This has become our annual Banstead all-day meeting with new acquisitions and queries - and a chat over tea/coffee, biscuits and mince pies with members displays as well!  We had a total of 14 members and 1 guest present, with Frank Schofield and his daughter having a table with books on the Royal Navy for sale and Phil Kaye selling postal history covers.  Peter High also had a small number of publications for sale.   First to display was our President, Geoff Hanney , with la

To commemorate the 80th Anniversary of VJ (Victory over Japan) day, Richard gave an eighteen frame display of FEPOW (Far East Prisoners of War) philatelic and related material to an audience of 11 members and 4 guests (which included his wife, son and daughter).   The display was dedicated to Richard’s (Great) Uncle Joe (Berry) who was captured at the fall of Singapore, worked on the Burma-Siam Railway and was transferred on a ‘Hellship’ to Japan to provide slave labour there

Sadly we only had 8 members attend our meeting at the Union Jack Club on 12th July but 7 of those had something to show - the following is a listing of those who provided a summary of their displays:   Geoff Hanney   s howed a couple of modern advertising cards from Max digitisation company with a military theme. Also a number of sheets with hand drawn pictures used for birthday cards, events etc, from a soldier on the Salonica front; an Invoice for military belts from a Norf