REGIMENTAL
6 GRRA AGM AND ANNUAL REUNION Gurkha Museum
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16 November 2019
n a bright November morning, another successful annual Book of Remembrance service complete, we walked from Winchester Cathedral up the hill to the Gurkha Museum in Peninsula Barracks. The Museum library was full for the AGM, the first for our new Chairman. The agenda included a brief by Mike Channing on the Regimental Memorial project and the significant progress which has been made. The form of the proposed memorial and its planned location at the Gurkha Memorial Museum, Pokhara was met with unanimous approval. During the Reunion we marked the 60th Anniversary
since the granting of our Royal Title “Queen Elizabeth’s Own” in 1959. By the door into the library the Museum had kindly placed a board with enlarged copies of both the Special Army Order confirming the granting of the Royal Title and the photograph of the 6th and 7th Gurkhas invited to Buckingham Palace on 10 June 1959 to be received by Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh. Forty-six of us sat down to lunch in the McDonald Gallery to enjoy one of Bindhya’s excellent bhats. As the guest of honour, it was a great pleasure to have with us Anthony Wakeham MBE, being the only surviving 6 GR British Officer present at Buckingham Palace in 1959. At the time, Anthony was ADC to
Corporal Lokraj Limbu, 10 The Queen’s Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment, piping round the tables
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