UKNDA (UK National Defence Association)

To campaign for sufficient, appropriate and fully funded Armed Forces that the United Kingdom needs to defend effectively this Country, its people, their vital interests and security at home and throughout the world.
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FOR THE UKNDA TO CAMPAIGN EFFECTIVELY FOR

SUFFICIENT, APPROPRIATE &
FULLY FUNDED ARMED FORCES

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Our Armed Forces

Academic Think Tanks

Political Parties

Find and get FULL DETAILS about your MP, the House of Lords, and all Debates etc:  Click on: www.theyworkforyou.com  

Cross-party political pressure-groups
Henry Jackson Society  

The Henry Jackson Society is a non-profit and non-partisan organisation that seeks to promote the following principles: that liberal democracy should be spread across the world; that as the world’s most powerful democracies, the United States and the European Union – under British leadership – must shape the world more actively by intervention and example; that such leadership requires political will, a commitment to universal human rights and the maintenance of a strong military with global expeditionary reach; and that too few of our leaders in Britain and the rest of Europe today are ready to play a role in the world that matches our strength and responsibilities.
 
Special Mention Websites
 
http://www.geminiforces.co.uk - Gemini Forces is a leading ex-Military Recruitment Specialist. Gemini has been successfully assisting HM Forces members with their transition from military to civilian life for the last 10 years.
 
http://www.navalclub.co.uk - The Naval Club is the ideal place to stay in London, whether for business or pleasure. In the heart of fashionable Mayfair, the Club occupies a listed Georgian Town House, the 18th Century residence of the Earl of Chatham, brother of William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of Great Britain. Members can hold private and corporate functions and business meetings using our comfortable facilities and elegant function rooms. Accommodation is available in our 27 bedrooms. The Club offers a relaxed and friendly atmosphere in a setting where all those interested in the sea and maritime affairs can feel at home. It is not necessary to have served in the Navy to become a member.

http://www.palacebarracksmemorialgarden.org  - A quiet corner of Holywood Army base has become a memorial and a poignant place of pilgrimage for the bereaved families of the security force personnel killed in the Troubles and other conflicts around the world...

http://www.warshipmanagement.co.uk - Save HMS Plymouth - A website to help stop H.M.S. Plymouth from being scrapped, because this is just what will happen if we can't raise enough money to save her and take her 'home' to Plymouth, Devon, UK - the city where she was built, is named after, and spent a great deal of time during her Naval service. To pledge just £1 to help save HMS Plymouth click here.

http://www.battleofbritainmemorial.org - Battle of Britain Memorial Trust - Commemorating "The Few" through events and reunions, and maintaining the Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel-le-Ferne, Kent. The Hon.Sec. of the Trust is UKNDA Vice-President, Group Captain Patrick Tootal.

http://www.royaltournament.org - Remember the Royal Tournament? - To relive the excitement of the Field Gun Run and enjoy again the many splendours of the Tournament, click here on "Memories of the Tournament".

Michael Yon’s Online Magazine website
"Photo Dispatch of British soldiers at war"

http://www.royalsocietyofstgeorge.com  - The Royal Society of St George - The Premier Patriotic Society of England - Patron: Her Majesty The Queen. Publishes the quarterly magazine England's Standard and holds events on major military anniversaries such as Waterloo Day, Battle of Britain Day and Trafalgar Day, as well as on St George's Day. There are branches of the RSStG throughout the UK and the Commonwealth, and in British expatriate communities around the world.

http://www.victorianmilitarysociety.org.uk - Victorian Military Society - Dedicated to the study of military and naval history of the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Publishes the quarterly magazine Soldiers of the Queen (SOTQ), edited by the UKNDA's PRO, Andy Smith. Regular contributors to SOTQ include the foremost authorities on 19th and early-20th century British and Colonial military history, including Ian Knight, Ian Beckett, Dr Rodney Atwood and Dr Roger Stearn.

http://www.orientsupporters.webeden.co.uk/somme-memorial-fund/4535333173 - Leyton Orient Supporters Club "Somme Memorial Fund" - Launched by UKNDA members Steve Jenkins and Mark Hayball (great grandson of Fred "Spider" Parker, who helped form the 17th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, known as the "Footballers' Battalion".) Orient players Richard McFadden and William Jonas were among those killed during the Battle of the Somme. UKNDA members are invited to support the appeal for a permanent memorial at the Somme by purchasing one of the special Somme Memorial Fund badges.
 
http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/exhibitions/football/page2.shtml - National Army Museum online exhibition on the Footballers' Battalion in the First World War.
 
