D-Day - 345
Registrations received 9 - 17 attendees
Rooms reserved 8 of 130 rooms
Boat Tour 2
City Tour 2
Dragoons,
Only 259 booking days left till April 1, 2005. Do you know where your
Registration Form is?
If you cannot find your copy of the Spring 2004 Newsletter with the
Registration Form in it you can download a copy from the Assn Web Site. If
you cannot do either, contact ME and I will send you a copy.
If you are intending to send a "post-dated" cheque please date it no later
than April 1, 2005 if you wish to qualify for the prizes.
As 2005 will be the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Holland we are
considering having a representative of the Netherlands Government at our
2005 Reunion to express the appreciation of the Dutch People for the
Canadian involvement and in particular the contribution of the many RCD
Veterans who participated in the battles.
We, of course, want as many members as possible who were involved in the
battles present at the Reunion Dinner. Our Assn data base does not contain
this info as many members have not listed their medals.
So, my task now is to find out:
a) How many of our members were involved in the battles to liberate
Holland?
b) How many of them will be attending the dinner on Saturday evening?
I wish to solicit your assistance to acquire the names of all our members
who were involved in the battles to liberate Holland. I want the names of
all RCD and attached members including deceased, living and not attending
the dinner and of course those who will be attending the dinner. Depending
on the results of this search our committee will do whatever we can to
provide a proper presentation to recognize their contributions.
Please talk this up at any upcoming events that you may be involved in this
summer as discussions may bring back to mind the name of someone once
forgotten. If this is to be successful it is imperative that we do not
miss anyone. Please give this the serious attention that it deserves. I
do not mind receiving duplicate information so do not assume that someone
else has sent it to me. SEND IT! If you have names now, please send them
and I will start to compile the list while you are searching for more
names.
Please keep in mind that many of these veterans will not have access to
this "means", so I am depending on you to send me their names and for YOU
to inform the veterans that we are planning a special "THANK YOU" for
them. Send me whatever you have prior to end of August as I would like to
have some early information for our next Committee meeting. Chapter
Chairmen, you may wish to include this as an item in your next chapter
meeting.
I will have pen & paper at the ready at the RCD / Armour Corps / Black
Hatter B.B.Q. at Oak Haven, Saturday, July 31 to record any names that you
are prepared to give me.
At some point I will send out the list of names that I have received to see
if you can add anymore to it.
I would like to take this opportunity to remind those of you who have not
given the list of your medals to Terry Seeley to please do so as it will
put valuable information into the data base that may very well come in
handy in the future.
Thank you.
Tom
Tom Horgan
Chairman
Reunion 2005 Committee