|
| ARMY
|
|
Household
Cavalry
Band
Life Guards and Royal Horse Guards |
| ROYAL
ARMOURED CORPS |
|
Band
1st King's Dragoon Guards
The Queen's Bays
3rd Carabineers
4th/7th Dragoon Guards
5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
The Royal Dragoons
The Scots Greys
3rd Hussars
4th Hussars
7th Hussars
8th Hussars
9th Lancers
10th Hussars
11th Hussars
12th Lancers
13th/18th Hussars
14th/20th Hussars
15th/19th Hussars
16th/5th Lancers
17th/21st Lancers
1st Royal Tank Regiment
2nd Royal Tank Regiment
3rd Royal Tank Regiment
4th Royal Tank Regiment
5th Royal Tank Regiment
6th Royal Tank Regiment
7th Royal Tank Regiment
8th Royal Tank Regiment
Royal Armoured Corps
North Irish Horse
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
Warwickshire Yeomanry
Yorkshire Hussars
Nottinghamshire Yeomanry
Staffordshire Yeomanry
1st and 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry
1st and 2nd Royal Gloucestershire Hussars
1st and 2nd Lothians and Border Horse
Yeomanry
1st and 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
Westminster Dragoons
3rd and 4th County of London Yeomanry
1st and 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry
1st East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry
The Inns of Court Regiment
40th and 46th Royal Tank Regiment
41st and 47th Royal Tank Regiment
42nd and 48th Royal Tank Regiment
43rd and 49th Royal Tank Regiment
44th and 50th Royal Tank Regiment
45th and 51st Royal Tank Regiment
107th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (King's
Own)
116th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (Gordon
Highlanders)
3rd Reconnaissance Regiment
43rd Reconnaissance Regiment |
| ROYAL
ARTILLERY, ROYAL ENGINEERS AND ROYAL SIGNALS |
|
Royal Horse
Artillery
Royal Artillery
Royal Artillery Band
Royal Engineers and Royal Signals Band
Royal Engineers
Royal Corps of Signals |
| BRIGADE
OF GUARDS |
|
Band
of the Brigade of Guards
Corps of Drums of the Brigade of
Guards
Grenadier Guards
Coldstream Guards
Scots Guards
Irish Guards
Welsh Guards |
| INFANTRY
OF THE LINE, ARMY AIR CORPS AND COMMANDOS |
|
Band
The Queen's Royal Regiment
The Buffs
The King's Own Royal Regiment
The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
The Royal Fusiliers
The King’s Regiment
The Royal Norfolk Regiment
The Lincolnshire Regiment
The Devonshire Regiment
The Suffolk Regiment
The West Yorkshire Regiment
The East Yorkshire Regiment
The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
The Leicestershire Regiment
The Green Howards
The Lancashire Fusiliers
The Cheshire Regiment
The Gloucestershire Regiment
The Worcestershire Regiment
The East Lancashire Regiment
The East Surrey Regiment
The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment
The Border Regiment
The Royal Sussex Regiment
The Hampshire Regiment
The South Staffordshire Regiment
The Dorsetshire Regiment
The South Lancashire Regiment
The Essex Regiment
Honourable Artillery Company
The Cambridgeshire Regiment
10th London Regiment
The Hertfordshire Regiment
The Herefordshire Regiment
Band
The Sherwood Foresters
The Loyal Regiment
The Northamptonshire Regiment
The Royal Berkshire Regiment
The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment
The Middlesex Regiment
The Wiltshire Regiment
The Manchester Regiment
The North Staffordshire Regiment
The York and Lancaster Regiment
The Somerset Light Infantry
The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light
Infantry
The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
The King's Shropshire Light Infantry
The Durham Light Infantry
The Kings Royal Rifle Corps
The Rifle Brigade
The Artists Rifles
Pipes and Drum Band
The Royal Scots
The Royal Scots Fusiliers
The King's Own Scottish Borderers
The Cameronians
The Black Watch
The Highland Light Infantry
The Seaforth Highlanders
The Gordon Highlanders
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Lovat Scouts
London Scottish
Liverpool Scottish
The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
The Royal Ulster Rifles
The Royal Irish Fusiliers
