The Unit's Queens Colour - featured in the Daily Mail

Congratulations to eagle -eyed Centarian Bill Hintze who saw this in yesterday's Daily Mail (18th May 2013)

Hi, Everyone,

I just was catching up on reading yesterday’s Daily Mail and was looking through the Queen’s Coronation Special magazine with the paper and as I got to Page 7 there was a photo of loads of people, as it said in the caption, “painstakingly hand-painting official flags and banners”.  Well, in the foreground there was the Unit’s very own Queen’s Colour part-way through completion; clearly seen in the centre decal is “Christ’s College CCF” surrounded by “Duke of Cambridge Own Middlesex Regt”.

I really couldn’t believe what I was seeing.   What a coincidence the Colour was photographed along with all the other Coronation flags etc.  I think it was taken at Edgington’s flag factory at Sidcup, Kent.

Bill 

The 2013 CRA Dinner

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This year's CRA Dinner will be held at Southover on 7th June.

Invitation letters will be sent in the post towards the end of March but it will aid planning (and cost!) if members respond to the email invitation sent on the 9th March.

For convenience, the invitation letter can also be downloaded directly from the CRA website or via the link below.

http://www.zen113982.zen.co.uk/cra/Dinner2013.pdf

This year, following extensive discussion, we are extending the invitation to the wives and partners of Centarians and we hope that this will encourage greater attendance levels. We will also be reducing the number (and length) of speeches in order for the social nature of the evening to come to the fore.

If you haven't attended a CRA dinner for a while, this may well be a good year to return.



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Ricochet 2013

Dear Members

We are intending to produce the next edition of our Association magazine "Ricochet" in time for the annual dinner on 7th June.

I'm sure you know that any magazine is only as good as its content and that club and association magazines such as ours rely largely on its membership for content.

So I'm writing today to ask you to put pen to paper (or these days fingers to keyboard). 

We would like to hear from you if you have any news that might go in "Notes and Jottings" or maybe a longer article that will stand on its own.  This might be recollections of your time in the cadets or during any form of military service or a more recent trip or visit with a military or similar theme or any other subject which you think might be of interest.

Photographs, drawings and cartoons are always welcome. 

We can receive material by email or post and can copy any original photos or negatives, etc which will then be posted back to you.

We would like to receive any material by Easter but our very last deadline would be the first week in May.

Please do not ignore this request and simply delete this email in the assumption that "someone else will produce something".  Remember if we don't get any articles we won't be able to produce our magazine.  Its up to you - our members.

Thanks in anticipation.

Look forward to seeing lots of you at  our dinner on 7th June,

Regards

Mick Crick

(Chairman & Magazine Secretary)

CRA Dinner 2012

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The invitation letter for this year's dinner can now be downloaded from www.c-r-a.org.uk

The dinner will be held on 8th June at Southover and this year's event promises to be the best ever with some very distinguished speakers lined up.

Information will be circulated by post and email, on the CRA website, Facebook, Twitter and of course here on our blog.

If you haven't attended a CRA dinner in a while, make this the year of your return. Timings are slicker these days and you are guaranteed an enjoyable evening in good company.

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CRA Dinner 2012

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This year's dinner will be held at Southover on the 8th June. Please make a note of the date. Further information will be published shortly.

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Photographs from yesterday's highly successful 100th Anniversary event at Southover can now be viewed on Facebook (you do not need to be a member of Facebook to follow the link)

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.338261189534072.99385.100000505813333&type=1&l=c9119ba12a

The images are compressed for the web, if you would like a full resolution copy of any image to print at home or take to a photo processor, please contact Terry Gibson.

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100th Anniversary Celebration

Sunday 11th December will mark the 100^th Anniversary of the Official Formation of the Cadet Unit at Christ’s College, Finchley in 1911 following its earlier creation as a Rifle Club in 1904.

This will be marked by an informal gathering at Southover on that Sunday afternoon commencing at 2pm with tea and light refreshments being served at around 3.30. We anticipate it being completed by around 5pm.

All Centarians and their families and friends are invited to attend and meet up with their former colleagues for an afternoon of reminiscences.

And if you have any historical artefacts or photographs that we might photograph or copy for the Trust, do please bring them along.

There will be a comprehensive display of archive material from the Stockdale Trust.

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