2026 Newsletter
Featuring: The Chairman’s Letter; The Hereford Military Veterans Choir; Remembrance Sunday at Pangbourne; Families at the Chapel; A Chelsea Pensioner’s Tale, An old soldier & an old nurse; Chapel Trust News; Falkland News – New Governor; Falklands launch new banknotes; The Black Eagle Monument; Book Reviews and News; Annual Service 2026 Date & Chapel News.
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2025 Newsletter
Featuring: The Chairman’s Letter; An historic day for Hereford’s SAS; A day for Daryl in February 2024; Alan’s Garden of Remembrance; Annual Service 2024 in Images, Farewell Ann; Royal Marines return to Ajax Bay; Memorial Garden Update; A sunny day to say goodbye; Chapel Leaflet for visitors; Oliver Knight – a man who likes a challenge; Book Reviews; Annual Service 2025 Date & Chapel News.
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2024 Newsletter
Featuring: The Chairman’s Letter; HMS Hermes at the Cenotaph; New Access to SAMA82 Garden of Remembrance; Forever Remembered in the Falkland Islands; Prayer for the year, The Blessing of the Map; Annual Service 2023 in Images; The Chapel Remembers – SAMA members reunite in the Chapel; Remembering Robin; Denzil Connick BEM; Reflections on a Time Well Spent; Tribute to the Chapel’s Friends; memorial Garden Update; Book Reviews; Annual Service 2024 Date & Chapel News.
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2023 Newsletter
Featuring: A Tribute To Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 2nd; The Chairman’s Letter; Alastair Bruce retires after 22 years; Prayer for the year; Trustees Welcome new Trustee; Gus Hales’ 40th Anniversary Cycle Ride; Paul Hailwood Rides in memory of brother Chris; A Flying Visit; 40th Anniversary Day of Remembrance – A Truly Wonderful Day – 12th June 2022; 40th Anniversary – HRH meets bereaved families and veterans; Scots Guards Contribute to Chapel 40th Appeal; 40th Anniversary Visitors – 29 Field Battery Group visits Chapel; Nicci and Denzil on BBC Wales!; Memorial Garden Transformed; Chapel News – A Floral Christmas Extravaganza; Appeal – Help for Hymn Books; News from the Falklands – City Status for Stanley; The Princess Royal re-visits the Islands for the 40th; A New Governor for the Islands; Annual Service 2023 – Annual Service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving Sunday 11th June 2023; A Fearless Encounter; Book Reviews.
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2022 Newsletter
Featuring: The Chairman’s Letter; Annual Service 2021; Old Pangbournians Reunite; A mission of Remembrance; The Memorial Garden Grows; Prayer for the year; Chapel Trustees Reflections…..40 Years on; The Families – A pilgrimage in 1983; My Memories by Stuart Leeming; Ray Poole: A Brief Recollection; Four Decades of Wildlife Conservation; Looking Forward at Forty; Commemorating the Fallen in the Falklands; Falklands Books; 40th Anniversary Service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving Sunday 12th June 2022; Falklands War 40th Anniversary Memorial Ride; New Chapel Friends leaflet; HMS Exeter – Falklands Remembered;
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2021 Newsletter
Featuring: The Chairman’s Letter; Prayer for the Year; Memorial garden to be enhanced; Appeal to remember ‘the Tumbledown Nine’ is a resounding success!; A Virtual Service and a great team effort!; Challenging times for the Reverend ‘Farmer David’; Thank you AFC!; Editor’s Note; It’s music to our ears; Keeping Standards High; Proud to serve again!; Gosport Veterans busy in the community; Crestfallen? Not a bit of it…; the Calm before the Storm; Jane does her bit for the NHS and RBL; Remembering the six: Foxtrot 4; A Moving Story; A life-saving gift for Stanley Hospital; From little acorns, a nationwide lifeline was born; the Falklands War – There and Back Again, The Story of Naval Party 8901, book review by Robin Brodhurst; Annual Service 2021 – 13th June.
