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OFFICIAL PROGAMME of the VICTORY CELEBRATIONS,
8th June 1946 - in London, England - in 2 parts
...... a fascinating summary of British
military and economic power, as well as organisational
abilities at the end of World War 2 and just before the
rapid decline of the British Empire
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the programme is taken from the original Programme, price
twopence (0.8p!); the photographs from "The War
Illustrated" edited by Sir John Hammerton and
published weekly during the war at sixpence (2.5p).
Copyright permission has not been given to reproduce from
either source, but will be sought
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HIS
MAJESTY’S PROCESSION
The King, accompanied by
the Queen, the Princess Elizabeth and the
Princess Margaret, will drive in a State Landau.
The Royal Carriage will be escorted by a
Captain’s Escort of the Household Cavalry
with Standard
ROUTE
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a.m. |
| Buckingham
Palace |
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10.10 |
| Marble Arch |
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10.25 |
| Oxford Street |
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| Charing Cross
Road |
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10.35 |
| Northumberland
Avenue |
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10.40 |
| Bridge Street
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10.46 |
| Whitehall |
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| The Mall
(Saluting Base) |
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10.57 |
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CHIEFS
OF STAFF'S PROCESSION
The
Chiefs of Staff at VE Day and VJ Day, together with the
Supreme Allied Commanders, will precede the Mechanised
Column, leaving the Clarence Gate in Regent's Park at 9.15
a.m. and arriving at the Saluting Base at 10.20 a.m.
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British
Chiefs of Staff - Admiral
of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham ("ABC" of
Mediterranean Fleet fame and now First Sea Lord), Field Marshall Viscount Alanbrooke, Marshal of
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MARCH
PAST
The
Mechanised and Marching Columns will follow the routes given
below, joining at Parliament Square and passing together up
Whitehall, the Mechanised Column leading. Between the arrival
of His Majesty at the Saluting Base and the commencement of
the March Past, the Massed Pipers of Scottish and Irish
Regiments will march and counter-march in the Mall. The head
of the joint Column will pass the Saluting Base at 11.20 a.m.
At the conclusion of the March Past, Squadrons of the Royal
Air Force, together with Squadrons of the Naval Air Arm, will
fly past the Base.
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HM King George VI at the
saluting base in The Mall leading down to Buckingham
Palace from Admiralty Arch. He is accompanied by Queen
Elizabeth - the Queen Mother who died recently, in 2002. King George wears Royal Navy
uniform as the senior British armed service.
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MECHANISED
COLUMN
ROUTE
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| Regent’s
Park (Clarence Gate) |
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9.18 |
| Park
Square West |
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| Marylebone
Road |
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| Euston
Road |
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9.28 |
| Pentonville
Road |
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| City
Road |
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| Old
Street |
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9.45 |
| Hackney
Road |
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| Cambridge
Heath Road |
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| Whitechapel
Road |
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10.04 |
| Whitechapel
High Street |
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| Aldgate
High Street |
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| Mansell
Street |
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10.11 |
| Royal
Mint Street |
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| Shorter
