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illuminated and embellished scroll bearing the resolution, its date and appropriate signatures can then be arranged. Sometimes, but not always, a formal parade by the unit through the locality, exercising their newly bestowed Freedom will take place immediately before or after the presentation by the Mayor.
To avoid any confusion, when a local authority merges, any existing civic honours would need to be re-conferred by its successor. For example the RAMC, RADC and QARANC all received the Freedom of the Borough of Aldershot in 1973, but this lapsed with the formation of the Borough of Rushmoor in 1974. Similarly where a unit, or part thereof,
retains its titular number, extant civic honours are carried forward in the new guise, Two examples being 225 (Highland) Field Ambulance (1998) viz 225 (Scottish) Medical Regiment (2015) and 251 (Sunderland) Field Ambulance (1985) viz 251 Medical Squadron (Sunderland), 3 Medical Regiment (2015).
If anyone can add any detail, particularly of lapsed honours where a unit or local authority has been disbanded or merged, and German Fahnenbands whichhave been awarded. I would be interested to hear from them.
Local Authority
Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (Adoption) Borough of Rushmoor
City of Newcastle upon Tyne
City of Sunderland
City of Liverpool (Testimonial)
City of Cambridge (Adoption)
London Borough of Southwark (Honorary Liberty) Borough of Maidstone
Borough of Castlereagh
City of Dundee (Bond of Friendship)
City of Kingston upon Hull
Borough of North East Lincolnshire
City of Bradford
City of Sheffield
City of Exeter
City of Birmingham
Borough of Gosport
Borough of Chorley
Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Hampshire County Council (Testimonial)
City of Liverpool
Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
Town of Llandudno
Borough of Gosport
Vale of Glamorgan
City of Manchester
Borough of Trafford
City of York
London Borough of Southwark
City & County of Cardiff
Borough of Chorley
Recipient
Date
12 March 1980
19 May 1981
25 July 1984
24 April 1985
11 December 1991 12 July 1992
17 July 1996
26 March 1998
28 April 1998
4 July 1998
15 July 1999
24 February 2000 26 June 2001
7 November 2001 26 February 2002
3 December 2002 29 November 2006 9 June 2007
23 January 2008 29 January 2008 28 January 2009 31 March 2009
19 September 2009 25 November 2009 9 December 2009
2 February 2011
21 June 2011
13 December 2012 22 May 2013
24 October 2013
6 June 2015
LCpl Terry Hissey
144 Field Ambulance
QARANC
201 (Northern) General Hospital
251 (Sunderland) Field Ambulance
208 (Merseyside) General Hospital
254 (City of Cambridge) Field Ambulance
256 (City of London) Field Hospital
220 (1st Home Counties) Field Ambulance 204 (North Irish) Field Hospital
225 (Highland) Field Ambulance
250 (Hull) Field Ambulance
250 (Hull) Field Ambulance
212 (Yorkshire) Field Hospital
212 (Yorkshire) Field Hospital
243 (The Wessex) Field Hospital
202 (Midlands) Field Hospital
Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit (Portsmouth) 5 General Support Medical Regiment
256 (City of London) Field Hospital
4 General Support Medical Regiment
208 (Liverpool) Field Hospital
256 (City of London) Field Hospital
203 (Welsh) Field Hospital
33 Field Hospital
203 (Welsh) Field Hospital
207 (Manchester) Field Hospital
207 (Manchester) Field Hospital
34 Field Hospital
256 (City of London) Field Hospital
203 (Welsh) Field Hospital
3 Medical Regiment
All unit titles above are extant.