KEITH NOTRIDGE

HAS ANY MEMBER GOT CONTACT WITH KEITH ie Lastest email address..phone number or his address. i have lost contact and his email is being returned.Keith last logged on to his SITE on 2nd MARCH.I HAVE LEFT HIM MESSAGES BUT NO REPLY..JUST HOPE HES OK

REGARDS DEREK

ID CARDS

Veterans win fight for cards
Four million former servicemen and women are to be given veterans' cards to ensure they get priority treatment for NHS healthcare and housing, and discounts for services such as transport.

The Ministry of Defence plans to introduce the cards at the beginning of 2010, The Independent has learnt, in an attempt to begin repairing the damage done to the military covenant between nation and armed forces under New Labour.

The launch is expected to be formally announced this autumn with the first veterans' cards handed to new armed forces leavers in spring next year, before being rolled out to the country's four million former service personnel.

The aim is to ensure that those who have risked their lives in combat get front-of-the-queue treatment and financial benefits. Similar systems in the US and France offer veterans subsidised travel and discounts from private companies.

At a time when the armed forces have been stretched to breaking point in two bloody conflicts, there has been mounting anger that the priority treatment promised by the Government 18 months ago has failed to materialise. "We now need to make it happen," the Defence minister Kevan Jones told this newspaper. "We will provide veterans' ID cards so the person can say 'I have served in the services' and get priority access to treatment." Mr Jones spoke in response to this newspaper's campaign to get better mental health treatment for traumatised troops, launched after the Victoria Cross winner Johnson Beharry – the country's most decorated serving soldier – revealed his own combat-related trauma and urged the Government to stop failing his fellow soldiers with sub-standard or non-existent care.

Lieutenant General Sir Freddie Viggers, who until last year was Adjutant-General in charge of personnel, welcomed the veterans' card. "It is about value and self worth, not about a piece of plastic," he said. "We carry these cards for the whole of our service and when we leave we are required to hand them in. Psychologically, it is a bad thing. It is a little bit of plastic but it represents who you are and what you did."

The Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, former commanding officer with the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment, said: "It is about bloody time. At last, a reasonable, sensible minister [Mr Jones] who listens to ideas from across the political spectrum."

The categories in the Forces Discount Scheme currently include some retraining, sports clubs, childcare, insurance, holidays and travel.

Veterans and senior soldiers have called on the Government to acknowledge a predicted "explosion" of traumatised troops from recent conflicts and provide specialist mental healthcare. "No one is suggesting there is not a problem," Mr Jones said, "but we need a grounded debate to understand it."

He admitted that many former servicemen were "lost" in the NHS system and vowed to ensure every GP was made to record whether or not a patient had served in the forces.

However, he refused to concede that former service personnel needed separate, dedicated care and risked the wrath of charities by suggesting they should fund provision of military health advisers. "Combat Stress [the charity] gets £3m of taxpayers' money. I don't think the Government should do it all. It is not about money. It is about the system working better."
Source: The Independent.


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The Forces Reunited Team.







Military Shop Discounts

Regimental Plaque

HI ALL

can anyone suppy me with a photo of the royals Regimental Plaque as i am trying to get one made as i have had no luck on the internet

thanks

steve wood

Photo Album 2009-03-24

FEW FAMILY PHOTOS

HUDSON RIVER

THE GUY DID A GREAT JOB

What Is Your Real Age?

Take a look at this website, be honest with your answers, you could be in for a shock.    I have just put the house up for sale.

 

http://www.sonnyradio.com/realage3.swf

Royals in 59/60

A couple of photo's of our time in Sharjah & Aden.

Ted Ayles mined Ferret & 5th Troop

Voice from down under

Helloooo......it is I....yes Jenny Bob...just letting you all know that I am still around, alive and full of mischief as ever.  I'm still renovating and that is keeping me busy and out of trouble but I find I am becoming grumpy and fed up with it all.  Must say though, it is all looking good and once finished I'll feel good about it.

Well that's it from me at the moment.....you all know that saying "no rest for the wicked" so it's back to work for me ....lol.

