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The Bi-Centennial and Diamond Jubilee Memorials THE ROYAL MEMORIAL CHAPEL THE ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY SANDHURST The Bi-Centennial and Diamond Jubilee Memorials The Bi-Centennial and Diamond Jubilee Memorials The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst engaged with Bakers of Danbury to replicate the 1947 Order of Battle which was created for the Chapel at the conclusion of the Second World War. These badges can be seen on the ends of the Chapel pews. In order to create a very visible and tangible memorial marking the Bi-Centenary of Officer Training here at Sandhurst and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the vacant panels to the left and right of the entrance to the South Africa Chapel within the Royal Memorial Chapel are now populated by hand-carved and painted cap badges representing every Regiment and Corps of the Army as of 1st January 2012, with a hand carved dedication filled in gold leaf reading across the top of the panels. The significance of placing the badges at the entrance to the South Africa Chapel, the site of the current Roll of Honour, is to remind visitors to the Chapel of the life, service and sacrifice of so many who have served during recent years, marked as they have been by the high tempo of operations, particularly those in Iraq and Afghanistan. Installed below the archway is the Royal Crest, also commemorating the Bi-Centenary and Diamond Jubilee. This was donated by Fr. Ian Evans, Senior Chaplain at the time of installation. This continues a tradition of Chaplains donating to the fabric of the Chapel. The mosaic floor in the South Africa Chapel was donated by The Rev’d William Sykes, and the Aaron window in the SW corner also donated as a memorial to him. The Paschal Candle stand by the Machine Gun Font in the NW corner presented by the Rev’d Peter Denton. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 1 The Life Guards 18 Grenadier Guards 35 Special Air Service Regiment 52 Royal Army Dental Corps The Blues and Royals 2 (Royal Horse Guards and 1st 19 Coldstream Guards 36 Army Air Corps 53 Intelligence Corps Dragoons) 3 The Queen's Dragoon Guards 20 Scots Guards 37 Special Reconnaissance Regiment 54 Royal Army Physical Training Corps The Royal Scots Dragoon 4 Guards (Carabaniers and 21 Irish Guards 38 Royal Army Chaplains' Department 55 General Service Corps Greys) Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing The Royal Dragoon Guards Welsh Guards Royal Army Chaplains' Department 5 22 39 56 Corps The Queen's Royal Hussars 6 (The Queen's Own and Royal 23 The Royal Regiment of Scotland 40 The Royal Logistics Corps 57 Corps of Army Music Irish) The Princess of Wales's Royal 9th/12th Royal Lancers The Queen's Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment Royal Monmouthshire Engineers 7 (Prince of Wales's) 24 41 Regiment 58 (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) The Duke of Lancashire's Regiment The King's Royal Hussars Royal Army Medical Corps The Honourable Artillery Company 8 25 (King's, Lancashire and Borders) 42 59 Corps of Royal Electrical and The Light Dragoons The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers The Royal Yeomanry 9 26 43 Mechanical Engineers 60 10 The Queen's Royal Lancers 27 The Royal Anglian Regiment 44 Staff and Personnel Support Branch 61 The Royal Wessex Yeomanry The Yorkshire Regiment The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Royal Tank Regiment Corps of Royal Military Police 11 28 (14th/15th,19th and 33rd/76th Foot) 45 62 Yeomanry Military Provost Staff Corps Royal Regiment of Artillery The Mercian Regiment The Queen's Own Yeomanry 12 29 46 (Adjutant General's Corps) 63 Military Provost Guard Service Royal Regiment of Artillery The Royal Welsh The London Regiment 13 30 47 (Adjutant General's Corps) 64 The Royal Irish Regiment 14 Corps of Royal Engineers 31 (27th [Inniskilling], 83rd/87th and 48 Education and Training Service Branch 65 The Royal Gibraltar Regiment The Ulster Defence Regiment) 15 Queen's Gurkha Engineers 32 The Parachute Regiment 49 Army Legal Service Branch 66 The Bermuda Regiment 16 Royal Corps of Signals 33 The Royal Gurkha Rifles 50 Royal Army Veterinary Corps 67 Falkland Islands Defence Force 17 Queen's Gurkha Signals 34 The Rifles 51 Small Arms School Corps .
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