Main Performers | Royal Hospital, Chelsea Pensioners, Royal Navy, Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Marines, Royal Air Force (RAF), The Five Regiments of HM Brigade of Guards, Queen Alexandra's RN Nursing Services, Women's Royal Naval Service, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service, Auxiliary Territorial Service, Queen Mary's Royal Air Force (RAF) Nursing Service, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Sea Cadet Corps, Army Cadet Corps, Air Training Corps Cadets, The Home Guard
Godfrey Kenton, Stephen Jack, Robert Speaight, Squadron Leader Berners Wilson, Squadron Leader Lloyd James, Squadron Leader Bitschine, Flight Lieutenant Randall Stevens, Warrant Officer Gwendoline MacIntyre, Corporal Mary Chafer, Dean of Westminster - speakers, George Pizzey - vocal, Dr O M Peasgood - organ |
Orchestra or Band | Massed Bands, HM Grenadier Guards Band, HM Scots Guards Band, HM Welsh Guards Band, Royal Military School of Music Trumpeters |
Conductors | Lieutenant F J Harris, Captain S Rhodes, Lieutenant M Roberts |
Set List | 'Phantom Brigade', Middleton, 'Boys of the Old Brigade', Middleton, 'March of the King's Men', Plater, 'Pomp and Circumstance No.4', Elgar, 'Standard of St. George', Alford, 'There'll Always Be An England', 'God Save the King' (The National Anthem) (Welsh Guards Choir), Sea Chanties, 'Blow The Man Down' (Sea Cadet Corps), 'The Drunken Sailor' (Sea Cadet Corps), 'Rio Grande' (Sea Cadet Corps), 'Whiskie Johnnie' (Sea Cadet Corps), 'Hornpipe' (Sea Cadet Corps), Camp Fire Songs, 'Long, Long Trail' (Welsh Guards Choir), 'Tipperary' (Welsh Guards Choir), 'Keep the Home Fires Burning' (Welsh Guards Choir), 'Roses of Picardy' (Welsh Guards Choir), 'Pack Up Your Troubles' (Welsh Guards Choir), 'Sing As We Go' (Welsh Guards Choir), 'Something About A Soldier' (Welsh Guards Choir), 'Keep Right on to the End of The Road' (Welsh Guards Choir), 'Roll Out The Barrel' (Welsh Guards Choir), 'I've Got Sixpence' (Welsh Guards Choir), 'Quartermaster's Stores' (Welsh Guards Choir), 'White Cliffs of Dover' (Welsh Guards Choir), 'Between Midnight and Morning', Sgt Leighton Lucas, Hymn, 'O God, Our Help in Ages Past', Psalm XXIII - 'The Lord's My Shepherd', Hymn, 'Jerusalem', Parry, Farewell, 'Mother, With Unbowed Head', Stanford (George Pizzey), Battle Hymn, 'Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory' (Mrs Julia Ward Howe) |
Royal Presence | HM King George VI, HM Queen Elizabeth, HRH The Duke of Gloucester, HRH The Duchess of Gloucester, HRH The Duchess of Kent, Regent of Iraq |
Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1943/137), Photograph (RAHE/3/1943/1) |