Street |
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| Tower
Hill |
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10.14 |
| Eastcheap |
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| King
William Street |
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| London
Bridge |
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10.19 |
| Borough
High Street |
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| Newington
Causeway |
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| Newington
Butts |
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10.31 |
| Kennington
Park Road |
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| Harleyford
Road |
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| Upper
Kennington Lane |
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| Vauxhall
Bridge |
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10.43 |
| Millbank |
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| Abingdon
Street |
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| Parliament
Square |
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10.52 |
| Whitehall |
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| Admiralty
Arch |
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| The
Mall (Saluting Base) |
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11.20 |
| Constitution
Hill |
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| Hyde
Park Corner |
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11.26 |
| Hamilton
Place |
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| Park
Lane |
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| Edgware
Road |
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| Marylebone
Road |
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| Regent’s
Park |
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11.50 |
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ORDER
OF MARCH
COMMANDERS:
Police Motor Cycle Patrols
ALLIED
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Two of the
Allied Supreme Commanders - Field Marshall Viscount
Alexander of Tunis, C-in-C Mediterranean and Admiral Mountbatten, C-in-C,
South East Asia Command |
Despatch Riders of the Royal Navy
ROYAL NAVY
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Two of the Naval commanders in armoured cars
driven by naval ratings - Admiral Sir John Cunningham (no
relation to ABC), C-in-C Mediterranean and Admiral Sir
Geoffrey Layton |
Despatch Riders of the Army
ARMY
Despatch Riders of the Royal Air
Force
AIR FORCE
Despatch Riders of the National Fire
Service
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ROYAL NAVY
Amphibious Jeeps
Weasels
DUKW's
Mobile Wireless Telegraphy Units
Aircraft Refuellers
Mobile Sick Bays
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Mechanized units of the Royal Navy, with two
DUKW's leading, passing through Parliament Square with
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ROYAL AIR FORCE
Reconnaissance Cars
Light Ambulance - Special Ambulance
Radar Vehicle
Despatch Rider Letter Service Van – Signals Van
Recruiting Van - Pre-heater Van
Freighter – Aircraft Refueller mounted on 10-ton Tender
Fire Tenders
Breakdown Tender - Fire Crash Tender
Dental Caravan towed by Air Traffic Control Towing Car
Mechanical Horse
Bomb Tenders (Loaded)
Cooking Tender - Mobile Canteen
Radar Vehicles
3-ton Tender with Propeller Transporter
Educational, and Vocational Training Van - OfficeTender
Parachute Drying Tender - Parachute Servicing Vehicle
Tipping Tender - Trucktor
Water Tender (1,000 Gallons) - Petrol Tender (1,000 Gallons)
Aircraft Transporter
Airfield Floodlight – Oxygen Plant
Landmark Beacon towed by 3-ton Tender - Aerial Lighthouse towed
by 3-ton Tender
Mobile Workshop - Power Plant 20 K.V.A.
Radar Vehicles
Airborne Lifeboat on Aircraft Transporter
Light Tractor – 10-ton Truck carrying Elevator Truck
Mechanical Horses with Torpedo Carriers
Ammunition Carriers
Airfield Snowplough - Runway Sweeper
Radar Vehicles
Balloon Winch with Hydrogen Cylinders
Heavy Ambulance - Air Traffic Control
Air Passenger Coaches
Troop Carriers
Pantechnicon - Radar Vehicle
Petrol Tender (2,500 Gallons) - Aircraft Salvage Tender
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CIVILIAN SERVICES
POLICE
Patrol Cars
FIRE SERVICES
Control Vans
Turntable Ladders (100 ft.)
Turntable Ladders (60 ft.)
