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The meeting started at 1115 hrs.
Introductions by our Chairman Jim Husband who
then read out the Roll of Honour followed by one
minute’s silence. The Chairman then introduced
the Secretary who gave apologies for those
members who for various reasons were unable to
attend.
The Secretary then asked for acceptance of the
minutes of the 14th AGM which all members
hopefully had read, acceptance proposed by Dave
Burnage and seconded by Jim Jones.
The Chairman then introduced the President Major
General Peter Baldwin who as always raised the
tone of the meeting with his facts and wit.
The Treasurer Gerry Kane was introduced and gave
the annual financial report with the breakdown
of income and expenditure on both the General
and memorial funds giving a joint closing
balance of £6,188.46, mainly due to the
generosity of member donations towards the
memorial fund. The memorial fund at the present
time now exceeds £5000, helped greatly by the
collection at the funeral of member Paul Fildes
who died in March and generously donated by
Paul’s family, (nearly£1000).
Gerry then reminded the members that at the end
of the meeting he would be collecting payment
for the evening’s dinner/dance at £20 per head.
The financial report acceptance was proposed by
John Plaskitt and seconded by Ray Armstrong.
Secretary’s
report in
full is available on the website.
Election
of Officers: The committee all
agreed to carry on for another term and as there
was no applicants from the floor the committee
were re-elected until the next AGM in 2009.
The secretary had previously explained the need
for the vacancy of Assistant Secretary to be
filled after a void of nine years. Paul Croxon
proposed member John Richardson in his absence,
this was seconded by Dave Thomas and on a show
of hands John was unanimously accepted and will
take up the post immediately.
The secretary then introduced Paul Ellis our
designated stonemason who gave a great
presentation full of information and passion and
also displaying actual scale drawings of
the proposed memorial.
After Paul’s presentation a lively discussion
took place and it was decided that it would be
politically expedient to replace the handshake
emblem on the front and back of the memorial
with the crossed flags of the Union Jack and the
German national flag. Member
John (Rusty) Rosson has offered a vehicle to
transport the finished memorial to
Königslutter where it will be assembled and
placed in situe.
2009
reunion. The date of the 2009
reunion has been pencilled in for the week 10th
-17th June after the success of John
Richardson’s meeting with the Königslutter
Schützengilde and their agreement to accommodate
us by changing the date of the Schützenfest to
12th-14th June.
At the end of the meeting the secretary asked
all members to sign the attendance book.
The meeting closed at 1230 hrs.
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