THE 'SUEZ VETERANS ASSOCIATION'
Photographs.
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Photos of events
organised
by Branches and Groups of the Suez Veterans Association. 2009.
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to go to the page of photos taken in 2010.
A photo
taken at the North East Region Christmas Dinner.
Queen
Elizabeth Country Park, Woodhorn, Northumberland. 16th December 2009.
About 90
members of
the Sussex Branch of the SVA, with wives and guests, enjoyed a
Christmas
Lunch
held at
the Glastonbury Hotel, Eastbourne, on the 4th December 2009.
Below are six
photos taken during the lunch.
Reunion
of 33 Coy R.A.M.C. (BMH Fayid) held in Derby.
90
plus members turned up, including QARANC. Two people came from
Canada and one from New Zealand.
Most are now
SVA members.
Left: Brian Webb who came over from
Canada.
Right: Some of the members with the
organiser, Bill Lowe, on the right.
Left: Another group of ex 33 Coy R.A.M.C.
(BMH Fayid)
at the reunion.
Right: The QARANC nurses who
attended.
About
100 members, wives and guests of the Derby and District Branch of the
SVA enjoyed a Christmas Lunch on 1st December 2009.
Below are
six photos taken during the lunch.
The six
photos
below were taken at the London and South East Suez Veterans
Association's
Christmas Lunch
at the Royal
Hospital, Chelsea. 24th November 2009.
Left: Bill Lowe, SVA Standard Bearer, (on
the left), and Ron Watt, SVA Chairman, (opposite him), at the funeral
of SVA Member, Geoffrey Pentecost.
Right: Publicity
given to SV Bill Lowe and an old service colleague when they meet after
50 years.
The text on
the paper says, - "Suez Veteran Bill Lowe meeting his Army pal Alan
Henstall for the first time after 50 years at
a reunion for Suez Vets."
The other
two photos on the paper are of Bill in his Army days and some of the
other Veterans who attended the reunion.
Left: The SVA Memorial Plot at the Garden
of Remembrance, Westminster Abbey, was taken on the Sunday afternoon,
after the
Remembrance Parade. It looks like 55 crosses were placed, which
is a lot better than the 13 placed three years ago.
Right: SVs Tony Tolan and Eric Clayton,
placing a cross on the Suez Veteran's Memorial plot at Westminster
Abbey. Nov. 2009.
The Suez
Vets contingent lined up on Horse Guards and in Whitehall, ready for
the 2009 Remembrance Parade to start.
A group of
Suez Vets on Horse Guards before marching off.
This photo
was received from Eric (Brummie) Clayton who wrote:
SVA 2009,
final part of the march before we 'Right wheel' onto Horse Guards after
paying our respects at the Cenotaph, pic shows Bill Taylor our intrepid
Parade
Marshall leading the way about to give us his 'Suez Veterans -
eyeees right'.
On the Dais
the Salute was taken by Prince Andrew and the President of the British
Legion.
Pleased to
say Bill was back in fine fettle after recent involvement with the NHS
and as usual, much
amusement from the crowds with his Parade ground banter as
we
try to keep
in step. I like to think that comrades we have lost were alongside us,
no doubt many thoughts turned to them when the guns thundered and
during the
silence that
ensued. Good luck lads.
Left: Derby and District SVA Members Liz
Woolley and Evelyn Norton, (in the wheelchair) and Jeff Malone, (SVA
Newsletter Editor)
on Horse
Guards Parade Ground before the 2009 Remembrance Parade in London.
Right: Some of the SVA Derby and
District Group after the Parade waiting for their coach to take them
back home.
The three photos
above were sent in by George Robertson, Area 21 Rep, who wrote:
On 19 August, 34
members/partners of the Scotland SVA Group enjoyed a barge trip on the
Union Canal near Edinburgh.
Guests from the NE
and London Areas attended. We enjoyed a 3-course meal on board and I
recommend this event to all
SVA members.