Enclosed Fire Pumps
Auxiliary Towing Vehicles with Trailer Pumps
Pump Escapes
Self-propelled Heavy Pump Units
Water Tenders
CIVIL DEFENCE SERVICES
Civil Defence Reserve Rescue Vehicles
Light Rescue Vehicles (London)
Heavy Rescue Vehicles (London)
Rescue Vehicles
Rescue and War Debris Cranes
Rescue and War Debris Tippers with Skips
Decontamination vehicles
(manned by Decontamination Squads and Gas Identification
Officers)
American Gift Ambulances (Great Britain)
Ambulances
Mobile Canteens
Mobile Emergency Food Units
Blood Transfusion Vans
AGRICULTURE
Land Drainage Excavator - Farm Tractor and Binder
TRANSPORT SERVICES
London Buses
Provincial Buses
6-8-ton Articulated Vehicles
Cruiser Cranes
6-ton Mechanical Horses
Mechanised Transport Corps Cars
Insulated Meat Vans
PUBLIC UTILITIES
Mobile Coast Radio Station - Mobile Telegraph Office
Mobile Gas Compressor - Gas Lorry and Purging Machine Trailer
Standard Electricity Repair Units
Tractors with Trailer Mounting Electrically-Driven Water Pumps
GENERAL SERVICES
Y.M.C.A. Mobile Canteens
Church Army Mobile Canteens
Salvation Army Mobile Canteens
National Savings Vans
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ARMY
ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS
Comet Command Tank
Scout Cars
Armoured Cars
Chaffee (Light) Tanks
Cromwells
Comets
Churchills
Shermans
Crocodiles
Flails
Bridge Laying Tanks
ROYAL ARTILLERY
Jeep
Self-propelled 25-pdrs
Towed 25-pdrs
Towed 5.5-in. Guns
Towed 7.2-in. Howitzer
Self-propelled 17-pdrs
Towed 3.7-in Anti-Aircraft Guns
Bofors Guns
Searchlight Lorries
77-mm Howitzer (Air Transportable)
ROYAL ENGINEERS
Jeep
Armoured Vehicles, Royal Engineers
Centaur Dozers
Arks
Class I Angledozers on Trailers
Tournapuls (Super C) with 12-yard Scrapers
Motor Graders
Excavators RB19 with Face Shovel Equipment on Trailers towed by
Matador Tractor
Bomb Disposal Lorries with Trepanning and Steaming Out Apparatus
Unicraft on Trailer
153-h.p. Diesel Tank Engines on Trailers
Survey Printing Lorries
ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS
Jeep
Cars drawing Signals Trailers
3-ton Wireless Lorries
3-ton Cable Laying Lorries
Command Vehicles
Half Tracks
Armoured Command Vehicles
Tractors drawing Signals Equipment Trailers
3-ton Lorries towing Beam Wireless Trailers
15-ton Cable Lorries
INFANTRY AND ARMY AIR CORPS AND SPECIAL
FORCES
Half Tracks
M.M.G. Carriers
Universal Carriers
Windsor Carriers
Jeeps of the Special Air Service
Jeeps with Trailers (Air Transportable)
Jeeps of the Special Forces
ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS
(including Royal Army Medical Corps)
Jeep
Jeeps with Trailers
Weasels
Troop Carrying Lorries
Water Lorries
Bulk Petrol Lorries
Machinery Lorries
3-ton Lorries towing Generator Trailers
10-ton Lorries towing Bakery Equipment Trailers
DUKW's
Folding Boat Equipments
Pontoon Lorries
Matador Tractors towing Pontoon Trailers
Diamond "T" Tank Transporters carrying LVT's
Armoured Personnel Carriers
Stretcher Ambulances
ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS
(including Army Film and Photographic Unit)
Jeep
Binned Stores Trailer and Boot Repair Trailer
Mobile Crane and Breakdown Lorry
Water Trucks
Mobile Oxygen Plant and Mobile Inert Gas Plant
Clothing Repair Trailer and Mobile Laundry Boiler Trailer
Mobile Acetylene Plants
Mobile Laundry Washing Machine Trailers
Boot Repair Plants (Air Transportable)
Jeeps of the Army Film and Photographic Unit
WAR CORRESPONDENTS
Jeeps
NAVY ARMY AND AIR FORCE INSTITUTES AND
FIRST AID NURSING YEOMANRY
Mobile Canteens
ROYAL ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL
ENGINEERS
Jeep
20-ton Tank Transporters carrying Crawler Tractors
Heavy Breakdown Tractors
3-ton Machinery Lorries
Jeeps
40-ton Tank Transporter carrying Cromwell
Armoured Recovery Vehicles
Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicles
ARMY FIRE SERVICES
Fire Tender Lorries towing Trailer Fire Pumps
Fire Engines
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MARCHING
COLUMN
ROUTE
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a.m. |
| Marble Arch |
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10.35 |
| Oxford Street |
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10.45 |
| Charing Cross
