Armed Forces Pay Tribute To Forces Sweetheart With Flypast At The Funeral Of Dame Vera Lynn
Armed Forces personnel paid tribute to Forces Sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn at her funeral today, with street lining and a flypast by Second World War aircraft. Personnel from all three services formed a bearer party to carry Dame Vera’s coffin into the funeral service. A...
Memories of The Taxi Charity Patron Dame Vera Lynn
Dame Vera Lynn died on 18 June 2020 aged 103, she was Patron of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans for over 50 years and her private funeral will be held today on July 10 2020. Dame Vera Lynn was not only a Patron of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans, but she...
Red Arrows Get Display Approval
AFTER months of training, the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team successfully completed an annual assessment, known as Public Display Authority (PDA). Attaining the status, which involves detailed scrutiny of activity both in the air and on the ground, means the Red...
Free ‘Wraparound’ Childcare For The Armed Forces
The children of service personnel will be entitled to free breakfast and after-school childcare as part of new measures to better support the armed forces and their loved ones. Service personnel based in Buckinghamshire will be the first to trial the new offer of free...
Exercise Dynamic Mongoose Gets Underway
NATO exercise Dynamic Mongoose started in the High North on 29 June 2020. Ships, submarines, as well as aircraft and personnel from 6 Allied nations converged off the coast of Iceland for Anti-Submarine warfare (ASW) and Anti-Surface warfare training. HMS Kent and her...
