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Conway Club
About The Conway Club
Club
Badge/Crest
Membership
Presidents Of The
Conway Club
Patrons
The Cadet Newsletter
Social Functions
Officers & Committee
AGM
Branches
Contact Us
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About The Conway Club
The Conway Club was founded in 1910 by
the late Captain H W Broadbent RD RNR who was at that time Captain Superintendent
of HMS Conway. The first President of the Club was Major
Sir Hamilton Gould Adams. He was President for 11 years,
The main
purpose of the Conway Club is to maintain and foster social relationship
between former Cadets of the Ship and the Conway shore establishment.
Club Badge/Crest
The
following descriptions are the best information available at present.
Conway adopted its first badge in 1859. It is shown on the right. This
seems to have survived until the formation of the Club in 1910. The
Club quickly adopted its own badge and I assume that the Conway and
Club badges existed in parallel for many years. At some point (perhaps
version 3 below) the two badges must have merged. There have been
several versions of the Club badge over the years.
- The original badge (version1 below) adopted when the Club was formed in 1910 featured the letters CC i.e. Conway Club.
- In 1925 these were changed to OC i.e. Old Conway.
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The badge was later changed to that familiar to us today; the Ship
surrounded by a golden laurel wreath, surmounted by the red castle and
with the motto hand written in black on a golden scroll below. The
first example of this (version 3 of which I have no example (yet!))
included a very detailed rigging. At some point it was changed again.
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Version 4 appears similar but was actually quite different. The hull of
the Ship was rather stylised and the rigging was virtually nonexistent.
A red badge shape was added around the rest of the crest. The wreath
became red, the scroll white and the motto red. The castle was not
centred properly.
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Version 5 in use to this day, reverted to the colours and style of
version 3 except that the rigging was greatly simplified. The motto was
still handwritten but was written anew. The observant may have spotted
that the crest on the cover of the new history of the ship has been
rewritten again in printed text rather than hand-written text.
Larger versions are in the Crests Badges & Ensigns album. If you have better information please email me.
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Membership
Membership of the Club is open to all Cadets
who served in the HMS Conway school training ship and are known as Old
Conways, providing they completed a full course of training. It is to
be hoped that this Website will encourage those Old Conways who have
never belonged to join, or who have ceased to belong to rejoin, the
Club. Provision is also made in the Club Rules for Honorary membership
of the Club, for those who have at any time been closely associated
with the Conway or with members of the Club.
Membership subscription is GBP15 for full
life or GBP5 annually, payable to the Hon. Treasurer on 1st January
each year.
Please print, complete and post the Application
Form (Word document) from this page.
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Patrons
The Committee of the Conway Club by unanimous
agreement of all members invite especially deserving or meritorious
persons to fill the position of Patron of the Conway Club. The present
patrons are:
The Most Honourable The Marquess of Anglesey
Captain David T Smith OBE FNI RN
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Presidents Of The Conway Club
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1910 - 20 |
Major Sir Hamilton
Goold Adams GCB |
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1921 - 30 |
Admiral Sir Sackville
H Carden KCMG |
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1930 - 34 |
John Masefield OM,
LL.D |
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1935 - 40 |
Captain Sir Edward
Headlam CSI, CMG, DSO, FRGS, RIM |
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1941 - 48 |
Captain SS Richardson
OBE, RD, RNR |
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1949 - 58 |
Air Chief Marshall
Sir Richard E C Peirse KCB, DSO, AFC |
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1959 - 69 |
Captain W H Coombes
CBE, RNR (Hon) |
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1969 - 72 |
Captain E Hewitt RD
RNR |
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1973 |
Captain D T Smith
RN |
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1973 - 75 |
Commodore D T Smith
RN |
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1976 - 82 |
Captain D T Smith
RN |
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1983 - 85 |
Commander T Kinloch-Jones
RN |
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1986 - 90 |
Captain L J Thompson
MNI |
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1991 - 92 |
Captain R J R Tyrell |
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1992 - 96 |
Captain L J Thompson
MNI |
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1997 - 99 |
J F Sheldrake Esq
JP |
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2000 - 02 |
Commander J W H F
Dickie OBE RNZN |
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2003 - 05 |
Capt DNB Nutman MNI |
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2006 - 09 |
A Smith Esq |
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2010 - |
Tom Mason Esq |
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Officers & Committee
The Club's Officers and Committee are chosen
from members of the Club and is limited in number to 24, elected annually
at the AGM.
