Petersfield Festival – August Bank Holiday!

Fun for public and exhibitors alike! Vehicle owners – SOE and all other clubs – military vehicles are required for Bank Holiday Monday. As we are all people of the utmost integrity the inducements listed at the bottom of the poster will, of course, have little effect … Just don’t push in front of me more »

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Scum hit D-Day Museum again

Following on from last year’s theft of medals thieves have struck the D-Day Museum again. Let’s hope that these medals will also be recovered. Story and photo courtesy of the News:   by Ruth Scammell ruth.scammell@thenews.co.uk POLICE want help in tracking down Second World War medals stolen from a museum. The burglary took place at more »

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Look out for the show flyer!

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Charity for OVERLORD Chosen!

The picture gives it away! Chosen by vote of the members at the January meeting Hounds for Heroes is both a local (Petersfield) and a military charity. It should be fairly obvious what they get up to but for the full story click here.     UPDATE JUNE 1 2013 OVERLORD 2013 is now a more »

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… For Hayling, England and St. George! – Sunday April 21st

Hayling Island celebrates St George’s Day again! And we are invited … Brace yourselves for a nice relaxing day at the seaside, cafes, pubs and chip shops all close to hand. Bring comfortable chairs as the gentle sound of waves breaking on the beach will soon lull you into a relaxing snooze. We have been more »

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Overlord 2013 – planning

Plans are now in hand for OVERLORD 2013, 24th to 27th May. Budgets and broad outlines been set, the key team members ready and negotiations with the various authorities underway. OVERLORD is gathering pace! We have had two very successful years at our new home: The Lawns, Denmead. However, what appeared to be a massive more »

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Communication

What ever happened in the days before the telephone was almost universal? How did the Victorian equivalent of our club ever manage to keep the members abreast of what was happening? Based on recent conversations I am going to have an uphill struggle in getting people to communicate other than by telephone or, in certain more »

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Collaboration

Tank crew statue at Bovington. 5 Individuals doing a job as a team. And I am trying out a couple of tools to make us as individuals better connected. TeamLab is a powerful project management system that several of us have trialled. It may be a case of overkill for our purposes. What I am more »

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Little boxes

I can hardly contain myself – they’ve arrived! This morning, Wednesday November 7th. two tatty containers in need of a certain amount of tlc arrived on an extensible trailer pulled by Danny Mears’ brand new £160,000 DAF. A fair part of the cost of Danny’s new truck, replacing his faithful old DAF, is the HIAB more »

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The return of the DB5

Message received from Nikki Kill (sounds like a Bond Villainess?) Ok folks….. How about a group trip to the cinema in a few weeks to see the new Bond film and maybe a bite to eat afterwards? Was thinking of the Vue in Eastleigh on the 27th oct or 3rd nov ……. Will ask again more »

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Troops Occupy West Sussex Village

Emsworth, West Sussex was sealed off by the military today, Wednesday 17 October 2012 for approximately 2 hours. The streets leading to Emsworth Square were blocked by Army Landrovers while Starstreak equipped Alvis Stormers prowled with the tacit approval of the constabulary. Civilians were kept behind barriers. The reason? 58 Battery, 12 Regiment Royal Artillery more »

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Remembering in November

As the club members are scattered around the Solent area can I urge you all to approach your local Royal British Legion Branch and volunteer the services of yourself and your vehicle for the Saturdays leading up to November 11th? I have done it and will be on Hayling from 27th October, other areas are, more »

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Trying to contain ourselves

Ok, listen up people! We need a willling volunteer workforce for – you guessed it – a bit of compound rearranging. Sat afternoon and Sunday 13 and 14 October. We have a couple of containers arriving. The economics are boring but relevant – storage at Scotland Farm, monthly rental. Containers bought outright. Currently hire van, more »

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Open the Vault

The Vault is a downloadable magazine, a facebook page and a social medium uniting re-enactors and historians with interests in all eras including our own narrow specialisation. To download it click here – it’s the first edition, contains some useful German phrases, some great photos of WW1 replica aircraft and a whole host of information more »

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Events altered by circumstances.

The compound is looking good. But due to an unfortunate intrusion (more unfortunate if we catch the intruders) we need to raise the level of security around the perimeter. Guard towers, attack dogs, razor wire, electric fence, mined area sort of thing. One of these is a probable, the others possibly a flight of fancy more »

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AGM – October 25th

  We have the October meeting partly set aside for the club AGM. It won’t be a dry as dust affair. Promise. But it will be important for you to come along and help decide your club’s future. That is if you are a paid up member – Mr. Edgeley will relieve you of your more »

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Support the badge!

Two events for us with the one theme. Both celebrate the work of the Combined Operations Pilotage Parties who, amongst other things, tested the D-Day beaches for suitability for vehicles some six months before D-Day. 90 medals and citations were won by the 200 men of COPP in just three years. Their base was the more »

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Congratulations !

On Friday, September 7th 2012 Nikki Cook and Matt Kill were married at Fort Nelson. Congratulations and best wishes for a long and happy life together to them both! The ceremony was held in what must have been officers quarters or administrative offices in the front part of the fort looking over the Solent. A more »

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Tattooed

Saturday September 8th – Fort Nelson. Weather fine, previous day’s wedding had gone really well; Nelson’s organisation was excellent. This was slightly different. The tattoo had not been held for a number of years and, since the last occasion there have been many staffing changes at the Fort. We found the event somewhat lacking in more »

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Thanks for the help!

The SOE version of where’s Wally – can you see Captain Evans in the picture above? The compound got a severe trim over the bank holiday weekend – many thanks to those who gave up their time to brave the sun, heat, midges, mozzies, antses, wapses and hornets! The compound is now some 10 feet more »

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