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Gheluvelt Company
‘Gheluvelt Company’ has been formed and all officers of the Mercian Regiment or its antecedent Regiments, serving or retired, Regular or Reserve, are automatically members. Gheluvelt Company provides a framework for engagement, networking, and social interaction, which will include
an annual networking event, quarterly updates from Commanding Officers, and Regimentally themed excursions. It will also promote and foster the Mercian Regiment Association and the Mercian Mentoring Programme.
October 1914), which will be the Mercian Regiment Networking Day and Gheluvelt Dinner, in London or Bulford. At least once a year, Gheluvelt Company members
will be invited to informal drinks night (‘Company smoker’) in the 1 MERCIAN Officers’ Mess. Gheluvelt Company will also signpost core Regimental events, such as the Crich Pilgrimage, and promote them as opportunities to engage with the broader Regimental family.
The MERCIAN Regiment Officers’ Group can be easily found on
An Officer
Commanding
Gheluvelt Company is
appointed from within
the 1 MERCIAN cohort;
for 2023 this will be OC
B (Malta) Company,
Major Tom Onion
(thomas.onion613@
mod.gov.uk). A 2IC
(External) is appointed
on a volunteer basis
from Mercian officers working at an external post; for 2023 this is Captain Jazz Burridge. A 2IC (Retired) will be appointed on a volunteer basis from the pool of engaged retired officers; for 2023, this is Major (Retd) Nick Brown.
The centrepiece of Gheluvelt Company’s annual routine will be the final Thursday
of every October (the one closest to the anniversary of the Battle of Gheluvelt on 31
LinkedIn and will be Gheluvelt Company’s single point of social media output. All serving and retired officers are encouraged to join this group and share opportunities, events and build their network.
Any serving or retired Mercian
officers who are not currently signed up
to receive Gheluvelt Company detail can e-mail Sam at Regimental Headquarters (communications@mercianregiment. co.uk). Your information will be ‘owned’ by RHQ MERCIAN and drawn upon by OC Gheluvelt Company for the purposes of engagement only. Any officer may opt out of Gheluvelt Company at any point via the same means.
All serving and retired officers are encouraged to join this group and share opportunities, events and build their network
If you want to look and feel the part, then both 1 and 4 MERCIAN now have
a common range of Mercian branded sports clothing which Gheluvelt Company members are entitled to wear; the source for purchasing it is: https://www.oneills. com/uk_en/shop-by-team/other/mercian- regiment.html
Gheluvelt Company draws together and maintains the central tenet of the Regiment as a family. Demand for it is clear and it will succeed through the engagement of serving and former officers across our former and current cohorts. By the time this version of the Eagle is landing on tables and doormats around the world, Gheluvelt Company will already have had some notable inaugural events to build upon. We look forward to your engagement in the future.
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