Birthday Celebrations

Laying of the wreaths in Bathampton.

RCS members and colleagues from the West Country Branch of the Britian-Australia Society joined together with children from the local primary school at St Nicholas’s Church, Bathampton on October 9th  to celebrate the birthday of Admiral Phillip, the first governor of the Colony of New South Wales who is buried there.

Afterwards there was an excellent talk and lunch  at the Bath and County Club in the presence of the Mayor of Bath and representative from the Australian High Commission.