Samui Ex-Servicemen July Get Together

An excellent turn out at the Elephant and Castle in Bang Rak, nearly all our friends were there and a few new Samui Ex-Servicemen came out of the wood work.

A good evening was had by all I hope and thank you to the Elephant and Castle for their hospitality, the Oxtail Stew was just like my Mum's.

The Next time we meet will be on Tuesday the 26th August, 4:30 pm at The Full Moon Bungalows in Bang Rak.

Hope everybody can come along and make it a successful evening.

This petition has been brought to my attention and I am sure is worthy of our support:

The present arrangements for dealing with wounded servicemen and women returning from Afghanistan and Iraq are, frankly, dire.

Some background: '2 Para' alone have, on their current tour, sent back over 50 casualties to the UK, and even that many cannot be accommodated at Selly Oak Hospital. So, when all of the casualties from other battle groups are added to this figure, how is ONE ward in ONE NHS hospital going to cope? It cannot, and as a result the individual troops are either sent to other hospitals or, worse, sent home to recover, relying on NHS visiting services which themselves are over committed.

We need a dedicated military hospital if servicemen and servicewomen, who have been committed to hostilities and injured, are to get the medical care they rightly deserve.

5000 names are needed for this petition to survive, and quite cynically, Downing Street has put a time limit of one month - during the summer holidays - for this to be achieved. So far the number is over 30,000 signatures. Please support it - please copy the link below to confirm your signature on the petition.

To sign up please click Here

Also if you could forward this link to as many people as you know it would be appreciated.

Hope to see you all on the 26th

Samui Ex Servicemen