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Taken from the forum posted by Ian Scott (Please
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Gents,
I have just returned from the ACC All Ranks Weekend at
Lakeside Resort, Hayling Island and bring back some
disturbing news
The AGM of the Association was held on Sunday, 10th May
at Lakeside, this went on for almost 2 hours due to the
Chairman, Colonel Phillipe Rossiter bringing the meeting
up to speed with the future of the ACC Memorial Hall.
The Chairman has been involved in meetings over the
future of the Hall over the past 18 months or so.
Col Phillipe had been informed on Friday the 8th May
that the GOC after much deliberation had taken the
decision to hand over the Hall for use as a Gurkha
Temple! This decision has not yet been ratified by MOD!
It would appear also that the Gurkha's would be carrying
out religious ceremonies in the grounds of the Memorial
Hall which will see the slaughtering of animals...from a
Christian War Memorial Hall to a slaughterhouse by the
GOC's consent
In my personal opinion this is a political decision by
the GOC in light of the recent bad publicity the
Government has received over the status of the Gurkhas
in Britain. The GOC has taken the easy option by not
upsetting his political masters, however, it would
appear that this whole exercise has not been thought out
with any budgetary considerations i.e. The cost to
re-locate the Central Library who currently occupy the
Hall or the dismantling of our Shrine and finding a home
for our memorabilia, some of which is stored in the Hall
...this is a move that will not come cheaply at all.
My view is that this is our fight and it is not over
until it is over unless we as a Corp want to throw in
the towel! You can be assured that centrally this is
not the case and the Chairman will be taking the matter
further with Gerald Howarth, the MP for Aldershot who
has already offered us support.
The Central Library has until April 2010 to re-locate,
those of you interested in keeping the pressure on can
start to "Up The Ante!" I will be contacting newspaper
Editors over the next week to see if they will support
us and I will be writing to the GOC 4 Division
(Aldershot). I'll try and be gentle with him!
I and the ACC Association welcome all the support that
we can muster on this one.
Do you recognise these Pubs
from around the Aldershot area
Sent in by Dave Rushton
Can you put these up on the web site
and see how many people can name what they used to be.
Most of the buildings are the same but one has undergone
a definite transformation. I will publish the list in a
couple of weeks time. Perhaps we can get a few memories
stirring of the times members visited some of these
places, if indeed they dared to enter a few.
I will also send some more photo's of how work is
progressing at St Omer, the Mess has gone now and the
Depot accommodation and Group Catering.
See the rest here
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Me
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