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Having taken into account the current COVID restrictions that currently apply in the different parts of the UK, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2021 reunion.
The Chairman Nick Butler will be heading up the Fan at 0930 hrs on Saturday the 15th May and he will lay a BAFC wreath on behalf of the Club at the summit.
He will also toast The Fallen.
If other members wish to make their own pilgrimage up the Fan at their own risk please follow the relevant COVID restrictions that will be in place.
As a Club we are not able to accept liability for members safety and well being over the weekend of 14/15 May. Our Clubs insurance that normally covers Fandance will not operate this year.
Update to follow reference Aldershot 10 Miler on the 20th November 2021.
...........................................................................................................................................................The 10 Miler will be held on w/e Saturday 23rd November 2024..................................................................................................................................
Non nobis Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam
A Great Civilization is not Conquered from without
Until it has destroyed itself from within W.Durant
Missed you lot of reprobates............no offence to the Chairman of course (Probats) .
Boris you have seen the scars mate first hand along with the whole of Blackpool. Now back to my old 6 foot instead of 5'!!"
As far as the Fan goes, I am going with my lad in a couple of months when the muscles have got their act together and will see how that goes, but slowly slowly at the moment. They reckon a year will do it, so more than likely next year with you lot.
Now John, I was told by a little bird, that my previous post numbers counted......clearly not.....oh well CROW is what I am got to know your place in life lol
Rab,
Yes mate, just finished the true story of the Battle for Plaman Mapu in Borneo where 34 men of 6 Plt B Company 2 PARA fought off just over 1000 Indonesians with two lads killed in a mortar pit and several wounded.
It has so often been inaccurately written up on Britains Small Wars and Wikipedia, that someone needed to get it right, for OUR Regimental history, and update ParaData and amend accordingly.
So often Patch Williams story has been the only one telling the story, but lads who were elsewhere on the location saw other things that then fill in the gaps, so.................
I interviewed a mortar man SP COY and three riflemen from 6 Platoon last week at Blackpool, and hope to take them back to Plaman Mapu next year, the 50th anniversary and build a cairn to those who died there, and perhaps try once more for a 2 PARA Battle Honour.
It is something I have wanted to get to the bottom of for many years, and it is only when the Major in charge of the Battalion of 1000 men came to Sandhurst 10 years later for an Officers British Military training package as part of the Hearts and minds programme of re education by HMG, and whilst there he admitted the true strength of his force that night.
He had to say he threw a company strength at our lads and lie for many years, because he did not achieve the aim to take Plaman Mapu, but he told his President Sakarno a pack of lies, otherwise he would have been killed on the spot.
Gil, if my posts counted from the previous times, my avatar would probably be a wombat.....lol.
I remember the lads when they came back from Borneo, and some of the plts were re adjusted.
Most went into 4 plt hence the term for 4 plt as "the old sweats plt".
I was one of the lucky ones to be initially transferred from 6 plt to 4 plt.
Basically from the first months of my transfer into 2 para, and I am still in correspondence with a few of them to this day.
Story's I had heard was of course different to what was written, like you say in Britains Small Wars etc.
I for one am extremely pleased that you have been on the case, to put up the truth and prospective of those on the ground.
Excellent work Gil, I cannot wait to read up on the lads real story's.
Non nobis Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam
A Great Civilization is not Conquered from without
Until it has destroyed itself from within W.Durant
Once the lads have agreed its true content, I will let Eric decide what to do with it, as it shows a lot of photos in colour of the location so readers can see what a shithole it was to defend.
Proud of all those in 6 Platoon who were there that day, even though they brushed all the shit down to 5plt then down to us on the ground floor......"Oh no not that old chestnut I hear you all saying lol"
There are men there that day like George A...... Mortars, who should have got an MM for what he did with his barrel/tripod, and others never spoken about before like the attached ACC chef, who for the first time continually put Para Illume's up during the battle and got wounded for his trouble
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