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The South West Cadet Training Team remains an important essential Regional Resource
Both The Light Infantry and The Royal Glouces- tershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiments are fortunate. Far sighted regimental elders have already worked alongside representatives of Associations and the NMA in establishing memorials, which alongside our trees, mark the part of our former regiments. In sum we already have a foot on the ground in Staffordshire’s NMA. Perhaps now is the time to remember that which exists within our own communities, churches and cathedrals. Unlike many who are remembered at NMA, our regiments continue to have a home within our respective counties. Let us not take our existing memorials
PERHAPS NOW IS THE TIME TO REMEMBER THAT WHICH EXISTS WITHIN OUR OWN COMMUNITIES, CHURCHES AND CATHEDRALS
for granted and instead encourage energy, activity and a degree of ownership alongside those found within our communities and overseas. The photo- graph of the Johnson family pilgrimage to Rouex CWGC demonstrates how things can be done by different generations. The inspiring Stained Glass window at St Mary Magdalene Church Taunton; Colonel Carne’s Cross; at Gloucester Cathedral; and owers placed regularly by wives of Association members are further examples of how our Associ- ation members and our Regiments already honour our fallen. In the past ten years The Ri es have been thinking through the Regiment’s approach to memorials and remembering. Perhaps now is a time for consolidation by former regiments and appreci- ating that which we already have.
November 2018 will signal the centenary of the Armistice on 11th November 1918. Gloucestershire are formulating plans to mark the anniversary at Cheltenham Racecourse on the weekend following Remembrance Sunday. Somerset meanwhile
The visibility of the cap badge remains as important as ever
Peter Snow Commentates at Horse Guards
Ri es training for Yorkshire Cadets in South West
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