Mostyn Venables

[jungle1810]

Hello all,
It is with a sense of deep regret that I have to announce the death of Mostyn Venables of the Merthyr Tydfil Branch. Derek Singer phoned me today to let me know Mostyn passed away in hospital this afternoon. I will be notified of the funeral arrangements asap. Mostyn and I were in the same training platoon in Brecon in 1950. Bridgend branch of the R.W.F.C.A, offer their condolences to all his family and friends as well as his comrades in the Merthyr branch. R.I.P Mostyn.
R.B.D.

[Dai72]

We seem to be loseing alot of our comrades lately. RIP.

[Lofty-25]

My sincere condolences to Mostyn's family at this sad and trying time

RIP Mostyn

[Paul Hinge]

I share Dai 72's sentiments there seems to be a lot of our comrades leaving this mortal world.
Don, Please pass on my personal and the Aberystwyth Branch RWFCA's condolences to Mostyn's family and friends.

Until we meet again on that great parade ground above, sleep tight friend in the knowledge that your comrades are thinking about you always.

Paul Hinge
Hon. Secretary
Aberystwyth Branch RWFCA

[BennytheBall]

The Shotton and Deeside Branch RWFCA send their deepest sympathy to Mostyn's Family Friends and Comrades'.

[Braz]

Deepest Sympathy to Mostyn's family and friends from all at the Denbigh and District Branch RWFCA. Braz

[Bricoates]

All at the Caernarfon Branch RWFCA wish to pass on our deepest sympathy to all Family, Friends and Comrades at the sad loss of Mostyn.

[jungle1810]

Hello Dai 72 and Hingey,
Re 72's thread number 2 on the inordinate number of comrades who have passed away recently. I offer the following quote it deals with the death of mankind and comrades of the PBI alike.
"No man is an island,entire of itself:every man is a piece of the Continent,a part of the main:if a clod be washed away by the sea,Europe is the less,as well as if a promontory were,as well as if a manor of of thy friends , or thine own were: I am involved in mankind; And there fore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee".
By John Donne English ecclesiastc and poet. 1572 -1631.

[Gerrycc943]

Oh dear,

The loss of another comrade so soon.

Please convey deepest condolences to Mostyn's family, friends and members of the Merthyr Branch RWFCA from all members of the London Branch RWFCA.

[jungle1810]

Hello All,
I have been informed by the Merthyr branch, that Mostyn's burial, will take place at 10-35 hours on Friday the 25th of September at Saint Tydfils church.
Regards RBD

[jungle1810]

Hello all,
I went to Mostyn's funeral on Friday the 24th inst. I phoned Derek Singer with my eta at Merthyr Tydfil railway station and he arranged for a branch member to take me to the church. On my arrival the coffin was in the church with a union flag along side an R.W.F Flag/Standard.The branch had obtained the services of a bugler for both the service in the church and at the crematorium, in attendance also were two Standard bearers.and a large congregation attended. I was in the same intake as Mostyn on the 7/11/1950 and we trained at the old Welsh Brigade H.Q. Brecon in Dering Lines.After the cremation we all made our way to Mostyn's favourite watering hole During this time we revived many memories of Mostyn and our old times in the RWF (Both the 1st & 2nd Malaya)
The years passed by like lightning, and I realised what a wonderful and homogenous fraternity exists in the R.W.F.C.A.we must preserve this unique association at all cost and prevent any dilution and or deterioration of it at all times.In passing I must express my thanks to all the Merthyr Tydfil branch for their help and support on this sad occasion. I was ferried every where by car, even to the extent of a car being ready to take me back to the station from the public house we were using for my return journey to Bridgend, and a branch member accompanied me to the platform and made sure I was on the right track to return home.And the icing on the cake was that on my belated arrival at home some 10 minutes after coming through the front door I had a telephone call from Derek Singer to make sure I had arrived home safely. What more can a man expect from his comrades. R.I.P Mostyn.
R.B.D.aka jungle1810

[Paul Hinge]

Don
Comradeship is what it's all about. Merthyr Branch did you and Mostyn proud by making sure you could say your farewells to a fellow comrade you met first over 60 years ago.


Hingey

[Ianto 10]

Don, please pass on our sincere condolences to Mostyn family and friends our thoughts are with the family and friends on this sad passing.
Shrewsbury and District Branch RWFCA.