The sub-committee setup by the Executive Committee to consider recommendations for a new style Friends' Newsletter, met recently and their recommendations will be considered by the Executive Committee at their next meeting. The recommendations will not be as stifling on the Editor as the original ones. However, I still believe that A4 size is the best: easier to read and a better size for photographs. Whoever is selected as the new editor must be given the creative freedom to do the job properly.
More than three years ago Lt Col Edlin, Secretary of the SAS Association, was invited by the Exec Committee to show the poster exhibition we had asked for, which he had produced with help from the SAS archivist, illustrating the history of 1 SAS from its inception in the middle east in 1942 to its stand-down at Hylands during Oct 1945. We "strongly approved" the exhibition and Sue Ireland promised to display the exhibition on the walls of the west wing of the House basement. Subsequent promises to display have always been postponed, for various reasons. 1 SAS were outstanding and 'Paddy' Mayne their C. 0. was the most decorated British fighting soldier in WW 2. The display would be a good tourist attraction, give pride to the people of Chelmsford, and be a source of inspiration for our young people. P.B.
Patrick Bermingham
Newsletter Editor