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An orientation class of Foreign Service officers is sworn in by Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 19, 2023. [State Department Photo by Freddie Everett/ Public Domain]
The history of the Pakistan Foreign Service is as old as Pakistan itself. Just as the country has gone through its periodic ebbs and tides, so have the Foreign Service and its mandarins experienced periods of perfect calm followed by strong currents of unsettling tumult. It has, in the process, had more than its fair share of challenges and storms.
A constant in the 60 years of Pakistan Foreign Service is the element of envy — of its mandate to man the ramparts of Pakistan abroad, often in unfriendly environs and under daunting conditions — and hostility to those charged with the onus to discharge the mission. Foreign Service mandarins, predominantly drawn from the country’s shrinking middle-class, have been a target of derision, mockery and, often, open hostility from its political masters, representing its feudal elite and soldiers-of-fortune.
Dr Samiullah Koreshi is one of the early pioneers of the Foreign Service and has deftly woven an interesting pastiche of this and other unsavory aspects of the unwelcome ambience in which the service has been cultured over the past decades. Although these are his memoirs and his reason for writing them couldn’t be any other than to highlight the personal imprints he has left on the passage of the Foreign Service over the decades since its inception, and the meandering course of Pakistan’s foreign policy, the history of the service, of which he was a luminary, unconsciously threads its way into his personal account.
He recounts, for instance, a truly hare-brained scheme of Manzoor Qadir, who, as foreign ninister under Ayub Khan, had the reputation of being a genius and a foreign policy wizard, to have only a handful of Pakistani embassies in the outside world: not more than a dozen, to cover the whole wide world. Ayub’s finance minister, Mohammad Shoaib, had an even sillier scheme up his sleeve; he sought not only to reduce the number of embassies abroad but also slash their manpower to an unworkable minimum; just an ambassador and a junior officer. He impishly christened it as ‘a man-and-boy’ team of diplomats.
Shoaib, too, was undeservedly hailed as a financial genius and ace economist whereas his only qualification was that he was a World Bank implant in Pakistan. The fetish with America-returned wizards has robustly flourished to date in Pakistan. The current power dispensation is larded, to our dismay, with such wizard-wonders, aplenty. Bankers with money-laundering credentials have been ruling the roost in Pakistan as economists, par excellence.
Dr Koreshi recalls that all these schemes were the brainchildren of powerful and power-hungry CSP officers who’d struck up an alliance with the army under Ayub. They wanted to do away with the Foreign Service altogether and have, instead, only a general pool of officers, crisscrossing the boundaries of civil and foreign services. The snide purpose was to open the rich pickings of foreign postings to the CSP cabal.
But the gods were kind to the Foreign Service mandarins because they happened to have a man as intelligent and suave as Mr Ikramullah as foreign secretary, for a second time. He saved the service by convincing Ayub of its fatuity. But the service didn’t prove to be as lucky under those who followed Ayub, especially those wearing the khaki in Pakistan. The present regime has taken the process of stuffing the embassies abroad with its favourites to the extreme, at the obvious cost of the service Brahmins.
Dr Koreshi makes some other fascinating, if not exactly sensational, revelations.
For instance, he lifts the veil on the cloak-and-dagger operation of October 27, 1958 — barely 20 days after Ayub had proclaimed martial law in Pakistan — when Ayub’s co-conspirator, President Iskandar Mirza, was unceremoniously bundled off to London in the dark of the night. He reveals, on the authority of Air Commodore Maqbool Rab, his ambassador in Ankara, that Iskandar Mirza had ordered him (Rab) to arrest Ayub upon his arrival at the Mauripur Airbase of Karachi. Rab was Vice-Chief of the Pakistan Air Force and out of inter-services loyalty reported it to his military colleagues. Ayub rewarded Rab for his loyalty with the embassy in Turkey.
Dr Koreshi, who served nearly 40 years in the diplomatic service, has other interesting anecdotes and episodes to tell in his memoirs. All diplomats, invariably, have such anecdotes to recount in their repertoire of memories. Dr Koreshi was lucky that he served in some very interesting places, India (where he served in three different locations, Jallandar, Chandi Garh and Delhi), Russia, Canada, Turkey, Lebanon, Nigeria, Japan, Indonesia, et al and met some of those who were prominent in the making of history. Some of those were colorful characters, like Yasser Arafat, General Yaqubo Gowan of Nigeria and General Suharto of Indonesia, among others.
