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- Second Officer RFA(Retd) Verrill Elliss, Crossed the Bar
- Michael R Roddis, Crossed the Bar Sitrep 1 (157)
- CPO(E) Peter Robinson RFA (retd)
- Captain BJ Waters OBE RFA(Retd) Crossed the Bar Sitrep 1 (412)
- A message from our Chairman.
- The 56th Annual RFA Golf Tournament
- The James Coulll Memorial Award 2018
- Chief Officer(E) Norman Stroud, Crossed the Bar
- Captain(SE) Ken Henderson MBE RFA(Retd) Crossed the Bar
- Annual Reports etc for 2017 (249)
Second Officer RFA(Retd) Verrill Elliss, Crossed the Bar
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It is with so much sadness I report that Second Officer Verrill Elliss RFA(Retd) Crossed the Bar on Saturday 7th July 2018 aged 47 following a heart attack. Verrill was not a member of our Association but still part of the RFA Family. After leaving the RFA he became the Assistant Harbourmaster at the Port of Tyne.
Verril's funeral will take place on Thursday 19th July 2018 at Cowpen Cemetary Crematorium, Managed by NCC ,Contact Stephen Kelly: 01670 620405
Administration office: Cowpen Cemetery (HERE for a map).
Old shipmates are most welcome to attend and will be invited to join the family afterwards for refreshments.
Donations, if desired, should be made to Water Aid (HERE For their website)
The arrangements for the funeral are being made by Co-op Funeral Care Morpeth (HERE for their website and HERE for a map)
I will, of course, sitrep this page as the situation if anymore details emerge.
On hehalf of the RFA Association I offer our sincere condolences to Wendy, his widow, and children Daniel and Luke
If you have any remembrances of Verrill please email it to me at captain.pat@rfa-association.org.uk and I will post them on this page. I am also looking for photographs of Verrill for this piece and the RFA Association Gallery and Archive, If you have one please email it to me.
Michael R Roddis, Crossed the Bar Sitrep 1 (157)
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Sitrep 1, Funeral Arrangements,
It is with so much sadness I report that PO(D) Michael Reginald Roddis RFA (Retd) Crossed the Bar on1st July 2018 aged 66 after a battle with cancer. Michael was not a member of our association so the details I have are very sketchy indeed (Facebook).
Michael's funeral will take place on Friday 20th July 2018 at Poole Crematorium (HERE for their website and HERE for a map). Old shipmates are most welcome to attend and will be invited to join the family afterwards for refreshments.
The James Coulll Memorial Award 2018
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The trustees of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Association are delighted to announce that the 2018 Commodore James Coull Memorial Award has been made to First Officer (now Chief Officer) Jamie Edward Finlay RFA for his outstanding performance in RFA Mounts Bay, during Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Operations in the British OverseasTerritories of Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands,the Turks Caicos Islands and the independent island of Dominica (Operation Rumen) after they suffered unprecedented damage post hurricanes IRMA and MARIA. It is clear that he ticked all the boxes one would expect from an officer of the modern RFA and more.