President's Piece

Chairman of the CGA presented Bdr 'Beastie' Davidson with the Sportsman of the Year award for his outstanding career in Endurance events and 'Ultra-Marathons' throughout his career.  The trophy is a 'silver springbok' made from krugerrands that were presented to the Regiment by the South African family of L/Bdr James 'Baz' Dwyer who was killed in action in Afghanistan last year.

Message from The President

The Commando Gunner Association has been in existence for many years. Its purpose is to foster comradeship throughout the Commando Gunner fraternity, bringing together the past and present. As for all Gunner operations, the pivotal enabling factor in successful delivery is good communications; this website and IT will be the arterial means of achieving this. Our committee have done a great job in get this site launched, it is now up to all of us to utilise it to the maximum and to develop its considerable potential in a variety of ways – informal communication, photographic and historical records, useful information on financial, health, welfare, social, entertainment matters – to name but a few.

I would formally like to thank Ray Faull on your behalf for all that he has done over the past year or so in refocusing the CGA and refining its Charter, which now provides a formal framework for managing our relatively informal business. He has handed over to Martin Lambert Gorwyn, who has a newly formed committee, all of whom give of their time freely; I encourage you to support them in developing our Association in its various endeavours.

I look forward to meeting up with many of you over the coming years at the various Reunions but please bear in mind that 2012, as well as being Olympic Year for Britain, marks the Fiftieth Anniversary of the reformation of the Army Commandos with 29 Field Regiment Royal Artillery becoming 29 Commando Light Regiment Royal Artillery in May of that year. We shall be marking this auspicious occasion in July 2012 – you have been warned!

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