Meeting Schedule
HOW TO JOIN:
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Attend any ACWRTQ monthly meeting or public event attended by the ACWRTQ, complete a membership form and make your fee payment directly to the club treasurer. 2019 Fees: individual $20 p.a or family $30 p.a.
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Contact Jack Ford on 3266 3534 or jackford@bigpond.net.au and he will post you a membership form to complete. Then post this form plus a cheque/money order to: ACWRTQ treasurer, 7 Station Avenue, Northgate, Qld. 4013.
ACWRTQ MEETINGS:
The American Civil War Round Table of Qld holds a meeting on the third Thursday of the month (except December) in the downstairs (Submariners Association Qld Room) of the Coorparoo RSL & Community Club at 45 Holdsworth St. Coorparoo 4151. Ph. 33979955. Meetings commence at 7.30 PM with a guest speaker or other presentation & conclude at 9 PM.
2018 MEETINGS/EVENTS
15 March Speaker: Danny Allsopp “PATRICK CLEBURNE, Boy General of the Confederacy”
19 April Speaker: Jack Ford “The naval battle of Memphis 6 June 1862”
6 May at Nundah & Districts Historical Society’s ‘Sir William Knox Archives’, Nundah Library. Guest Speaker Jack Ford “The ACWRTQ & the 24 ACW veteran’s graves located across Queensland”
17 May Speaker: John Duncan “My Journey through Civil War America”
9-10 June "HISTORY ALIVE at Ft Lytton National Park, Lytton:
21June No guest speaker being the AGM & a ‘Show & Tell’ session instead.
9 July Speaker: Stephen Booker-Mclay “The 1863-65 Stoneman Cavalry Raids- the Saltworks Campaign 1864: Salt, Sweat and Tears”
16 August Speaker: Bruce Dodd "ACW Mystery Quiz"
20 September Speakers: Shane & Donna Eadie "old US company scrapbook found in Brisbane industrial bin"
18 October: Speaker: Arthur Rentoul "Americans buried at Dunwich, Stradbroke Is."
27 October Southside History Network conference, Sunnybank Library
15 November no guest speaker. It was Christmas Feast & Film Night screening "DRUMS OF THE DEEP SOUTH" (1951)
2019 MEETINGS/EVENTS
17 January Show & Tell/Auction: Guest Sheryl Backhouse donating 2 boxes of ACW books. Proceeds to our club
21 February Guest Speaker: Danny Allsopp "2 Remarkable ACW Heroines"
THE BUGLE No. 75
21 March Guest Speaker: Jack Ford "Vicksburg Park 45 years ago"
31 March Members Fee due
18 April Guest Speaker: John Duncan "All at Sea- sortie against Union naval blockade, Hampton Roads, March 1862". Michelle Ellem: help identify 2 swords (ACW?);
16 May Guest Speaker: Stephen Booker-Mclay "The 1862 Missouri Battle that everyones heard of BUT knows little about" LONE JACK
15-16 June "HISTORY ALIVE -a Journey Through Time", Rocklea Showgrounds. ACWRTQ had display & raffle in the Ring plus public talks: Danny Allsopp- "SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY in the ACW" & Jack Ford- "ACW VETERANS BURIED IN QLD" .
20 June Annual General Meeting & SHOW & TELL session
THE BUGLE No.76 double-issue
18 July Guest Speaker: Bruce Dodd "ACW Quiz"
15 August Guest Speaker: Artie Rentoul "June019 Aussie Tour of Western Battlefields"
THE BUGLE No.77
19 September guest speaker: Danny Allsopp "Colonel John Wilder"
17 October Guest Speaker: Mike Richardson "Considering Gen. Lee"
THE BUGLE No.78 due
21 November no guest speaker due to Christmas feast & Civil War film night
December THE BUGLE No.79 due
Other events T.B.A.