A Rifleman’s Duty (Turning of The Pages

The Turning Of The pages is a small and simple ceremony of remembrance when names from the Rolls Of Honour of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and Rifle Brigade are read out in Winchester Cathedral. Held monthly it dates from the time when Peninsula Barracks was the Depot and home to both regiments. Today responsibility for carrying out this ceremony now lies with The Rifles together with its former and antecedent regimental associations.

It is always a little bit special therefore when someone closely associated with these regiments and Winchester in particular volunteers their time and service to such a meaningful ceremony - particularly if that volunteer happens to be a Rifleman and High Sheriff to boot!

Such a volunteer on this occasion was Major General Jamie Balfour CBE DL (late RGJ) and in his new appointment as High Sheriff of Winchester rode into town on Tuesday the 15th April and supported by his posse of deputies from the Hampshire Branch of the RGJA did just that.