Home Guard Farewell Parade programme

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HOME GUARD

Ceremonial Parade

The Parade consists of about 7,000 members of the Corps, representing all Units throughout Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with Eleven Bands. Each Unit is represented by three other ranks and Officers from each Command.

The Band of the Irish Guards will play the Parade past the Saluting Base, at which the following will be in attendance:-

Sir James Grigg, the War Secretary; Members of the Army Council; General Sir Harold Franklyn, Commander-in-Chief Home Forces; and Sir Frederick Pile, General Officer in Command Anti-Aircraft Command.

The Assembly Point is near Marble Arch, and the March Past commences at 3 p.m.

ROUTE:

STANHOPE GATE,

HYDE PARK CORNER,

PICADILLY,

PICADILLY CIRCUS,

REGENT STREET,

OXFORD STREET,

MARBLE ARCH,

TYBURN GATE,

and through HYDE PARK to RING ROAD.

STAND-DOWN PARTY

Royal Albert Hall

At 6.30 p.m.

For members of the Home Guard only

Given by the following artists:-

TOMMY TRINDER

CICELY COURTNEIDGE

VERA LYNN

GEORGE ROBEY AND VIOLET LORAINE

BENNETT AND WILLIAMS

JOSE FEARON AND CHARLES GILLESPIE

ELSIE AND DORIS WATERS

ROB WILTON

and LOUIS LEVY with his Band of Fifty and a Chorus of Thirty with MONIA LITER.