There’s a lot of Dr Koreshi in these memoirs, a little too much, for some. But this is understandable. It’s basically an account of his personal journey as a Pakistani diplomat, who climbed the ladder of the Foreign Service with hard work, dexterity, wit and great perseverance. He earned a place under the Foreign Office sun on the dint of sheer labour and intelligence. None should begrudge him if he’s suspected of giving airs to himself at some places. Like any other diplomat, he’s entitled to prize some trophies in his bag, as he went around the world, selling his staple merchandise of words and wits.
He credits himself, for instance, for convincing Yasser Arafat to go personally to New York, in 1975, to address the UN General Assembly. That’s was Arafat’s maiden appearance at the UN when he delivered the famous speech in which he said he was carrying a gun in one hand and an olive branch in the other. Dr Koreshi claims he was the only Pakistani of any consequence whom the legendary Arafat respected from his heart, and listened to like a brother. Well, there seems little reason to dispute this statement, especially now that Arafat has been dead for three years.
Like any other Foreign Service mandarin, Dr Koreshi, too has his fill of regrets and remonstrations. For example, he feels bitter about the in-palace intrigues — quite shameless, at that — of some of his senior colleagues that robbed him of the chance to become foreign secretary under General Ziaul Haq. To become the head of the Foreign Office is a prize coveted by every service Brahmin. He, thus, has every right to feel betrayed and sourly let-down by his own service colleagues. But, the, the Pakistan Foreign Service is, and has always been, like a strait-jacket with room at the top terribly constricted. Being a smaller service, compared to the civil service or police, it has annoyingly suffered from the syndrome of ‘dog-eating-dog’ and colleagues frequently stabbing colleagues in the back, with little remorse or compunction. It’s simply survival of the smartest, not necessarily the most intelligent or competent. To Dr Koreshi’s credit, he doesn’t name the names of those villains who were his nemeses.
But Dr Koreshi himself doesn’t sound too complimenting to his Bengali colleagues, when writing about their conduct in the backdrop of the break-up of Pakistan, in 1971. He faults them for carrying chips on their shoulders against a united Pakistan but conveniently glosses over the less-than-edifying contribution of bureaucrats of West Pakistan who contributed, immensely, wittingly or unwittingly, in the widening of the gulf between East and West Pakistan.
The author had earlier written his memoirs in English. Why did he think of writing them in Urdu, too, should best be known to him. However, in doing so he has done himself and Pakistan a service, perhaps unwittingly. The readership of English books in Pakistan has been on a downward curve for sometime and readers of English abroad aren’t quite that interested in reading the memoirs of a Pakistani diplomat, no matter how colourful or controversial. By contrast, Urdu readership has a much larger and accommodating circle in Pakistan. Dr Koreshi’s memoirs, written in a fluent and uncluttered prose, should be a good and interesting read for Pakistanis, of this generation, as well as for those to follow.
The book is well studded with Dr Koreshi’s collection of mementos and memorabilia, as also with photographs of his with many of those who made history.
DAWN November 25, 2007
VN 89 561...seen here on the No.866 service, close to Copenhagen Central station,DENMARK. 5th June 2012.
Karen Durham-Aguilera, executive director, Office of Army Cemeteries and Army National Military Cemeteries greets British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly upon his arrival to Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Jan. 18, 2023. While at ANC, Cleverly participated in a Public Wreath-Laying Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. (U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser / Arlington National Cemetery / released)
22/10/2021. Dehli, India. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss visits the Red Fort in Delhi, India. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street
20/09/2021. New York, United States of America Foreign Secretary Liz Truss holds a bilateral meeting with Jordanian Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Ayman Safadi in New York. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street
15/11/2022. London, United Kingdom. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly meets Cyprus Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides for a bilateral meeting at the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street
President Park Geun-hye (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands after holding a joint press conference on June 27 at the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing.
2013. 06. 27.
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09/03/2023. Freetown, Sierra Leone. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly holds a bilateral meeting with Julius Maada Bio, President of Sierra Leone at Lungi International Airport. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street
Award recipients participate in a Foreign Affairs Day awards ceremony event at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 5, 2023. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/Public Domain]
PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 14: Soldiers from the Castelnaudary 4th Foreign Regiment (Legion etrangere) march down the Champs-Elysees during the annual Bastille day parade on July 14, 2011 in Paris, France. The French National Day celebrates its revolution in the storming of the Bastille in 1789 through various parades and official ceremonies throughout France.
