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WELSH GUARDS CELEBRATE CENTENARY WITH ST DAVID’S DAY PARADE
1st Battalion Welsh Guards held a St David’s Day Parade in Cardiff Bay on Sunday, March 1st – 100 years to the day after the Battalion mounted its first King’s Guard at Buckingham Palace.
A number of events took place throughout the day, starting with a Welsh Guards 100 Marathon that set off from the Roald Dahl Plass bowl near the Wales Millennium Centre at 10am. The 15 runners from the battalion then latched on to the Cardiff 10km run. The Marathon is the first of 100 marathons in 19 different countries around the world that the Battalion hopes to complete from June to September this year, near the sites where the Welsh Guards achieved its battle honours.
After the runners set off, a church service of thanksgiving and commemoration for all those Welsh Guardsmen who have sacrificed so much over the hundred years, was held inside the Wales Millennium Centre. During the service which featured traditional Welsh hymns "Love Divine All Loves Excelling", "Guide me oh thou great Redeemer" and the Welsh Guards Choir (made up of serving soldiers) sang "Calon Lan" (A Pure Heart) in Welsh.
At 12 noon, a 400-strong parade marched outside onto the Waterfront in front of crowds of onlookers and supporters. Field Marshall Lord Guthrie and the Lord Mayor of Cardiff took the salute before the traditional presentation of ceremonial St David's Day leeks to every officer and guardsman on parade.
The Band of The Welsh Guards performed throughout the day, most movingly as accompaniment to the Welsh Guards choir, who also performed in the opera house during lunch with their assembled families.
WELSH GUARDS CELEBRATE CENTENARY WITH ST DAVID’S DAY PARADE
1st Battalion Welsh Guards held a St David’s Day Parade in Cardiff Bay on Sunday, March 1st – 100 years to the day after the Battalion mounted its first King’s Guard at Buckingham Palace.
A number of events took place throughout the day, starting with a Welsh Guards 100 Marathon that set off from the Roald Dahl Plass bowl near the Wales Millennium Centre at 10am. The 15 runners from the battalion then latched on to the Cardiff 10km run. The Marathon is the first of 100 marathons in 19 different countries around the world that the Battalion hopes to complete from June to September this year, near the sites where the Welsh Guards achieved its battle honours.
After the runners set off, a church service of thanksgiving and commemoration for all those Welsh Guardsmen who have sacrificed so much over the hundred years, was held inside the Wales Millennium Centre. During the service which featured traditional Welsh hymns "Love Divine All Loves Excelling", "Guide me oh thou great Redeemer" and the Welsh Guards Choir (made up of serving soldiers) sang "Calon Lan" (A Pure Heart) in Welsh.
At 12 noon, a 400-strong parade marched outside onto the Waterfront in front of crowds of onlookers and supporters. Field Marshall Lord Guthrie and the Lord Mayor of Cardiff took the salute before the traditional presentation of ceremonial St David's Day leeks to every officer and guardsman on parade.
The Band of The Welsh Guards performed throughout the day, most movingly as accompaniment to the Welsh Guards choir, who also performed in the opera house during lunch with their assembled families.