We felt the need to hold a small unveiling and dedication service for those members who have passed on recently and whose plaques have been added to the Wall of Remembrance. Unfortunately, in these troubled Covid times, visitors to the Memorial are restricted by Flame Lily Park so family members do not have the freedom to visit and pay homage as they could in the past. This small service will hopefully let the family members know that C (Rhodesia) Squadron respects, honours and remembers their own.
Thanks go to Ken Joubert, Ian Stenson and Dave O’Sullivan for taking the time to assist with the Service. Although not in the photographs, Gabriel is thanked once again for playing the Last Post and Reveille.
SAS UNVEILING AND DEDICATION CEREMONY 30 JANUARY 2021
WELCOME
- Welcome and thank you:
- Those who have put everything together
- Those who have given their time to be here
OPENING PRAYER
- Heavenly Father, we come before you today in humility and gratitude, and in the knowledge that You, and You alone, are in control of all things.
We are specially gathered here to remember those of our Airborne Brotherhood who have passed on in recent months.
We thank you that we are, by Your Grace in our lives, privileged to do this.
We think of the families of those whom we remember today, and we ask that they would know your comfort and love as they grieve. Strengthen them and lead them on their journey of life in this world, and may they come to know your saving Grace and Mercy that comes to us through Your son, our Lord Jesus Christ, for it is in the name of Jesus that we pray these things.
AMEN
THE SUNSET CALL
- We are called here to stand on this hallowed ground, to pause for a moment in time, to remember those of our number of the Special Air Service who have recently passed on to Higher Service, to unveil and dedicate Remembrance Plaques in their honour:
- They have all served, and at times placed their lives on the line for freedom, justice and peace
- They have all faced hardship, challenge, emotional stress, emptiness and sadness…along with joy and happiness
- Each has had his own battle to face in life
- Each belongs to the Brotherhood of Special Forces Soldiers
- Each will be equally remembered.
- At the going down of the sun, and in the morning…we will remember them
UNVEILING AND DEDICATION
We dedicate these plaques to the following of our number, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
- WO 2 ANDREW JOHNSTON {ANDY}
- 2nd April 1949 to 13th January 2021
- Para Course 37: 4th to 26th July 1972
- Served in: RLI, Selous Scouts and 6 Recce Commando South Africa
- Awarded WOC, MFC in Rhodesia
- Awarded the Honoris Crux in 6 Recce Commando, South Africa
- WO 2 JOHN JAMES HUTTON {JOCK}
- 9th October 1924 to 12th august 2020
- Para Course 1: 30th October to 17th November 1961
- SSM May 1967 to December 1968
- Awarded the DMM
- CAPTAIN AUVERGNE RAATH {AUV}
- 30th September 1939 to 3rd January 2021
- Para Course 14: 2nd to 20th December 1963
- COLOUR SGT ROY PORTWOOD
- 18th September 1941 to 22nd August 2020
- Para Course 3: 11th to 29th December 1961
- Served in QM Stores, Cranbourne Barracks
- MAJOR ROBERT WARREN-CODRINGTON {BOB}
- 3rd January 1951to 4th July 2020
- Para Course 38: 12th October to 10th November 1972
- Served in: RAR, SAS and Selous Scouts
- COLOUR SGT RODGER TATTERSAL
- 30th June 1938 to 30th October 2020
- Para Course 25: August 1968
- Served in Rhodesian Corps of Engineers
THE VERSE
- The immense and brooding spirit shall quicken and control.
Living they were the land, and dead their souls shall be her soul
READING: Psalm 150
LAST POST
- 1 minutes Silence
- The Reveille…….
REGIMENTAL COLLECT
We are the pilgrims, Master, we shall go always a little further. It may be beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow, across that angry or that glimmering sea
BENEDICTION
And now, to your gracious mercy and protection we commit ourselves. May the Lord bless and keep us? May He make your face to shine upon us and be gracious to us.
Lord, grant us your peace, both now and forever more.
AMEN
PARADE FALL OUT