A Department official officiates a Foreign Service Orientation Class Swearing-In Ceremony with Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 19, 2023. [State Department Photo by Freddie Everett/ Public Domain]
Former Minister for Europe David Lidington meeting Giorgi Kvirikashvili, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia in London, 30 November 2015.
10/12/1986 President Reagan in a staff briefing with Ken Adelman George Shultz Donald Regan Paul Nitze Max Kampelman and John Poindexter in Hofdi House during the Reykjavik Summit in Iceland
08/02/2022. Moscow, Russian Federation. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss looks out onto the Kremlin from the British Residence in Moscow, Russia Day Two. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street
A soldier of the French Foreign Legion from the 1st section "Les Aigles" (the Eagles) of the 2nd REG (Regiment Etranger du Genie) patrols near Tagab in Kapisa Province on January 26, 2011. The French Foreign Legion, a military unit established in 1831, was created for foreign nationals of any nationality wishing to serve in the French armed forces.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a Foreign Ministers Panel Discussion during the Berlin Ministerial Conference “Uniting for Global Food Security” on June 24, 2022, in Berlin, Germany. [State Department Photo by Ronny Przysucha / Public Domain]
Légionnaires de la 13e DBLE montant à bord d'un Puma camouflage sable du BATALAT de Djibouti
Legionnaires from 13DBLE ( 13e demi-brigade de Légion étrangère,) during a training exercise in Djibouti 21st to 28th March 2010
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, and UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly in Munster, Germany on November 4, 2022. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]
This is foreign in a rather literal sense -- I gathered bottles together from a variety of countries and got this shot.
Legionnaires dressed in traditional pioneer outfits and holding hatchets parade during the commemoration ceremony of the 1863 battle of Camerone, at the Foreign Legion base of Aubagne, near the southern city of Marseille, Friday, April 30, 2010. The Foreign Legion marked the 147th anniversary of the Camerone battle in which some 65 French Foreign Legionnaires resisted a Mexican army of more than 2,000 men.
Legionnaires from the French Foreign Legion during combat operations while serving in Afghanistan with ISAF - 2011
Photos: Adj. Pelote
French Foreign Legion soldiers identify target before firing during a rocket propelled grenade attack fired by insurgents during operation Avallon in the Tagab Valley, some 50 kilometers east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday Nov. 15, 2009. Hundreds of French and Afghan troops pushed into the volatile valley in an attempt to gain control of an area that has long been a haven for militants who launch quick attacks then fade back into hillside villages.
13/05/2022. Kiel, Germany. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss talks with Foreign Ministers at the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting in Kiel, Germany. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street
Scenes from the Foreign Schools sessions at the 2018 FSA Training Conference in Atlanta, GA on Nov 26, 2018
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham addresses the Foreign Policy Institute in Washington about the need for the United States to remain engaged in the world.
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman poses with a Foreign Service Orientation Class following a swearing-in ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 19, 2023. [State Department Photo by Freddie Everett/ Public Domain]
What is foreign? What is native?
I know its a deep philosophical question, I had to think hard=P
(this was in one of the places I stayed in Botswana, see below if you can't read it)
"Foreign Buildings," consisting of images of the Sweden, Norway, and Germany buildings. From Columbian Gallery: A Portfolio of Photographs of the World's Fair by The Werner Company. 3 photographs from a series. 1893.
Digitial Identifier: GN90799d_CG_064w
09/02/2022. Moscow, Russian Federation. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss visits in Moscow, Russia. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street
French soldiers from the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment (REI) patrol near the launch pad of the Soyuz VS01 rocket at the Guiana Space Center in Sinnamary, French Guiana October 19, 2011. The three-stage Soyuz ST-B comprises four first-stage boosters clustered around the core second stage, topped off by the third stage. The rocket will carry the first two satellites of Europe's Galileo navigation system into orbit and is scheduled for an October 20 launch.
Légionnaires de la 13e DBLE déployant une antenne NOMAD TRC 6200
Legionnaires from 13DBLE ( 13e demi-brigade de Légion étrangère,) during a training exercise in Djibouti 21st to 28th March 2010
Scenes from the Foreign Schools sessions at the 2018 FSA Training Conference in Atlanta, GA on Nov 26, 2018
Remembrance Sunday, 8 November 2015
In the United Kingdom, Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday in November, which is the Sunday nearest to 11 November, Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of hostilities in the First World War at 11 a.m. on 11 November 1918. Remembrance Sunday is held to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts.
