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BY CaPt MICk BohaN (54 ReS Cav SqN & Cav CluB CoMMIttee)
sociation were to enable members to keep in touch with each other by the organisation of social functions, and the promotion of the welfare of ex members of the Cavalry Corps of all ranks. Today the primary objective of the Cavalry Club continues to be the maintenance of contact between officers of the Cavalry Corps, serving and retired. With membership spread throughout Ireland and overseas, it's important to have a central engine-room and, therefore, day-
events is the YO Induction Dinner, run every year to welcome newly commissioned cavalry officers into the club. This event is usually held in the Military College and is attended by the chief of staff. Another annual event, the Octogenarians Lunch, held in McKee Barracks, has proven very popular with our veteran members. The annual Cavalry Club Dinner is also hosted each November. All ideas for various events submitted by the members are considered by the committee and are acted upon if deemed possible to do so. Ordinary membership is open to all serving and retired cavalry officers, and the club also has Associate and Honorary members.
to-day management of the club's affairs and activities is vested in a committee of not less than seven, and not more than 11, members. These individuals are elected by the members at the club's annual general meeting and hold office for one year. The committee meets on average once a month to organise and run social functions and events. Among the most popular
Current membership stands at about 210. For more information please contact Honorary Secretary - Cavalry Club c/o Lt Neil Cur- ran - cavalryclub@gmail.com or visit: www.cavalryclub.ie/index.html
he original concept of the Cavalry Club was born out of a desire by a number of serving and retired officers in 1944 to form a cavalry officers association to enable members of the Corps who had retired, or would soon be demobbed after the Emergency, to have contact with serving cavalry officers and, by extension, the Corps. The initial objectives of that as-
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Members of the Cavalry Club with the Chief of Staff in 2010
Members on a Military Monument Tour - Dublin 2012
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