Advice from Sommerville Funerals is that the capacity of their venue is 90: overflow can attend outside.

They have also advised that the funeral will be streamed – a link to the broadcast is on its way, and will be posted on the blog and on Facebook.

Kev Loughrey has passed on the invitation below, suggesting that it may be of interest to members of the class. The invitation is a screen shot, so the booking link is here: Click Here

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email from Kym McMillan:

Hi guys,

I was able to escape Canberra last week and coincided a visit to Queensland with the Qld Classmates lunch on the Gold Coast. A great day, and it got me thinking it was about time we also got together again here in Canberra. John McNamara said he’d be in town later this month, so that gave me a target date. Plus it would also be a pre-Xmas gathering.

I therefore propose that we meet for lunch on Monday 30 Nov. John Mc suggested a nostalgia return to the Kingo, and I’ve just confirmed with them that they can take a group that day. So that’s the deal – the Kingo at 12.30 on the 30^th! The Kingo is still offering the ‘cook your own steak’ deal, or the usual pub menu of pastas, salads, burgers etc.

Hope you can join us, so please let me know. I need to confirm numbers the week before.

All the best,

Kym

PS – if you can think of anyone I’ve missed, or any other visitors we might have, please pass on the details and let me know.

Kym MacMillan

M:  0418 295511

Now the challenge: can anyone from Canberra match the Brisbane crew and go the extra mile to stay on into dinner?

Good Evening,

I hope this email finds you well in what has been a tough year for many members of the Society―as it has been for many Australians.

The Society’s second Newsletter of the year is now available. This edition starts with a recollection of Spanish Flu at Duntroon a century ago and at p. 21 the CO of RMC-D, LtCol Rob Ryan reports on the College’s response to COVID-19.  Al Murray (1982) writes of Mess Life 1979-1982 (p.2); Sue Morton (daughter of the CO CSC  1959-1962) provides a kid’s perspective  of life at Duntroon (p.6); Bruce Bond (RMC 1962) recalls Shaggy Ridge (p. 9); and Peter Neuhaus (RMC 1975) reports on the efforts of the Adelaide Branch of the Society to remediate the impact of the bushfires on Kangaroo Island (p. 20).

This issue also acknowledges the passing of Hal Oxley (RMC 1937) at the age of 103, and two remarkable women, Di Lobb (WRAAC OCS 1952) and June Healy (WRAAC OCS 1960), a Fellow of the Society.

The Society has recently had a pure silk RMC tie made by Dege & Skinner of Savile Row. The first order of 100 ties sold out quickly. Now restocked, you can buy one on-line for $75.     

Please consider sharing this email with class mates and like minded friends. 

If you would like to contribute an article for the next edition,  please let me know.

Chris Appleton
Convenor
central@dunsoc.com

Wow what a great two days in my treatment.  Yesterday at 6.30 am I checked into Pindara Private Hospital here on the Gold Coast.  After registration etc I was in a Star Wars like operating theatre with 2 Surgeons, an anaesthetist and 7 technicians plus nurses.  My SIRT procedure had begun. This day was day 2 following  a full dress rehearsal a fortnight earlier.  This dress rehearsal discovered and blocked leaks in my liver and placed stents in the hepatic artery pathway to allow better/easier access. All this to ensure the beads lodged only in the liver tumours.  It also mapped out the plan for lodging beads in the tumours via the artery. 
Just Google ‘SIRT’ for full details of the procedure.  It places millions of radioactive beads directly in the tumours in my liver via a tube inserted in my groin.  This is only possible because nearly all tumours grow in the blood flow of the hepatic artery.  
4.5 hours later I returned to the ward to lay flat on my back for 4 hours with regular groin inspections and blood pressure checks.  After a good night’s sleep and discharge from hospital I was off to a Gamma Ray Camera scan to make sure the beads were in the right place.  They were and the Surgeon was very pleased.  So was I.  
Now for the rough bit.  In about 48 hours they advise I will experience extreme tiredness for about 2 weeks.  I have had no nausea or pain and the Surgeon says they are now unlikely being 24 hours since treatment. In short I am extremely confident of the future.  
Full strength Chemo starts again in a fortnight after effectively a 5 week break for the SIRT procedure. I will have now blood tests fortnightly to monitor progress with a scan at 8 weeks to see the actual shrinkage achieved. The full affects of SIRT will be evident in 2-3 months. I am super confident of a very good outcome.  
Regards to you all and many thanks to the many of you who have contacted me over this rollercoaster journey.  Your calls and visits are much appreciated I can assure you and give me a huge boost.  Mates forever. Callo

An email from Peter Martyn is subtended. It is probably mostly directed at Sydney classmates but I’m sure attendees from other areas would be equally welcome!

