If you are a company and would like to show your support for our troops, then you can advertise on this site. please visit the
advertising page for costings and details.
Your company could advertise in this column, which will be seen on each page.
The price for a link and a small message in this space to advertise your company starts from £300 a year. Not bad considering it would cost at least £300 VAT to advertise in local newspapers per week. This site has been viewed worldwide - from all over the UK, USA, Canada, Germany and even Sweden ....Not forgetting our boys and girls in Iraq and Afganistan!
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advertising page for costings and details.
Your company could advertise in this column, which will be seen on each page.
The price for a link and a small message in this space to advertise your company starts from £300 a year. Not bad considering it would cost at least £300 VAT to advertise in local newspapers per week. This site has been viewed worldwide - from all over the UK, USA, Canada, Germany and even Sweden ....Not forgetting our boys and girls in Iraq and Afganistan!
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This event has been advertised on Kestrel FM - Basingstoke's local radio station
and in the Basingstoke Observer. Also many thanks to the Observer for letting the public know why the event was canceled, and for their support.
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Join us in the celebration, and show your support for all the serving men and women in the British Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy
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Many thanks for Slater menswear for donating £100, the organisers of the event thank you. To get more information for Slater menswear and branches visit the links page
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Thanks to the Basingstoke branch of the ACF for their assistance and support.
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| This Letter was sent to us from Frank Rosier Secretary of the NVA ( Normandy Veterans Association) Dated 11 Dec 2008 Dear Friend I am Frank Rosier .PTE 2nd Battalion Gloucestershire Regt, landed on Gold Beach on D-Day 6th June 1944, was wounded outside of Le Harve on Sept 6th 1944, and spent 4 years in Gloucester City Gen undergoing plastic surgery to rebuild my face. In the case of the way our troops, particularly those who are wounded, can best be described by Rudyards Kiplings poem "Tommy Atkins" written in the 19th century, Nothing has changed, as a young boy running around the streets of Chelsea, I often came across the wounded from the 1st WW, begging in the streets, (though the effect of the war were all around us no one would talk about it). I had my father and three uncles in that war, and two suffered wounds, yet only only one got a war pension, my dad was told he was fit enough to work, so things were hard. Along came the 2 WW, I volunteered at 17, going into the army on 8th Feb 1943, landed on D-Day, and wounded in the September, then spent 4 years in hospital. Others were being demobbed and were told to go home get a job and forget it. Again nobody wanted to talk about the war, this time I think that was because all the children being bombed and evacuated. Two wives being left on their own for up to 6 years, we just wanted to forget it "its the British way" Today we here stories of our boys (what a phrase that is our boys) not being cared for, in in effect since Rudyards Kiplings poem, nothing has changed. In closing I came out of hospital in 1948, I did get a good war disablement pension, but no one from the Army, Government Social services, British Legion have ever asked how am I getting on. I again think that's because my generation, will never ask for help, to proud. But if we can help in any way please let us know. A few of us still collect at poppy time, this year we think we collected more than ever before, so perhaps things are looking up. Yours Comradeship Frank Rosier Branch Secretary |
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