London Irish Rifles
The Royal Welch Fusiliers
The South Wales Borderers
The Welch Regiment
The Monmouthshire Regiment
Glider Pilot Regiment
Parachute Regiment
Special Air Service Regiment
Commandos
Jewish Brigade |
| CORPS
AND SERVICES |
|
Royal Army
Chaplains Department
Band of the Royal Army Service Corps
Royal Army Service Corps
Band of the Royal Army Medical Corps
Royal Army Medical Corps
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Royal Army Pay Corps
Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Army Education Corps
Army Dental Corps
Corps of Military Police and Military
Provost Staff Corps
Pioneer Corps
Intelligence Corps
Army Physical Training Corps
Army Catering Corps
Army Welfare Service |
| HOME
GUARD |
|
Band
Detachment of Home Guard. |
QUEEN
ALEXANDRA'S IMPERIAL MILITARY NURSING
SERVICE AND VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENTS
Band
AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE
FIRST AID NURSING YEOMANRY |
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| CIVILIAN
SERVICES (SECOND CONTINGENT)
|
|
Band
of the National Fire Service |
| TRANSPORT
SERVICES |
|
Railways
Tramways
Omnibuses
Road Haulage
Air Transport Auxiliary
Docks
Canals |
| CIVIL
DEFENCE, SERVICES (THIRD PART) |
|
Industrial Civil
Defence Services
Fire Guard and Raid Spotters |
| POST-RAID
SERVICES |
|
Administrative
and Information Centres
Emergency Information
Rest Centres
Mortuary Service
Emergency Food Service
Londoners' Meals Service
Port of London Authority River Emergency
Service
Clyde River Service
Voluntary Stretcher Bearers (Hospital)
Orderlies in Casualty Evacuation Trains
Inter-Hospital Transport
Billeting Service |
| PUBLIC
UTILITY SERVICES |
|
Post Office
Gas, Electricity and Water Undertakings
Road Repairs |
| INDUSTRIAL
WORKERS (FIRST PART) |
|
Aircraft
Industry
Boot and Shoe Trades
Brickmaking
Building Trades
Canteens and Catering
Chemicals Manufacture
Clerical Staff
Clothing Workers
Distributive Trades
Constructional Engineers
Electrical Engineers
General Engineers
Marine Engineers
Explosives Manufacture |
| INDUSTRIAL
WORKERS (SECOND PART) |
|
Coalminers
Fishing
Food, Drink and Tobacco Manufacture
Glass and Pottery
Hosiery Workers
Laundry Workers
Hospital Domestic Staff
Iron and Steel Workers
Non-Ferrous Metal Workers
Paper and Printing Trades
Rubber Workers
Shipbuilding
Cotton Operatives
Jute Workers
Rayon Manufacture
Woollen Industry
Woodworking and Furnishing Industry |
| GENERAL
SERVICES |
|
Y.M.C.A.
Y.W.C.A.
Church Army
Salvation Army
Toc H
Church of Scotland Huts
Methodist and United Board Churches
Catholic Women's League
Army Scripture Readers
Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen’s Families
Association
Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Help
Society
Women’s Institutes
National Savings Workers |
| CHANNEL ISLANDS
AND ISLE OF MAN |
|
|
 |
left
- Coalminer's, apparently with
cap-lamps alight, marching past The
Cenotaph in Whitehall, then
commemorating the dead of World War 1.
Presumably
their contingent would have included
"Bevin Boys" who on call-up were
selected by ballot to go down the
mines rather than serve in the armed
forces
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AIR
FORCES
| ALLIED
|
|
Central Band
Of the Royal Air Force
United States of America (Army and
Naval)
France
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Greece
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Yugoslavia |
| ROYAL
AIR FORCE |
|
Bomber
Command
(Groups No. 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (Pathfinder), 26
(Signals), 91, 92 (0.T.U.), 93 and 100)
Fighter Command
(Groups
No. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 38, 60
(Signals), 70, 81, 82 and 88, Balloon
Groups 31, 32, 33 and 43)
Coastal Command
(Groups No. 15,
16, 17, 18, 19, 106, 200 and 247)
British Air
Forces of Occupation, Germany
Air Command
South East Asia
(Groups No.
221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228,
229, 230, 231, 232, 233 and 238)
Mediterranean
and Middle East Command
(Groups No.
