I have been expelled from the club by the club cretins!

There was my analysis of the 97/98 accounts. This was followed by a similar exercise for the 98/99 accounts.

Interspersed with these a friend and I were being harassed, threatened and assaulted by a power crazed committee member and being set up by his daughter, the barsteward.

To cap it all the branch committee gives the treasurer £250 to buy Premium Bonds in his own name!

I know that all this sounds unbelievable, but go to my index page and read my pages in chronological order and you will see the story unfold.

Your ref : Club

My ref : ro06129

6/12/99

Mr. N S H de Prochnow

Royal British Legion

Regional Organiser Eastern Region

Jupiter House (2nd Floor)

Station Road

Cambridge CB1 2JU

Dear Mr. de Prochnow,

I enclose copies of pages that relate to my web site.

I give up!

Your office failed to persuade the club secretary to send me a copy of the registered rules.

Considering this, I have no confidence in your office having any authority in the carrying out an appeal or monitoring an appeal.

I am fortunate. I can walk away from the fiasco.

A month or so before the assault, one of the older members was speaking to me. He was complaining about the committee. I said that I did not look upon the club as my club but as my local pub. I had no interest in the politics of the committee. He replied by saying, "All it needs for evil to flourish is for good men to turn their backs."

I did not, and could not, turn my back on a fried when he was assaulted. I may have learnt a lesson, but I have no regrets.

I understand that the club will continue in business and that the branch treasurer is still in office.

Yours sincerely,

Edward C Aylward

cc Mr. P A Henderson Controller Membership

cfi Mr. Ian Townsend Secretary General

Earlier I said that I would let you have sight of the confidential letter in reply to the above letter from Mr. De Prochnow. Here it is slightly edited.

My ref : ro211299

21/12/99

Mr. N S H de Prochnow

Royal British Legion

Regional Organiser Eastern Region

Jupiter House (2nd Floor)

Station Road

Cambridge CB1 2JU

I refer to your very brief letter of 20/12/99 that smelt of panic and confessed failure.

You make no reference to the enclosures. You give no opinion on my reasons for asking for the "charges" to be dropped. You make no comment on the drinking during the hearing. You avoid the fact that the prime witness refused to attend. You just do a Nelson!

I put this to you as a confidential letter. But, if you wish, you may again be stupid and publish it; as you did my letter concerning the Premium Bonds.

I cannot make out whether you are just naive, or that you really are that incompetent.

Hampson has stuck a finger up to you and told you to spin on it! Jobson dropped you in it by going public with my confidential letter to you. (And he still refuses to cash the bond and return the £250 to the accounts.)

Hampson can now do with his rule book what he did with his finger!

You now expect me to go into the bear pit and be used as an Aunt Sally by the club cretins. (Sorry about the mixed metaphors)

You, Mr. de(ar) Prochnow, have to live with your embarrassing failures. As I have said in my letter of 6/12/99, "I can walk away from it." You have to sit there.

Every morning, when you look in the mirror, you will remember me and I will be looking back at you and holding up two fingers.

I have held senior positions and have had to fight, and at times put my job on the line, to achieve justice. If I had failed, so miserably, as you have, in all the matters that I have placed before you, I would have resigned.

I have achieved what I set out to do.

I have made the hierarchy realise their lack of control.

I have prodded the club and branch members into activity.

The club will now be milked for another six months and close down.

The £250 will be returned to the accounts.

As I said to you in our first phone call, "I have been saying that as I have used the club for three years. I'll have to do something to get myself barred so that I have to go elsewhere." I even achieved that!

I do have sympathy for you. But, if you worked for me, I would sack you.

My compliments of the season.

And so to the requiem!

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