Membership of the RNPA
Membership of the RNPA site is open to all serving and ex-Phots. who have been in the branch. In order to access the profiles of other members requires you to be a member. We welcome anyone who is, or has been a navy phot.
Discretionary Membership of the Association
At the discretion of your committee they may also 'invite' a person to join our Association if they serve as a member of the committee or have a direct connection with the branch in some capacity.
Serving RN Photographers
Serving phots. are automatically members of the Association and are not required to pay the normal annual subscription for membership.
When a serving phot. leaves the service he or she is asked to pay the annual subscription of £15pa for single membership, or £20pa for joint membership.
On the right is a button that will open up our Membership Application Form. This will allow you to print the form off.
Our Membership Secretary, Steve King, will process your application and a membership number.
Are you still in touch with any Ex-RN Photographers?
If you are currently in touch with any phot. who is not a member then please help us to swell our numbers by letting them know about the RNPA. The easiest way to do this is to share the RNPA website with them, and then let us know too.
You can do this by contacting our current chair, Julie Richardson.
The email address is:
rnpa.membership@gmail.com
Hallo – I wonder if there are any members who were National Service Phots ?
I joined August !955 at Lee on Solent, with basic training at Nuneaton, was categorised as a Phot and was trained at the School of Photography at HMS ? at Ford Sussex.
I know it’s very ancient history – but is there anyone out there who has any memories of those days
Ian M. Johnson Colchester Essex Feb. 2015
Greetings fellow Nat, Service type !! Like you I joined way back in the mists of time when things were a bit different from now ! That was June 1956.
I started off at HMS Daedalus to get kitted up then off to HMS Gamecock at Nuneaton… Ark Royal Division. As you did, it was then down to HMS Peregrine at Ford and our mess was over on the Yapton side of the airfield until being moved later to the main camp. Happy days, where I did the Phot 2 course bar two weeks but was a Phot 3 in the long run.
Then, having joined the Navy to see the world, I made the long journey to HMS Fulmar at Lossiemouth . Can’t complain as enjoyed every moment.
Lots of things we can talk about I’m sure but better via our own email addresses ?
Look forward to seeing if this gets to you. as your post is a year old.
Ron.
Hello I remember you. Jock Hetherington, a we Scot from Edinburgh. We were at Lossie along with , Bill Huggett, Keith ( blossome). Hartle, a chap called Midglow, and chief Stan Fairhurst. Think we had w/e in Inverness, where I now live. Small world. My name is George. Ash .
Good gracious , great hearing from you George..
That was way back in 1957/58
Yes as a mere Nat Service type, my time in the Phot branch was of course limited but I am as proud as any other Phot., of being a member of such an elite group and I still dabble though in the modern systems !
You were my mentor way back then in the section and guided me in so many things !
You were a L/A back then.
Many a happy memory indeed
I kept following your progress through the archives and such like, noting your progress right up to time you were …what was it…boated out in a dingy ? at the time you retired from the service.
Yes I remember you well and still somewhere in my bits and pieces , I have a No8 shirt you gave to me and it has G.A.Ash stamped on it !!
I even have some old B&W pics of you and others taken in the Mess
Indeed I remember the names you mentioned and also Bogey Knight, Paul Yokney and no doubt some others but fondly remember Chiefy, Stan Fairhurst He for some reason took a shine to me and brought in a marmalde roll for me every morning from the Chief’s Mess…Shades of Paddington Bear
In return, I had to being him sticks of Edinburgh Rock for his daughter, if I was ever back down in Edinburgh
When my time was up, I considered signing on but Stan Fairhurst said to leave, give it 6 months and then see how I felt……I ended up in Banking instead, for my sins !!
Yes back in those days, being a photographer was a real skill and certainly for one doing National Service, a dream come true as it was a VERY limited opportunity for Nat Service
So much has changed now digital has come about and computers and iPads and Phones etc where anyone can be a photographer and turn out excellent work….
The Photographic Branch as I knew it has all gone and it’s all now Inter-service ?
I have often been up and around Lossie but now the RAF is there, all is completely different as is Lossie itself
Nice to know you are living in Inverness, another of my frequent haunts and I wonder if we ever unknowingly passed in the streets !!
So there we are… blast from yhe past and coming across your quite recent reply has made my day
All well here and hope you and yours are all well.
Cheers,
Ron Hetherington
Is Stan Fairhurst still alive and kicking. Can’t say I found him very agreeable but otherwise interested.
Stan Fairhurst isn’t a name I remember, but can you give more information about your time, and Stan’s, in the branch?
When did you serve? More information might help trigger someone’s memory!
I replied to Norman’s request for information on Stan Fairhurst via this feature. Will he get it. Ray/
1948-1960 Remembered Stan Fairhurst as coming from general service as a volunteer phot looking for a cushy number. Not the best educated or culured chap, or likeable as I remember.
Norman…Ray Pogson has been trying to write to you, but the email address he has for you is bouncing his emails. Can you send me your email address and I will then let him know what it is so he can write to you. Thanks, Tony (webmaster)