201, 202, 203, 205, 206, 209, 210, 211,
214, 215, 216, 217, 2I8, 219 and 242)
Massed
Cranwell, Royal Air Force Regiment and
No. 1 Regional Bands
Transport
Command
(Groups No. 44,
45, 46, 48, 87 and 300)
Flying Training
Command
(Groups No. 21,
23, 25, 29, 50, 51 and 54)
Technical
Training Command
(Groups No. 20,
22, 24, 27, 28, 71 and 72)
Maintenance
Command
(Groups No. 40,
41, 42 and 43)
Iraqi Levies
Royal Air Force
Regiment
Royal Observer
Corps
Princess Mary's
Royal Air Force Nursing Service
Voluntary Aid
Detachment
Women's
Auxiliary Air Force Band
Women's
Auxiliary Air Force
CIVIL
AIR TRANSPORT
NAVY,
ARMY AND AIR FORCE INSTITUTES
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| FLY-PAST
|
|
Hurricanes
Sunderlands
Lancasters
Mosquitos
Sea Mosquitos
Beaufighters
Firebrands
Seafires
Spitfires
Fireflies
Tempests
Meteors
Vampires |
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AFTERNOON
ENTERTAINMENTS
HYDE
PARK (AT THE COCKPIT)
| p.m. |
|
|
| 3.0
to 3.10 |
|
Nautical
Orchestra. |
| 3.10
to 3.30 |
|
Display
of Folk Dancing by a team of children
from London Schools. |
| 4.0
to 4.20 |
|
Community
Singing accompanied by the Orchestra. |
| 5.0
to 5.20 |
|
Children's
Ballet. |
| 5.20
to 5.45 |
|
Nautical
Orchestra. |
| 5.45
to 7.30 |
|
Military
Band Concert with sessions of Community
Singing. |
| 7.0 |
|
Scottish
Pipers and Dancers. |
| |
|
|
| From
3 to 6 p.m. two Punch and Judy
entertainments will play at hourly
intervals. |
HYDE
PARK (BANDSTAND)
| 3.0
to 5.45 |
|
Salvation
Army Regent Hall Band, with sessions of
Community Singing |
GREEN
PARK
| p.m. |
|
|
| 3.0
to 3.10 |
|
Symphony
Orchestra |
| 3.10
to 3.30 |
|
Children’s
Ballet. |
| 4.0
to 4.20 |
|
Display
of Folk Dancing by a team of children
from London Schools. |
| 5.0
to 5.20 |
|
Community
Singing accompanied by the Orchestra. |
| 5.20
to 5.45 |
|
Symphony
Orchestra. |
| 5.45
to 7.30 |
|
Military
Band Concert with sessions of Community
Singing. |
| 6.30 |
|
Scottish
Pipers and Dancers. |
| |
|
|
| From
3 to 6 p.m. two Punch and Judy
entertainments will play at hourly
intervals. |
ST.
JAMES'S PARK
| p.m. |
|
|
| 3.0
to 3.10 |
|
Metropolitan
Police Central Band. |
| 3.10
to 3.30 |
|
Community
Singing accompanied by the Orchestra. |
| 4.0
to 4.20 |
|
Children's
Ballet. |
| 5.0
to 5.20 |
|
Display
of Folk Dancing by a team of children
from London Schools. |
| 5.20
to 5.45 |
|
Metropolitan
Police Central Band. |
| 5.45
to 7.30 |
|
Military
Band Concert with sessions of Community
Singing. |
| 6.30 |
|
Scottish
Pipers and Dancers. |
| |
|
|
| From
3 to 6 p.m. two Punch and Judy
entertainments will play at hourly
intervals. |
REGENT'S
PARK
AT THE
OPEN AIR THEATRE
| 3.0
|
|
"As
You Like It" - (Shakespeare) - presented
by Robert Atkins Bankside Players.
(Admission Free - Chairs 6d.) |
ON
GLOUCESTER GREEN
| 5.45
to 7.30 |
|
Military
Dance Bands for public dancing. |
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EVENING
ENTERTAINMENTS
| p.m. |
|
|
| 7.30
to 9.30 |
|
Dancing
in St. James's Park, Green Park, Hyde
Park (near the Serpentine Bridge) and
Regent's Park to the music of Military
Dance Bands. |
| |
|
|
| 10.0
to 11.45 |
|
Searchlight,
aquatic and firework display centred on
the stretch of the River Thames between
Hungerford and Vauxhall Bridges. |
| |
|
|
| 10.0
|
|
Arrival
at the Houses of Parliament of His
Majesty the King who will travel by
water from Chelsea. Salute by 8o
searchlights of the Anti-Aircraft
Command and 41 aerial maroons, and by
the playing of the National Anthem from
500 loud-speakers followed by national
music. |
| |
|
|
| 10.20
|
|
Floodlighting
of the surface of the River and
Westminster and Lambeth Bridges;
coloured water display by 800 jets from
8 firefloats and 20 specially equipped
barges, manned by the the National Fire
Service, and from special equipment on
either side of Westminster and Lambeth
Bridges. Commencement of a concert
specially arranged in conjunction with
the British Broadcasting Corporation,
and including excerpts from Handel’s
Water and Firework Music |
| |
|
|
| 10.30
|
|
Firework
display by Messrs C. T. Brock & Co.,
opening with the discharge of 200
rockets |
| |
|
|
| 10.45 |
|
Searchlight
display, accompanied by aquatic
fireworks and illuminated fire-foam from
fireboats |
| |
|
|
| 10.55 |
|
Arrival
of R.A.F. aircraft caught in the beams
of searchlights |
| |
|
|
| 11.0 |
|
Interlude
for fireworks, including set pieces from
19 barges moored opposite the Victoria
Tower Gardens and the Houses of
Parliament. |
| |
|
|
| 11.15 |
|
Arrival
of further aircraft, with running
commentary between B.B.C. observers in
the aircraft and at the river side.
