President’s Report 2024
The Association’s AGM was held on 31 July 2024 which sadly saw the retirement of two long serving committee members in Dave Moysey and Jim Nash. Dave was a former Association President and will be remembered for the work he put into setting up and maintaining the new website. Jim was a long-term Vice President, the Association’s Public Officer and ran the regular Facebook quizzes. Both will be missed and leave with our sincere thanks for their contributions.
You can see details of the new committee on the About page of the website. Thanks also to Don McVay who has agreed to serve as the new Public Officer. BRIG John Keefe RFD remains our Patron & I thank John for his continued support and advice.
The new website continues to receive compliments, and I encourage everyone to enjoy the huge amount of history it contains. I encourage everyone to keep your Association membership up to date and to encourage others to be involved. Your membership gives you: • Access to the Association Facebook group • Contact with old comrades • Regimental news • A way to help preserve Regimental history • Invites to the annual reunion and other events • The ability to preserve your old photos and memories on the website Our ANZAC Day presence remains strong (fortunately unlike many other associations) and we continue to be joined by increasing numbers of serving members. I hope to see many of you again for the 2025 march. Remember- if you don’t march, who will?
The Association was involved with the Regiment over past year by again running The Annual Soldier’s Award, with the winner receiving a certificate for a free weekend at the Army Resort “Bulwarra”, at Terrigal. We were also able to assist with proving an amount of artillery and Regimental memorabilia for an historical display predominately at Pymble Depot.
Finally, I would like to thank the Committee for its support and in particular, the input of JB as Association Secretary, without whom the Association would not run.
We now look forward to our 2024 Annual Reunion which promises to be a great night with Regimental news and updates from the Commanding Officer plus an address from another exciting guest speaker. I hope to see you there!
UBIQUE
Steve Flower President