Hello Classmates,

As you are no doubt aware we have so far this year missed two of our quarterly get togethers. Our third gathering is rapidly approaching with no relief in sight from the COVID restrictions on numbers able to gather.My short msg about a virtual gathering received a resounding positive response.So it will be a virtual gathering next Thursday, 20 August starting at 1630. Take the time now to select your favourite drop and have on hand when we gather.This account on ZOOM is purely social which means that a session times out at 40 mins. Tho overcome that restriction I have set up two 40 min sessions one commencing at 1630 and the the second at 1730. That means you get a 20 minute comfort stop in the middle to empty one container and refresh the other.ZOOM recently made some security changes, which on some occasions you may require the password to enter the session, so before you commence logging in write both session passwords on a scrap of paper.You will be able to log on before the start time, however all will first enter a waiting room where I can admit you to the session. I think this removes the need for the password.Everyone will be on mute so that background ie, wife, partner or mistress as well as extraneous bodily and animal noises, are suppressed. When you wish to speak just press the SPACE bar on your keyboard to speak.Something like the pressel switch on a 25 set. Remember the chook SME, WO2 Anderson’s?, gee wasn’t he an old guy, ratel lessons down in the sig wing.

Press the Pressel / SPACE bar to speak.

Peter Martyn is inviting you to two scheduled Zoom sessions.

Topic: Session 1 – Klink 68-72Time: Aug 20, 2020 16:30 Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney

Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/74433164360?pwd=cFYwSUQ3RXhETC9YZ1NiTnhwT2dYdz09

Meeting ID: 744 3316 4360 Passcode: 6DiUzZ

Topic: Session 2 Klink 68-72Time: Aug 20, 2020 17:30 Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney

Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/74745745229?pwd=UEM0K0Z1elZaVHRjK1NKa29GdXVidz09

Meeting ID: 747 4574 5229

Passcode: ev6ydq

Looking forward to a chat over a glass or two of red,

Peter

This website is completely apolitical and non-political, so this post is simply to share information, not to make a political point.

The photograph below is from a letter box flyer. The local member on the left is Jeremy Hanson, who was the leader of the Liberals in the ACT Legislative Assembly before the last election. Why I ask is it my fault is that he was my Adjutant (briefly) in 1988, when he was a newly-graduated Lieutenant. He wasn’t with me long before moving on to Regimental duty in a squadron, but I think the experience was enough for him to transfer to RAInf, where he had a very good career.

Interestingly, Guilia’s husband was also an Army officer, an Engineer I think.

Nothing else to say, is there?

Chris Jones has sent through some photos in a Word document which I have quickly extracted without any attempt at improvement (and by that I mean the photography, not the content!). I’ll get to that shortly, but here’s a preview, with captions (edited) from Jabber.

Aged 17, pretending to be happy as a 4^th Class Cadet at the RMC Duntroon. 1969.

 

 

 

With Blackie just before a foggy Queen’s Birthday Parade in 1969.

 

 

 

With Roger Simmons (NZ) prior to ‘Camp Training’ 1970.

 

 

1st X1 soccer team 1970 prior to Jabber being banned for life for breaking the jaw of an opposing team player in the local competition.  (He is in middle row, second from left, between ‘Blue Boy’ and ‘Gibbo’.  ‘Chi the Thai’ is bottom row, third from the left.  Nik is second from the left.  Dave Leyshon is middle back row.))

The ‘Big Day’, Graduation December 1972, receiving the B.A.(mil) degree from the Dean.

 

Thanks to Peter McCann for this photo, which has been lifted from our FB page. I can identify, left to right, John Barwick, Ian Cleaver, Pat Donovan, Peter McCann, Daryl Poole, mystery man, and Bob Shaw.  But who is that relaxed gentleman with smoke in one hand and beer in the other? Don?

I assume, given the presence of John Barwick, that this was in 1969.

And wearing ties at the Kingo????