From the Editor

Welcome to the summer edition of the E-zine where once again we have a wide variety of subjects covered in our articles.

May I fi rst start by congratulating Arne Bergsand on being elected an honorary member of our association. Although never a Green Jacket Arne compiles both Swift & Bold and the E-zine for me and is an extremely important part of my team. Although Arne spent a considerable part of his life in the UK he is in fact Swedish but to talk with him on the telephone you wouldn’t realise it.

The museum appeal has been an outstanding success and you can read about it in the article by Lt Gen Sir Christopher Wallace. The painting paid for by the London Branch is magnifi cent hanging in the new Kincaid Gallery. Our congratulations go to the London Branch on raising the £10,000 required to commission this.

One of the pleasures of being responsible for both S&B and the E-zine as well as the admin email address is being able to put people back in touch sometimes when they have not seen each other for 30 or 40 years. Sometimes it is a person who has served as attached personnel or perhaps they lived next door to each other but served in different units. I am always pleased to assist in this way and have put several people back in touch with each other over the winter.

Please remember that the reunion in Winchester this year is a week later than normal, if you turn up a week early you may fi nd yourself a little lonely but on the plus side there should be hardly any queue to get served in the Bakers!

Apart from our reunion in July there is also Greenstock to look forward to, the details of which are covered in this edition, please support this event which is organised by the Central England branch.

My thanks go to the editorial team who help me compile this E-zine, Arne Bergsand, Mark Adams, Seamus Lyons, and Ron Cassidy. Look out for the winter edition when more details of our 50th anniversary gathering will be published. In the meantime have happy and sunny summer,

Best wishes

RGJ E-mail Addresses

We currently have just under 1000 RGJ e-mail addresses available to paid up members of the association.

Kevin Stevens

They look like: your.name@rgjassociation.info

If you would like one of these which come with full instructions on how to add it to your own e-mail client please email: admin@rgjassociation.info with your name and your regimental number (which will be used for the password) and I will send you your own RGJ email address within 48 hours.