Death of HM Queen Elizabeth II

My young one took a great deal of interest in the uniforms today. She has only seen one blue suit in her life and seeing so many on the TV made something click in her head.

So very proud of all the boys and girls today, of all stripes. They did Her Majesty and all of us proud.

Particular shoutout to the QCS lad at Windsor who got his world rocked by a horse tail earlier.

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Guys, read the room, and more importantly the name of the room.

I can’t believe I, Mr Inappropriate himself is having to say this here, but let’s have a sense of decorum!

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Shows what happens when a large organisation has an Op London Bridge folder on a server with laid out plans and agreement from the Palace on the SOP to open and act upon within an hour of the news breaking

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Pity some hasn’t learnt that!

Rumour is a large part of that binder got binned over the past week!

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CCF :frowning: There was a media pic of all the CCF going round on Twitter yesterday.

Don’t worry Comdt AC was all over it in his missif last night, looks like it was authorised :roll_eyes:

I did see in the Twitter tweet that the CCF had HM the Queen as their colonel-General hence their involvement. As such, perfectly fair for them to take part.

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my sad face was around the RAFAC Officer…

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Not unfairly. I wonder if she is ex-regular OR and didn’t know officers didn’t do white belts?

You’d have thought that her TEST SNCO would have done a drill and uniform check prior to the event though. To me this is a failure on their part rather than the officer who may not wear No1s otherwise.

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Maybe we can avoid criticising someone in public who:
A) Isn’t here to defend themselves
B) Was probably doing the best they could, given the circumstances.

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C) Was surrounded by enough people who could have steered her straight, but did not.

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Sorry, maybe I wasn’t clear enough. Move on to the topic and stop harassing someone or I’ll lock the thread.

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I posted that picture to show there was a cadet presence. I’m sorry the direction it’s turned. In hindsight, I should have left alone. I am sorry for that.

Maybe that should be the case now. The thread has run its course.

Saddens me to say, her majesty is now gone.

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This is slightly off topic, but only just, & still relevant & related.

When King George VI passed away, what was the ATC response then?

Appreciate we were exactly 9 years old then but just wondering if there are any photos or film of the Corps back then & how the organisation marked things…

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Indeed.
God bless HM The Queen.

Long live the King.

Lock the thread.

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Not sure where to look, but the British Pathe library might be a good start.

That’s the King’s Funeral Procession. If anyone’s got a few spare minutes you can watch and see if you spot any ATC involvement?

The library itself is a goldmine of all kinds of records, and has some great films featuring cadets from the war years.

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Locking the thread now, seems to have run its course.

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