Rise To Remain City Of Vultures RarestThe Project Gutenberg EBook of The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, by Paul Laurence Dunbar This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it. Rise To Remain City Of Vultures Rar FileAfrican Branch News - RLIRAE- Cheetah: July 2. CONTENTSEditorial: Stand by your beds! Apart from traditional troopie lingo, some. The project. is being managed by Mark Adams and the title of the book is. The Rhodesian Light Infantry: From Border Control to Airborne. Strike Force. Nigel Rittey. Whenever troopies. There were. several favourites: When the Saints go marching in probably. Later it became. the official Regimental March. Cocky Lobin provided scope for. Chilaplapa. verses that followed the principal lyrics, while the well- known. Ten green bottles was more rigid. As long as you could remember. Hairier compositions such as T. Turkey’s location, mountains, and its encirclement by three seas have resulted in high terrestrial, fresh water, and marine. Izaka zumba, Daar kom die Alabama. My Sarie Marais, Bobbejaan klim die berg and We are marching. Pretoria, got the South Africans going at full throttle. One of these went: We! There were a few who. Abdul Abulbul Amir in its original. Of course, this simple rhyme lent itself to very primitive. These. will not be printed here. Nat King Cole was a firm favourite. Mona Lisa, Too young. Smile, using voices ranging from superb, through dodgy to. We sang while marching, digging holes, bouncing. RLs, showering, bathing, drinking and just about any. It did a lot for our spirits, but then again. Thanks. to Nigel for his fine contributions to e- Cheetah. Thus, on a cold and drizzly, typical UK day, I left. St Pancras Station in London, armed with sword, Sam Browne. Regimental Museum for the first time! Entering the front door you. I enquired as to Martyn. Still carrying my greens, sand. I go upstairs, open the door and am confronted. AK ! It definitely took me back over. The. walls are adorned with pictures and paintings of Fireforce scenes. COs, Commando groups etc.; glass cases display Rhodesian. The replica Colours. Freedom of the City of Salisbury scroll, Fireforce paintings. MAG and various other weapons, a model. CSM in full barrack dress, other models in greens, camo.
Regiment. The glass. Regimental silver, glassware, crockery, lead soldier. RLI Colour Party and other bits and pieces from. Regiment are all brilliantly displayed. Really, if you want. The third room. still not finished, houses more weapons including gook kit. Fireforce. scene including a mock- up chopper. All in all this is. I. take my hat off to Martyn, Maggie and Neil and their dedicated. Regiment. We continue to talk of old times until I am eventually. London in the early evening. Thank goodness the. What a great day for reflections and nostalgia. Battalion to visit. They. were extremely excited and impressed by our collection of memorabilia. Special Branch will see what they can do for us. They spent almost. RAFA Club. We were even complimented. I was born in Rhodesia! Cindy has said (if she hasn. I am proud of. her just as she is proud of her father and the rest of the RLI. Cindy was born in Salisbury) and is very keen for her son Kyle. RLI. Our appreciation of Cindy. As you see, Cindy is also considering. I thought it would be a good idea if members. Association challenged Cindy. To make it fair I thought. Of. course we would ensure appropriate rest breaks and rehydration. I would like to thank all of you who sponsored. Cindy. Although the swim is over you can still show your appreciation. Martyn Hudson or me. I would also like to thank. Cindy and Moira by. Downing Street, and for those who. MPs by their Parliamentary. Advice and goodwill following Moira. To everyone who helped, a big tatenda. I have done the winter clean- up: Troopie oiled. We have permission from Lord Salisbury to have. Fraser Brown, which will be. Roll. of Honour. On Friday, I visited Tim Calvert at his house here. UK who generously gave us a large donation of his own. It was a very interesting time with him. Ron Reid- Daly to say hello to some of the ouens. Cape Town). The venue was staged at. Fort Ilkapa, and hosted by C Company, 3 Parachute Battalion. SANDF. Thank you to Cassie Castelyn and his crew for opening. Yes, and also. General Coster was there. Good to have seen David Reid- Daly. Pat Armstrong. to represent the greater northern regions. Thank you. to all who supported the event and I am sure Uncle Ron is appreciative. Book Project Launch. On the 1. 0 May the initial. At this meeting the initial team was yours. Mark Adams, Chris and Kerrin Cocks and Rob Marsh. The. title is to be The Rhodesian Light Infantry: From Border Control. Airborne Strike Force. The budget planning has been done. Regiment. Initial. This is an initiative. RLI Regimental Association (. The project leader, Mark Adams, will be. SA AGM on 2. 8 August this year. Publication date. July 2. 01. 1. The team comprises Col. Ian Bate, George Dempster. SA Committee and Gary Huxham. All that should be said at. Commanding. Officers and RSMs. All these men have kindly accepted invitation. Generals. Peter Walls and John Hickman; Colonels Charlie Aust, Ian Bate. Ron Reid- Daly, and RSMs Robin Tarr, Harry Springer and not. Ken Reed. The venue will be at the Swartkops Air Force. Base near Pretoria. More detailed movement orders to follow. AGM. Rumour is that KZN are hiring a double- decker Greyhound. KZN Call Sign up north for. The date of the Reunion is set for Saturday. February 2. 