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2020 Newsletter
Featuring: The Chairman’s Letter; We will remember the Tumbledown Nine; Thank You Flower Ladies; Prayer for the Year; A Fearless Tale – June 2019; Annual Service 2019 – Thirty Seven Years on; Conservation thrives in the South Atlantic; Sukey Cameron MBE – A praiseworthy life’s work; Across an Angry Sea; the SAS in the Falklands War, book review by Robin Brodhurst; Annual Service 2020 – 14th June.
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2019 Newsletter
Featuring: The Chairman’s Letter; Prayer for the Year; BZ The Fisgard Association; Alan’s War Diary; A Welcome Legacy; Remembering A Very Special Doctor; Captain Martin Reed Recalls; Another Day To Remember; Tenacious Doctor Cathy!; The Falkland Islands, A Treasure In The South Atlantic by Angela Perry; Book Review: Our Boys, The Story Of A Paratrooper; Annual Service 2019; GDPR; Footnote: Sudden Death of Gareth Jones, Photographer.
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2018 Newsletter
Featuring: The Chairman’s Letter; A Magnificent Floral Extravaganza!; 100 Years of Pangbourne College; An Extraordinary Day; 35 Years Royally Remembered; Memories Rejoice In Tomorrow’s Promise; Jean’s Emotional Journey To The Falklands; A Wonderful Gift!; Remembrance and Reunions; The Veteran (Poem); Prayer For The Year.
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2017 Newsletter
Featuring: The Chairman’s Letter; Thank You; Window Restoration Fund Appeal; 35th Anniversary Annual Service news; A Special Place For Us And Ours by Major General Julian Thompson; Friends of the Chapel; Annual Service 2016 Photo Spread; 35th Anniversary Reunion of 3 Commando Brigade Air Squadron RM news; Facebook Group news; Return To The South Atlantic For A Holiday Of A Lifetime by Rear Admiral Jeremy Sanders; Prayer For The Year by Reverend Neil Jeffers; The Queen’s Birthday Parade Trooping The Colour book review by Robin Brodhurst; 100 Years Of Floral Tributes; Falklands Charity Looks For Support.
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2016 Newsletter
Featuring: The Chairman’s Letter; Families gather to say goodbye; SAMA comes to the Chapel; Anthony Hudson – A man of vision; Prayer for the Year; Annual Service 2015 report and photo spread; Memories of ’82 – Sandy’s Story; Captain Martin Reed journeys down memory lane; Friends for fifty years; Book review: Among Friends, the Scots Guards 1956-1993; Tan Strong – A floral masterclass of delight; A Hero, poem by Irene Kinsella.
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2015 Newsletter
Featuring: The Chairman’s Letter; New FI Governor visits Chapel; Pangbourne students expedition to the Falkland Islands; Lord West becomes President of the Falklands Chapel; Annual Service 2014 report and photos; The Falkland Families Association to close; Bob’s done it again!; Caring for your Chapel; SAMA Garden of Remembrance; Prayer for the Year; Book review: Bearskins, Bayonets and Body Armour, The Welsh Guards, 1915 – 2015; Annual Service 2015.
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2014 Newsletter
Featuring: The Chairman’s Letter; Annual Service 2013 report and photos; We Shall Remember Them, Admiral Sir John ‘Sandy’ Woodward, Captain Mike Barrow, Baroness Thatcher; HMS Hermes Memorial Stone is laid; HMS Glamorgan Memorial Bench is unveiled; 2013 Elizabeth Cross presentations; Annual Service 2014 announcement; Intrepid Bob’s canoe race challenge; A truly international Christening; NMA launch Paving Appeal; Thank you for supporting the Chapel; Prayer for the Year;
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2013 Newsletter
Featuring: The Chairman’s Letter; SAMA(82) remembers the fallen with an inspiring service at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, complete with a song from Kathryn Nutbeem and a Vulcan flypast; Ray Poole reflects on a family’s perspective on the loss of his son, Gareth; a plethora of Elizabeth Cross presentations with photos; a prayer for the year by the Reverend Neil Jeffers; a report from the 30th Anniversary Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance with photos; an announcement about the 2013 Annual Service; a report of an Autumn Service to present Elizabeth Cross’s to HMS Ardent relatives.
