Two of the Naval commanders in armoured cars driven by naval ratings - Admiral Sir John Cunningham (no relation to ABC), C-in-C Mediterranean and Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton
HIS MAJESTY’S PROCESSION The King, accompanied by the Queen, the Princess Elizabeth and the Princess Margaret, will drive in a State Landau. The Royal Carriage will be escorted by a Captain’s Escort of the Household Cavalry with Standard ROUTE | | | a.m. | | Buckingham Palace | | 10.10 | | Marble Arch | | 10.25 | | Oxford Street | | | | Charing Cross Road | | 10.35 | | Northumberland Avenue | | 10.40 | | Bridge Street | | 10.46 | | Whitehall | | | | The Mall (Saluting Base) | | 10.57 |
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MARCH PAST
| The Mechanised and Marching Columns will follow the routes given below, joining at Parliament Square and passing together up Whitehall, the Mechanised Column leading. Between the arrival of His Majesty at the Saluting Base and the commencement of the March Past, the Massed Pipers of Scottish and Irish Regiments will march and counter-march in the Mall. The head of the joint Column will pass the Saluting Base at 11.20 a.m. At the conclusion of the March Past, Squadrons of the Royal Air Force, together with Squadrons of the Naval Air Arm, will fly past the Base. | |  | | left - HM King George VI at the saluting base in The Mall leading down to Buckingham Palace from Admiralty Arch. He is accompanied by Queen Elizabeth - the Queen Mother who died recently, in 2002. King George wears Royal Navy uniform as the senior British armed service. |
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» MECHANISED COLUMN ROUTE | | | a.m. | | Regent’s Park (Clarence Gate) | | 9.18 | | Park Square West | | | | Marylebone Road | | | | Euston Road | | 9.28 | | Pentonville Road | | | | City Road | | | | Old Street | | 9.45 | | Hackney Road | | | | Cambridge Heath Road | | | | Whitechapel Road | | 10.04 | | Whitechapel High Street | | | | Aldgate High Street | | | | Mansell Street | | 10.11 | | Royal Mint Street | | | | Shorter Street | | | | Tower Hill | | 10.14 | | Eastcheap | | | | King William Street | | | | London Bridge | | 10.19 | | Borough High Street | | | | Newington Causeway | | | | Newington Butts | | 10.31 | | Kennington Park Road | | | | Harleyford Road | | | | Upper Kennington Lane | | | | Vauxhall Bridge | | 10.43 | | Millbank | | | | Abingdon Street | | | | Parliament Square | | 10.52 | | Whitehall | | | | Admiralty Arch | | | | The Mall (Saluting Base) | | 11.20 | | Constitution Hill | | | | Hyde Park Corner | | 11.26 | | Hamilton Place | | | | Park Lane | | | | Edgware Road | | | | Marylebone Road | | | | Regent’s Park | | 11.50 |
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ALLIED
| |  | | left - Two of the Allied Supreme Commanders - Field Marshall Viscount Alexander of Tunis, C-in-C Mediterranean and Admiral Mountbatten, C-in-C, South East Asia Command |
Despatch Riders of the Royal Navy
ROYAL NAVY Despatch Riders of the Army
ARMY Despatch Riders of the Royal Air Force
AIR FORCE Despatch Riders of the National Fire Service »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» ROYAL NAVY Amphibious Jeeps
Weasels
DUKW's
Mobile Wireless Telegraphy Units
Aircraft Refuellers
Mobile Sick Bays | |  | | left - Mechanized units of the Royal Navy, with two DUKW's leading, passing through Parliament Square with the House of Lords tower in the background |
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» ROYAL AIR FORCE Reconnaissance Cars
Light Ambulance - Special Ambulance
Radar Vehicle
Despatch Rider Letter Service Van – Signals Van
Recruiting Van - Pre-heater Van
Freighter – Aircraft Refueller mounted on 10-ton Tender
Fire Tenders
Breakdown Tender - Fire Crash Tender
Dental Caravan towed by Air Traffic Control Towing Car
Mechanical Horse
Bomb Tenders (Loaded)
Cooking Tender - Mobile Canteen
Radar Vehicles
3-ton Tender with Propeller Transporter
Educational, and Vocational Training Van - OfficeTender
Parachute Drying Tender - Parachute Servicing Vehicle
Tipping Tender - Trucktor
Water Tender (1,000 Gallons) - Petrol Tender (1,000 Gallons)
Aircraft Transporter
Airfield Floodlight – Oxygen Plant
Landmark Beacon towed by 3-ton Tender - Aerial Lighthouse towed by 3-ton Tender
Mobile Workshop - Power Plant 20 K.V.A.
