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Proposals for use of Excess Funds
Attachment to minutes of Council Meeting held at dension Barracks, hermitage on Tuesday 1st October 2007
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Serial
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Proposal
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Proposer
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Value
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1
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Support anyone studying at MSc or PhD level a
contemporary topic relatingjo Defence surveying.
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James Prain & Carl
Calvert
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2
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Emulate the sort of
award made by British Library/Harley etc for serious research, such as
offering a bursary each year of say, £1000 for travel
expenses/subsistence to someone who proposed a serious, but not
necessarily large, piece of research
into a DSA-related work.
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Mike Nolan
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£1000 per
year
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3
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Support those who are
writing of the history of military surveying.
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James Prain
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3a
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Support to author(s) for
production of a history of the DSA
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Peter Walker
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4
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Production of a
history of Mil Svy on the style of Follow the Sapper and the Owen and
Pilbeam OS history (or rather
'story^of as distinct from a deep academic tome).
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Alan Gordon & Yo
Hodson
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5
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Support for those
who, whilst in service, have suffered injuries such that they are
unable to continue but, with some
financial support, would be able to contribute to the aims of the
DSA.
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Carl Cavert
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6
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Support the restoration
and maintenance of survey equipment held by or loaned to military
museums.
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James Prain
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7
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Cataloguing survey
exhibits in various museums, etc.
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Carl Calvert
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8
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Contract let
to: 1 . Catalogue all JAGO and RSMS
Mil Svy memorabilia at Hermitage prior to the move of 42 Regt to Wyton
and RSMS to Chicksands. 2.
Agree display/storage arrangements for all such memorabilia with GDI
estate rationalisation team (PRIDE), the RE Museum, DISC/GDI, JAGO and
RSMS.
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Peter Walker, John
Knight and Rupert Dash
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9
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Award a scanning
contract to Dave Johnston to scan, as a start: 1. "Maps and Survey" 2.
Report on Survey on the Western Front by Jack, HMSO 3. History of 4 Svy
Bn by McLeod 4. Provisional Report on WF by Winterbotham. 5. WW1 Sound
Ranging and Flash Spotting & Survey SS Publications. 6. Selected
U.S. publications on SR & FS in WW1. 7. Other WW1 FS & SR
documents. 8.
SMS Precis in order to get these into
the wider public domain by re-publishing them, or/by putting them the
new DSA website.
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Mike Nolan
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9a
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Contract to
scan all RSMS Course photographs
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Alan Gordon
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10
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Financial support/underwriting of annual
technical/historical seminar at Hermitage, to include expenses for
presenters, production of CD of
proceedings
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Mike Nolan
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£500-1000
per
year
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11
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Prizes for
articles in Ranger, perhaps £100
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Mike Nolan
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£100 per
year
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12
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Silver centrepiece
based on the Armillary Sphere that stands outside the front of RSMS HQ,
now represented on the RSMS shield and on RSMS letter heading.
Presentation to coincide with the dinner to be held at the Army and
Navy Club on 21 Jan 08 to celebrate 60 years of the Army Survey
Course. With the expected move of
RSMS to Chicksands this would also represent a lasting memento to the
ASC and the School's time at
Hermitage, 60 years this year, and would provide RSMS with a piece of
silver that could be pj;oudlyjdisglayed in the Officers' Mess at
Chicksands.
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John Knight
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£1200-2000
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13
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Silver centre
piece to commemorate the retirement of the Canberra PR9.
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Mike Nolan
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