National Armed Forces & Emergency Services Event

The Catterick Christmas Military Event 2024 features a range of exhibitors for the forces community from recruitment and training opportunities to general advice to lesiure freebies and giveaways and there's even hot drinks and food on the go to bring in the festive season! The range of exhibitors on show includes main sponsor Phoenix Health & Safety showcasing their range of ELCAS accredited courses for NEBOSH and IOSH. Also attending the event with recruitment opportunities are Nuclear Transport Solutions, Chevron Traffic Management, Yorkshire Water, British Engineering Services and KBR. Training providers attending include Pass N Go Driving (who have their own forces programme for service leavers), Gastec Training, Darlington College, Adult Learnng Services (North Yorkshire Council), Manchester Business School, BBE Training, Edinburgh Napier University, The Discipline Group and Salus Medical. Independent schools are also present to advise on how to access funding for families wanting to place their children into boarding schools and Queen Ethelburga's, Pocklington and Finborough schools will be in attendance. Anyone in the forces is entitled to use the Continuity of Education Allowance for this. Savoy Cinemas will be there to hand out freebies and giveaways for the new cinema complex recently opened in Catterick and Darlington Holiday Inn will be there with some great discounts and offers on their Fitness Club membership. There's also complimentary hot drinks and food on the go! Literally something for everyone from the forces community, from serving personnel, regular and reservists, veterans, spouses and partners and families. Turn up at anytime from 0930 to 1230 and come and say hello and network in an informal enivronment. Exhibitors include: Phoenix Health & Safety, Savoy Cinemas, Gastec Training, BBE Training, Simpson & Millar, LGV Teesside, Recruitrite, Discipline Group, Manchester Business School, Nuclear Transport Solutions, DLC Training, KBR, The Fitness Group, Edinburgh Napier University, Institute of Fisheries, Frontier Risks, Chevron, Pocklington School, SRUC, Yorkshire Water, British Engineering Services, Darlington College, Adult Learning Services (North Yorkshire Council), Holiday Inn Darlington, Savoy Cinemas, Salus Medical, Queen Ethelburga's School, Pass N Go Driving and more!

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3 weeks to go! Have you signed up yet? See https://lnkd.in/epJ4-8JN for more info. Phoenix Health & Safety #royalnavy #britisharmy #royalairforce

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4 weeks to go today! Have you signed up yet? Lots going on for the entire community! In association with Phoenix Health & Safety over 40 exhibitors will be present with opportunities from recruitment to training to leisure discounts and more! Pop by and say hello with a cuppa and some festive food! Sign up at https://lnkd.in/ekbCfXJz #armedforces #military #veteran

The Unknown Warrior 11th November 1920 On September 7th 1920, in strictest secrecy, four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme. None of the soldiers who did the digging were told why. The bodies were taken by field ambulance to GHQ at St-Pol-Sur-ter noise. There the bodies were draped with the union flag. Sentries were posted and Brigadier-General Wyatt and a Colonel Gell selected one body at random. A French honour guard was selected, and stood by the coffin overnight. On the morning of the 8th (a specially designed coffin made of oak from the grounds of Hampton Court, was brought and the unknown warrior placed inside. On top was placed a crusaders sword and a shield on which was inscribed '( a British Warrior who fell in the GREAT WAR 1914-1918 for king and country'. On The 9th of November the unknown warrior was taken by horse drawn carriage through guards of honour and the sound of tolling bells and bugle calls to the quayside. There it was loaded onto HMS Vernon bound for Dover..... the coffin stood on the deck covered in wreaths and surrounded by the French honour guard. On arrival at Dover the the unknown warrior was greeted with a 19 gun salute, normally only reserved for field marshals. He then traveled by special train to Victoria Station London. He stayed there overnight and on the morning of the 11th of November he was taken to Westminster Abbey where he was placed in a tomb at the west end of the nave - his grave was filled in using 100 sandbags of earth from the battlefields. When the Duke of York (later King George VI) married Lady Ellizabeth Bowes Lyons in the Abbey in 1923 she left her wedding bouquet on the grave as a mark of respect (she had lost a brother during the war) Since then all royal brides married in the Abbey have sent back their bouquets to be laid on the grave. The idea of the unknown soldier was thought of by a Padre called David Railton who had served at the front during the great war and it was the union flag they used as an altar cloth at the front, that had been draped over the coffin. It is the intention that all relatives of the 517,773 combatants whose bodies had not been identified could believe that the unknown warrior could very well be their lost husband, Father, brother or son. Today we remember them. John 15:13 “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends”

Some terrific artwork in Bethnal Green #armedforces #remembrance #lestweforget

Just a reminder to have consideration for others tonight. #bonfirenight #fireworks #armedforces

It’s always an honour to be associated with the Veterans Awards through our forces events magazine - Eyes Front. #forces #veterans #veteran