Membership Secretary

Membership is open to all interested in Channel Islands postal history, stamps, postcards, and ephemera. Membership application forms can be downloaded from the society website at www.ciss.uk or obtained from the Membership Secretary Exchange packets are circulated regularly on request. A postal auction is held twice yearly. A colour journal is published quarterly. Day meetings are held three or four times a year in London and the provinces. Applications for membership and subscription payments can be made through our website www.ciss.uk. In case of difficulty please contact our Membership Secretary by emailing membership@ciss.uk.

Subscriptions are due on 1 January every year.

The Society encourages electronic payment by bank transfer although the Society does continue to accept payments by cheque, or cash. PayPal is restricted to members overseas. Please see the online Subscription Renewal Form for details.

We welcome new members Harold Ford of Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA, and Simon Stutz of Stuttgart, Germany.

Welcome back to Dana Nielsen, Washington, USA, and Steve Norman, of Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

We regret to record the death of member David Le Maistre. Our condolences go to Ann.

Congratulations to the following who have reached significant points with their memberships:

30 years of membership – Bryan Elliston and Thomas Cowley.

50 years of membership – Paul Balshaw, Peter Cornish, Rodney Beale-Broughton, and Steve Wells.

Thank you all for your long support and friendship.

Congratulations to our members: Jon Aitchison FRPSL, for his achievement of a Gold medal for his display The Postal Stationery Envelopes of Egypt & Preceding Essays at York 2023 and to Keith Michaelson of Australia for his achievement of a Large Vermeil medal for his display The German Occupation of the Channel Islands at Perth National 2023.

We are pleased to welcome a new member, 2248 Greg Hands, London and a warm welcome back to 2103 Jason Cronin,  Jersey, who has re-joined the Society.

We are pleased to welcome the following new members:
2241 Gopal Sekhar, India; 2242 Ramon Toonen, The Netherlands; 2243 Carl Gavey, Jersey; 2244 Elizabeth Lakeman, Jersey; 2245 John Nicolle, Devon; 2246 Peter Shakespeare, Wiltshire; 2247 David Dymott, West Midlands.

We are pleased to welcome the following new members:
2232 Richard Johnson, Northamptonshire, 2233 Abhishek Bhuwalka FRPSL, India, 2234 Tom Dellar, Surrey, 2235 Daniel O’Toole, Jersey.

Rejoined: 435 Graham Gleeson, France, 1121 Raymond Dixon, Canada,
2100 Howard Wunderlich, New York

Very sadly, we regret to record the deaths of the following members:
1194 Michael Lowick, 1809 Jim Parsons.

Congratulations to our Chairman, David Winnie FRPSL, who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London on the 19th October 2022. David has now been a member of our CISS for some 45 years and served in various roles.

Hayden Moorcroft, our youngest member, entered the National Youth Championships stamp competition at Stampex with his entry Guernsey Regionals. He could not attend because of the rail strike, but he achieved a large silver gilt, the highest award at Youth level and won best in his class (age group). He is delighted and wishes to thank Nick Stuart who got him started on the regionals and supplied him with some material and Bryan Elliston who supplied him with nice large blocks and part sheets. He found his other material with Mint GB stamps, a dealer who has been very helpful and lastly on Ebay. I helped him with his first page and some information about the different perforators used, but he did the rest himself. Alan Moorcroft FRPSL.

At Stampex 2022 in the Palmares, Jon Aitchison FRPSL won Gold for his Embossed Postal Stationery Envelopes of Egypt and Preceding Essays and Large Silver for his Apollo 13 and Skylab Ground Tracking Stations.

We are pleased to welcome the following new members:
2226   Melvyn Borofsky, Florida
2227   Maureen Richardson, Jersey
2228   Claude Duperrex, Switzerland
2229   Robert Williams, Dorset
2230   Foster E. Miller, Maryland, United States
2231   Alan Cox, Bristol

Sadly, we very much regret to record the death of our members: 329, Leslie Bigland, Kendal, Cumbria and 949, Alan Hardwick of Vale of Glamorgan.

Our Guernsey member and Packet Secretary, John Triggs FRPSL, has recently found some typed notes in the Priaulx Library in Guernsey headed ‘SOME MEMORIES OF THE GUERNSEY POST OFFICE’ by A.G. Langlois who worked in the old GPO and Guernsey Post Office from 1926 until 1973. The notes are a series of extracts from letters exchanged between Dr J. (Tim) Whitney and A.G.Langlois and were first published by our then Editor, David Picton-Phillips, in Bulletin No.153, in December 1976.  They include varied observations of the period from the 1930s to the 1960s, which may have been included in later publications,  

We are pleased to welcome the following new members:
2224    Douglas McGill, California, USA
2225    Richard Kierton, Derbyshire

Sadly, we very much regret to record the death of our member 1388 Vernon Renier of Guernsey, Channel Islands.