OVERSEAS SVA MEMBERS PAGE

TONY TOLAN is  the Overseas Representative of the Suez veterans Association

To contact Tony email :-  tony_tolan@yahoo.co.uk   This page is for the Suez Veterans Association members living overseas

We have members in :-

Australia; Canada: Ireland:  France: Germany: Japan; New Zealand: Portugal:  Spain ;  United States

Please let me know if I have missed you off the list above.

 As your new Overseas representative I will do my best to keep up with all the members,and any new members to come.A lot of you do know me from the Forum on both the SVA,and Suppressed Story websites,and so I will be talking to old friends.if there are Vets out there in the Colonies who are not in the SVA,or any of the members who know of some,then you are welcome to join us and share your photos etc with us all.I shall put some input to that side of the page,so I hope w can go forward together.No free trips to Blighty,or see Manchester United play Chelsea Saturday .but I will let you have some goodies from time to time.take care

God Bless

Tony

Well lads Xmas is nearly once again with us,and it does not seem that long since I was putting last years message on this page.It has been a good year as far as you lads over the water are concerned,we have have had new members joining our ranks,but sadly we have lost a few as well,including our President Terry Coulson,Sapper Dave,Bill Walker,Charles Ray,and so many who are in ill health,and we must remember all of them in our prayers.I thank you all for your support and it has made the job so worthwhile.I also would like to thank you for all you many Emails,and the little pressies,which I really do appreciate.Your Xmas cards are beginning to roll in now,and the Postman is sure I am some sort of celebrity with all the letters he is putting through my box,but I think he is going to far when he bows.
 
I have even had mail from a vet in Khatmandu Nepal,and no is name is not Gunga Din,it just shows how scattered through the world our Vets are.May I wish you all,and your families my warmest wishes for Christmas,may you have a wonderful time with your families,and may the  year 2008 bring you all better health,and much happiness.I have been very proud to have been associated with you all,and may we continue for many years to come.God Bless you all.
 
Tony Tolan 

 

At the same time my I add my Christmas wishes to you all.

John ( Gunner ) Norman

Alf Tipple a member of the London and South East Branch
recently visited Australia. The following three photographs are from the many taken during his visit.
 
 
 
Left to Right: Frank,Anne,Alf,Dorothy and Peter.
 
 
Alf and John Hyde at the National Servicemen Memorial
 
 
Left to Right Peter, Frank and Alf

Hello my friends,
 
I am very pleased with all your Emails and greetings,but the Overseas page is still lacking entries from you lads .I am sure a lot of you have pictures and items that would be of interest to us all,and if it will bring tears to your eyes,I could say I may be made redundant if this trend continues,and I do need the money.So come on you ex-patriates lets have some pictures,nothing naughty, and some gossip for your page.Tell us if your wife has run off with your best friend,and that you miss him,anything but anything lads and I will be a happy little Bunny.take care,and just let Gunner John have a salvo from you.
 
God Bless
Tony
 
Hello lads
                I hope you all had a very good Xmas,and santa was good to
you all,it is a time to remember each other,and also all those friends we
left behind all those years ago.let us also remember the lads still dying in
Iraq,and Afghanistan,far from home and their loved ones,we have experienced
it ourselves,and appreciate our Xmas with loved ones more han ever.
 
Would you welcome two new overseas veterans to our ranks.
 
Walker Cleverly number 2683 who served in the Durham Light Infantry(ist
Btn)and lives in Ballina New south Wales
 
John Brannan In the process of joining the SVA and comes from Upper Hutt
Wellington New Zealand.
 
 
I am at the moment Emailing around to see if any of the overseas vets have
friends who served in Suez,and would like to join the SVA.
I would like to wish all you vets who are far from the old country a most
happy new year,may good health,and happiness be with you in the coming new
year.We have lost friends in the last few weeks including our friend Chris
Spikin,may all those vets who have gone to their last posting rest in peace.God Bless
Tony
 
 

ESPERANTO
 
OZ member Ron Taylor would liketo talk to any member who can speak Esperanto.
 
rontaylor@mail2ron.com
 
Mobile 0405445612

Canadian member Mike Bye in Fez at the London & Southeast groups Christmas Lunch in the Dagenham Football Club 30th November 2006

Photographs from Kiwi Jim Beedles visit to Austrailia

Jim near war memorial in Melbourne

Inside the War emorial building in melbourne

The War Memorial building in Melbourne

Overseas Members Photo's and comments

Reunion in Portugal 2005 L-R Ian Brunton, Robo Robertson, & Sapper Dave...

