Remembrance - 2018
Falklands Conflict - Veterans’ 35th Anniversary Commemoration and Remembrance Service
RRA & Welsh Guards Memorials, Fitzroy, Falklands Conflict, St David’s Day Wednesday 1st March 2017
Traditionally the Welsh Guards arrange for a small group of survivors from the Fitzroy tragedy to attend a Commemoration and Remembrance Service on St David’s Day each year. For most this is the first time they have returned to Bluff Cove since that fatal day 8th June 1982 and is therefore a particularly emotional experience. A team of their Veterans had just carried out a charity tab
(equivalent of a yomp) across 60 miles of the Island, camping out and reliving the War in honour of the fallen.
The moving service was conducted, in a Force 9 gale, by Revd Kathy Biles, Rector of the Falklands Islands. After the wreaths were laid at the Welsh Guard’s memorial, including one for the Merchant Navy, there was another short service at the RFA memorial on the opposite headland. Another wreath was laid on behalf of the RFA Association by member Captain David Parsons, Chief Executive of the Merchant Navy Welfare Board, who was visiting the Islands for the first time. David had served in RFA between 1971 and 1977 and spent 12 very happy months on Sir Galahad during that time.
Traditionally the Welsh Guards arrange for a small group of survivors from the Fitzroy tragedy to attend a Commemoration and Remembrance Service on St David’s Day each year. For most this is the first time they have returned to Bluff Cove since that fatal day 8th June 1982 and is therefore a particularly emotional experience. A team of their Veterans had just carried out a charity tab
(equivalent of a yomp) across 60 miles of the Island, camping out and reliving the War in honour of the fallen.
The moving service was conducted, in a Force 9 gale, by Revd Kathy Biles, Rector of the Falklands Islands. After the wreaths were laid at the Welsh Guard’s memorial, including one for the Merchant Navy, there was another short service at the RFA memorial on the opposite headland. Another wreath was laid on behalf of the RFA Association by member Captain David Parsons, Chief Executive of the Merchant Navy Welfare Board, who was visiting the Islands for the first time. David had served in RFA between 1971 and 1977 and spent 12 very happy months on Sir Galahad during that time.
Remembrance - 2016
Summer Lunch - 2016
The Grand Hotel, Torquay
Venue for the
PDB Summer Lunch
9th July 2016
Photos from the Summer Lunch... (click on image for a bigger picture).
Previously...
Your Treasurer, Chairman and Secretary as seen on 18th March 2016
