To all Shipmates,

Our January Mess Night will take place on next Tuesday, 14 January, at 7.30pm for 8.00pm start.

On 24 January 1945, the Fleet Air Arm launched an air raid to attack the Japanese oil refineries at Palembang in Sumatra. Five days later they repeated the feat. Despite it being the biggest ever air raid launched by Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers either before or after Operation Meridian, as it was known, it has been largely forgotten.

Our January Mess Night will celebrate the 80th anniversary of this attack. Our Vice Chairman, S/M Ralph Dodds, will give an illustrated talk about the actions of all those years ago and describe the impact that it had on the War on the Far East.

The raffle will close the evening.

Do come along and join in.