Photo Gallery
The National Service Years 1945-59
Hong Kong 1954-1956
St. George's Society
The fanfare to herald dinner is sounded in the corridors of the Peninsula
Hotel, Hong Kong. Drum Major Lawton, 1st Battalion, King's Own
Royal Regiment, 1956.
Accession Number: KO0883/063
His Excellency the Governor of Hong and the President of the St.
George's Society, Hong Kong, lead the official procession into the Ball
Room, Peninsula Hotel. Regimental Sergeant Major Larmour; Sergeant
Poole; Sergeant Forbes; Company Sergeant Major Hayles; Sergeant
Valentine; Colour Sergeant Morris.
Accession Number: KO0883/107
St. George's Society Annual Dinner, Hong Kong, 1955.
The Beefeaters: Rear row, left to right: Company Sergeant Major Charnley;
Regimental Sergeant Major Larmour; Company Sergeant Major Higham; Colour
Sergeant Morris.
Front row, left to right: Sergeant Forbes; Sergeant Poole; Honourable M
Turner (President); Sergeant Valentine; Company Sergeant Major Hayles.
Accession Number: KO2490/458
The Master Cook presents the Boar's Head to the President (Sergeant
Fraser, Army Catering Corps, attached to the 1st Battalion, King's Own
Royal Regiment), Company Sergeant Major Higham, His Excellency The
Governor and Lady Maureen Grantham.
Accession Number: KO1017/170
The 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, provide sentries and
trumpeters at the Cenotaph, Hong Kong, for the Society of St. George
Ceremony, on St. George's Day, 1956.
Accession Number: KO0883/111
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