Road |
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10.58 |
| Trafalgar
Square |
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11.08 |
| Northumberland
Avenue |
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11.11 |
| Embankment |
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11.16 |
| Parliament
Square |
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11.25 |
| Halt |
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| Whitehall |
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11.55 |
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p.m. |
| The Mall
(Saluting Base) |
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12.01 |
| Constitution
Hill |
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12.05 |
| Hyde Park
Corner |
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12.13 |
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ORDER OF MARCH
ALLIED
FORCES
Bands
(the "Big 5" less Great Britain)
United States of America
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
China
France
Belgium
Brazil
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Egypt
Ethiopia
Greece
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Representatives of the Greek armed forces, including the Royal Hellenic
Navy which played a valuable part in the Mediterranean. Escorting the Greek colours are
two Evzones in their traditional white kilts |
Iran
Iraq
Luxembourg
Mexico
Nepal
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Transjordan
Yugoslavia
ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN
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BRITISH
EMPIRE
DOMINIONS
Bands
Canada
Commonwealth of Australia
New Zealand
Union of South Africa
Southern Rhodesia
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Southern Rhodesian (now Zimbabwe) forces passing
the saluting base "eyes left". In the middle
distance,left to right are Mr Atlee, Prime Minister, Mr
Churchill, Mr Mackenzie King, PM of Canada and Field
Marshal Smuts, PM of South Africa |
Newfoundland
INDIA
Royal Indian Navy
Indian
Armoured Corps
Royal Indian Artillery
Royal Indian Engineers
Indian Signal Corps
Band of Royal Garhwal Rifles
Indian Infantry
Gurkha Rifles
Indian State Forces
Royal
Indian Air Force
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Indian forces passing under Admiralty Arch and
down The Mall towards Buckingham Palace at the far end.
This long column is just a small fraction of the whole
vast parade comprising a total of 21,000 men and women of
the fighting, auxiliary and civilian services - Allied,
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BURMA
Burma Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Burma
Army
Burma
Volunteer Air Force
THE
COLONIAL EMPIRE
WEST
AFRICA
Nigeria,
Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Gambia
Royal West African Frontier Force
West African Artillery
West African Engineers
West African Signals
West African Army Service Corps
West African Medical Corps
West African Ordnance Corps
West African Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Corps of West African Military Police
West African Auxiliary Pioneer Corps
EAST
AND CENTRAL AFRICA
Kenya,
Uganda, Tanganyika, Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia, Zanzibar,
British Somaliland
Kenya Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Tanganyika Naval Volunteer Force
East
Africa Reconnaissance Regiment
East Africa Armoured Car Regiment
King's African Rifles
Northern Rhodesia Regiment
Somaliland Scouts
East Africa Artillery
East Africa Engineers
East Africa Corps of' Signals
East Africa Chaplains Department
East Africa Army Service Corps
East Africa Army Medical Corps
East Africa Army Ordnance Corps
East Africa Army Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
East Africa Army Educational Corps
East Africa Military Police
East Africa Army Pioneer Corps
East Africa Army Labour Service
The Kenya Regiment
East Africa Military Nursing Service
Women's
Territorial Service
Kenya Police
Tanganyika Police
Uganda Police
ADEN
Aden Protectorate Levies
BERMUDA
Bermuda Militia Artillery
Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps
Bermuda Volunteer Engineers
CEYLON