Jenny Bob

Reunion hotel price increase

Reunion hotel price increase Mar 18, '09 7:25 PM for everyone Got a call from the hotel in Staffs today informing me that room prices will increase to £66 from the price that was quoted,  a lot of hotels are cutting prices,   is this lot taking the the mickey or what,   for fully booking the hotel they should be giving a BIG DISCOUNT ,should we call their bluff and threaten to cancel if they don't keep to the price that was quoted at the beginning,what do you think,    I  for one don't like being screwed. Michael  Henchion.....(Paddy)

FEW PHOTO,s TAKEN DURING ONE OF MY TOURS OF DOWNUNDER

St Patrick"s Day

Happy St Patrick"s Day to one and all.
Good Health.
M  Henchion   (Paddy)

PHOTO,s from JIM HARRIS DOWNUNDER

Just hope i got them all ok...img050 of course its JIM

9/12 lancers march in leicester

google[9/12 lancers march through leicester]this is how it should be.well done

Spelling, or is it speling...?

Doesn't bother me how or what people write - so long as I can understand it!
This site does give a spellchecker, I've never used it, but here's something I found on the Web:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

My Spell Checker

I halve a spelling checker,
It came with my pea see.
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I dew knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait aweigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the era rite
Its rarely ever wrong.

I've scent this massage threw it,
And I'm shore your pleased too no
Its letter prefect in every weigh;
My checker tolled me sew.

So you see - nothin's perfect...!

DAVID JACOBS

David welcome to the BB i remember you well. hope you find your way around the Site ok.any problems email me

regards DEREK LEESE

aden

Governors escort, 1960

Cedric's Pictures

4th Left;Ken Morley medic

MIKE POUGH,s SPECIALS

JIM AND HELENE MEIKLE

HAVING CHECKED FOR A WELCOME TO THE BB MESSAGE FOR JIM I FAILED TO FIND ONE.LOOKS LIKE I MADE A COCK UP ON THIS ONE,,SORRY SO JIM AND HELENE WELCOME TO THE BB.IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS THEN EMAIL ME

REGARDS DEREK.

 

football

football team in Sharjah

INSPECTION TIME

Jims layout

Photo Album 2009-03-12 #2

Photo Album 2009-03-12

GEORGE AND ME

MORE MIXED PICS

Skin Deep.htm

Photo Album 2009-03-10

Ginger (scouse) Dickinson.

Does anyone remember Ginger Dickenson?  He could be seen and heard every night making his way back to his tent from the NAAFI in Fanara with a belly full of Stella, with a loud rendering of Maggie May. He was in B sqn. He had a turn in his eye and claimed to be a Scouser. In fact he was from Leeds but lived in Liverpool before joining the Royals.When we were in Germany i happened to go on leave the same time as him.Going back off leave i bumped into him at Liverpool Lime St station.By the time we got to Euston stn ( 5 hrs ) we were well oiled. We were in Euston half an hour before we realised we were there. Walking along the platform we spotted the steam engine.Fancy driving this back to liverpool says he, ok says i. After shoveling coal and pulling the whistle and making a terrble noise the MPs arrived and carted us away, spent the night locked up, dont know what happened to Dicko. Got back to Wesendorf a day late and up on COs. I made up a cock and bull story and got away with it.   Mike pugh.

ANOTHER FUNNY

DENIS SOWERBY AT HIS BEST

VERY FUNNY

MY WIFE LIKES THIS ONE.TOLD ME TO WATCH MYSELF

Sgts mess

The Lido Fayid

50 years between them. Any one recognise The Lido, Fayid, Suez Canal Zone ?

Photo Album 2009-03-07

JOHN AND MARGARET LOUCH

LOOKING GREAT JOHN

FEW MORE OLD PHOTO,S

THESE PHOTO.S HAVE BEEN SENT IN BY ALAN ASHDOWN PITY HE DOES NOT HAVE A COMPUTER AT THE MOMENT
REGARDS DEREK

RSM Nobby Clark

I know who the central figure is but does anyone know who the other 2 Royal Dragoons were? I have to admit they do seem familiar but remembering that I did not join the Regiment until 1966. Bandrat

OUR ROYAL COLONEL IN CHIEF

This photo was again taken at Chester in December 1950 & although there is snow on the side the paradeground looks clear - someone was very busy! Beside the King is the commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Roderick Heathcoat Amory - I do not know the name of the officer with his back to the camera. To my knowledge I have nver before seen this photograph. The other officer I believe is the King's ADC, who was from the Greys. Bandrat

ON Parade

This photo was taken certainly taken at Chester on the occasion of the visit of King George VI on 5 December 1950. It was a very cold day & there was snow about but! Notice the gaiters & battledress & the cloth divisional sign above his monkey & cloth stripes. I have not yet been able to identify the NCO perhaps someone can help? Bandrat

Royal Dragoons

Can anyone provide some info regarding this photo - obviously some important parade but where & when & does anyone recognise the Corporal? Regards Bandrat