Water display with firework jets from
the temporary bridges beyond Westminster
and Lambeth Bridges. |
| |
|
|
| 11.30 |
|
Cascades
of fire from the temporary bridges and a
Devil’s Tattoo, accompanied by the
coloured water display. Short concert of
popular music on the loudspeakers |
| |
|
|
| 11.45 |
|
Display
ends with the firing of 50 magnesium
shells and the playing of the National
Anthem. |
| |
|
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DECORATIONS
AND ILLUMINATIONS
The
processional route from Parliament Square to
Buckingham Palace will be decorated by the
Ministry of Works. Starting from a special
feature in Parliament Square, all the public
buildings in Whitehall will, be decorated with
large flags representing both the Fighting and
Civilian Services. Nelson's Column will be
decorated with lines of flags. Trafalgar Square,
the National Gallery and the Admiralty Arch will
also be decorated. The Mall will be decorated
with 103 masts bearing the flags of the
Services, Dominions, Colonies arid Fighting
Allies; each mast will bear the name of the
Service or country represented. The Saluting
Base will be situated opposite Marlborough Gate.
From 10 p.m. until midnight, and on successive
nights up to and including Saturday, 15th June,
the following buildings in the London area,
amongst others, will be floodlit:-
| Buckingham
Palace |
|
War
Office |
| St.
James's Palace |
|
Horse
Guards |
| Hampton
Court Palace |
|
Somerset
House |
| Windsor
Castle |
|
National
Gallery |
| Houses
of Parliament |
|
Admiralty
Arch |
| Westminster
Abbey |
|
Nelson's
Column |
| St.
Paul's Cathedral |
|
Royal
Naval College, Greenwich |
| Lambeth
Palace |
|
Royal
Mint |
| Tower of
London |
|
Bethnal
Green Museum |
| Mansion
House |
|
County
Hall, Westminster |
| Royal
Exchange |
|
|
Many of
the flags forming part of the decorations in
Whitehall will be floodlit, and also the lake in
St. James's Park and the fountains in Trafalgar
Square. The gardens at Hampton Court will be
floodlit and there will be a water display on
the River Thames there.
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VISITING
WARSHIPS
The
Admiralty are illuminating some of His
Majesty's Ships, which will be berthed as
follows at:
| Greenwich |
H.M.S.
Diadem and H.M.S.
Bellona (Cruisers) |
| |
|
The two
cruisers at night
|
| |
|
| Woolwich
|
H.M.S.
Myngs, H.M.S. Zambezi, H.M.S. Zest
and H.M.S. Zealous (Destroyers) |
| |
|
| Deptford |
H.M.S.
Stork (Sloop) and H.M.S.
Bamborough Castle (Corvette) |
| |
|
| London
Docks - |
|
| Shadwell
New Basin |
H.M.S.
Token and H.M.S. Thermopylae
(Submarines) |
| |
|
| Upper
Pool |
4
Minesweepers |
| |
|
|
The
four minesweepers - left to right:
unidentified, HMS Steadfast (both
US-built Catherine-class), HMS's
Myrmidon, Marvel (Canadian-built
Algerines)
|
The
public will be able to visit these ships on
Whit Sunday, 9th June, and Whit Monday, 10th
June, between 12.30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
During
the same period, Motor Torpedo Boats will be
moored on the River Thames at Chelsea,
Vauxhall and Charing Cross and near H.M.S.
President.
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PRINTED
AND PUBLISHED BY
HIS
MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE
1946
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