Remembrance Sunday is marked by ceremonies at local war memorials in most cities, towns and villages, attended by civic dignitaries, ex-servicemen and -women, members of local armed forces regular and reserve units, military cadet forces and uniformed youth organisations. Two minutes’ silence is observed at 11 a.m. and wreaths of remembrance poppies are then laid on the memorials.
The United Kingdom national ceremony is held in London at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Wreaths are laid by Queen Elizabeth II, principal members of the Royal Family normally including the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of York, the Princess Royal, the Earl of Wessex and the Duke of Kent, the Prime Minister, leaders of the other major political parties, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Commonwealth High Commissioners and representatives from the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force, the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets and the civilian services, and veterans’ groups. Two minutes' silence is held at 11 a.m., before the laying of the wreaths. This silence is marked by the firing of a field gun on Horse Guards Parade to begin and end the silence, followed by Royal Marines buglers sounding Last Post.
The parade consists mainly of an extensive march past by veterans, with military bands playing music following the list of the Traditional Music of Remembrance.
Other members of the British Royal Family watch from the balcony of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
After the ceremony, a parade of veterans and other related groups, organised by the Royal British Legion, marches past the Cenotaph, each section of which lays a wreath as it passes. Only ticketed participants can take part in the march past.
From 1919 until the Second World War remembrance observance was always marked on 11 November itself. It was then moved to Remembrance Sunday, but since the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 1995, it has become usual to hold ceremonies on both Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday.
Each year, the music at the National Ceremony of Remembrance remains the same, following a programme finalised in 1930:
Rule, Britannia! by Thomas Arne
Heart of Oak by William Boyce
The Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore
Men of Harlech
The Skye Boat Song
Isle of Beauty by Thomas Haynes Bayly
David of the White Rock
Oft in the Stilly Night by John Stevenson
Flowers of the Forest
Nimrod from the Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar
Dido's lament by Henry Purcell
O Valiant Hearts by Charles Harris
Solemn Melody by Walford Davies
Last Post – a bugle call
Beethoven's Funeral March No. 1, by Johann Heinrich Walch
O God, Our Help in Ages Past – words by Isaac Watts, music by William Croft
Reveille – a bugle call
God Save The Queen
Other pieces of music are then played during the march past and wreath laying by veterans, starting with Trumpet Voluntary and followed by It's A Long Way To Tipperary, the marching song of the Connaught Rangers, a famous British Army Irish Regiment of long ago.
The following is complied from press reports on 8 November 2015:
"The nation paid silent respect to the country's war dead today in a Remembrance Sunday service. Leading the nation in remembrance, as ever, was the Queen, who first laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in 1945 and has done so every year since, except on the four occasions when she was overseas.
Dressed in her customary all-black ensemble with a clutch of scarlet poppies pinned against her left shoulder, she stepped forward following the end of the two-minute silence marked by the sounding of Last Post by 10 Royal Marine buglers.
The Queen laid her wreath at the foot of the Sir Edwin Lutyens Portland stone monument to the Glorious Dead, then stood with her head momentarily bowed.
She was joined by King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, who was invited to the Cenotaph for the first time to lay a wreath marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands by British troops.
Watched by his wife Queen Maxima, who stood next to the Duchess of Cambridge in the Royal Box, the King laid a wreath marked with the simple message, 'In remembrance of the British men and women who gave their lives for our future.'
Wreaths were then laid by members of the Royal Family, all wearing military uniform: Prince Philip; then Prince Andrew, Prince Harry and Prince William at the same time ; then Prince Edward, Princess Anne and the Duke of Kent at the same time.
Three members of the Royal Family laying wreaths at the same time was an innovation in 2015 designed to slightly reduce the amount of time of the ceremony and thereby reduce the time that the Queen had to be standing.
Prince Charles attended a remembrance service in New Zealand.
The Prime Minister then laid a wreath. The Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, appeared at the Cenotaph for the first time. He wore both a suit and a red poppy for the occasion.
His bow as he laid a wreath marked with the words 'let us resolve to create a world of peace' was imperceptible – and not enough for some critics. Yet unlike the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Battle service earlier this year, Mr Corbyn did join in with the singing of the national anthem.
