Back issues

Here’s an at-a-glance view of just some of the diverse subjects that have been covered in past issues of the Pennant since 2005, it’s by no means a complete list but it gives you a sense of the variety – no wonder people await each new issue so eagerly!

May 2011

Issue features:

Interview : British astronaut in waiting
Operational : Military working dogs, Queen Elizabeth class
Heritage & History : Honours, British Military Tattoo, Royal Armouries, Gibraltar, Vulcan XH558
Finance : Other Ranks Pay Codes, RAF Association, AFPRB, Gilts
The Society : FPS Snapshot, our new Chairman, FPSCF brief
General : New Covent Garden, the magician, butlers of Baghdad

November 2010

Issue features:

Main Features: Interview 1 - CEO of the Taxpayers Alliance, Imprisonment, Combat Stress, Adoption
New Political Landscape: Interview 2 - The Political Landscape, RPI to CPI explained, Armed Forces and NHS, Academies, Government Actuary
Operational: Training the Iraqi Navy, Stabilisation, Hasler Company
Heritage and History: Bletchley Park, Trieste, Burma Pilgrimage, Colonial Service
Your Finances: Other Ranks Pay Codes, Wealth Management, AFPRB, Gilts
The Society: 5 Things your MP should know, Our Healthcare Scheme explained, Cosmos Holiday

May 2010

Issue features:

Main Features: Sea blindness, Service Complaints Commissioner interview, Relief in Haiti, The Rocking Horse Men, London Gangs
The New Europe: Religious revival in Russia, Hungary 1989, Reunification of Germany 1990
Heritage and History: Tian Shan, The Dodo, Royal Gunpowder Mills
Operational: Delivering support in Afghanistan
Your Finances: National Insurance credits for spouses, Pay Codes, Holiday insurance

November 2009

Issue features:

Features: Homelessness, Woodland Trust, Vauxhall City Farm, Queen’s Swan Marker
World of Work: Transition, Second Career in NATO, Executive Search, Pro Bono, Coaching
Heritage & History: Reminiscences, Arundel Castle, Berlin Wall, Remembrance
Operational: RN EOD
Your Finances: Annuities Part 2, Probate, Pay Codes

May 2009

Issue features:

Main Features: Citizenship, Matchmaking, Today – Every Day, Forces Digital Radio
Young People: Crimestoppers
Heritage and History: Lord Mayor’s Pageant Master, Commemorating and Remembrance, HMS Warrior, Military Music
Operational: Destroying Chemical Weapons, The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
Your Finances: Purchasing Annuities
Overseas: A View From Australia and A View From New Zealand

November 2008

Issue features:

The Royal Hospital Chelsea & the Margaret Thatcher Infirmary
The Infrastructure of Benevolence: Help for Heroes, Sir Oswald Stoll
Foundation, SSAFA, St. Dunstan’s of Llandudno
Young People: Skill Force and the Field Gun Competition
Heritage and history: Edinburgh Castle and Vulcan to the Sky
Operations: Air Transport Force, A Submariners view of life and
Another Front Line in Afghanistan
Pensions: Progress in campaigning and wider developments

May 2008

Issue features:

Berlin Airlift – Roots of friendship remembered
Flying food and coal into Berlin
FPS Cyprus Branch
Operations in Iraq
Unique Nature of Military Service
Equity Release
Changing rules for State Pension

November 2007

Issue features:

The Vulcan bomber – the story of its restoration and first flight for 13 years
The Cold War warriors who piloted the Vulcan
An exploration of the history of Walmer castle
Rebuilding Afghanistan – a report by Brigadier Dickie Davis CBE
How to get published – from pen to paper
A profile of a City of London Beadle
Paymaster – how we were paid through the years since 1836

May 2007

Issue features:

The Falklands War remembered
The Governorship of Windsor Castle
How to make a Maltese cross – the hazards of driving on the island
The British Commander in Chief’s mission to the Soviet Forces in Germany
A second career – life after the forces
Who cares about carbon footprints – a tale of composting and other matters
Armed Forces medals in the post Cold War era
7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery on ops in 2006
What cap badge were you?
The Corps of the Drums Society

November 2006

Issue features:

The Gunners today
Buying a house in Slovenia
ARRC’s deployment to Afghanistan as HQ ISAF IX
The Society hits sixty
The move of the Gunners from Woolwich to Larkhill – after 300 years!
From Russia – with a hangover
A brief history of photographic interpretation
The Royal Artillery Museum
Practical semaphore - demonstrated for the New York City Ballet!
Working as a consultant – some practical tips

May 2006

Issue features:

150th anniversary of the Victoria Cross
The last visit of a Sunderland flying boat
Lieutenant Christopher Teesdale – his part in the defence of Kars
The Royal Army Chaplain’s Department in the 21st Century
Celebration of the award of the VC to Johnson Beharry
HM Naval base, Clyde
Remembrance Travel – visiting war graves around the world
The joys of moving – a memoir about the trials and tribulations of married quarters
A shed too far – a cautionary story of DIY

November 2005

Issue features:

The Battle of Trafalgar
Surveillance and attack over land and sea
A flight to remember – an incident packed journey from Bahrain to Aden in a DC3
Commemoration of the end of World War Two
An Eritrean posting – altitude and attitude remembered by an Army wife
Making friends with the locals in Singapore
Good Will or bad will – is yours in good order?
The Armour Centre – training tomorrow’s soldiers
VJ day – release and return
My last days with the Raj
The moving tale of Tortie - a pet tortoise
3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines

May 2005

Issue features:

The end of the Second World War
Suspicious circumstances – encounters with unexploded objects
Operation Fairplay – the UN’s mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea
The Royal Army Veterinary Corps in the 21st Century
Buying a place in the sun
1945 and all that – a personal memoir by the young wife of an army officer
The old and new Kenya Navy
My time in the Women’s Land Army
Life at the Tower of London
Tales from an allotment – the battle of the weeds