Radar Vehicles
Airborne Lifeboat on Aircraft Transporter
Light Tractor – 10-ton Truck carrying Elevator Truck
Mechanical Horses with Torpedo Carriers
Ammunition Carriers
Airfield Snowplough - Runway Sweeper
Radar Vehicles
Balloon Winch with Hydrogen Cylinders
Heavy Ambulance - Air Traffic Control
Air Passenger Coaches
Troop Carriers
Pantechnicon - Radar Vehicle
Petrol Tender (2,500 Gallons) - Aircraft Salvage Tender »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» CIVILIAN SERVICES POLICE
Patrol Cars FIRE SERVICES
Control Vans
Turntable Ladders (100 ft.)
Turntable Ladders (60 ft.)
Enclosed Fire Pumps
Auxiliary Towing Vehicles with Trailer Pumps
Pump Escapes
Self-propelled Heavy Pump Units
Water Tenders CIVIL DEFENCE SERVICES
Civil Defence Reserve Rescue Vehicles
Light Rescue Vehicles (London)
Heavy Rescue Vehicles (London)
Rescue Vehicles
Rescue and War Debris Cranes
Rescue and War Debris Tippers with Skips
Decontamination vehicles
(manned by Decontamination Squads and Gas Identification Officers)
American Gift Ambulances (Great Britain)
Ambulances
Mobile Canteens
Mobile Emergency Food Units
Blood Transfusion Vans AGRICULTURE
Land Drainage Excavator - Farm Tractor and Binder TRANSPORT SERVICES
London Buses
Provincial Buses
6-8-ton Articulated Vehicles
Cruiser Cranes
6-ton Mechanical Horses
Mechanised Transport Corps Cars
Insulated Meat Vans PUBLIC UTILITIES
Mobile Coast Radio Station - Mobile Telegraph Office
Mobile Gas Compressor - Gas Lorry and Purging Machine Trailer
Standard Electricity Repair Units
Tractors with Trailer Mounting Electrically-Driven Water Pumps GENERAL SERVICES
Y.M.C.A. Mobile Canteens
Church Army Mobile Canteens
Salvation Army Mobile Canteens
National Savings Vans »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» ARMY ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS
Comet Command Tank
Scout Cars
Armoured Cars
Chaffee (Light) Tanks
Cromwells
Comets
Churchills
Shermans
Crocodiles
Flails
Bridge Laying Tanks ROYAL ARTILLERY
Jeep
Self-propelled 25-pdrs
Towed 25-pdrs
Towed 5.5-in. Guns
Towed 7.2-in. Howitzer
Self-propelled 17-pdrs
Towed 3.7-in Anti-Aircraft Guns
Bofors Guns
Searchlight Lorries
77-mm Howitzer (Air Transportable) ROYAL ENGINEERS
Jeep
Armoured Vehicles, Royal Engineers
Centaur Dozers
Arks
Class I Angledozers on Trailers
Tournapuls (Super C) with 12-yard Scrapers
Motor Graders
Excavators RB19 with Face Shovel Equipment on Trailers towed by Matador Tractor
Bomb Disposal Lorries with Trepanning and Steaming Out Apparatus
Unicraft on Trailer
153-h.p. Diesel Tank Engines on Trailers
Survey Printing Lorries ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS
Jeep
Cars drawing Signals Trailers
3-ton Wireless Lorries
3-ton Cable Laying Lorries
Command Vehicles
Half Tracks
Armoured Command Vehicles
Tractors drawing Signals Equipment Trailers
3-ton Lorries towing Beam Wireless Trailers
15-ton Cable Lorries INFANTRY AND ARMY AIR CORPS AND SPECIAL FORCES
Half Tracks
M.M.G. Carriers
Universal Carriers
Windsor Carriers
Jeeps of the Special Air Service
Jeeps with Trailers (Air Transportable)
Jeeps of the Special Forces ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS
(including Royal Army Medical Corps)
Jeep
Jeeps with Trailers
Weasels
Troop Carrying Lorries
Water Lorries
Bulk Petrol Lorries
Machinery Lorries
3-ton Lorries towing Generator Trailers
10-ton Lorries towing Bakery Equipment Trailers
DUKW's
Folding Boat Equipments
Pontoon Lorries
Matador Tractors towing Pontoon Trailers
Diamond "T" Tank Transporters carrying LVT's
Armoured Personnel Carriers
Stretcher Ambulances ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS
(including Army Film and Photographic Unit)
Jeep
Binned Stores Trailer and Boot Repair Trailer
Mobile Crane and Breakdown Lorry
Water Trucks
Mobile Oxygen Plant and Mobile Inert Gas Plant
Clothing Repair Trailer and Mobile Laundry Boiler Trailer
Mobile Acetylene Plants
Mobile Laundry Washing Machine Trailers
Boot Repair Plants (Air Transportable)
Jeeps of the Army Film and Photographic Unit WAR CORRESPONDENTS
Jeeps NAVY ARMY AND AIR FORCE INSTITUTES AND FIRST AID NURSING YEOMANRY
