It's with great sadness I have to report the death of our Information Officer John Baumann.........Our sympathys go out to his family, he will be missed by us all. Until a new Information Officer is sort please contact any other MAFVA Officer.

Very sad news indeed. Please pass my condolences to his family Chris.

Vinnie

This is a sudden event, I came to read his frequent replies to people with a great deal of interest ans am saddened by this information about his passing.
My thoughts go out to all members of his family and friends at this time.

My condolances,

John Murcutt

Sad news.
My regards and condolences to John's family.

Dus

John was always good for a laugh with his wry sense of humour and was a great MAFVA character and we will really miss him personally, not just his services and knowledge. Filling his shoes as Membership Secretary will take some doing.

He was still helping folk on our website forum the day before sadly, he died. On Sunday 20th August, he made two entries on the earlier string giving directions to a member in the USA how to attend the next London meeting. That was John, ever helpful.

All our sad condolencies go to his family.

Gary Williams

President and Secretary
MAFVA

I did not know John, but I am very sorry to hear of his death.

My condolances to his family and the group.

Sincerely,
Jim

John’s Enthusiasm and knowledge will be missed by all especially by his fellow members at the Essex Branch and London Branch

Damn

Had some good E-mail conversations with him regarding busses in use during WW2... Send him a lot of pics received a lot of pics and a lot of information and had good contact with a lot of fun and jokes. I can only second that he was a very helpfull man which I enjoyed mailing with.

Very very sad to hear pass on my condoleances to the family please.

I somehow totally missed this and only just learned from this through AFV news. I'm very saddened by John's death. I was 19 or so when I first travelled to the UK to see Bovington camp and an event at Duxford. It was the first trip on my on there and he helped me getting things organised (I still have a phonecard he gave me) and I stayed at his place for a night. He also arranged for me to stay at Spike Judd's place then. Apart from that we were also in touch a lot by mail, trading information and articles. I have fond memories of him. It was great knowing him and though I've not been in touch the later years he will be missed.
I met his family at that time too and am sad to know they've had to go through this. Are they doing ok?

Bye, Ming-Hua