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FoREM Section - Executive and Regional Groups and Diary


Executive and AGM      Camberley      Colchester      Medway

Executive Committee and AGM

The Executive Committee comprising of the FoREM officers and the chairmen of the Groups and Specialist Sub-committees meet at the Royal Engineers Museum.

  • Wed 18 Mar 09 - Executive at 1400 hrs
  • Wed 17 Jun 09 - AGM at 1100 hrs - open to all members of FoREM.
  • Wed 17 Jun 09 - Executive at 1400 hrs
  • Wed 14 Oct 09 - Executive at 1400 hrs

Contact FoREM Secretary at: Sec-FoREM@remuseum.org.uk

For more details on Committee members go to FoREM Representatives page.

For details of events at the Museum see the What's on page

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Camberley Group and Events

The group continues to meet on an ad hoc and occasional basis. Needless to say newer and younger blood is urgent needed. Anyone in the Camberley/Aldershot area interested in joining the Group and breathing new life into it please contact the FoREM Secretary at: Sec-FoREM@remuseum.org.uk

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Colchester Group and Events

The evening meetings take place at the Colchester Garrison Officer's Club, St John's Green, Colchester.

  • Thu 3 Jan 08 - 'Early Stages of the Combat Engineer Tractor and Chieftain Bridge layer Projects at MEXE' - John Pyle, Chartered Engineer - Cancelled
  • Thu 7 Feb 08 - AGM followed by: 'Building a Railway-Extending the London Docklands Light Railway under the River Thames to Lewisham' - Ian Page,Chartered Engineer, ex-OC 506 Specialist Team RE - 1830 hrs for 1900 hrs
  • Thu 6 Mar 08 - '1940-46' Vince Senatore, Wartime Sapper and Architect - 1830 hrs for 1900 hrs
  • 15-19 Jun 08 - 'Passchendale Remembered' Tour to Flanders - see more details
  • Fri 7 Nov 08 - 15th Annual Dinner

Contact Group Secretary - Vic Freeman, for further information: vicfree@btinternet.com

For details of events at the Museum see the What's on page

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Medway Group and Events

The evening meetings take place at Command Wing Training Centre in the Royal School of Military Engineers (RSME), Brompton Barracks, Chatham, there is prompt start at 17.45 hours.

  • Wed 6 Feb 08 - 'Old Overland Telegraphs: Admiralty, Military and Commercial Visual Systems' by Ron Bristow
  • Wed 5 Mar 08 - 'Dead Man's Penny' by Ken Neville, a Medway Group member
  • Wed 9 Apr 08 - 'Horatio Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton' by Sheila Boyd
  • Wed 7 May 08 - 'Visit to the RE Museum' - 1700hrs start at the Museum - Calling notice (word 42kb)
  • Wed 4 Jun 08 - 'Follow the Sapper - Medway’s Own' by Brigadier AD Harking, OBE, Commandant RSME - Calling notice (word 42kb)
  • Wed 3 Sep 08 - TBC
  • Wed 1 Oct 08 - TBC
  • Wed 5 Nov 08 - 'Rapido Bridge 1944' by Mr Derek Flippance
  • Wed 3 Dec 08 - Christmas Dinner

Contact Secretary for further information: Sec-FoREM@remuseum.org.uk

For details of events at the Museum see the What's on page


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