Plus: Anchorites donate £5000 to Chapel Fund; report from a Flower Guild event with photos; report from a Wives’ Fellowship Day at the Chapel with photos; a book review by Robin Brodhurst; and, sadly, an Obituary of Sir Rex Hunt.
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2012 Newsletter
Featuring: the Chairman’s letter; the SAMA82 Falklands War Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas; HMS Glamorgan Falklands Association; Floral Art demonstration; Presentation of Elizabeth Crosses to three more families; Prayer for the Year, by Reverend Neil Jeffers; Last call for annual service 2012; Photo report on the 2011 Annual Day of Remembrance and Thanksgiving; Honour the Fallen – perspectives from:
- Sara Jones, CBE – President of the Falkland Families Association and Trustee of the Chapel Trust
- Sukey Cameron, MBE – Representative, Falkland Islands Government
- Commodore Andrew Cameron – Combat Stress
- Ann Townsend – Mother of Neil Grose 3 Para
- Colonel Piers Storie-Pugh OBE TD DL – Chief Executive, The Not Forgotten Association
- Lt Gen Sir John Kiszely KCB MC – National President, The Royal British Legion
- Mike Bowles – Veteran and Chairman of SAMA 82
- Commodore Barry Bryant CVO RN – Seafarers UK
- Dr Hugh Milroy – Chief Executive of Veterans Aid
Plus; Book review by Robin Brodhurst, Head of History, Pangbourne College; Craig Island in memory of Private Craig Jones; Refurbishment of the Chapel Forecourt; and, £3000 raised by the Falklands Shield Golf Tournament.
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2011 Newsletter
Featuring: the Chairman’s letter, a full report on the 2010 annual service, and on the presentation of eighteen Elizabeth Crosses, a prayer for the year by Rev Brian Cunningham, a report on the Flower Arranging Masterclass in June, a visit by a group of 50 Falklands veterans from Patriots UK lead by Denzil Connick, plus: the best letter of the year, the new Falklands Governor visits the Chapel, SAMA(82) plan a memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum, nineteen seats sponsored “In Memoriam”, Freemasons hold a service, Nicci Pugh’s book White Ship Red Crosses reviewed by Robin Brodhurst, and arrangements for 2011 annual service.
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2010 Newsletter
The bumper 2010 edition of the newsletter features: a letter from the Chairman, a full photo spread and report of the 2009 annual service, information about the 10th anniversary service, news and pictures of the Memorial Room refurbishment, a floral art masterclass, the Harley Riders Club visit to the Chapel, the Isle of Wight Suez Veterans Association visit to the Chapel, the tenth anniversary story of the Chapel by Anthony Hudson, news of the Falklands Shield Golf Tournament, and, comments from visitors about the importance of the Chapel.
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2009 Newsletter
The 2009 edition of the newsletter features a full report with photos of the 2008 Annual Service, a report of the Schools Concert event which raised £5000, a report with photos of the 2008 Flower Festival, and an appeal from Mrs Sara Jones CBE to remember the Chapel Trust in your Will with a Legacy, as well as many other news items and a review of Sir Hew Pike’s book, “From The Front Line”.
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2008 Newsletter
The 2008 edition of the newsletter is still available for downloading and features a full report on the 25th Anniversary Service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving, illustrated by many photographs, as well as a report on the Flower Festival, fundraising efforts and a page of book reviews.
For your copy, please click here to download the 2008 newsletter [pdf 3.6 MBytes].