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 […]
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 […]

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 […]

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 […]
Seal Ring – Badge of Lord Lingfield, 2010
18ct Gold and Intaglio Carnelian seal ring badge belonging to Lord Lingfield, 2010

Mourning Pin – Richard Balchin (1832)
Mourning pin for the death of Richard Balchin aged 62 (1832)

Victorian Cameo Picture
A Victorian cameo of Miss Mary Balchin (1815-1851) daughter of Captain Joseph Moss Balchin and wife of John White (1810-1859) of Dorking, Surrey. John and Mary were married in 1836.

Academic Books
Two works covering different sciences.

Campaign and War Medals
A collection of medals from conflicts around the world.