1916 Parade

b3n

Dear all

Ive read a few bits and pieces about the view of the 1916 parade, i took part in the parade yesterday but am trying to get my hands on a few photos, hopefully with my unit in it.

I was in the Guard of Honour outside the GPO, if anyone has any snaps or stumbled accross them can they please post the links to them here or PM me or post the images here.

It would be much appreciated!

Cheers

Ben

Vorsprung

http://www.irishmilitaryonline.com/board/showthread.php?t=8740

What unit are you in?

Font22

are u a cadet or were you with the reserve forces? Sorry i dont have any pics, just curious! I thought the parade was v impressive, well done! Must have been nice to have been picked to take part!

b3n

With the reserve forcse, member of the 65th inf bat , 102 of us did the goh for the president and other dignatries.

Yeah was a great day and a proud moment.

Font22

It went really well. Wonder if they will make it an annual thing? My dad was involved with the organisation of the parade and said it went without a hitch!

LordSutch

b3n wrote:

Dear all

Ive read a few bits and pieces about the view of the 1916 parade, i took part in the parade yesterday but am trying to get my hands on a few photos, hopefully with my unit in it.

I was in the Guard of Honour outside the GPO, if anyone has any snaps or stumbled accross them can they please post the links to them here or PM me or post the images here.

It would be much appreciated!

Cheers

Ben

You might get better feedback from thread "Easter Sunday/ 2006" thats where most of the 1916 posts are! Not that I support the Parade for one moment Ben (I am very anti ~ Easter 1916 commerations) but still, have a go with thread and you might get a better responce.
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b3n

Thanks Arthur F

Im happy enough with the link to IMO but if people have their own photos.

I have read the threads on here about the for or against. Its simply a thread to find good photos and footage of one of the biggest days in my military career (so far). I take your point and help , thanks.

zuma

Hey b3n, did you get any freebies for doing the parade yesterday?

Was in the FCA(reserves or whatever these days) until ~5 years ago and all we got for parades was a dinner

babybundy

if you were with the 2 ranks that marched of down the road well ye looked **** your dressing was all over the place

Hermione*

b3n wrote:

With the reserve forcse, member of the 65th inf bat , 102 of us did the goh for the president and other dignatries.

Yeah was a great day and a proud moment.

I can't help you unfortunately, but congratulations: it looked great, and I'd say it felt great too.

Rovi

There's a vast thread over on www.militaryphotos.net entitled "Irish military photos"- http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2931
It's been on the go since September 2003, and is still going strong!

The 1916 Parade stuff starts at post #844, somewhere around page 43- http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2931&page=43

There are also some pictures in the "Today's Pics" thread for Sunday, April 16, 2006- http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=78545

BANDWIDTH WARNING!
These threads are HEAVY with pictures, so the bandwidth challenged among us may experience some delays.

ChityWest

b3n wrote:

......, if anyone has any snaps or stumbled accross them can they please post the links to them here or PM me or post the images here.

It would be much appreciated!

Cheers

Ben

Hi Ben

I took a rake of photos that day but none at the gpo unfortunately. If anyone from any of the other units is looking for photos pm me and I will forward them on.

Morpheus

babybundy wrote:

if you were with the 2 ranks that marched of down the road well ye looked **** your dressing was all over the place

Nice of you to notice.

Not easy to march in time when the front of the Guard Of Honour was marching off to the sound of the band as played from the speakers on the big screen and the rear was marching off to the sound of the band itself. The middle was in "no-bands" land and there was a slight delay between the live actual band and the speakers sound.

testicle

Excuses, Excuses. The difference wasn't a full pace out.

That doesn't excuse the right hand rank veering off course midway through the rank.

Morpheus

Hey hey hey! relax, Im only telling you what the PDF Cmdt CO told us back in McKee.

Personally I was disgusted, I was down near the rear and the two columns looked shambolic, even worse on TV. It was a shame considering the rest of the GOH drill was impecible, some soldiers will never learn to march in a straight line.