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  Death:
Lionel Ludvig ‘Lummy’ Lumholst-Smith (aka Lumoltz) 3385
Alistair Black advises, with regret, the death of Lummy Lumholst-Smith
on 16 January 2012 in Cumbria, United Kingdom. Lummy, who
was brought up in Norway, joined the BSA Police May 1934 and
fell in with the likes of Arthur Baden-Powell (3383), who
was to inherit the title Lord from his famous father, and
Frank Barfoot(3342), later Commissioner of Police. After a
few years on remote district stations, Lummy served most of
his service in the Criminal Investigation Department, Salisbury.
He may have been one of the few officers involved in the early
start of the XB section (intelligence) of the CID, and also
served in Immigration, which then fell under the control of
the CID. He retired in August 1956, with the rank of Detective
Chief Inspector. Lummy joined the Rhodesian Grain Marketing
Board, where he served for many years. He was an active member
of the Mashonaland Branch, before returning to Norway, and
later a member of the UK Branch, when he eventually settled
in Cumbia, United Kingdom. Lummy was born on 12 March 1912,
and would have reached his 100th year this year. Our thoughts
and condolences go out to his family and friends, to whom
we extend our deepest sympathy.
18 December 2011
Central Newsletter: March 2011 - No 98
 Peter
Bellingham has sent in his March 2011 News
from Central newsletter for your reading pleasure.
Some might ask 'why so late?' Well, Peter suffered the theft
of his computer which had this edition in preparation thereon,
and thus lost a huge amount of work and time. Peter's busy
schedule has not permitted a quick recovery. We are happy
that it has arrived! You may see prior editions of the Central
Newsletter on the Central
Advisory Committee pages. Remember the image
to the right is a link!
14 January 2012
 Natal
Outpost Magazine: Edition No 89: January 2012
Trevor Dutton has so kindly supplied the latest edition of
The
Natal Outpost magazine for your reading pleasure.
Another information packed edition it is too! Clicking on
hat image to the left should bring up this document which
is in PDF format. Previous coies of The Natal Outpost are
available on the Natal Branch
Regimental Association page. If you are from
the Kwazulu Natal area... do think about joining the branch.
11 January 2012
North West Region Christmas Lunch 2011
The United Kingdom Branch, North West Region Lunch was held
during December 2011. Rod Wilson 4933 writes his report, which
may be found on the United
Kingdom Branch page. Eighteen members sat down
to Christmas Lunch specially served for those attending in
the Conservatory at Feildens Arms Mellor Brook, Blackburn
BB2 7PR Tel. 01254 814655. Rod says dates for 2012 are as
follows, Sunday March 11th. Sunday June 10th. Sunday September
9th. Sunday December 9th all at the same venue
Read
more...
21 January 2012
 Achievements:
Flight of Falcons Republished by Andrew Stevens 6226
Andrew Stevens has recently republished his work "The Flight
of the Falcons" (Candia Books 2011) the review of which you
may see on this website. Its non fiction. Please click on
the image to see the review.
21 January 2012
Achievements: Peter Shout 8655 Wedding Anniversary
 Peter
and Brenda Shout celebrated their 35th Wedding Anniversary
on 7 January 2012. They were married in Bulawayo and they
have two children Dan and Meg. Peter served 1971-83 and now
lives in Namibia. Our congratulations go to them both.
8 January 2012
So Who is Visiting the Web Site?
Statistics on website visits are often meaningless due to 'crawlers' (applications used by the major search engines to index the web), but if you eliminate these and the more exuberant of the spamming nations top site visiting nations during December 2010 are South Africa (46%); Australia (19%); United Kingdom (13%); New Zealand (6%) and Zimbabwe (5%). This seems pretty consistent with where former members are now located, with perhaps exception of the UK...
4 January 2012
Scottish Gathering: Invitation
The Scottish Group of The United Kingdom Branch of the British
South Africa Police Regimental Association extends a cordial
invitation to all Association members and to former members
of the British South Africa Police and Police Reserve, together
with their wives or partners to attend "The 2nd Annual Scottish
Gathering" on Saturday 26 May 2012, from 11am to 5pm, in Edinburgh.
Click on this
link for your invitation.
3 January 2012
 Reaching
Out: Douglas Wright 4071
One of the more satifying aspects of operating this web site
has been the ability to reach out to all those former members
who choose to stay in contact. Particularly cheering to me
has been the reponse of Vivien Wright, who sent in a picture
of her father, Douglas Wright, reading his copy of the Web
Administrator's Seasonal Newsletter on Christmas Day. Douglas
(a former Senior Assistant Commissioner and recipient of the
PCD and CPM) will hopefully celebrate his 90th Birthday in
June this year and is presently living in Tasmania, Australia.
2 January 2012
Achievements: January Birthday Parade
Messrs. 4567 Jack Bond an 80th (16 January);
5508 Gordon Norris a 75th (9 January); 5322 Stuart Rodda a
75th (16 January); 6123 Brian Pym a 70th (9 January); 6650
Peter Combes a 70th (18 January); 6182 Patrick Kelly a 70th
(19 January); 9191 David Berry a 65th (13 January); 8925 Richard
Morrish a 60th (19 January); 111180 Stan Flowers a 50th (25
January). Our congratulations go to them all.
1 January 2012
Lost Comrades List Gets Longer
The Web Administrator's seasonal message each year seems to
bring out a longer list of former members' e-mail addresses
'bouncing' and being listed on the Lost
and Found Pages of the site each year. I would
be grateful if visitors to the site could pop into the link
provided above and go through the listings. Principally, we
are looking for e-mail address, rather than telephone numbers,
but if you know someone who is listed as lost or sought, please
contact them and ask them to update their details - using
this Registration
Form. Please note that mail bounces during the
festive season due to mail boxes being filled may be a cause
- just notify me if this is the case.
1 January 2012
 Let
us go back 100 Years: Police Review January 1912
As early as 1912, the BSA police actually had a house magazine,
called The
Police Review. Some of these have been scanned
during recently years and this one, which celebrates its publication
100 years ago is available for your reading pleasure.
1 January 2012
January 2011 News in Archives
Last years news for January may be found in the archived
news section.
1 February 2012
Andrew
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