THE BALCHIN FAMILY SOCIETY – MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM

The Balchin Family Society is a non-commercial organisation, run by volunteer family members. The Society exists: to promote and encourage research into Balchin Family history to produce and circulate a Family Newsletter with findings and information provided by members to organise gatherings and meetings to collaborate with Members in supporting the Society’s activities and objectives. […]

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THE BALCHIN FAMILY NEWSLETTER- EXTRACTS

THE BALCHIN FAMILY NEWSLETTER- EXTRACTS Any connection of a milk bottle with 1944 preparations for D-Day? –  Professor Tom Balchin Tom found the following account by William Brooks, the general secretary of East Wittering Local History Group, about some allied 1944 preparations for D-Day. Allied troops practising for the Normandy landings by invading Ray Balchin’s […]

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Books

‘His Own Executioner: The Life of Nigel Balchin’ by Derek Collett This biography of Nigel Marlin Balchin tells the story of a man who, at various points in his life, was an industrial psychologist, an army officer, a film scriptwriter and, of course, a very fine novelist. The book can be posted to members in the […]

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Binders for Newsletters

Binders for Newsletters The binders hold 16 issues and are covered in a dark green material, with the shell and anchor of the Society’s badge. The binders cost £7.50 each including postage and packing in the UK. For overseas the cost is £10 each including airmail postage and packing. **Special Package Deal**  Issues 1-16 of Newsletter […]

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Newsletter Back Issues

Newsletter Back Issues All Issues of the Family Newsletter are available from 1995 onwards (original, not photocopied). See Journals for a list of the contents of each issue. Newsletter Issues 1 to 10 are sold at the reduced price of £1.50 per copy. All subsequent copies are priced at £2.50 per copy. Both prices include packing […]

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