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Publication date 1980
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Transcription ikmembet
T H E Corps remembrance service is always a memorable and
moving occasion.
T h e parade, drawn from the Training Battalion and Depot
and the Apprentice College, was commanded by Lieutenant
Colonel M. A. Marshall and during the Service wreaths were
laid by the D G O S , Major General M. Callan—on behalf of
all serving members of the C o r p s ; by Major General R. B.
Darkin—on behalf of past members of the C o r p s ; by Colonel
W. Kelly—on behalf of the Corps Territorial Army and by
Lieutenant Colonel G. Little—on behalf of the R A O C Associa-
tion.
R A O C is also represented annually at the Westminster
Abbey Field of Remembrance, where Regiments and Corps lay
out their individual plots with the wreaths and crosses which are
donated by their Units. Some one hundred and seventy of our
Corps Units and establishments were represented there this
y e a r : a part of the Corps plot is shown bottom right.
Lieutenant
Colonel Marshall leads the parade past
War Memorial.
the Corps
Some of the large number of Corps Old Comrades who marched
past. In the centre front rank is Mr Harry Tomms an ex W 2
who joined the AOC in 1 9 5 . He is now aged ninety six.
The Reverend M. R. Ryall and the Reverend B. Rowley conduct
the Service.
At the Field of Remembrance, Westminster Abbey, the past
and present lay out the crosses representing units.
The laying of the wreaths.
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