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An incredible gesture from Mobility 2000;

Simon Pegler 1979/80 member of the IOBA, would like to offer to ex-service personnel and those who attended the Indefatigable School ‘Old Boys & Staff’, access to good working order, reconditioned Mobility Equipment & Disability Aids for daily living. Equipment will be free of charge, all you pay for will be the postage of the item sent to you.

Simon is in the process of cataloguing items, which are now on a direct LINK from this website;

http://www.mobility2000.co.uk/ex-service-personnel.html

Simon’s website Ex Service personnel page, has been created for the sole use of Ex Service personel, Members of the Merchant Navy, past pupils of TS Indefatigable and their Families.

All products shown are used but in very good condition, Mobility 2000 offer them free of charge to any of Ex Service men/women and their familes.

£7.50 IS CHARGED ON ALL PRODUCTS IRRESPECTIVE OF VALUE, THIS IS TO COVER POSTAGE COST TO MAINLAND UK POSTCODES

If you require more than one product please call Simon on 01253 820303 and if they can fit the items in one box there will only be a single postage cost.

To verify your entitlement please include your service number in the VAT exemption section of our checkout when ordering.

It’s hoped that this is of use to you and we ask to you share it with as many people as you can, if you think they would benefit.

Mobility 2000 website: www.mobility2000.co.uk/

Please contact Steve Humphries: IOBA Secretary for more details.

In 2011 Mobility 2000 Ltd and the Indefatigable Old Boys Association presented the British Limbless Ex-Service Men’s Association (BLESMA)with six wheelchairs and a cheque for £784 at Tedworth House, Tidworth, Wiltshire.

www.helpforheroes.org.uk/

The money was raised through the 2011 Indefatigable Old Boys Association annual reunion.

The wheelchairs were added to the extensive range of support equipment owned by BLESMA, which supplies its membership with wheelchairs and prosthetic support to carry out daily activities.

Simon Pegler, from Mobility 2000 and a member of the Indefatigable Old Boys Association, said: “It gives me and my business partners great pleasure in offering the wheelchairs to BLESMA. We work with ex-service personnel and have heard of the work BLESMA do. www.blesma.org/

We wanted to give something back to our servicemen and women who have been injured on active service.”

[Story source: Salisbury Journal]

 

 Please check back regularly for updates here, where you will see various activities of the IOBA.

All Old Boys and Staff are Cordially invited to the following Events.

April (20th) 2013 – Lord Mayor’s Charity Ball, Liverpool.

May (20th) 2013 – 2012 Indefatigable Cup presentation: IOBA’s seventh Sea Cadet Award, T.S. Blackcap (Unit SCC) – Birkenhead UK.

May (24 – 27th) 2013 – 70th Anniversary Battle of the Atlantic, Liverpool.

June (8th) 2013 – 10:30 IOBA 30th Annual Reunion School Visit & AGM, Llanfair PG (All Old Boys and Staff are Cordially invited).

June (8th) 2013 – 19:30 IOBA Reunion Evening Dinner, Carreg Mon Hotel, Llanfair PG (IOBA Membership is kindly required to attend the Reunion Evening Dinner). To pay for the 2013 reunion Lunch & Dinner: Please see ‘2013 Reunion payments’.

June (9th) 2013 – 09:00 Holy  Communion Service St Marys, Llanfair PG.

September (1st) 2013 – Merchant Navy Memorial Service  Liverpool.

TBA 2014  – Indefatigable 150th Anniversary Celebration.

 Please contact IOBA: Secretary steve_c_humphries@btinternet.com if you would like more information on Events above, and any you would like add to.

New ‘SIX yard Indefatigable’ flag was collected today (11/04/12).

Seen here IOBA members, Marc Hardman & Russell Jones holding each corner(!), picture taken at the Albert Dock – Liverpool.

The Blue Ensign was hung at the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral for the ‘Titanic 100th anniversary memorial concert’ Saturday March 24th. See our Web Page ‘Tribute to Titanic’ for more.

http://indeoba.c4242423.myzen.co.uk/?p=186

It was agreed to make the flag into our own ‘Ships Flag’, by Ensign Flags Co. A TWO meter ‘Liverbird’ was stitched on both sides (in proportion to the size of the flag). This will have impact when flown at Reunion’s / MN Day above the Liverbird Building itself!

Our thanks must go to IOBA Member: Tim Davis 90/94 for giving the blue ensign to the IOBA in the first place, to Pat Moran Hon Member and Marc Hardman 1961 who helped organise the final product.

Regards,

Steve Humphries 75/76.
Indefatigable Old Boys Association: Secretary & Archives Secretary.

Training Ship Indefatigable was a British training school for boys intending to join the Royal Navy or the Merchant Navy.

Until the middle of the nineteenth century the British Merchant Navy had no recognized training schools for boys entering the service. Education consisted of boys about 15 years old going to sea “to be led, guided, bullied and socialized into the culture of the sea”. There was no distinction between training for AB, and the training of future masters. Through experience it was possible to rise to the position of Master without any formal training. Beginning in the mid- nineteenth century various forms of navigational and seamanship schools were created to remedy the problem.

Source: http://www.liverpoolshipsandsailors.com/2012/03/26/the-indefatigable/