Performance TitleDekho! Twenty-Fifth Burma Reunion 1971
Performance Date24 April 1971
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersRt. Hon. Edward Heath,
Burmese Ambassador,
High Commissioner for India,
General Sir Roy Bucher,
Hugh Cudlipp,
Earl Mountbatten of Burma,
Lt.-Colonel Viscount Slim,
Sir Harold T C Walker,
Captain E W Bush,
Major-General W E V Abraham,
Major-General G Dyer,
Major-General D C Hawthorn,
Brigadier Rt. Hon. Sir John Smyth,
The Earl of Bandon,
S F Vincent,
A St.Pierre,
A E Slater,
A E Creighton,
Major-General Amreek Singh,
Commodore N P Datta,
Air Commodore H K Bose,
Commodore L N Mungavin,
Lt.-Colonel A Asad Reza Khan,
Group Captain Mohammad Aslam

Jean Belmont,
Jack Seaton,
John Blythe,
Mike Yarwood,
John Roach - speakers,
Lord Gawain Douglas - vocal,
Reg Kemish,
Nicholas Matthews - organ,
Mrs Mills - piano
Secondary PerformersGordon Webster,
OIga Matthews,
Nicolette Eustace - pianos
Orchestra or BandRegimental Band of The Grenadier Guards
Hendon Citadel Band of The Salvation Army
Pipers of The Stevenage Pipe Band
ChoirsWest Cornwall Orpheus and Apollo Choirs
ConductorsCaptain P Parkes
John J Matthews
Roland Cobb
Set ListAn Act of Remembrance,
The Tumult and The Shouting Dies,
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem),
'Keep Right on to The End of The Road'
Performance NotesFour thousand ex-soldiers and their wives attended the 25th annual reunion of the Burma Star Association.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1971/56)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1971/56Dekho! Twenty-Fifth Burma Reunion 197124 April 1971
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
IosozonekiniemDekho! Twenty-Fifth Burma Reunion 19711
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/10920Heath; Sir; Edward (1916-2005); KG MBE; British politician and prime minister from June 1970-February 1974
DS/UK/11247Bucher; Sir; Roy (1895-1980); English commander-in-chief of the Indian army
DS/UK/11248Cudlipp; Hugh (1913-1998); Welsh journalist and newspaper editor
DS/UK/6716Mountbatten; Lord; Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas (1900-1979); 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG GCB OM GCSI GCIE GCVO DSO PC FRS; British statesman, naval officer
DS/UK/6584Slim; William Joseph "Bill" (1891-1970); 1st Viscount Slim; British military commander, Governor General of Australia
DS/UK/8803Walker; Sir; Harold Thomas Coulthard (1891-1975); British naval officer
DS/UK/9966Bernard; Air Chief Marshal; Percy (30 August 1904-8 February 1979); 5th Earl of Bandon, GBE CB CVO DSO; Anglo-Irish aristocrat and Royal Air Force commander
DS/UK/9680Blythe; John (31 October 1921-24 November 1993); English actor
DS/UK/11252Yarwood; Mike (14 June 1941-8 September 2023); OBE; English impressionist, comedian
DS/UK/9958Kemish; Reginald "Reg" (fl 1950s-1960s); British organist
DS/UK/1870Band of the HM Grenadier Guards (1685)
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