Coming Events
This list covers events which have been notified to the General Secretary. This Diary is far from complete and will be updated as and when events are notified. Alternatively a local Branch Secretary will have details of both local and national Association events.
Regimental Band Engagements can now be found on the Regimental Band page.
2008.
Sat 15 Mar Association Annual General Meeting, Wellington Barracks, London
Fri 11 Apr Northampton Branch Dinner
Sat 12 Apr North Lancashire Branch Dinner
Sun 13 Apr RHQ Team take part in the London Marathon
Fri 18 Apr Sussex Branch Dinner
Sat 19 Apr Surrey & E.Hants Branch Dinner
Sat 19 Apr Nottingham Branch Dinner
Sat 26 Apr Manchester Branch Dinner
Sun 27 Apr March Branch Lunch
Thur 8 May Freedom of Lincoln.
Sun 18 May Regimental Remembrance Day - Wellington Barracks, London
Mon 19 May First Guards Club Dinner
Sat 31 May Major General's Review of Queen's Birthday Parade
Wed/Thur 4&5 June Beating Retreat, Horse Guards Parade
Sat 7 Jun Colonel's Review of Queen's Birthday Parade.
Mon 9 Jun Colonel's Fund - Shoot and Lunch at Bisley
Sat 14 Jun THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY PARADE.
Sat 14 Jun Colonel's Fund - London to Waterloo Cycle Ride
Sun 15 Jun Essex Branch Lunch
Sun 22 Jun Norfolk Branch Lunch
Sun 22 Jun Burton on Trent Branch Lunch
Sun 29 Jun GRENADIER DAY - Lille Barracks, Aldershot.
Sun 29 Jun Colonel's Fund - Band Concert Pelham Place
Sat 5 Jul Windsor Branch Dinner
Sun 27 Jul Spalding Branch Lunch
16-30 Aug Colonel's Fund - Band Tour
Fri 29 Aug Worcester Branch Band Concert
Sun 28 Sep Worcester Branch Lunch
Sat 18 Oct Wolverhampton Branch Diiner
Sun 26 Oct Wessex Branch Lunch
Sat 1 Nov Sgt's Past and Present Dinner
Thu 6 Nov Field of Remembrance, Westminster Abbey
Sun 9 Nov Remembrance Day, Cenotaph, Whitehall.
Sat 22 Nov Liverpool Branch Dinner
Members wishing to attend Branch Dinners should contact the appropriate Branch Secretary
More
events, particularly Branch Dinners may be added later.
The following shows details of events of a Household Division nature which may be of interest to readers.
THE GUARDS CHAPEL.
Known officially as the Royal Military Chapel, was first built on its current site in 1838 and remodeled in 1873. In subsequent years, the walls were embellished by mosaics and memorials, to former members of the Brigade of Guards.
In June 1944, the building received a direct hit, from a flying bomb during a Sunday morning service. Over 120 people, both military and civilian were killed and many more injured in the blast. Miraculously, the candles lit around the altar were unaffected. The new Chapel, designed by Bruce George, was rebuilt around the surviving altar and apse and rededicated in 1963.
The chapel is open to the public for visits during the week between 10.00am and 4.00pm; 10.00am and 3.00pm on Fridays, with services each Sunday. Entry is from Birdcage Walk.
Please feel free to visit the chapel when you are next in London. You can also check opening times and services, prior to your visit, on 020-1414-3228/3229.
CEREMONY OF THE KEYS- HM TOWER OF LONDON
The Ceremony of the Keys takes place daily at 10pm. Interested
parties/individuals should write direct to HM Tower of London
giving as much notice as possible. Between 40-50 visitors are
admitted to watch the Ceremony of the Keys each night.
Members of the Association together with serving members of the Regiment join together at Wellington Barracks in May of each year to remember those comrades who gave their lives, throughout the history of the Regiment, for their country. Following the service of remembrance a wreath is laid in the Regimental Cloister in the Guards Chapel and then the members of the Association form up in which ever Battlion 'Company' they wish and march, with the Regimental Band, to the Guards Memorial on Horse Guards Parade where a second wreath is laid and on returning to Barracks are dismissed to congregate and to meet their friends. Members form up on the Barrack Square at 2.30 pm and the service in the Guards Chapel commences at 3 pm.
Prior to the Regimental Remembrance Day Service and at 1.30 pm a wreath is laid at the Mareth Cross (see places to visit) and surviving members of the 6th Battalion or the relatives of those who were at the battle of Mareth are invited to be present at the short service and wreath laying.