THE FIRST TWO MEETINGS IN 1991 TAKE PLACE AS DETAILED BELOW, IN THE ATHENAEUM 154 CAMPGROUND RD, NEWLANDS, COMMENCING AT 8 P.M.
NOTE:
BOTH MEETINGS ARE BEING HELD A WEEK LATER THAN USUAL
"OF SHIPS AND THINGS ..... ", a talk by COMMANDER THE HONORABLE MARK TENNYSON who, most appropriately as a descendant of one of Horatio Nelson's Captains, served during World War Two in the Royal Navy. He saw action in a variety of vessels,ranging from motor torpedo boats to destroyers, and was at Dunkirk, on general anti-submarine activities, in the Battle of the Atlantic, etc.
"MILITARY PHILATELY", a talk by MR. R. GOLDBLATT, whom those who were present at Major Phillip Erskine's talk in October 1990 on the 1795 Battle of Muizenberg will remember as the visitor who so interestingly displayed some original letters and other documentaion of the period.
BOTH MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO NON-MEMBERS
SATURDAY 23RD FEBRUARY:
Full-day visit to coast artillery batteries from Signal Hill right round the Cape Peninsula via Hout Bay to Simon's Town, a repeat of the tour so successfully undertaken in October 1988.
Non-members can participate.
For fuller details see the separate notice.
ISSUED BY:
PAUL LANGE VICE-CHAIRMAN
(Telephone nn-nnnn after hours)
CHAIRMAN: MAJOR ANTONY GORDON (TELEPHONE mmm-mmm)