Welcome to the North West Branch.
Our aims are firstly for branch members, some who first met as serving Riflemen in a Green Jacket battalion over fifty years ago, to keep in touch, exchange views on all topics and, also bridge the mileage gap that has built up between us all. This is best illustrated in The History.
Secondly to encourage Green Jackets who have yet to join, to make the effort to get in touch with chums of yesteryear and to rekindle the spirit and resolve that was commonplace when serving.
Thirdly for the interested viewer, to find out how the branch works in its support for individuals and this great Regiment the Royal Green Jackets whose antecedent Regiments, the 43rd, the 52nd, the 60th, and the 95th held reputations that were second to none. As does our living Regiment.
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Gareth
Dixon
Ray
Gerrard
Chairman/Treasurer
Secretary/Assistant
Treasurer
Project 65
Project 65 has been created to honour the memory of the men who took part in the Coup de Main operation to capture the bridges on the Caen Canal and River Orne in the early hours of D-Day 65 years ago. The bridges are nowadays known as Pegasus and Horsa Bridges. A team of fund raising volunteers will leave Tarrant Rushton Airfield on June 4th next year and run 65 miles to arrive at Pegasus Bridge to celebrate the 65th Anniversary of D-Day on June 6th 2009.
The organisers of Project 65 aim to raise £500,000, part of which will be used to erect a simple but lasting memorial to the men of the Coup de Main force and those directly associated with that operation 65 years ago. The memorial will be erected directly in front of the original bridge within the grounds of the museum which now displays the original bridge over the Orne Canal.
Most of the money raised will be divided between: The Royal British Legion, BLESMA, St Dunstan’s, RAF Benevolent Fund, Army Benevolent Fund, and Help for Heroes, so that they may continue to help the disabled and wounded men and women of today’s Armed Forces.
For further information click anywhere on this line
Welcome to the North West Branch.
Our aims are firstly for branch members, some who first met as serving Riflemen in a Green Jacket battalion over fifty years ago, to keep in touch, exchange views on all topics and, also bridge the mileage gap that has built up between us all. This is best illustrated in The History.
Secondly to encourage Green Jackets who have yet to join, to make the effort to get in touch with chums of yesteryear and to rekindle the spirit and resolve that was commonplace when serving.
Thirdly for the interested viewer, to find out how the branch works in its support for individuals and this great Regiment the Royal Green Jackets whose antecedent Regiments, the 43rd, the 52nd, the 60th, and the 95th held reputations that were second to none. As does our living Regiment.
.
.
.
| Gareth Dixon | Ray Gerrard |
| Chairman/Treasurer | Secretary/Assistant Treasurer |
Project 65
Project 65 has been created to honour the memory of the men who took part in the Coup de Main operation to capture the bridges on the Caen Canal and River Orne in the early hours of D-Day 65 years ago. The bridges are nowadays known as Pegasus and Horsa Bridges. A team of fund raising volunteers will leave Tarrant Rushton Airfield on June 4th next year and run 65 miles to arrive at Pegasus Bridge to celebrate the 65th Anniversary of D-Day on June 6th 2009.
The organisers of Project 65 aim to raise £500,000, part of which will be used to erect a simple but lasting memorial to the men of the Coup de Main force and those directly associated with that operation 65 years ago. The memorial will be erected directly in front of the original bridge within the grounds of the museum which now displays the original bridge over the Orne Canal.
Most of the money raised will be divided between: The Royal British Legion, BLESMA, St Dunstan’s, RAF Benevolent Fund, Army Benevolent Fund, and Help for Heroes, so that they may continue to help the disabled and wounded men and women of today’s Armed Forces.
For further information click anywhere on this line