01. 1. Trade Mark Registration. Due to the need to protect the integrity of the RLI book and. Regiment, we have filed for Trade Mark Registration. Ron Wheeldon. who is an attorney. Now we have two lawyers in the Association. Heard now in the corridors. Regimental HQ: . We have little time to build up cash reserves. This is one of the objectives of the Association. So. any income generated on the name of RLI should be for the manne. RLIRA Trust Fund / Registered Charity. We. need to plan now for both the near and distant future to care. Association and, to this end, wheels. Trust Fund / Charity. Also. many thanks to General Leon Jacobs in giving me sound advice. There. was a sad note to the occasion as the meet was also to serve. Chris Pretorius (Sgt- Maj), who. The Selous Scouts Association. Tom Thomas, set the tone for this. Always good to hear the swirl of. Website revamp. The present website is undergoing. The Anniversaries. War Stories, Library and Merchandise pages have already been. This project is now in the. Webmaster, George Dempster, who. AGM. The. agenda will follow shortly by . This is. the time and place to cast your votes (paid- up members of the. RLIRA) for new officer bearers and to have your say in the running. Association. Votes will be in person, online. Remember one- man- one- vote. This is also a party and chance for some reunion. Awards due to members of. SA branch will also be made. Welfare. Ray Pittaway, ex- 2 Cdo, came . General Jacobs. kindly offered the M. The latest is that Jordan. ICU but not out of the woods yet. The wound is still. Please keep a thought for Ray Pittaway. More donations would always be welcome. In among. the worldwide signals calling for donations, our own Papi Bolton. Cdo) has pulled all the . Recently a Pootjiekos. Papi to garner more mullah for. Pittaway and rather than my spewing out rhetoric on this. Papi. Notably, our two biggest donors. Lionel Fourie (R 5. Ollie. R5,0. 00. 0. The general collection brought in R3,6. The. sale of food brought in R5. I spoke with both Lionel Fourie. Ollie. Could. you send a general sitrep from the RLIRA association acknowledging. I would also. like to thank Hux and Debbie for being there, as I know that. Hux's recent operation it took a special effort for him. Ollie also provided a Jeigermeister bomb as a gift. I believe Ollie has. We made our first three R2. The collections for the pooitjie competition. General collection: R3,6. The M. 3) The three sales of the. Saints ring tone. A total of R7. 5. RLIRA account by Ollie. Best Regards. Papi. Bolton. Well done Papi and also to Duncan Waugh. Papi never ceases to amaze me with. Association and helping. Good to have you on board. George Dempster. is busy with this polytone to be downloaded from the website. R2. 5. 0. 0); this is the band version from the. Trooping of the Colour of ? There are a few other . Enjoy this. edition of the e- Cheetah and thank you to Chris Cocks for all. Stay. good Billy Wiggillsecurarm. SA SECRETARY. Plans and. Birthday Bash coming up. Thank you to Ollie (ex. Cdo) for the use of a spacious venue with good facilities and. The. meeting was well attended with Papi Bolton initiating a beer. This was well received. R1,0. 20. 0. 0 was raised with the proceeds. Association. I see the Chairman. Thank. you to Steve Hageman for stepping forward as a contact for Welkom. Steve would like to have a get- together. Once again I am asking. Send to me at chris. Thank you to Mike Upton from Perth, Australia, who sent his. Stu Hammond and. Ian Cameron- Mackintosh are still alive and drinking and also. Perth! Till the next comms, keep safe. Chris Raschris. ras. GAUTENG PROVINCE. I am pleased to say that the monthly Prayer Meeting held every. Friday of the month at Ollie. Please note that anyone. Prayer Meeting is welcome to bring other. At the last meeting (beginning. May), Papi Bolton (1 Cdo) took it on his own initiative to. Again he managed to raise over. R1,0. 00. Papi continues to raise funds for the association on. Papi is. a fine example of a true RLI guy who comes to the aid of his. RLI mates, their families and the association when needed and. We need more members like him to help get the. RLIRA moving forward. After. the last function at Dickie Fritz, Wally from the MOTHS approached. RLIRA members would be interested in joining. MOTHS as their numbers are dwindling and they are desperate. MOTH. I personally believe. MOTHS stand for. . Anyone who is interested in joining the MOTHs can. I will forward the relevant. Possibly we can get a few interested members. RLI contingent)? RLIRA Gauteng Region . The. Colours will be on display. When: 3 July. at 1. Where: Ollie. 8. 00 metres left from Pomona off- ramp. JHB direction.) Secure Parking. Dress. Casual with Commando or RLIRA Golf shirts (Merchandise will. Who: All ex- RLI, families and. All Arms welcome) What: Bring. Braai. Hux (Gary Huxham)0. Cassinga Day Memorial.
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