Minutes of the 11th AGM
and Reunion
Burleigh Court Loughborough, 29thMay 2004
The meeting opened at 1115
hours.
The Chairman Jim Husband
introduced the committee and civic guests, the deputy Mayor of
Charnwood, Councilor Jack Moore with his daughter consort and
Arnulf Baumann ex Burgermeister and councilor from
Königslutter.
The Chairman then read out a
list of 28 members who had died since the inception of the
association.
Our President Major General
Peter Baldwin read out the dedication and led the assembly in
a minute's silence.
The Secretary then gave out
apologies for those members who for various reasons could not
attend.
The minutes of the 10th AGM
where distributed for members to read, the Secretary asked for
any questions arising from the 2003 minutes, there where none,
so the secretary asked for a proposal to accept, proposed by
Neil Cooper and seconded by Ted Tolley.
The secretary thanked the
membership for yet again a great attendance then introduced
the President Major General Peter Baldwin who spoke of the
great work being performed by members of the Royal Signals in
all the different fields of engagement from Bosnia to Iraq.
The deputy Mayor of Charnwood
Councilor Moore gave an amusing speech thanking us for the
opportunity to address us and giving us a brief resume of his
commercial and civic career and spoke of the binding
association of Loughborough and the Royal Signals.
Our German guests Arnulf
Baumann and Horst Funke thanked us for inviting them to the
reunion stressing the importance of our association with
Langeleben and Königslutter and inviting us to join them again
next year in Germany. Horst Funke then made a presentation of
a Mug engraved with an image of the Kaiserdom to the
secretary.
Secretary's report: The
Secretary gave details of membership (now 418). then brought
to the attention of the floor a proposal by Clive Inman on the
possibility of a donation to an appeal by the Gurkha Signals
Regiment in view to bringing over to the UK a party of ex
Gurkhas to attend the Remembrance day parade in November to
celebrate their 50th anniversary. The floor agreed
on a donation of £100, proposed by Clive Inman and seconded by
John Rosson.
The secretary then brought to
the members attention a book written by Chris Rundle, an ex
voice op from Langeleben 58/9, who in writing his memoirs used
information from our website and in sending us a presentation
signed copy thanked us for assistance given.
The book has two or three
pages dedicated to the camp and to the importance of the
intelligence gathered by our efforts. He gives us credit in
the dedications.
Treasurer's report: The
treasurer Gerry Kane gave details of our finances and running
costs and of the healthy state of our balance. The report is
in the hands of the committee.
The acceptance of the report
was proposed by John Rosson and seconded by Ted Tolley.
Gerry then told the floor of
the £100 donation from Renate, widow of Phil Wyndham Lewis, to
be used at the evening social to buy wine and to toast her
late husband.
Election of officers for the
coming year: The committee all agree to serve for the next
twelve months and as no members put up for election the
committee where unanimously re-elected for the coming term.
It was agreed that the 12th AGM
and reunion should be held in Königslutter in 2005 and we
should keep to the May/June timescale. We will try to suggest
to the Schützengilde Meister that it would be advantageous for
the town if they could possibly return the festival to this
date to accommodate us.
The meeting closed at 1235
hours.