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Early evening visit to the Tannery Development and meal

13th August 2024
Venue: Tannery Development, Canterbury
Early evening visit to the Canterbury Tannery Development lead by Andrew Clague who was the principal architect on this project.
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Inter Club Bat & Trap Competition Evening

16th August 2024
Venue: The Golden Lion, Broad Oak
This year's Rotary in Canterbury Interclub Bat & Trap Competition is being held in the evening of Friday, 16th August at the Golden Lion Pub, Broad Oak.
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Evening talk: Jim Gascoyne, Churchill’s Secret Army – part 2

Rotarian Jim Gascoyne gave our members a talk recently about the GHQ (Home Forces) Auxiliary Units, often described as Churchill’s Secret Army – an intriguing civilian sabotage organisation set up in 1940 in expectation of a Nazi invasion.

Jim, who is a member of our club, has a very personal interest in the Auxiliary Units as his father was an auxilier. Jim spoke to our club about it all this during lockdown (by Zoom).

In his latest talk, Jim reminded us that the Auxiliary Units were a secret resistance network of highly trained volunteers prepared to be Britain’s “last ditch” line of defence during World War Two. They operated in a network of cells from hidden underground bases around the UK. 

Jim also encouraged us to explore the website staybehinds.com (Bristish Resistance Archive) which is full of fascinating details including the names of many of the men and women involved – especially those brave personnel in the patrols local to Kent.

Picture: Some members of the Secret Army. Picture credit: Copyright free. 

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