Ceylon Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Royal
Artillery
Royal Engineers
Royal Army Service Corps
Ceylon Garrison Artillery
Ceylon Engineers
Ceylon Light Infantry
Ceylon Signal Corps
Ceylon Army Service Corps
Ceylon Medical Corps
Ceylon Railway Engineer Corps
Ceylon Corps of Military Police
Ceylon Electrical and Mechanical Corps
Ceylon Pioneers
Auxiliary Territorial Service
CYPRUS
Cyprus Regiment
Cyprus Volunteer Force
Royal
Air Force
FALKLAND
ISLANDS
Falklands Islands Defence Force
GIBRALTAR
Gibraltar Defence Force
HONG
KONG
Hong Kong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Hong
Kong Volunteer Defence Corps
Hong Kong Volunteer Company
Hong Kong Pioneer Company
Civilian
Services
MALAYA
Royal Navy
Malay Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Royal
Artillery
Royal Engineers
Royal Corps of Signals
Royal Army Medical Corps
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Royal Army Service Corps
Malay Regiment
Straits Settlements Volunteer Force
Federated Malay States Volunteer Force
Johore Military Forces
Kedah Volunteer Force
Kelantan Volunteer Force
Johore Volunteer Force
Royal
Air Force
Malay Volunteer Air Force
Local
Defence Corps
Police and Guerilla Forces
Civilian Services
WEST
INDIES
Bahamas,
Barbados, British Guiana, British Honduras, Jamaica,
Leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Windward Islands
West Indian Detachment
Royal Air Force
FIJI
AND WESTERN PACIFIC
Fiji Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Fiji
Infantry Regiment
Fiji Medical Corps
Tonga Defence Force
British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force
Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony Defence Force
MAURITIUS
Mauritius Pioneer Corps
Mauritius
Women's Volunteer Corps
NORTH
BORNEO, BRUNEI, LABUAN AND SARAWAK
Police and Guerilla Forces
PALESTINE
Trans-Jordan Frontier Force
Palestine Regiment
Palestine Police
ST.
HELENA
St. Helena Regiment
Merchant
Navy
SEYCHELLES
Seychelles Pioneer Corps
SOUTH
AFRICAN HIGH COMMISSION TERRITORIES
Basutoland,
Bechuanaland, Swaziland
South African High Commission
Territories Corps
MALTA
Royal Navy
Royal
Malta Artillery
Royal Engineers
Corps of Signals
King's Own Malta Regiment
Army Service Corps
Army Medical Corps
Army Ordnance Corps
Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Army Pay Corps
Malta Pioneer Group
Royal
Air Force
Malta
Police
Civilian Services
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NAVAL FORCES
ROYAL NAVY
Seamen
Engine Room Department
Band
Miscellaneous Branches and Reserves
Royal Marines
Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service and V.A.D’s
Women’s Royal Naval Service
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Royal Navy units passing through Admiralty Arch
- seaman and stokers under the arch itself, Royal Marine
band following, and behind them (nearest camera)
miscellaneous branches and the Reserves. Trafalgar Square, appropriately
with Nelson's column, and out of view to the right is one
mass of people, with those attempting to see the parade
standing 40-50 deep
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MERCHANT NAVY
FISHING FLEETS
LIGHTHOUSE SERVICES
COASTGUARDS
PILOTS
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION
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CIVILIAN SERVICES (FIRST
CONTINGENTS)
POLICE
Metropolitan Police Central Band
Civil Police
Admiralty
Civil Police
War
Department Constabulary
Air
Ministry Constabulary
Railway and Docks Police
FIRE SERVICE
National fire service
Salvage Corps
CIVIL DEFENCE SERVICE (FIRST PART)
Rescue Dog Handlers and Dogs
Civil Defence Reserve
Wardens
Rescue Service
Report and Control Service
CIVIL DEFENCE SERVICES (SECOND PART)
American Gift Ambulances (Great Britain)
Ambulance Service
First Aid Posts
Civil Nursing Reserve
Nurses in Voluntary and Public Hospitals
Midwives and District Nurses
War-time Nurseries
Lay Staffs of Hospitals
Medical Auxiliaries
NURSING SERVICES
Joint War Organisation of British Red Cross Society and Order of
St. John of Jerusalem
St. Andrew’s Ambulance Association
WOMEN'S VOLUNTARY SERVICES
AGRICULTURE
Women’s Land Army and Timber Corps
Farm Workers
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