250th anniversary of the Battle of Minden

Please see the message below. Interested personnel should contact Petra Hanley on 0049 (0)571 36389 or e-mail her.

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From: Petra Hanley [mailto:petra.hanley@yahoo.de]
Sent: 05 July 2009 13:35
To: Robert Millar
Subject: Minden Day celebrations

Hi Dusty,

Can you please remind all the Branches of the Minden Day celebrations on August 1st 2009? As we now have a programme for the service at the memorial ( see attachment) we really need to know definite numbers of those attending. Herford Branch have got back to me, they will attend with their standard. We would like as many standards as possible. I have managed to provisionally book accommodation, so if anyone wants to stay over, please let me know by July 11th 2009. This date is also for those attending the Minden Day.

Thank you

Petra

SATURDAY AUGUST 1ST 2009

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8 am --- Royal British Legion assembly at Kanzler´s Weide

8:15 am --- Bus transfer to memorial ( no other transport allowed)

8:45 am --- Assembly of all participants at the Memorial

9 am --- March on

9:05 am --- Report of Stadtmajor

9:10 am --- Joint service from Stadtmajor and British

9;25 am --- Reading of lesson

9;30 am --- Trumpeter ( Ich hat einen Kameraden)

9:35 am --- reach laying ceremony

9:40 am --- Last post

9:45 am --- Minutes silence

9:46 am --- Reveille

9:48 am --- Trumpeter and bagpipes ( Amazing Grace)

9:55 am ---- March off

Bus transfer to Simeonsplatz for Festakt at 11am.

If I were Petra, I would smack you for posting my email address.

it also might have been good if you had bothered to tell people why it was worth commemorating a point in history that the vast majority of people would not have a blinking clue about. For those that are interested: Battle of Minden