 

Jim Beedles from  South Island New Zealand

ON GUARD DUTY---Tony Ballard  Royal Signals 9154-56 now living in Canada

    John Shield

now living in Kitakyushu-shi Japan      Ex R.A. @ Tek

London & Southeast Committee member Alf Tipple at the war memorial in Australia last year.

Alf is visiting All parts of Austrailia again  later this year and wishes to meet as many SVA members as he can.

Telephone  02085938918

 

Peter Whymark and Norman Gee on the beach in New Zealand.

Hey  True Blue.....Is it me or you?

Did you know that in Australia at 9pm each and every night the lights dim in all the Returned Service Leagues Clubs for two minutes silence.

Sapper Dave when living in Botany Bay

 

More of Frank Watson's photos  NOW & THEN

Tony Ballard Canada

Top picture of Mr John Hyde J.P. from Narre Warren Victoria Australia was taken at Manchester airport in the 70's-----

The bottom picture  of John and his wife Cora was taken at the awarding of "Order of Merit"  by Mr J Landy Govenor of Victoria ( ret) 

 

Member Chris Spikins  when at the controls broadcacting on Radio Freemantle

SVA member,  my mate,  the  Motor Transport Sergent Chris Spikins of 10 Railway Suadron RE Fanara sadly died November 2006.

Sapper Dave Hickman

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ron taylor March 21st 2006
01:35:19 AM
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How did you find this website?  
sva member 706

Where are you from?  
bunbury,western australia. (ex bolton.uk)

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raf shallufa 1950/51 (mt driver)1951/52 51 mt coy,fuel flight(tankers)

Ron and I talk ( with pictures) most mornings ( evenings in OZ)

Ron tells me about his days as a lighthouse keeper.

I had an email from new member Bill Knight ( Bogey) who lives in Humpty Doo Northern Teritories.

He tells me that he had a near miss this week with the cyclone Monica.

He are one or two photos he sent me.........

 

Frank Watson sent me tis cutting regarding tounadoes...

and his weater forcast below for 7th May

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two brave Royal Canadians fall in Afghanistan

The 1st Battalion of The Royal Canadian

Regiment loses its Regimental Sergeant Major 

Two professional soldiers who had devoted their adult lives to the Canadian Forces were killed in action near Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan on November 27. They lost their lives when the Bison armoured vehicle they were patrolling in was caught in the blast of an explosives laden minivan driven by a Taliban operative. One of the brave soldiers was evacuated by helicopter but died en route to the military hospital. Shown are (left) Chief Warrant Officer Robert Girouard, 46, who was Regimental Sergeant Major of the 1st RCR Battalion Battle Group and Corporal Albert Storm, 36.

 

CWO Girouard,  from Bathurst,  New Brunswick, had spent 29 years in the Canadian Forces. He had just returned to Afghanistan after spending a three-week leave in Canada with his wife, three daughters and other family members. Corporal Storm, from Fort Erie, Ontario, was eligible to retire in three years’ time and had mused about that possibility with comrades in Afghanistan. 

 

 

Scenes from the wretched attack by a fanatic probably too incompetent and gutless to meet the Royal Canadians face to face in a fight. One thing certain, he took two men, each of whom were many, many, many times over his better and perhaps that is why he so bitterly destroyed his own life to harm theirs. His family should feel great shame that he died in that way. Canada is a great, free country and men like Chief Warrant Officer Girouard and Corporal Storm have made it that way. They have defended and helped to create a wonderful country where even idiotic, zealous nitwits like the one who killed them, are entitled to relocate to and live and prosper so long as they abode by the nation's laws and do no harm to their peers. More’s the pity, for in a way both of those brave Canadian sons died for him.

 

 

  

A Canadian Press correspondent’s report on two brave Canadians who have lost their lives serving with one of the world’s finest infantry regiments

 

 

R.E.M.E. Workshops at

T.E.K. & Moascar

By Tony Tolan

Mesage recieved by Tony Tolan

 

Both items posted  29-11-07