Our 2025 reunion took place in March and was, as previously, an enormous success. Our guest speaker was Christopher Wreford-Brown, Capt RN Retd. who is a former HMS Courageous officer and the Commanding Officer of HMS Conqueror at the time of the Falklands War.
We were also joined by family of some of our members who have sadly crossed the bar and it was great to hear that they felt they had been made welcome, included at all times and would return again, as some of them were already doing. Two of the family members attending for the first time were the two great nieces of a crewmember who lost his life in the sinking of the aircraft carrier, HMS Courageous, in September 1939. We were honoured to meet them and to extend to them our hospitality. Our thanks go out to all of those members attending who made our late crewmates' families welcome.
Below are a few pictures from previous reunions but, if anyone has any pictures of the 2025 reunion they would like to see included in this website, please do send them to us using the email address for the website manager in our Contacts page. Thank you.
Already, the planning for the 2027 reunion will commence. At the 2025 Annual General meeting, our members voted to move to a new venue to refresh to reunion. The reunion organisers are already busy identifying possible suitable venues and have recently held a very productive and promising meeting with the events team at a hotel which suits all our needs. The events team were extremely positive and helpful and are now working out the prices they are able to offer, within the parameters we set at the meeting. If those figures are suitable we would then look to go ahead with booking the venue for either the weekend of the 17th or 24th April 2027, depending on the dates the hotel currently have vacant.
For the 2025 reunion we arranged for payment plans to be available to those who wished to spread the cost of the event and we fully intend to do the same again for the 2027 reunion. If we are able to do so we would look to offer payments over 12, 9 or 6 months. This, of course, depends on us reaching an agreement with the hotel in question early enough to offer all 3 options. We hope this makes the cost a little easier to bear.
If anyone who has attended past reunions has any ideas for future reunions, please do feel free to send them to us through our contact form, which can be found in the Contents page of this web site, or by e mail to hmscourageousassociation@gmail.com
Steve Crowley (left) and John Saywell, meet again for the first time in almost 50 years. This is what our reunion is all about, bringing old friends together.
Of course, during our reunions we also hold the Waz McKenzie Golf Trophy competition in memory of our great friend and late member who lived for his family and his golf and passed doing exactly what he enjoyed, playing a round of golf. This year it was won by Jim Riach who, along with his wife Jennifer, also celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary during the weekend.
Below are pictures from the 2021 competition.
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