Following the end of the official service at the Cenotaph, a mammoth column more than 10,000-strong (some 9,000 of whom were veterans) began marching along Whitehall, saluting the Cenotaph as they passed, Parliament Street, Great George Street, Horse Guards Road and back to Horse Guard Parade. The Duke of Cambridge took the salute from the column on Horse Guards Parade.
Time takes its inevitable toll on even the most stoic among us, and this year only a dozen World War Two veterans marched with the Spirit of Normandy Trust, a year after the Normandy Veterans' Association disbanded.
Within their ranks was 95-year-old former Sapper Don Sheppard of the Royal Engineers. Sheppard was of the eldest on parade and was pushed in his wheelchair by his 19-year-old grandson, Sam who, in between studying at Queen Mary University, volunteers with the Normandy veterans.
'It is because of my admiration for them,' he says. 'I see them as role models and just have the utmost respect for what they did.'
While some had blankets covering their legs against the grey November day, other veterans of more recent wars had only stumps to show for their service to this country during 13 long years of war in Afghanistan.
As well as that terrible toll of personal sacrifice, the collective losses – and triumphs - of some of the country’s most historic regiments were also honoured yesterday.
The Gurkha Brigade Association - marking 200 years of service in the British Army – marched to warm ripples of applause. The King’s Royal Hussars, represented yesterday by 126 veterans, this year also celebrate 300 years since the regiment was raised.
They were led by General Sir Richard Shirreff, former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of Nato and Colonel of the regiment who himself was marching for the first time.
'We are joined by a golden thread to all those generations who have gone before us,” he said. “We are who we are, because of those that have gone before us.' "
Cenotaph Ceremony & March Past - 8 November 2015
Summary of Contingents
Column Number of marchers
B (Lead) 1,754
C 1,298
D 1,312
E 1,497
F 1,325
A 1,551
Ex-Service Total 8,737
M (Non ex-Service) 1,621
Total 10,358
Column B
Marker Detachment Number
1 Reconnaissance Corps 18 Anniversary
2 43rd Reconnaissance Regiment Old Comrades Assoc 10
3 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery Association 60
4 Royal Artillery Association 18
5 Royal Engineers Association 37
6 Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Association 65 Anniversary
7 Airborne Engineers Association 24
8 Royal Signals Association 48
9 Army Air Corps Association 42
10 Royal Army Service Corps & Royal Corps Transport Assoc 54
11 RAOC Association 18
12 Army Catering Corps Association 48
13 Royal Pioneer Corps Association 54 Anniversary
14 Royal Army Medical Corps Association 36
15 Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers Association 48
16 Royal Military Police Association 100
17 The RAEC and ETS Branch Association 12
18 Royal Army Pay Corps Regimental Association 36
19 Royal Army Veterinary Corps & Royal Army Dental Corps 18
20 Royal Army Physical Training Corps 24
21 Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps Assoc 48
22 Royal Scots Dragoon Guards 30
23 Royal Dragoon Guards 78
24 Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own & Royal Irish) 12
25 Kings Royal Hussars Regimental Association 126
26 16/5th Queen's Royal Lancers 36
27 17/21 Lancers 30
28 The Royal Lancers 24 New for 2015
29 JLR RAC Old Boys' Association 30
30 Association of Ammunition Technicians 24
31 Beachley Old Boys Association 36
32 Arborfield Old Boys Association 25
33 Gallipoli & Dardenelles International 24
34 Special Observers Association 24
35 The Parachute Squadron Royal Armoured Corps 24 New
36 Intelligence Corps Association 48
37 Women's Royal Army Corps Association 120
38 656 Squadron Association 24
39 Home Guard Association 9
40 British Resistance Movement (Coleshill Research Team) 12
41 British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association 48
42 British Ex-Services Wheelchair Sports Association 24
43 Royal Hospital Chelsea 30
44 Queen Alexandra's Hospital Home for Disabled Ex-Servicemen & Women 30
45 The Royal Star & Garter Homes 20
46 Combat Stress 48
Total 1,754
Column C
Marker Detachment Number
1 Royal Air Force Association 150
