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E-MAIL TO HON SEC, AOBA Subject: AAS
Memorial and Contributed by: Trevor STUBBERFIELD (52A) 5th January 2009. Dear Bill,
I hope things are going well for you as we enter 2009, an important year in
the history of the Arborfield Schools. I'm
writing with reference to the discussions on the future of the
Arborfield Gates, the The
Australian Army Apprentices Association were faced with a similar project
regarding their gates. The original plans were quite impressive but
eventually they came up with a revised and more manageable design which
could be of interest to the AOBA. The completed memorial can be
viewed at http://www.austarmyapprentice.org/aas_memorial.htm
and there are more pages of
information available from this link. I
wonder if we could come up with a similar project which could
incorporate the bricks from the rifle range to make it a historical
feature. If not, perhaps bricks to build the structure could be
provided by individual members subscribing for them. Working
on the idea that the Arborfield Garrison will eventually disappear
completely, including the REME Museum, which would be the ideal location,
perhaps the village could be persuade to donate a small piece of land for the
memorial. A possibility would be to build the feature as a backdrop to
the Village War Memorial just off the roundabout to the north of Arborfield. Alternatively,
perhaps the Arborfield branch of the Royal British Legion could be
persuaded to host the memorial on their land. My friends at the Winnersh
Branch are currently constructing a Whatever
the future holds, I believe that there should be a permanent memorial to the
schools at Arborfield, after all, the village will for ever be associated
with the training that went on there. A
final link opens a pdf file with a report on sixty years of the Australian
Army Apprentices. For us, 2009 marks the seventieth
anniversary of the founding of the http://www.defence.gov.au/army/hq3bde/docs/02v12nsc2008.pdf N.B. Since
sending this e-mail the above link has failed. The document can now be read
from THIS LINK. The Editor. 15th August
2009. My best regards from Trevor Stubberfield 52A AOBA 2253 |
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