Mobile Canteens ROYAL ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
Jeep
20-ton Tank Transporters carrying Crawler Tractors
Heavy Breakdown Tractors
3-ton Machinery Lorries
Jeeps
40-ton Tank Transporter carrying Cromwell
Armoured Recovery Vehicles
Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicles ARMY FIRE SERVICES
Fire Tender Lorries towing Trailer Fire Pumps
Fire Engines »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» MARCHING COLUMN ROUTE | | | a.m. | | Marble Arch | | 10.35 | | Oxford Street | | 10.45 | | Charing Cross Road | | 10.58 | | Trafalgar Square | | 11.08 | | Northumberland Avenue | | 11.11 | | Embankment | | 11.16 | | Parliament Square | | 11.25 | | Halt | | | | Whitehall | | 11.55 | | | | p.m. | | The Mall (Saluting Base) | | 12.01 | | Constitution Hill | | 12.05 | | Hyde Park Corner | | 12.13 |
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(the "Big 5" less Great Britain)
United States of America
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
China
France Belgium
Brazil
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Egypt
Ethiopia
Greece Iran
Iraq
Luxembourg
Mexico
Nepal
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Transjordan
Yugoslavia | |  | | left - Representatives of the Greek armed forces, including the Royal Hellenic Navy which played a valuable part in the Mediterranean. Escorting the Greek colours are two Evzones in their traditional white kilts |
ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN BRITISH EMPIRE DOMINIONS Bands
Canada
Commonwealth of Australia
New Zealand
Union of South Africa
Southern Rhodesia Newfoundland | |  | | left - Southern Rhodesian (now Zimbabwe) forces passing the saluting base "eyes left". In the middle distance,left to right are Mr Atlee, Prime Minister, Mr Churchill, Mr Mackenzie King, PM of Canada and Field Marshal Smuts, PM of South Africa |
INDIA
Royal Indian Navy
Indian Armoured Corps
Royal Indian Artillery
Royal Indian Engineers
Indian Signal Corps
Band of Royal Garhwal Rifles
Indian Infantry
Gurkha Rifles
Indian State Forces
Royal Indian Air ForceBURMA
Burma Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Burma Army
Burma Volunteer Air Force | |  | | left - Indian forces passing under Admiralty Arch and down The Mall towards Buckingham Palace at the far end. This long column is just a small fraction of the whole vast parade comprising a total of 21,000 men and women of the fighting, auxiliary and civilian services - Allied, British Empire and United Kingdom |
THE COLONIAL EMPIRE WEST AFRICA
Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Gambia
Royal West African Frontier Force
West African Artillery
West African Engineers
West African Signals
West African Army Service Corps
West African Medical Corps
West African Ordnance Corps
West African Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Corps of West African Military Police
West African Auxiliary Pioneer Corps EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA
Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia, Zanzibar, British Somaliland
Kenya Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Tanganyika Naval Volunteer Force
East Africa Reconnaissance Regiment
East Africa Armoured Car Regiment
King's African Rifles
Northern Rhodesia Regiment
Somaliland Scouts
East Africa Artillery
East Africa Engineers
East Africa Corps of' Signals
East Africa Chaplains Department
East Africa Army Service Corps
East Africa Army Medical Corps
East Africa Army Ordnance Corps
East Africa Army Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
East Africa Army Educational Corps
East Africa Military Police
East Africa Army Pioneer Corps
East Africa Army Labour Service
The Kenya Regiment
East Africa Military Nursing Service
Women's Territorial Service
Kenya Police
Tanganyika Police
Uganda Police ADEN
Aden Protectorate Levies BERMUDA
Bermuda Militia Artillery
Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps
Bermuda Volunteer Engineers CEYLON
Ceylon Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Royal Artillery
