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.................................................................................................................................The next Fandance is Sat 18th May 2024......................................................................................................................
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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........................................................................................
Fook them assegais. When they are coming over the mealy bags and you have fired your one .45 round and all you have left is a bayonet. Must have been rather disconcerting old boy.
"If they control your speech.....they control your life" Me
I read somehere in one of the books Dave .... At Isandlwana they hung the Drummer Boys by the ankles off the wagons and ripped them from crotch to neck. If its true. Could have been Victorian Propaganda. Part of the effort to assuage the Public furor about the debacle of putting the companies out in extended line instead of forming a square or a lager with the wagons. They asked Dabulamanzi, the bloke that took the Impi across the river to whack Rorkes Drift, when it was all over, why it was done. He told them it was common practice to do it to a good enemy. to release their spirits. Dunno if they were already dead or not. Must have been a right old sight as well as a hell of an incentive for the blokes at the following skirmishes / battles.
Here is another bit of a fook up by Eveylyn Woods and Redvers Buller. The Battle of Hlobane. Some of the acts of bravery they did extricating themselves from this clanger were quite note worthy. This is me all time, number one Zulu War action. Best account of this is in "The Washing Of The Spears" by Donald K Morris
Summat ta do wi their belief Tone that by ripping the enemys guts out it kills off the soul or summat, but tha noze these kunts will believe owt the fukkin Ju Ju tells em. Still I suppose a better end than mekkin the poor kunts a used tyre necklace then setting jeremiah ta the fukker!
The Zulu was magnificent though. Can you imagine some pasty 9 stone 19 year old Merthyr Tydfil kid, in the first stages of COPD, because he was down the pit from when he left school at twelve until he took the shilling, to get away from it, at nineteen. He's lookin at doing the Assegai Tango with some gleaming black giant, in his prime, that was raised all his life on roast Wildebeest legs and bull's blood ??? Who just happens to be bearing down on him like a cross between Hussain Bolt and a Taffy Seeking Missile.
You know what was a minor miracle ? They stood their ground. With a just bayonet LOL Then again where would they go ?
Last edited by trubrit2411; 20 February 2018, 22:10.
"If they control your speech.....they control your life" Me
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