National Memorial Arboretum its a burning slab cake they’ve just rang to ask daughter, Linda, to help him out with
buffet function and Disco at the Village Hotel, Remembrance Day Ceremony more chips in the fryer one of his numbers.
can it be rescued its really a sin We certainly hope he returns in 2024!
Farnborough in September 2024 – exact dates is this the last task
are being discussed and I will let you know in the garnish with tea leaves and chuck in I’ve turned off the power
New Year. the bin
and I’ve locked up the stores
the guard box needs doing
Regards, I hang up my apron and head for
there’s breakfast to tray
Eric Lewis the door
five hundred bangers
as I walk up the path 8 hours before
Front cover: Nigel Shepherd and Denise Walker at the Field of Remembrance, 9th November 2023 and bacon today I wake
Editor: Major (Retd) Eric Lewis | Telephone: 01962 88 7767 | Email: secretary@accassociation.org | Website: www.accassociation.org remix the slab cake put in the tins what’s that I can smell???
ACC Association, RHQ The RLC, Worthy Down, Winchester, Hants SO21 2RG open the oven and slide it in its that bloody slab cake!!!!!

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