East Midland Branch

For the past 40 years the Fellowship of Veterans has organised and run the Remembrance parade at Sutton in Ashfi eld which is in North Nottinghamshire.

Numbers on parade has increased each year and now consists at present of approx. 200.

Unfortunately as attendance has increased, Fellowship members have fallen to about 6.As this parade relies on the local council to make a donation, the Fellowship had to fi nd an alternative group with more than 13 members, so they approached our Welfare Offi cer Mr Roy Harrison, who raised the question of our Branch taking on the responsibility.

We have attended this parade for the past 2 years, and received many positive comments about our turnout, so we put the question to the vote and all members agreed we should take this on. Therefore all future Remembrance Parades at Sutton in Ashfi eld will be organised and run by the Royal Green Jacket Association East Midlands branch. Many thanks go to Mr Roy Harrison who has worked so hard to make this happen.

On the 29th of May some of our members attended a Rifl es passing out parade at Rimy barracks, Catterick and although the weather wasn’t very good we all had a great time, special thanks to our host Sgt White, we then had lunch in the Sgts Mess where we were warmly welcomed and reminisced of our own passing out parades and times past.

I close on a sad note having recently lost one of our branch members Danny Tucker formerly of 3RGJ, who sadly passed away on 30th Apr 2015. He will be missed by family and friends alike.

Swift and Bold

Len Dooley, Chairman