THE AANM CONSTITUTION & RULES This Constitution and Rules were adopted on 9th December 2009 with subsequent amendments on 7th September 2010 and 2nd May 2013 1. NAME The organisation’s name is : The Army Apprentice National Memorial (AANM) and…
Dedication Day – 7th September 2011
Dedication day dawned breezy, cloudy, but dry, which was of great relief to the Trustees, as the previous few days had seen high winds and heavy rain; there had been a genuine anxiety that the celebration of two years of…
2016 AGM
2016 AGM Report & Minutes for year ending 31st December 2015 Army Apprentice National Memorial (Registered Charity: 1137924) Minutes of the Sixth Annual General Meeting held at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffs, on 9th May 2016 Army Apprentices National…
Arborfield Reunion 2015
Nineteen sixty five, does not seem that long ago, when so many young lads or more correctly, young men, assembled from all corners of the UK, and in some cases other parts of the world, at an old military camp…
News 2014
The Army Apprentice National Memorial Service becomes an annual event at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffs The next AGM of the Army Apprentice National Memorial Charity will be held at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffs, on Saturday the…
Gordon Bonner
Major (Retired) Gordon G Bonner – Trustee-Secretary-Fundraiser In 2009, both Chepstow and Arborfield old boys’ associations were working on ideas for a memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum (NMA). It was Gordon Bonner’s idea to combine these different strands which…
News September 2012
On Sunday, 9th September 2012 – at 12.00 noon a joint Dedication ceremony was held by the AANM Trustees for the four Ex-Apprentice Associations’ of Chepstow, Arborfield, Harrogate and Carlisle It was attended by representatives of all four Associations and…
Tablet Funding
Individual Tablet Funding Each Tablet commemorates a donation of £75 or more, to honour the donor’s contribution and support, so making the Memorial achievable during 2011. The tablet scheme has raised over £47,000 towards the Memorial costs and has given…
Key Donations
Key Donations Key donations received from military organisations and associations are noted here, with grateful thanks and acknowledgement, for their generous support. 1st Mar 2010 – Royal Artillery Charitable Fund donates £500 In the early days of the Army Apprentice…
Tablet Location
Commemorative Tablet Locator Finding the position of a tablet in the memorial The tablets have been built into the memorial floor in 62 groups (Modules) of 9 tablets per module. As you walk onto the memorial over the entrance step,…