Our Branch Officers are:
| President |
Paul Chapman |
| Chairman |
Phil York |
| Vice Chairman |
Brian Burke |
| Secretary |
Anne White |
| Treasurer |
Michael White |
| Honorary Poppy Appeal Organiser |
Clare Frost |
| Service & Welfare Secretary |
Deidre McMillan |
| Services & Welfare Caseworkers |
Contact RBL HQ |
| Standard Bearer |
Steve Corcoran |
| Membership Secretary |
Deidre McMillan |
| Recruitment Officer |
Vacant |
| Fundraising (non-Poppy Appeal) |
Vacant |
| Memorials member |
Guy Voice |
| Branch Parade Marshall |
Andy Collier |
| Branch Website |
Vacant |
| Branch Committee Members |
Dawn Sheppard ,Stephen Parker |
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David Evans, Peter Brothers |
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Jackie Hefferhan |
The Northampton Branch meets on the first Wednesday of each month
Any alterations to meeting dates will be via Facebook or at the branch meeting.
Where: The function room at the Conservative Club, Billing Road, Northampton.
Access: Access to the building is by the front door from the car park.
Parking: Amble spaces are available in a private car park at the front of the building.
Cars: No need to register your car.
Time: Meetings start at 7:30pm.
Bar opens: 7:00pm and we meet in the large function lounge.
Format: Very relaxed but with some official Legion business also covered.
We have a "formal" meeting covering Legion and branch business, which follows a guest speaker & illustrated talk (speakers can be guests or our own members).
Previous subjects have been:
- Auschwitz 2015: A personal journey (member)
- Defence of Hong Kong 1941 and the sinking of the Lisbon Maru (member)
- IEDs in Afghanistan: Intelligence, Search and Disposal Op Herrick Sept 10-April 2011 (guest - RE EOD)
- Trooping the Colour - The History and meaning (member)
- The REME Rece Mech's role in Afghanistan Op Herrick Sept09-April2010 (member & guest 118 Recovery Companyt REME)
- The role of the Senior Welfare NCO for 118 Recovery Company (V) REME as 14 members are deployed on operations in Afghanistan (member)
- Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service (guest)
- The New Zealand Wars in the 19th Century (member),
- The Northamptonshire Yeomanry in North-West Europe 1944-45 (guest),
- The selecting and laying to rest of the Unknown Soldier (guest),
- Northampton in 1914 (guest),
- The 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars - From Normandy to Berlin 1944-45 (guest),
- "My service on Arctic Convoys" in the Second World War (member),
- HMS Plymouth under attack and being casualty-evacuated during the Falklands War 1982 (member),
- 59 Signals (Airborne) Squardon Royal Engineers - The Falklands War: UK via HMS Fearless to Port Stanley (member),
- "Boy" Cornwall - the story of the 16 year old VC winner at Jutland 1916 (member),
- The Battle of the Legs - the fight for getting ex-service personnel quality prosthetic limbs (guest),
- My part in Dads' Army and the Army Cadet Force (member),
- The Salvation Army in World War One (guest).
- Overground and Underground - a cavalryman and his career driving trains (member)
- Northamptonshire Air Ambulance (guest)
Directions: The Conservative Club South is in central Northampton and can be reached by entry into the car park at the junction of Alfred Road Billing Road at the traffic lights.
Click here for a google map guide.
