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ROYAL AIR FORCE

BOY ENTRANTS ASSOCIATION

NORTH AMERICA 2010

10th ANNUAL REUNION

John Weatherley (No. 8 Entry Yatesbury) and his lovely wife Margaret did an excellent job of coordinating hotel and banquet arrangements for our RAFBEA North America 10th Annual Reunion. Sunday October 17, 2010 was our social evening and Monday October 18, 2010 was our RAFBEA banquet. The reunion for this year was held at the Lake Buena Vista Resort Hotel at 2000 Hotel Plaza Blvd, Lake Buena Vista Florida 32830. The Sunday evening social venue was held in a separate area of the hotel restaurant adjacent to the bar reserved for the RAFBEA from 6PM.

John Weatherley and his wife Margaret arranged for the group to visit Fantasy of Flight on Monday October 18. It has the world's only airworthy Sunderland flying boat etc.

Here's the RAFBEA fellas prior to their entry into "Fantasy of Flight." A good time was had by all.

The banquet room was on the top floor of the hotel with large windows with a panoramic views over the Disney and other resort areas around Lake Buena Vista. It was preceeded by an attitude adjustment hour with a cash bar in the banquet room. Here was our buffet menu:

Southern Hospitality Menu
Crisp Garden Salad
Warm Corn Bread

Entree
Fried Chicken
Sliced Roast Beef with Mushroom Gravy
Baked Salmon with Tartar Sauce
Steamed Rice
Red Skinned Roasted Potatoes
Corn on the Cob
Field Peas and Baby Carrots
Coleslaw
Potato Salad
Macaroni Salad
Cornbread

Chefs Choice of Desert
Freshly Brewed Coffee and Iced Tea

Back row left to right: Jim Beattie (31st Entry St. Athans), Jack Hough (Hereford), Pat Bradbury, John Lawrence (34th Entry AWM Cosford), Brian Carlin (29th Entry Air Elect. St. Athans), Derek Cleverley (6th Entry Engines), Bruce Allen (46th Entry Air Wireless Cosford), Mike Claydon (26th Entry Teleg Cosford), Peter Gough, Dave Cutbush (Cosford), Mike Ratliff (37th Entry St. Athans).

Seated front row left to right: Dave Szyron who was a guest of ?, Dave Mattingley (44th Entry AirRad Cosford), Victor Delmonte (37th entry St Athans), John Halliwell (30th Entry General Fitter St. Athan), Peter Rushby (30th Entry ARM St. Athans), John Weatherley (8th Entry Air Wireless Yatesbury).

Back row left to right: Janet Mattingley, Jean Delmonte, Pam Rushby, Marie Bradbury, Julie Claydon, Anne Allen, Pam Carlin, Wendy Cutbush, Cindy Deslauriers (guest of Gail Simpson).

Seated front row left to right: wife of guest of ?, Barb Cleverley, Carol Halliwell, Margaret Weatherley, Gail Simpson, Jeanette Deslauriers (guest of Gail Simpson).

John Weatherley was our guest speaker and provided us with a look at the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain from an excellent documentary entitled "A Flight of Nostalgia using BBC archives from the Battle of Britain to 1990".

It was agreed by the group to hold the 11th Annual RAFBEA North American Reunion in the beautiful city of Vancouver, B. C., Canada. It's tentatively being held September 29 - October 2, 2011.

By the way, be sure to check out Brian Carlin's website and the new 396-page book Brian just wrote. It's entitled "Boy Entrant The Recollections of a Royal Air Force "Brat". Brian takes us on the absorbing true story of his first major step on the journey of life that would mould him and his fellow Boy Entrants to become the "backbone" of the 1950s Royal Air Force.

Updated January 20, 2011
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