G’day one and all, we hope that you are all in good health and enjoying the
good life.

Wendy and I will be off to Narrabri on the 14th to meet up with
the likely lads for Anzac day. We will either go across to Tamworth or Jodi will
come across to us for the Easter weekend, after Anzac day we will head over to
her for a week or ten days.

Now that you know what we are doing I better do
the health report, Wendy is going pretty well and her quacks are pleased
with her for helping to pay off their Porsches.

As for this old fella getting young, (as some of you will know, and others like me won’t have
a clue!) Yours truly was diagnosed with lung cancer just before Christmas.(some
bloody Christmas present ah) It turns out to be secondary cancer from the
kidney cancer of 2011, about which I might add, I don’t know what you girls
complain about, I gave birth to a kidney by caesarean section and it didn’t
hurt a bit!
Well after the results of the numerous tests and scans etc. It turns out
that they are like their owner, pretty slow moving and the oncologist says
‘that we shouldn’t be too worried about them at this time’. We are booked
in for another set of scans in July and will take it from there.
So there you go,  you mob are stuck with me for the next ?????! Be careful I
know what you’re thinking.

Take care

Bloo & Wendy

Graham is still in hospital and we have no diagnosis as yet. He is to have another scan tomorrow so hopefully we will know more. The medicos are concentrating on his lungs. I do thank Dr. Hammond at Freemasons Hospital for his persistence in trying to find out what is causing Graham to have these odd ‘turns’. Otherwise Graham is his usual ‘chirpy’ self and a model patient by all accounts.

Hi to all of 87
Anyone who will be in Melbourne for the Anzac Day march are welcome
to join the rest of us who will be having a leisurely lunch at Bell's Hotel 
cnr Moray and Coventry Sreets South Melbourne. 
Please let me (Yvonne) know so I can update numbers.
We will raise a glass to past and present and all enjoy your day.
Cheers Yvonne

Received an Email from Jenny stating…Graham Morcom is currently in Freemason’s Hospital, Melbourne, for tests. He has not been very well of late. Hopefully we will know more next week.

We hope all goes well Jenny.

Graham Chapman says; “Good luck Blue, get well soon mate!”

and Pommy Adcock says; “Thinking of you you Bluey, hope all goes well and you are up and about soon”  30/Mar

Taken from a recent phone conversation with Wally;

Wally has been having a bit of trouble of late with sciatic nerve problems. Couldn’t stand up straight to walk, had to sit down all the time, (you know, like we all used to feel on a Sunday Morning), except that Poor old Wal was feeling like it all the time.

Saw a couple of chiropractors, had a couple of injections and still no relief so eventually he succumbed to the saw and had some bone scraped from the vertebrae and a few discs realigned and apparently from what I gathered from our recent phone conversation, he is well on the way to recovery again, much to Sandra’s relief.

Sandra is reportedly doing well, bearing up under the strain of looking after Wally, and she reports that Mum, (Lorna) is also doing well at 91, and looking forward to the next reunion.

They have now joined the 4wd and caravan set so I believe.

Just thought I might start off a new post on some of the Memorial Plaques around the place with relevance to 87.

Back in the late 1980’s early 1990’s  some of you may remember, Ian Thomson was our patron and at the same time he was also the chairman of the relatively young “Australian Army Transport Ex Members Group” up here in Brisbane. This Group was formed to fill in a blank caused by the collapse of the RACT Assocn. up here.

Round about 1990 or so, 87 Tpt Pl Assocn and the then fledgling AATEMG merged their relevant Anzac Day “post March” functions in an effort to fund a family orientated inner city meeting place that was suitable to both group’s needs, and this co-operative lasted a good couple of years. Gradually, as the AATEMG grew and our numbers shrank, through natural attrition and members moving interstate, 87 graciously pulled back from the organisational side of these functions and this task was then taken over by the AATEMG (which in turn morphed into what is today known as the Army Transport Association Inc and is progressing steadily.)

Mid 1992 at a  meeting of the AATEMG it was mooted that it would be a good idea to commission the production of a memorial plaque to be placed in the “Crypt” in “Anzac Square” in Brisbane as a memorial to all members of the AASC RAASC and RACT who had served in many theatres over the past years, and the motion was moved, seconded and passed that said memorial was to be produced, laid and dedicated in the Crypt jointly by members of the AATEMG and 87 Transport Platoon RAASC SVN 66-67 Assocn..

The Plaque was actually dedicated in March 1993.

The second Plaque on hand is the one dedicated to 87 Tpt Platoon RAASC itself and this plaque was laid at the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Canungra on 5th December 2009.

At the same time Plaques for 1 Tpt Pl and 2 Tpt Pl were also laid and dedicated.

If anyone knows of any others please Email the info to me and I will add them to this post.

We had some great moments with Saasha’s firtst birthday and my Mum, who is almost 89.

Cheers Yvonne

Great to see so many generations represented, even though this event took place a couple of weeks ago and we held off publishing the photo for a while!!

The Funeral service for Dennis Boaden has been arranged to be held at;

1030 (central DST) on THURSDAY 9th December

at Lefevre Baptist Church,

47 Carnarvon Terrace  Largs North SA  5016.

Arrangements are still under discussion re the post funeral gathering possibly to be held at the Largs Bay RSL. (This is still in the planning stage at this moment, so keep watching for future developments.)

Please remember that not all members subscribe to this blog, so the old communications network may still be necessary in some cases. If you know someone without a computer, give them a call!