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ACC ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER

Weymouth Armed Forces Day

Though it’s a relatively small seaside town, After the parade and following a well-earned
Weymouth in Dorset attracts veterans and their brew and biscuits, all the while entertained by
families for the three days of celebrations to mark 1940’s style singing groups, four of the chefs met
Armed Forces weekend. The Sunday parade in up and reminisced about their service.
particular sees a number of columns march along It was a great day and a great catch up.
the esplanade road waved on by thousands of spec- It’d be great to see more ACC next year.
tators and well-wishers.
Brian Waymont of Armed
This year there were at least seven ACC veter-
Forces Bikers, Chip Walker,
ans attending with four marching.
Chair of the Airborne
Chefs Association, Pete
Johnson Chair of the
Plymouth Branch of the
Aden Veterans and Keith
Foster of the Airborne
Chefs Association

Keith Foster and Chip
Walker chatting and then
posing with Norman, a
fellow airborne veteran

Royal Hospital Chelsea Christmas 2024 Gift Giving

The ACC Association visits the Royal Post lunch, the pensioners showed us accommodation within the RHC and
Hospital Chelsea every December us around the accommodation and hosting us for the day/night of the visit.
to deliver gifts to the Chelsea In facilities available to them – the facil- It would be remiss of me not to
Pensioners – 2024 is no different, so ities available to the In Pensioners are mention Paul Byrne – Paul is a long-
on Monday 9th December 2 ACC really superb. I must thank Archie, Bill time worker at the RHC and he has
Association members (Mark Harris and Andy for showing us around and supported us, the association and myself,
and Eric lewis) supported by their wives the support they provided for the visit. I in most if not all of the association visits
(Linda Harris and Manuela Lewis) vis- must also thank Andy Lee, for booking to the RHC – thank you Paul.
ited the hospital where the association
joined ex ACC members and 1 ex RLC
(chef) for gift giving lunch and of course
a Christmas drink (or 2).
The 5 ACC and 1 RLC In pensioners are:
l George ‘Archie’ Ferguson
l Leo Grimes
l Laurence Hallam
l William ‘Bill’ Horsburgh
l Eric Waugh
l Andy Lee
On arriving at 1145 hours, we met
the team in the bar where we had a liba-
tion or 2, before we went for lunch in the
dining room – the dining room reminds
me very much of Hogwarts (Harry
Potter films) where we were served a very
good lunch. The food here has improved
dramatically over the last few years.

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