The Royal Green Jackets Regimental Association
Journal 2008 "Swift and Bold"
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Those who are paid up members of the RGJR Association and/or have entered a full postal address on the Database or are registered members of the KRRC or RB Regimental Associations should by now have received the RGJR Association Journal. Anyone who does not fall within the above categories but wishes to acquire a hardcopy of the Journal can do so for £1 post and packaging by applying to me at ken.ambrose1@btinternet.com In addition to this additional opportunity to obtain a hardcopy you will also find that by clicking on the magazine graphic on the left you can gain instant access to an on line copy of the Journal. The only differences between this and the hardcopy is that for security reasons personal address details have been removed from the Association Contacts page. You will need to have Adobe Acrobat installed to read this file. The Journal has been very well received by many already. In total 5131 were sent out to RGJRA and former regiments members. Only 1% of those sent out have been undelivered.
For this year only everyone on the Database, including overseas users, will have access to the Association Journal in one form or another. As indicated above where possible a hardcopy will have been sent to your contact postal address as entered on the Database regardless of your membership status. This distribution level however, only applies to this year and if you are not a paying Association member by the next issue (February 2010) you will not receive a hardcopy of the Journal in whatever format current financial restraints impose upon it. Nor will the on line copy will be published to the web site until much later in 2010.
The one certain way you can ensure that you get a copy next year is to become a paying member of the Association and I do urge you to use the application form/s enclosed with both the hardcopy and on line versions of the Journal to become a paying member. The benefits of paid membership are within the Journal and elsewhere and for what amounts to little more than little more than 0.19 pence per week, (less than three pence a day), you can support the Regimental Association and its activities. Now is the time to contribute and pay back a little of what the regiment gave to us when we were serving.
Most people who have served in the regiment will have left it, at whatever point, with the feeling that they had gained considerably from the experience. We are most of us familiar with the `band of brothers` attitude that the regiment created for us and within us. When one Green Jacket speaks to another for the first time no introductions are necessary and the fact that they share this common bond allows an instant understanding brought about by their mutual respect and service in the regiment. Most serving soldiers when discharged regard themselves as `ex` Guards or ex Para but Green Jackets never become `ex` and remain Green Jackets to the day that they die.
Ken Ambrose
Swift and Bold Editor
The Royal Green Jackets Regimental Association
