JULY

RBL Meeting
7th Tourism Committee meeting
8th Tourism and Full Council in evening
9th Beauty treatment on the feet
13th Gig meeting in evening met secretary in morning
14th NALC (National Association) London
15th CPIC meeting evening
17th with Jo oiled Gig Black Ven
18th with Jo oiled Gig BlackVen
20th Twinning meeting
22nd Red Arrows
23rd At Gig shed in the morning
24th DAPTC LCC meet Dorchester AM
24th Met Daughter and grand daughter for lunch at BtheB visit to Gig
25th Chapel
26th Meeting in morning

Various commitments

Went to Monthly Chapel service.Speaker was Stephen Gillam who works with the Dorset Group
Excellent afternoon with the usual high standard of sandwiches cakes and tea.


June 29th Went to London to the Ministry of Justice for meeting of BCAG . Returned in evening for a local meeting COC that is to do with running of the Pavillon on the Anning road playing fields
June 23rd Attended a meeting of the NALC Full Council in London on behalf of Dorset
June 22nd with RBL members and the public attended raising of the flag for Armed Forces Day in Broad Street
June 27th Marine Theatre presenting YLYT Peter Pan and the Battle of the Bands on Saturday June 27th An excellent show with over 40 young people taking part. Long may they continue.

Fossel Festival 2009

Dorset Association Parish & Town Council AGM

Meeting of the DAPTC AGM was held in the Council Chamber of County Hall Dorchester on Saturday 1st November 2008 .

After the Presidents welcome Cllr Ken Cleary MBE, Chairman of NALC gave the opening speech to the members. Details of the Annual report and the election of officers and appointment of representatives for the coming year can be obtained on the DAPTC website. www.dorset-aptc.gov.uk

There was a presentation"20012 Opportunities for Dorset " by Gary Fooks, 2012 Legacy Manaager , and Ken Buchan, Coastal Policy Manager .

"B" Sub Section "L" Battery 1914

This photo was taken in 1914 before leaving for France at the outbreak of the Great War. The Battery was involved in the first big battle of the war and regarded as one of the 10 most couragous battles of the war. It was fought at NERY in France in September 1914 in which 70 percent of the men were killed . The reason I am here is that one of them was my father a survivor second from the left who manned the remaining gun in the battle . There is more to tell about this story
"Action at Nery, 1st September 1914. During the fighting retreat from Mons, battery L of the Royal horse artillery bivouacked by a small town of Nery. Their temporary halt was interrupted during the early morning cavalry patrol warning of the imminent arrival of a large German force cavalry, infantry and artillery, almost immediately German shells began bursting amongst the battery, accompanied by a rifle and machine gun fire.3guns were knocked out before they could be brought into action and two more were disabled soon afterwards, while the British gunners sustained heavy casualties, the remaining no6 gun with a scratch crew manage to maintain a steady fire for some two hours implicating heavy casualties on the Germans until reinforcements arrived , driving off the surviving German units. Three Victoria crosses(one posthumously) and two French medaille militaire were awarded and two NCO,s were commissioned after the action"

I am over looking the Wedding what a wonderfull day

I never had a piece of cake