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If you are registered to attend the Reunion and AGM in Palmerston North and wish to have a Vegetarian option at the Formal dinner, please let the Secretary know ASAP on RNZA.Association@gmail.com.
Thank you for a very interesting Home Page. Gunners are a special kind of people. The two great Russian authors Leo Tolstoy and A Solsjenytsin were both captains in the artillery.
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From Graeme Black:
It is my sad duty to advise that Roger has terminal cancer. Contact is - 14 Hillcrest Drive, Palmerston North, or email Roger . . .
478684 Russell Graham LALICH ex 161 Bty SVN, passed away at Middlemore Hospital , Auckland , on Monday 2 September 2013, aged 67.
A Requiem Mass was celebrated at St Anne’s Catholic Church, 126 Russell Road, Manurewa, Auckland on Thursday 5 September 2013.
I have made extensive inquiries about D E Pearson, including putting an item in NZRSA's Lost Trails recently, which so far has had no bites. This is what it said:
Found item for D E Pearson (6 LAA Regiment) or family: I would like to be put in touch with anyone who knows or knew Second Lieutenant D E Pearson, who served with New Zealand forces, 6 LAA Regiment, 1951-56. I have discovered a memento which I would like to return to D E Pearson or his family.
The memento I have is a . . .
The function will be held at Custom House, 18 Fryatt Street, Dunedin which is a restaurant situated on the harbour’s edge.
We have been given an extension to the date that Registrations close. The Registration cutoff date is NOW Thursday 12 September 2013.
From Angus Rivers:
I am sad to advise that Graeme has been suffering for some years from complications in his lungs. Julia reports that . . .
From Graeme Black:
Bevin has now moved back to Matamata, to Pohlen Hospital, 56 Rawhiti Ave, 078819100. I have passed on all previous greetings to Lyn. Please contact her direct, or send Greeting Cards to Pohlen Hospital.
From Lin Culhane:
Open Letter to CO 16 Field Regt
Dear Lt Col Weston
On behalf of the RNZA Association may I thank you and your Officers, Warrant Officers,NCOs and gunners for hosting us on Exercise Ben Cat at Waiouru on Saturday 17 August 2013.
The day was once again truly memorable; the weather was typically Waiouru, sun shining one minute and rain, wind and cold next . . .
KINGI, Whangaroa Haunui Dennis (Kare). F479095. RNZA. Passed away at home, 14 August 2013, aged 65. Kare will lay in state at Waingaro Marae. Service to be held on Saturday 17 August, 11am.
From Graeme Black:
Bevan is a 161 Bty Vet and he was RSM 16 Field Regiment. Bevan has been suffering ill health for a while and the doctors cannot really pin down what it is. Originally suspected as an onset of dementia and Parkinson's Disease, they are now not sure.
Chris Turver was there when tragedy struck. Now he looks back on his time with 161 Battery in Vietnam . . .