Showing posts with label Remembrance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Remembrance. Show all posts

Saturday, 5 July 2025

RA Service of Remembrance 2025 NMA

 


RA Service of Remembrance 2025 NMA IJ

RA Service of Remembrance 2025 NMA 
Lancashire Artillery Band

Standards march to RA Memorial Garden

Honorary Chaplain and Standard Bearers

Regimental Colonel Wreath Laying

NMA RA Memorial 

RA Service of Remembrance 2025 NMA
Serving Regiment

RA Service of Remembrance 2025 NMA
Tyneside Scottish Branch RAA

Lancashire Artillery Band

National Memorial Arboretum
Armed Forces Memorial

 National Memorial Arboretum
49 (West Riding) Division Memorial





Saturday, 8 March 2025

Ex Magpie Progress - 50th Northumbrian Division Memorial

The 50th Northumbrian Division memorial located in the village of  Wieltje near where the Division fought its first action in April 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres. 

50th Northumbrian Division Wieltje 

The memorial records the units who served with the 50th Northumbrian Division during the First World War. 

50th Northumbrian Division Memorial
Units that served in the Division

Amongst the recorded on the memorial are those lineage links to 101 (Northumbrian) Regiment Royal Artillery .

The 1st (Northumbrian) Brigade Royal Field Artillery TF  included the 3rd Northumbrian Battery (later C/250)  from Elswick which links to 203 (Elswick) Battery based in Blyth. 

The 4th (Northumbrian) Brigade Royal Field Artillery TF included the 4th (Durham) Howitzer Battery (later D/250) from South Shields links to 205 (3rd Durham Volunteer Artillery) Battery based in South Shields. 

An act of remembrance was held by members of 101 Regiment RA to remember those lost from the Northumbrian Gunners.

50th Northumbrian Division Memorial
Exhortation


50th Northumbrian Division Memorial
Remembering the Fallen


 

Saturday, 9 November 2024

Remembrance 2024 - TS Jesmond URC

 Tyneside Scottish Branch Royal Artillery Association act remembrance at Jesmond United Reformed Church the Colour of the 23rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (4th Battalion Tyneside Scottish) was laid up after the First World War.

TS RAA Jesmond URC

And a few beers afterwards.

TS RAA The Carriage Jesmond 


Saturday, 2 November 2024

Saltwell Park 2024 - Field of Remembrance

 

Saltwell Park Poppy Cascade IJ


Field of Remembrance Dedication Service

Field of Remembrance Dedication Service

Field of Remembrance Dedication Service

Padre 101 RA

Saluting Gun 101 RA

Field of Remembrance Dedication Service
Services Commanders

CO 101 RA

Field of Remembrance Dedication Service
101 Regiment Royal Artillery

Field of Remembrance Dedication Service
101 Regiment Royal Artillery

Field of Remembrance Dedication Service
Tyneside Scottish Branch RAA

Field of Remembrance Dedication Service
Albert and Andy

Field of Remembrance D-Day Remembrance


Thursday, 12 September 2024

Amsterdam - National Moument

 The National Monument commemorate the casualties of the Netherlands who were lost during World War Two and subsequent conflicts. It is located at Dam Square in Amsterdam. 

National Monument Amsterdam


National Monument Amsterdam


National Monument Amsterdam


On 10th May 1940 the Germans invaded the Netherlands, a neutral country, and without a formal declaration of war. The Dutch armed forces surrendered on 15th May following the bombing of Rotterdam the previous day. The country remained under occupation until the allies launched Operation Market Garden in September 1944 and the liberation of the Netherlands began. Liberation was finally accomplished with the surrender of German forces in the Netherlands on the eve of 5 May 1945, three days before the general capitulation of Germany.

During the conflict 205,901 Dutch men, women and children died of war-related causes, of which 107,000 were victims of the  Holocaust. Another 30,000 people died in the Far East fighting the Japanese or in camps as Japanese POWs.

The National Monument was unveiled by  Queen Juliana of the Netherlands on 4 May 1956

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National Monument Amsterdam
Unveiling May 4th 1956
National Monument 1956
Dam Square 
Amsterdam

Saturday, 13 July 2024

RA Service of Remembrance 2024 NMA

 The  annual Royal Artillery Service of Remembrance held at the National Memorial  Arboretum. 


RA Service of Remembrance
Chelsea Pensioners and RAA Standard Bearers

The service was conducted by the Royal Artillery Honorary Padre, the focus of this years service being the 80th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion. 

RA Service of Remembrance

NMA D-Day Commemoration

On completion of the service participants moved to the Royal Artillery Garden of Remembrance. There the  Master Gunner of St James Park, Lieutenant General Andrew Gregory, unveiled a  statue to commemorate the Centenary of the Royal Artillery Association in 2020.

RAA Centenary Statue Unveiling

RAA Centenary Statue Unveiling

The RAA Centenary Statue features a figurine from the Royal Artillery Memorial on Hyde Park Corner.
RAA Centenary Statue


After the unveiling of the RAA Centenary Statue a wreath laying service was conducted. 

RA Remembrance Garden Service

RA Remembrance Garden Service
Wreath Laying

RA Remembrance Garden Service
Master Gunner lays wreath

RA Remembrance Garden Service
Newcastle Area Branches