Please Take Note Our
next meeting will be our 20th AGM and will take place at 1230 hrs. on Sunday 18
November 2018, at the Royal British Legion, Central Branch, 33 Rodney Street, Edinburgh.
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Old Comrades
Dinner
XV Para HQ Holdwourth Street, Glasgow
Saturday 20 October 2018 1930Hrs for 2000Hrs.
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Garden of Remembrance Edinburgh.
The dedication service of the Garden of Remembrance at the Scott
Monument, Edinburgh will take place at 1100 hours on Monday 29 October
2018.
Please parade at 1030Hrs. Blazer, Berets,
Medals to be worn.
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Cenotaph Parade London
Sunday 11 November 2018.
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Lothian Branch PRA Dinner Dance
Friday 7 December 2018 1830Hrs
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General Service Medal 62 with Clasp
South Arabia
On 16
September 2016, an e-mail was received from the Army Medal Office saying
that those killed and wounded in Aden in 1965 would be entitled to the
GSM as set out in Special Army Orders of 25 July 1966.
On January
2017 a letter was received from Major General Nitsch CBE to the effect
that the men of 300 Para Sqn RE could not be awarded the GSM
because they had not served 30 days in theatre. However, he went on the
say that the casualties of 300 Para Sqn RE had already received the GSM,
which according to him, was always the case if killed or wounded in
action. No medals had been awarded.
A letter dated 31 May 2018 from
Lord Howe stated that members of 300 Para Sqn RE could not be awarded the
GSM because they had not served 30 days in theatre.
On Monday 18 June 2018 a
letter was received from the Army Medal Office intimating that the GSM
would not be awarded to the casualties of 300 Para Sqn RE because the
squadron was training in Aden/Radfan. It is a pity no one told the enemy
that. This is the first time in all the
letters received from the MoD that the word training has been used. They
must have scraped the bottom of the barrel to find that loophole. They
are now using any excuse not to award the casualties of 300 Para Sqn RE
the GSM. The people in the Ministry of Defence who made this
decision should hang their heads in shame.
1 September
2018.
The latest excuse from the MOD is, because we were not on
the attached strengh of any unit we are not entitled to medallic
recognition. 300 Para Sqn RE was attached to 24 Field Squadron Royal
Engineers whilst at Al Milah but it seems no one told the MOD. Also,
they are making further enquires into the death and woundings of 300
Para Sqn RE personnel. They are again reaching into their barrel
of excuses to find one that will cancel medallic recognition to which
they are entitled under Special Army Orders 1966.
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Renaming
Ceremony Kingsbury ARC to "Lonergan Lines"
12 April 2016.
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The Birth and Early Years
2 Troop 300 Airborne Squadron R.E.
"The Edinburgh Troop".
By D. H. Thomas.
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The History of 131 Commando Squadron Royal Engineers
1947 to
Present Day
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