More than 1,000 members of the Armed Forces played a role in the State Opening of Parliament last Wednesday, as crowds lined the streets.

In total 1,290 forces personnel were on show performing a variety of ceremonial roles – including guards and musicians.

The Army’s Household Division had the privilege of lining the streets and escorting the Queen’s procession from Buckingham Palace to the House of Lords. Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards and Welsh Guards stood along the route of the procession, while members of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment escorted the Queen’s carriage.

As the Queen reached the House of Lords, a 41-gun salute was fired by members of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery, supported by the Royal Artillery Band, in Green Park. A further 41-gun salute was fired at midday at the Tower of London by the Army’s oldest regiment, the Honourable Artillery Company.

DIARY DATES

Today: The Royal Marines Association meets at 19.30hrs at West Bowling Working Men’s Association.

Wednesday: The Coldstream Guards Association meets at 19.30hrs at Northcliffe Golf Club, Saltaire, The Prince of Wales Own Association meets at 19.30hrs at Northcote Conservative Club. The Green Howards Association meets at 13.30hrs at Headingley Club. The Royal British Legion, Keighley branch, meets at 19.30hrs at Holingsroyd House, Lord Street, Keighley.

The next Bradford Central Royal British Legion monthly meeting is being held at The Midland Hotel, Manor Row, Bradford on Tuesday, May 28 from 7pm.

REMEMBRANCE

The following are being specially remembered at Bradford Cathedral this week: Hannah Isabel Thompson, Robert Troy, Ernest Turner, Harold Turpin, James Leslie Twibell, John Thomas, Vincent Tobin, Frederick Charles Joseph Twite, Norman Underwood, Norman Vanston, Kenneth Vause, George Arthur Waddington, George Harrison Waite, Herbert Waite, Albert Walker, George Frederick Wilson Walker, William Henry Walker, Walter Walker, William Walker, Selwyn Walker, Eric Waller, William Arthur Walsh, William Jarvis Walsh.