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The 1944 Alliance Normandy-Market Garden are the stakeholders of the MGVA memorial, it was one of the first memorials when the NMA was being built, we want to build a better modern memorial befitting to immortalise the memory of the Airborne & Land forces who took part in Operation “Market Garden” September 1944.
Sunday 27th April; FBESA St. George’s day, form-up 10:30 for 11:00 service at St. Paul’s church, St. Paul’s Square, Birmingham, B3 1QZ 1st part in church, 2nd part at the memorials on the green for wreath laying ceremony, after service refreshments and entertainment in the banqueting suite at the Cobden hotel, 166, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B16 9NZ, everyone welcome, especially veterans, standard bearers, military serving personnel, cadets
Thursday 8th May 2025; Commemorating 80th anniversary of VE day, form-up 09:30 for 10:00 service and act of remembrance at the Hall of Memory Centenary Square, Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2HF
Sunday 11th May; Veterans of Hagley Road Village (HRV) will hold their Victory in Europe Day service in the concert room, form-up 14:00 for 14:30 service at HRV, everyone welcome, especially standard bearers and veterans, and residents, Hagley Road retirement village. 330, Hagley Road Edgbaston, Birmingham, B17 8BM
Friday 16th May Remembering National Service “62” Friday 16th May 2025 marks the 62nd anniversary since the last national serviceman was demobbed from National Service, (conscription), the National Service Veterans Association will commemorate the event on Friday 16th May 2025 at the National Memorial Arboretum (NMA), with a Service of Remembrance and wreath laying ceremony at their own National Service Veterans Memorial, form-up 11:30 for 12:00 service, attendance is open to all veterans, members, bereaved families, and descendants of UK National Servicemen all standard bearers are invited to attend please. http://www.thenma.org.uk/events Please note; the annual conscripts Memorial Day will be held on 16th May every year in future, renamed “Remembering National Service”
Saturday 17th May 2025 – Monte Cassino: Form-up 13:30 for 14:00 service and act of remembrance at the Monte Cassino memorial, 15:00 Gather in restaurant after for refreshments.
Sunday 25th May; Ceremony to mark the 12th anniversary of the death of Fusilier Lee Rigby, (22/05/2013) at the War Memorial, Powke Lane Cemetery, Rowley Regis on Sunday 25th May 2025 at 10:00am, including act of remembrance and wreath laying ceremony, everyone welcome, especially standard bearers, Welcome by; Mark Spilsbury.