Other related websites
  • Navy Matters  An unofficial and well researched site about the Royal Navy and its challenges with insufficient resources.
  • Action for Armed Forces  An action group headed by UKNDA vice-president Colonel Bob Stewart.
  • The list UK   A mutual support organisation for ex-service personnel.
  • Sama82  An association for veterans of the Falklands' conflict.
  • www.cdiss.org   Centre for Defence and International Security Studies     
  • Sea Vision UK   An association of 190 organisation from across the wider maritime section at sea and ashore
  • Junior Leaders Regiment 
  • RMPA London  Royal Military Police Association - London Branch
  • HMS Gambia   Ex Gambian? So isn't it time you joined the HMS Gambia Association
  • Australia Defence Association  Founded in Perth in 1975 by a retired air force chief, a leading trade unionist and the director of a business peak body, the Australia Defence Association (ADA) has long been Australia’s only truly independent, non-partisan, community-based, public-interest guardian organisation and ‘think-tank’ on defence and wider national security issues
  • Pension4Army  Up-to-date Army news and pension information, with links to numerous military charities and other organisations' websites.
 
Encouraging and providing support for all members of the British Armed Forces and their families at home
Encouraging and providing support for all members of the British Armed Forces and their families at home
 
Royal Navy ships & ditties and Old Ship's Contacts.
 
SRN - Save the Royal Navy
SRN - Save the Royal Navy
 
Historical Warfare is the one stop shop for all those interested in Military History
Historical Warfare is the one stop shop for all those interested in Military History
 
National Ex Services Association
National Ex Services Association, helping ex service personnel get what they deserve
 
7 Squadron Association, Royal Air Force
7 Squadrion Association, for those that have served in 7 Squadron, Royal Air Force
 
3(F) Squadron Association
3(F) Squadrion Association, for those that have served in 3(F) Squadron, Royal Air Force

Help us develop this links page

This is a 'young and growing' page which will provide links to other websites about 'Defence' and the 'Armed Forces'.  Readers are encouraged to contact us and tell us about such sites they have found and can recommend to us for inclusion on this page.

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Web-site Forums or Chat rooms

The following chat rooms (also described as unofficial community centres) are not related in any way to the UKNDA, but their contact details are provided so that those who are interested in seeing the very broad variety and nature of some views on 'Defence' over a wide spectrum may do so.

         
  • www.rumration.co.uk  The very UNofficial Navy-related chat room Created in 2006 by the operators of the arrse site.        
  • www.arrse.co.uk  The very UNofficial Army-related chat room (community web-site) where 'arrse' stands for Army Rumour Service              
  • www.e-goat.co.uk The very UNofficial RAF-related chat room (rumour network) 
  • www.pprune.org.uk A UK commercial aircrew forum extended to include military aircrew - look under "Military Flying" 

Letters to your favourite editor

So that you may submit your 'letters to the editor" of your favourite paper - here are the various Newspapers' e-mail addresses.  In order to get your letter(s) selected for publication (the Daily Telegraph, for example, gets about 700 letters a day - and prints about a dozen!), keep your letter:

Short. Punchy. Topical and original!

Only send your letter on any particular subject to just ONE Paper/Editor at one time. Editors normally will only use 'exclusive' letters.  If you don't get a response from the first paper you write to - THEN you can write to another one, and so on.

Lastly - when writing to newspapers or magazines about Defence related issues, please include a reference to the UKNDA - ideally by referring to one of the Association's reports or by signing as a "member of the UK National Defence Association".