Officers
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President |
Tom Mason |
56-59 |
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Vice President |
John McCaughrean |
50-51 |
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Alfie Windsor |
64-68 |
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Hon VP |
J H Lockwood |
46-47 |
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Hon Secretary |
Margaret Hollinrake |
Hon Mem |
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Hon Treasurer |
C B Smith |
58-60 |
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Hon Chaplain |
The Rev S Douglas Lane |
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Hon Auditor |
C H Plummer |
67-72 |
Committee (from Jan 2010)
44-45 Lt Cdr John HeathRNR
48-50 Capt Alan G Burns
50-51 Captain Terry W Powell
51-52 Captain David Owen
52-54 John F Sheldrake JP
54-56 Geoff R Cowap
56-58 Lt Col David G Hilton
56-59 Lt Cdr C Conrad Blakey OBE RD JP
56-59 Captain Michael M Reeves
64-66 Archie F Smith
66-70 Ken C Huggins
67-70 Rob B Tubb
72-74 Matt B Burrow
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The Cadet Newsletter
The newsletter has been rebranded as The Cadet and caries echoes of the original format. It is published twice a year
in Spring and Summer. It is full of information on  social events, news
on the activities of Old Conways around the world and graphic reports
from the personal history of Old Conways.
Your letters, reminiscences, news, etc.,
are all welcome. Closing dates for copy are:
Spring - 28th February
Summer - 30th June
but contributions received after those
dates will be included if possible.
Copy for the Newsletter can either be posted to the Editor via the Hon Sec
Mrs M S Hollinrake
64 Cambridge Drive
OTLEY
West Yorkshire
LS21 1DD
Tel: + 44 (0)1943 465141
E-mail: clubsec@hmsconway.org
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Social Functions
Annual Dinner Dance
This major function usually takes place
with the AGM, alternately in the North and South of the UK in October. Please refer
to the Diary for full details of the current
and forthcoming year's Annual Dinners.
Annual London Buffet Party
This usually takes place on the first Thursday
in June at a venue overlooking the Thames commencing at 1830, and is
well attended by Old Conways and their guests from near and far. Details
of the next event are in the Diary.
Branch Events
Most Branches in the UK and overseas hold
annual dinners and other functions on a regular basis. Please consult
the Diary for details.
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AGM
AGMs are held annually in October. Full details are posted on the Diary page.
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Branches
The Conway Club has branches throughout
the world established for the furtherance of social contact. They operate
as independent organisations and there is no structural, legal or financial
linkage between individual branches and the Conway Club e.g. the Conway
Club Committee listed above has no organisational control over branches.
Some are "joint" branches with members from Conway, Worcester, Pangbourne
(CWP) and General Botha.
Each branch is run by a dedicated group
of volunteers who give freely of their time and energies to keep Conway
chums in contact and the name of Conway alive.
Wherever you are in the world you are encouraged
to contact your local branch and join the local group. Contact can be
made through the individual listed below. .
If your Branch isn't listed,
take up your pen (or keyboard) and contact us to ensure that you are included
in the next update of this website. Please provide details of
the Branch Secretary's address, ideally an email address and a phone number that the Secretary is prepared
to have broadcast on the website, and a note of planned activities
and social events.
List of Branches
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Contact The Club
You can contact the Conway Club through
the Club Secretary
Mrs M S Hollinrake
64 Cambridge Drive
OTLEY
West Yorkshire
LS21 1DD
Tel: + 44 (0)1943 465141
E-mail: clubsec@hmsconway.org
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