Royal Engineers
Royal Army Service Corps
Ceylon Garrison Artillery
Ceylon Engineers
Ceylon Light Infantry
Ceylon Signal Corps
Ceylon Army Service Corps
Ceylon Medical Corps
Ceylon Railway Engineer Corps
Ceylon Corps of Military Police
Ceylon Electrical and Mechanical Corps
Ceylon Pioneers
Auxiliary Territorial Service CYPRUS
Cyprus Regiment
Cyprus Volunteer Force
Royal Air Force FALKLAND ISLANDS
Falklands Islands Defence Force GIBRALTAR
Gibraltar Defence Force HONG KONG
Hong Kong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps
Hong Kong Volunteer Company
Hong Kong Pioneer Company
Civilian Services MALAYA
Royal Navy
Malay Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Royal Artillery
Royal Engineers
Royal Corps of Signals
Royal Army Medical Corps
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Royal Army Service Corps
Malay Regiment
Straits Settlements Volunteer Force
Federated Malay States Volunteer Force
Johore Military Forces
Kedah Volunteer Force
Kelantan Volunteer Force
Johore Volunteer Force
Royal Air Force
Malay Volunteer Air Force
Local Defence Corps
Police and Guerilla Forces
Civilian Services WEST INDIES
Bahamas, Barbados, British Guiana, British Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Windward Islands
West Indian Detachment
Royal Air Force
FIJI AND WESTERN PACIFIC
Fiji Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Fiji Infantry Regiment
Fiji Medical Corps
Tonga Defence Force
British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force
Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony Defence Force MAURITIUS
Mauritius Pioneer Corps
Mauritius Women's Volunteer Corps NORTH BORNEO, BRUNEI, LABUAN AND SARAWAK
Police and Guerilla Forces PALESTINE
Trans-Jordan Frontier Force
Palestine Regiment
Palestine Police ST. HELENA
St. Helena Regiment
Merchant Navy SEYCHELLES
Seychelles Pioneer Corps SOUTH AFRICAN HIGH COMMISSION TERRITORIES
Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Swaziland
South African High Commission Territories Corps MALTA
Royal Navy
Royal Malta Artillery
Royal Engineers
Corps of Signals
King's Own Malta Regiment
Army Service Corps
Army Medical Corps
Army Ordnance Corps
Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Army Pay Corps
Malta Pioneer Group
Royal Air Force
Malta Police
Civilian Services »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» NAVAL FORCES ROYAL NAVY Seamen
Engine Room Department
Band
Miscellaneous Branches and Reserves
Royal Marines
Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service and V.A.D’s
Women’s Royal Naval Service MERCHANT NAVY FISHING FLEETS LIGHTHOUSE SERVICES COASTGUARDS PILOTS ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION | |  | | left - Royal Navy units passing through Admiralty Arch - seaman and stokers under the arch itself, Royal Marine band following, and behind them (nearest camera) miscellaneous branches and the Reserves. Trafalgar Square, appropriately with Nelson's column, and out of view to the right is one mass of people, with those attempting to see the parade standing 40-50 deep |
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» CIVILIAN SERVICES (FIRST CONTINGENTS) POLICE
Metropolitan Police Central Band
Civil Police
Admiralty Civil Police
War Department Constabulary
Air Ministry Constabulary
Railway and Docks Police FIRE SERVICE
National fire service
Salvage Corps CIVIL DEFENCE SERVICE (FIRST PART)
Rescue Dog Handlers and Dogs
Civil Defence Reserve
Wardens
Rescue Service
Report and Control Service CIVIL DEFENCE SERVICES (SECOND PART)
American Gift Ambulances (Great Britain)
Ambulance Service
First Aid Posts
Civil Nursing Reserve
Nurses in Voluntary and Public Hospitals
Midwives and District Nurses
War-time Nurseries
Lay Staffs of Hospitals
Medical Auxiliaries NURSING SERVICES
Joint War Organisation of British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem
St. Andrew’s Ambulance Association WOMEN'S VOLUNTARY SERVICES AGRICULTURE
Women’s Land Army and Timber Corps
Farm Workers »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» | 