2 Royal Air Force Regiment Association 300
3 Royal Air Forces Ex-Prisoner's of War Association 20
4 Royal Observer Corps Association 75 Anniversary
5 National Service (Royal Air Force) Association 42
6 RAFLING Association 24
7 6 Squadron (Royal Air Force) Association 18
8 7 Squadron Association 25
9 8 Squadron Association 24
10 RAF Habbaniya Association 25
11 Royal Air Force & Defence Fire Services Association 30
12 Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Association 30
13 Units of the Far East Air Force 28 New
14 Royal Air Force Yatesbury Association 16
15 Royal Air Force Airfield Construction Branch Association 12
16 RAFSE(s) Assoc 45 New
17 Royal Air Force Movements and Mobile Air Movements Squadron Association (RAF MAMS) 24
18 Royal Air Force Masirah & Salalah Veterans Assoc 24 New
19 WAAF/WRAF/RAF(W) 25
19 Blenheim Society 18
20 Coastal Command & Maritime Air Association 24
21 Air Sea Rescue & Marine Craft Sections Club 15
22 Federation of RAF Apprentice & Boy Entrant Assocs 150
23 Royal Air Force Air Loadmasters Association 24
24 Royal Air Force Police Association 90
25 Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service Association 40
Total 1,298
Column D
Marker Detachment Number
1 Not Forgotten Association 54
2 Stoll 18
3 Ulster Defence Regiment 72
4 Army Dog Unit Northern Ireland Association 48
5 North Irish Horse & Irish Regiments Old Comrades Association 78
6 Northern Ireland Veterans' Association 40
7 Irish United Nations Veterans Association 12
8 ONET UK 10
9 St Helena Government UK 24
10 South Atlantic Medal Association 196
11 SSAFA 37
12 First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal's Volunteers Corps) 12
13 Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen & Women 48
14 British Nuclear Test Veterans Association 48
15 War Widows Association 132
16 Gurkha Brigade Association 160 Anniversary
17 British Gurkha Welfare Society 100 Anniversary
18 West Indian Association of Service Personnel 18
19 Trucial Oman Scouts Association 18
20 Bond Van Wapenbroeders 35
21 Polish Ex-Combatants Association in Great Britain 25
22 Stowarzyszenie Polskich Kombatantów Limited 18 New
23 Royal Hong Kong Regiment Association 12
24 Canadian Veterans Association 10
25 Hong Kong Ex-Servicemen's Association (UK Branch) 24
26 Hong Kong Military Service Corps 28
27 Foreign Legion Association 24
28 Undivided Indian Army Ex Servicemen Association 11 New
Total 1,312
Column E
Marker Detachment Number
1 Royal Marines Association 198
2 Royal Naval Association 150
3 Merchant Navy Association 130
4 Sea Harrier Association 24
5 Flower Class Corvette Association 18
6 HMS Andromeda Association 18
7 HMS Argonaut Association 30
8 HMS Bulwark, Albion & Centaur Association 25
9 HMS Cumberland Association 18
10 HMS Ganges Association 48
11 HMS Glasgow Association 30
12 HMS St Vincent Association 26
13 HMS Tiger Association 25
14 Algerines Association 20
15 Ton Class Association 24
16 Type 42 Association 48
17 Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service 36
18 Association of WRENS 90
19 Royal Fleet Auxiliary Association 10
20 Royal Naval Communications Association 30
21 Royal Naval Medical Branch Ratings & Sick Berth Staff Association 24
22 Royal Naval Benevolent Trust 18
23 Yangtze Incident Association 24
24 Special Boat Service Association 6
25 Submariners Association 30
26 Association of Royal Yachtsmen 30
27 Broadsword Association 36
28 Aircraft Handlers Association 36
29 Aircrewmans Association 40 Anniversary
30 Cloud Observers Association 10
31 The Fisgard Association 40
32 Fleet Air Arm Armourers Association 36
33 Fleet Air Arm Association 25
34 Fleet Air Arm Bucaneer Association 24
35 Fleet Air Arm Field Gun Association 24
36 Fleet Air Arm Junglie Association 18
37 Fleet Air Arm Officers Association 30
38 Fleet Air Arm Safety Equipment & Survival Association 24
39 Royal Navy School of Physical Training 24
Total 1,497
Column F
Marker Detachment Number
1 Blind Veterans UK 198
2 Far East Prisoners of War 18
3 Burma Star Association 40
4 Monte Cassino Society20
5 Queen's Bodyguard of The Yeoman of The Guard 18
6 Pen and Sword Club 15
7 TRBL Ex-Service Members 301
8 The Royal British Legion Poppy Factory 4
9 The Royal British Legion Scotland 24
10 Officers Association 5
11 Black and White Club 18
12 National Pigeon War Service 30
13 National Service Veterans Alliance 50
14 Gallantry Medallists League 46
