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The IBB & IJLB Association Reunion Dinner 1st June 2013

Dear Fellow Riflemen,

The Infantry Boys Battalion & Infantry Junior Leaders Battalion Association will hold its next by-ennial Reunion on Saturday 1st June 2013, to which the ladies are more than welcome. You do not have to be a member of the Association to attend, only to have served in The IBB or IJLB at either Plymouth Oswestry or Shorncliffe as a Junior Leader, or on the staff.

The format will be a golf tournament on the Friday at a local club. Should you wish to play, please contact Colin Cole william_cole@sky.com CG, Guards Coy 1963-65 .This is followed by an informal Friday evening catch up. We usually gather in the Wynnstay Hotel bar in Oswestry or The Fox Inn, just down the road from the Wynnstay .On the Saturday, an informal lunchtime meet up for a pint and sandwiches in the former Officers Mess (now Oswestry Rugby Club) starting at 12:00.

We meet again at 19:30 in the function room of the Wynnstay Hotel in Oswestry for dinner. Dress is Black Tie or Lounge Suit, with medals.

MENU

Chicken Liver Parfait, mixed salad. Mango and Ginger chutney
Or
Wild Mushroom and Tarragon Soup
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Roast Sirloin of Welsh Beef with Yorkshire pudding
Roast and Parsley Potatoes
Panache of Fresh Seasonal Vegetables
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Chocolate and Raspberry Torte
with Chantilly Cream
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Coffee and Mints

Anyone requiring a vegetarian option please make this clear on booking.

The cost of the dinner will be £25 per head. Cheques should be made payable to IBB & IJLB Association and sent to the Treasurer, Graham Fowler at the address below :

38 Queen Victoria Avenue
Hove
Sussex
BN3 6WN

For those wishing to pay by electronic means, the Association bank details are as follows :

Sort Code : 83 28 03
Account No : 00197116
BIC : RBOS GB2LXXX
IBAN ; GB RBOS 83280300197116
Bank Address is :
RBOS (Royal Bank of Scotland)
West Calder Branch
17 East End
West Calder
EH55 8AB

Please indicate in the reason for transfer box. It is for “Dinner 2013”

Anyone wanting further information on the Association or the dinner please visit our website www.ijlb.co.uk or contact Graham Fowler on 07778354188 e- mail g_fowler@btconnect.com

ACCOMMODATION
Oswestry Tourist information website has a very good list of Hotel and Bed & Breakfast accommodation including cost see link below:

http://www.oswestry-welshborders.org.uk/accommodation/index.shtml

As you probably know I have been a member ever since its inception and attended the last dinner held two years ago (they are held every 2 years). It was a brilliant and memorable occasion even though the very few Green Jackets that were there (only 3 of us with our wives) were vastly outnumbered by the Jocks and wooden tops. If I remember rightly over 300 sat down for the dinner!

It really is a wonderful occasion and it would be fantastic if we could get at least a table of Green Jackets together for 2013.

If anyone would like to know more I am perfectly happy to supply the detail via my normal email address at johnfd@o2.co.uk, and if they would like to see what we have been up to over recent years then there is some value looking at our website.

Kind Regards

John

E.J. Fritz-Domeney

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