May I draw to the attention of any ex Royal Navy electricians of your readership, that there is a very thriving and fast growing association for them?
The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association is the association to join if any of your readers served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy at any time, at any level, trade specialisation, ship or establishment.
At a very recent reunion ther
e was much talk of old pals and old ship and mess mates. Friendships started on the courses at the Royal Navy Radio, Radar and Electrical Training Establishment HMS Collingwood at Fareham, just outside Portsmouth, and a lot of the members would like to renew those lost friendships.
The main aim of the Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association is to reunite these shipmates and possibly even run ashore oppos from their various ships and shore establishments once they had left HMS Collingwood and their training. This is done via the magnificent website www.rneba.org.uk plus the membership list sent to every member, with regular updates. The website has the latest reunion photos on it.
Remember the good bits, runs ashore, visits, sports, courses and general camaraderie? Have a drink and moan about the bad times, duty watches, roughers, how you were duty patrol on the one-day stop over, missed Liberty boats and the many Green Rubs endured etcetera. Join the Association, receive the magazine, possibly write your story, find your old Electrical Branch messmates as others have done.
How? Via the website or write to me, Mike Crowe, at RNEBA, 7 Heath Road , Lake, Sandown, Isle of Wight, PO36 8PG or mike.crowe1@btinter net. com and please mention this newspaper when contacting me. I keep a list of responses because your old shipmate might just be a reader as well, and you didn't know.
MIKE CROWEThe full article contains 321 words and appears in Peterborough ET newspaper.
