FULMAR ASSOCIATION
 
 

The Hotel is now filling up so anyone who wishes to go and stay in the same hotel as the function is advised to book asap.

The reunion is open to anyone who served at HMS Fulmar in any capacity at any time. The prices are as follows:

£68 pp for 1 night, £105 pp for 2 nights and £138 pp for 3 nights.  

There will be a £10 supplement for the weekend to cover entertainment and drinks for the meet and greet etc. (50% discount for full members). Some of you will recognize these as the same as for the 2011 RCH reunion so I believe we have a good deal as the hotel is a lot better than the RCH. There is no hotel in the Area with enough accommodation for everyone so, like 5 years ago some of you will have to make your own arrangements with regards to accommodation.  

The Sherwood Suite can only hold up to 220 people for a sit down meal, (we had 224 five years ago in the Mess), however there is an additional function room next to this called the Westray Suite which can hold up to 80 people. We intend to put the Casino in the Westray with a couple of overflow tables for additional people who wish to attend but not eat. The cost for this will be the £10 supplement. The people sitting on the dance floor tables will also be relocated to this room (or the Bar!!) once the meal has finished so the disco dancers can strut their stuff.

The cost for people in other accommodation but having the Saturday Gala Dinner will be £20 pp. People in other accommodation may elect to have their Friday evening meal in the hotel if they wish. I have asked for a “Stovies Night” and the non resident cost for this will be £7.25. (Both costs exclude the supplement so for example a non resident couple wishing to take the Friday and Saturday meals will pay £74.50 in total).

Hotel rooms must be booked individually by yourselves on a first come basis quoting the Reunion Booking Number which is 1408. You must use this number to get the package price and if you do not quote it you may be told the hotel is full as all rooms are booked by the FAABA against this number. 

Once you have booked please contact myself to book your places on the master list sending me the supplement charge or if in other accommodation, the meal costs and supplement.

Please make cheques payable to the FAA Buccaneer Association and send direct to our Treasurer Les Smith at:

33 ST MARY'S PARK 

HUISH EPISCOPI

 SOMERSET

TA10 9HL 

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Contact details: Dave Clark. No Fixed Abode at present!!!

Mobile 07949 478428 or Email daveclark@faaba.co.uk

For latest information visit www.faaba.co.uk and click the Fulmar link on the Home Page.
 

ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2011
 

 
Click on the image to the right to view or download a pdf file of the HMS Fulmar Association September 2011 Newsletter

   

Hi All, 

 

Please find above the latest copy of the Fulminator newsletter giving details of future events in 2011 and the Fulmar reunion in May 2012. Regrettably holding the event in the WO & SNCO’s Mess was not an option, due mainly to the uncertainty of Lossiemouth remaining open and if (as has proved the case) the proposed new build of the Mess. However the Hotel we have chosen can cope very well with all our requirements, and in fact will actually reduce the overall cost for many people.

 

Can I ask everyone seeing this to contact their Area Representative and confirm their full contact detail, i.e. address inc. postcode and telephone number. If you have an Email address and you have received a copy by post, please let us know your Email address to enable us to contact you through the internet which costs us nothing but time. If you do not have an Email account let us have your telephone number, as we do not usually use the postal system due to the non-recoverable costs involved.

 

We desperately need some volunteers to march at the Cenotaph this year so if you can attend please let the FAABA Chairman Brian Stanley know and book a ticket. The FAABA/Fulmar Associations have been allocated just 24 tickets but last year only two of us attended which showed us up somewhat, as most of the other associations used their full allocation. Even the newly formed Harrier Association managed about 12 bodies. It is nothing like Divisions!!! It is a day of fun, comedy and hip flasks, meeting old shipmates from all FAA associations, and spending half an hour paying our respects to the men who lived and died through all the wars and skirmishes this country has been involved in. After the main march we all go down to the FAA Memorial on the Embankment for a short ceremony and then it’s off to the “Tattershall Castle” which is a floating bar on the Thames. And then the rest of the day is for socialising!

So enjoy the newsletter and on behalf of both the Fulmar and FAABA committees may I wish you all good health, wealth and happiness and we hope to see you at, at least one of the functions on offer.

 

When booking accommodation for the 2012 Reunion at Elgin please do this direct to the: Eight Acres Hotel & Leisure Club, Elgin, IV30 6UL. Tel: 01343 543077. Don't forget to use the booking Number contained in the newsletter above.

 

Yours Aye

 

Dave
 


Following a very successful reunion to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of HMS Fulmar being handed over to the RAF over the weekend of 22/24th June 2007 it was decided that we would proceed with the formation of an independent association away from the Buccaneer association who had organized the 2007 event. This would then open up the membership criteria to anyone who had served at Fulmar in any capacity at any time. As the attendance at the 2007 event was just over 220 it was felt that this was enough of a start to begin to recruit and build up a membership database. With the FAABA members who has served at Lossiemouth included, the membership potential was already in excess of 300 people. Hughie Williams who lives in Elgin has offered to act as Chairman and Dave Clark who is also Secretary of the FAABA has agreed to act as Secretary until the formation of an elected committee at the first AGM which, it is hoped, will be held sometime in 2009. However if anyone wishes to volunteer their services in any capacity in the meanwhile I for one will not object!

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Presentation of an engraved bell to the WO & SNCO’s Mess HMS Fulmar


Dave Clark, the secretary of the FAABA, returned to the WO & SNCO Mess on the 23rd July 2008 and presented WO Dianne McLeish, the CMC, with a beautiful brass hand bell as a thank you to the mess for allowing them to hold this memorable function here. Dave once again acknowledged that the mess had been excellent hosts for the evening and the members of the association had been delighted at having the opportunity to return to RAF Lossiemouth after such a long period. Mr Hughie Williams the Chairman, of the recently reformed HMS Fulmer Association also attended the presentation. The CMC rang the bell to celebrate its arrival and to signal “Toofers” before placing it behind the Top Bar (the old Petty Officers Mess) where hopefully it will be rung many more times by the members of the mess

         

Dave Clark, Diana McLeish (CMC RAF Lossiemouth) and Hughie Williams
 

Fulmar Association Committee

Chairman

Hugh Williams

 01343 541767 williamshugh323@gmail.com
General and Social Secretary Jimmy Gardiner 01343 540472

jamesgardiner73@hotmail.com

Membership Secretary

 Dave Clark 07949 478428 daveclark@faaba.co.uk