Page. Insider has a new homeItemsofInterest. FUSILIER NEWS. Regimental Headquarters The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers HM Tower of. London London EC3. N 4. AB. Tel 0. 20 3. Fax 0. 20 3. 16. E mail rhqthefusiliers. RHQRRF1. 36. 3 1. September 2. 01. 1 OFFICERS ANNUAL REGTL DINNERThe Officers Annual Regimental Dinner will be held at. HM The Tower of London at 1. Oct 2. 01. 1. The dress is black. Charlton Fc Open Trials 2013 Gmc' title='Charlton Fc Open Trials 2013 Gmc' />Ticket prices remain unchanged from 2. Capt Andy Harris at RHQ, Tel 0. All. serving and retired Fusilier Officers are encouraged to attend what. NEW MEMORIAL AT THE ARBORETUMAs most of you are now aware the Regiment will be replacing. Fusilier Memorial at the National Arboretum in 2. As with all. projects of this type it is impossible to please all of the people all. There will be those who do not like the design of the memorial. Where I am sure there is common ground. Fusiliers who have lost their lives deserve a lasting and. Arboretum and the small stone that is there. An experienced war memorial stonemason. National. Arboretum and at the Somme and is highly respected for the quality of. Meetings have been held with the Arboretum Authorities who. We are still in negotiation with them over whether it can be put into. News and opinion from The Times The Sunday Times. The 3638323 to 1605548 a 1450464 of 14434154 in 1270284 on 508384 that 503295 is 492114 said 487849 with 423779 at 408185. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. An artists impression of the new Memorial is shown. Descargar Gratis Microsoft Office Xp Professional Frontpage Server. It is made from a single piece of dark grey curved granite which. The dimensions will be approx 8 ft wide and 6 ft high. It will sit on a plinth of solid granite approx 1. We Will Remember. Them not shown in photo and be surrounded by 4 granite benches. After. considerable deliberation the design on the memorial was agreed as it. Colours which all Fusiliers follow and are the embodiment of. Regts achievements and sacrifices. The antecedent Regts badges have. Memorial as they are the family from which the. Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was formed. With modern paints all the colours. The cost of the Monument is 2. Fusiliers and the families of. Fusiliers killed in action will be invited. The Colonel in Chief. Front of Memorial. Rear of Memorial. A good start has been made in raising the necessary. Donations should. Assistant Regimental Secretary at RHQ with cheques made. RRF Memorial Fund. Click. Here to see the web site updates on Memorial Fund. RRFLt Andy Wellum Kent briefs the Bn on the Battle of Minden in a 2. Century style. Change of Role. The First Battalion took over the Land. Warfare Centre Battle Group role in August 2. Since then it has definitely. Brigades about to deploy on operations, and equipment. A recurring theme throughout this time has been support to the. PASHTUN series of exercises for brigades about to deploy to Afghanistan. During these exercises, the Battalion played the parts of insurgents. Afghan clothing while conducting pre planned. By providing a pattern of life. Fusiliers, be they farmers. Afghanistan the best possible environment in which to train. It also gave the Fusiliers an opportunity to think and act as an insurgent. All of these opportunities will be very helpful when the Battalion starts. Pre Deployment Training for Afghanistan. When not on these large exercises the Battalion took. The Battalion regularly deployed whole companies of Warrior. AFVs onto Salisbury Plain. By the end of the 2 years, however, the Fusiliers. Plain inside out, and it was always brilliant to see new Company. Commanders stressed on their course asking junior Fusiliers how to attack. The handover to 2 Royal Welsh on 2. July marked the end. Everyone is looking forward to a change as the Battalion. Brigade and starts to prepare for deploying on Operations in. Minden Day. Despite the persistently soggy weather made. Thursday. 4th August was a memorable day for 3. X Company for several. Not only was it Battalion Minden Day, which is always a good. Minden Day celebrations, the. Afghanistan on Op HERRICK 1. Battle Casualty Replacement Cohort were awarded their Operational Service. Medal for Afghanistan. The Commanding Officer, Lt Col Jon Swift, presented. The many hours of practice supervised. Regimental Sergeant Major and the men clearly showed in the precision. The Minden Band and 1. RRF Corps. of Drums provided a fine selection of music, and many of the Fusiliers. For many of the. cohort they were receiving their first operational medal. The CO also. promoted several NCOs and had the pleasure of awarding 2 Long Service. Good Conduct Medals to Cpl Martin Pike and Sgt Sandy Sanderson. The CO presents Cpl Dixon his Afghanistan medal. CSgt Gardner promoted to WO2 by the CODespite an extremely wet start to the day, the gods. Unit Welfare Officer Capt Goldie. Goldsmith as it stopped raining and the sun even came out for the 1. RRF families day on the rugby pitches. Each company dressed their respective. They were joined by many of the families. BFBS radio. The wives. Y Company who were the eventual winners. Y Coy lead the way in the chariot race The CO and Goldie Flintstone discussing Strategic military. Sgt Anis Oldham returned to the UK this month having. Exercise LONG LOOK, an exchange to with the Australian. Having had to deploy from RAF Brize Norton in mid March with. Hong Kong, Sydney then finally to Townsville it was a fairly. Australia Based at the Combat training. Sgt Oldham was given little time to adjust as he deployed two. Australian army for operations in Afghanistan. The weather on the training area also made Brecon seem like a nice place. Sgt Oldham also deployed as an instructor on a short course. Sydney, teaching Australian soldiers how to be an observer controller. Solomon Islands. It wasnt all work however as Sgt Oldham did have a. Australia. Being on the north east Queensland coast. Cairns and down to Brisbane for. Adventure Training. In the first week of July over a. Fusiliers, NCOs and officers took part in 1. RRFs annual Adventurous. Training Camp. After the success of last years camp, a similar week. Betws y Coed. in Snowdonia, North Wales. The Fusiliers took part in a range of activities. Some of the. mountains conquered included Snowdon by many and varied routes and. Crib Goch, and the famous peak Tryffan. Adam and Eve monoliths, and the Cantilever Rock. When on the. mountain bikes, the Marin Trail was the route favoured for its mix of. The men seemed to enjoy the biking. Rock climbing offered a different. Fusiliers out of their comfort zones whether. Fusilier out onto a far more difficult. The end of the week came all too soon, and the men of 1. RRF went away. having learned that hill walking can be a lot more scary than they originally. Cpl Mess. The Corporals Mess Summer Ball was held on. Thursday 2. 1 July. The preparation for the function was a challenge for. Mess committee however they all pulled together under the PMC. Cpl Mark Crook. The renovation of the cookhouse was a sight for all. A big surprise came to everyone when the pre drinks were served. The entertainment came from. Waikiki the amazing limbo artist, a few hearts skipped. Unit Fire Safety Manager the. RSM who was attending the function A really big thank you goes to. RRF who provided outstanding exotic cuisine. Football. On 1. 6 2. July 1. 1 the 1 RRF football team were. Commanding Officer to visit the North East of England. The week including intensive training everyday. Tynemouth which proved to be a winner for. The. first game was against Wallsend Boys Club The club is the most famous. Boys Club in England and has produced some of Englands best footballers. Alan Shearer, Peter Beardlsey and Michael Carrick to name. On the Tuesday after training the team was invited by Bob Herworth. Ex Northumberland Fusilier to a Stadium Tour of Newcastle Uniteds.