sorting some stuff out before and came across a real blast from the past.i found the program from the silver jubilee at sennelager along with the sixth sense from the following week.great day as far i can remember,never forget the dust.i was a manager at shloss neuhaus at the time and got my ticket in the ballot of civilians.as i said a great day and reading the program and sixth sense brought back some great memories.graham.

paul ,having trouble with printrt/scanner but will give it a try in the morning.graham.

Hi Paul,

Somewhere in the loft I have one of the presentation porcelain pint mugs that were issued as a commemorative. If I can find it, would you like some pics?

Morris

Here you go Morris. Click on the image for a bigger picture. Used thumbnails as images are quite large at original size. Paul.

Spent weeks painting and polishing up our 432's for that. I didn't go for some reason but I understand the dust was something else. Bit pointless all that bull then!

Hey!!!! Anything that you guys can put on about that parade would be fantastic, I had loads of stuff from back then as I was on the Parade and shook hands with her Maj, but in 84 a divorce came along and all my memories went up in flames,,,,sad how some people can be isnt it?

hi i was on the parade in 1977 with my 432 crew and yes it was

very dusty still got my mug i was in 15sqn rct it was hot.

jock aitken B.E.M.

should have scanner back to morrow,wish i still had the pics i took on the day,the sober ones anyway,too many changes of address and divorce years ago means a lot of things have gone awol.graham.

with a bit of luck and the wind in the right direction should have pictures of the jubilee program on this forum in the next couple of hours.graham

We had a Queens silver jubilee parade at 16 Bn Bicester but what made this particular parade a bit special was the fact that HRH herself attended. We had two drill Sgts from Pirbright (Welsh Guards if memory serves) spend a couple of weeks putting the Battalion through the routine for the parade and it must be said, they were very good at what they did. No bawling or beasting, they just knew how to teach drill and when they had finished we were bloody good. I was pleased to be picked for the guard of honour even though this meant extra drill, but we were inspected by HRH herself (I didn't realise until then how short she was)

We were told the Battalion would be awarded five Jubilee medals (for a Battalion of 600!) I have no idea if this was the case or not. I certainly didn't recieve one, and I don't know anyone else who did.

In later years the silver jubilee medal was (in my experience) seen as something of a joke. I did once or twice see it on officers chests while on parade but fortunately for them, at a glance most people couldn't identify it.

help cant get past stage 3 to post scans of silver jubilee parade....graham