15 National Malaya & Borneo Veterans Association 98
16 National Gulf Veterans & Families Association 30
17 Fellowship of the Services 100
18 Memorable Order of Tin Hats 24
19 Suez Veterans Association 50
20 Aden Veterans Association 72
21 1st Army Association 36
22 Showmens' Guild of Great Britain 40
23 Special Forces Club 12
24 The Spirit of Normandy Trust 28
25 Italy Star Association, 1943-1945, 48
Total 1,325
Column A
Marker Detachment Number
1 1LI Association 36
2 Royal Green Jackets Association 198
3 Parachute Regimental Association 174
4 King's Own Scottish Borderers 60
5 Black Watch Association 45
6 Gordon Highlanders Association 60
7 Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Association 12
8 Queen's Own Highlanders Regimental Association 48
9 London Scottish Regimental Association 30
10 Grenadier Guards Association 48
11 Coldstream Guards Association 48
12 Scots Guards Association 48
13 Guards Parachute Association 36
14 4 Company Association (Parachute Regiment) 24
15 Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment 72
16 Royal East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) Past & Present Association 30
17 Prince of Wales' Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Regimental Association 24
18 Royal Hampshire Regiment Comrades Association 14
19 The Royal Hampshire Regimental Club 24 New for 2015
20 Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 48 New
21 Royal Sussex Regimental Association 12
22 Green Howards Association 24
23 Cheshire Regiment Association 24
24 Sherwood Foresters & Worcestershire Regiment 36
25 Mercian Regiment Association 30
26 Special Air Service Regimental Association 4
27 The King's Own Royal Border Regiment 100
28 The Staffordshire Regiment 48
29 Rifles Regimental Association 40
30 The Rifles & Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire & Wiltshire Regimental Association 30
31 Durham Light Infantry Association 60
32 King's Royal Rifle Corps Association 50
33 King's African Rifles 14 New for 2015
Total 1,551
Column M
Marker Detachment Number
1 Transport For London 48
2 Children of the Far East Prisoners of War 60
3 First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal's Volunteers Corps) 24
4 Munitions Workers Association18
5 Evacuees Reunion Association48
6 TOC H 20
7 Salvation Army 36
8 Naval Canteen Service & Expeditionary Force Institutes Association 12 Previously NAAFI
9 Royal Voluntary Service 24
10 Civil Defence Association 8
11 National Association of Retired Police Officers 36
12 Metropolitan Special Constabulary 36
13 London Ambulance Service NHS Trust 36
14 London Ambulance Service Retirement Association 18
15 St John Ambulance 36
16 British Red Cross 12
17 St Andrew's Ambulance Association 6
18 The Firefighters Memorial Trust 24
19 Royal Ulster Constabulary (GC) Association 36
20 Ulster Special Constabulary Association 30
21 Commonwealth War Graves Commission 12
22 Daniel's Trust 36
23 Civilians Representing Families 180
24 Royal Mail Group Ltd 24
25 Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 24
26 The Blue Cross 24
27 PDSA 24
28 HM Ships Glorious Ardent & ACASTA Association 24 Anniversary
29 Old Cryptians' Club 12
30 Fighting G Club 18 Anniversary
31 Malayan Volunteers Group 12
32 Gallipoli Association 18
33 Ministry of Defence 20
34 TRBL Non Ex-Service Members 117
35 TRBL Women's Section 20
36 Union Jack Club 12
37 Western Front Association 8
38 Shot at Dawn Pardons Campaign 18
39 Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes 24
40 National Association of Round Tables 24
41 Lions Club International 24
42 Rotary International 24
43 41 Club 6
44 Equity 12
45 Romany & Traveller Society 18
46 Sea Cadet Corps 30
47 Combined Cadet Force 30
48 Army Cadet Force 30
49 Air Training Corps 30
50 Scout Association 30
51 Girlguiding London & South East England 30
52 Boys Brigade 30
53 Girls Brigade England & Wales 30
54 Church Lads & Church Girls Brigade 30
55 Metropolitan Police Volunteer Police Cadets 18
56 St John Ambulance Cadets 18
57 YMCA 12
Total 1,621
A Hungarian legionnaire from the French Foreign Legion 1st section "Les Aigles " (the eagles) of the 2nd REG inspects an Afghan man near Tagab in Kapisa Province on January 25, 2011. The French Foreign Legion, a military unit established in 1831, was created for foreign nationals of any nationality wishing to serve in the French armed forces.