RNA No. 2 Area covers Kent.
Surrey and East Sussex.
There are 27 branches, one of which has there own Club,
this being Ramsgate.
Area delegates meetings are held quarterly at various
venues throughout the Area.
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ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION
To foster comradeship and "esprit de corps"
amongst those who have served or are serving in our
Naval Forces.
To perpetuate the memory of those members of our Naval
Forces who have died in the service of their country.
To provide relief from conditions of need, hardship
or distress, to persons who serve in or have served
in our Naval Forces and all dependants of such persons.
To advise and assist Members in their search for employment.
To advise Members and their dependants on personal matters,
such as pensions, compensation, health and social security
benefits and other subjects affecting their welfare.
Unity, Loyalty, Patriotism and Comradeship
Once Navy Always Navy
Incorporated by Royal Charter. Full recognition by the Royal Navy.
Registered charity No. 266982
This week
saw the 100th anniversary of the death of Flight Sub Lieutenant George
Herriot of the Royal Naval Air Service a forerunner of the Royal air
force and the Fleet Air Arm, His family came from Scotland but as a
boy they moved to Northern Ireland where after leaving school George
went on to Queens university Belfast to study medicine, after his second
year he and a friend decided to join the Royal Navy. They undertook
flying lessons at the Naval flying school Eastchurch on the Isle of
Sheppey. He was commissioned in February 1917 and attached to the naval
flying unit at Westgate on sea flying sea planes. It was on 6th November
1917 while on anti-submarine patrol over the Solent he was killed in
action and was buried in the cemetery at Minster in Thanet aged 20.
Like so many of his generation his life was cut short serving his country.
On Saturday four generations of the Herriot family travelled from Cambridge
to hold a memorial service at his grave, conducted by the Reverend Richard
Braddy of St Mary’s, in attendance were members of Minster Royal British
legion, the Fleet Air Arm Association, and Ramsgate and Margate branches
of the Royal Naval Association. Family members who attended included
the deputy Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire colonel Roger Herriot OBE.