The Merchant Navy Association Diary 2014

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The Merchant Navy Association Diary 2014:

JUNE

Tue 3-8 D-day Events including Veterans tent in Southsea also a
Sunset Concert for Heroes with 1940’s music on 5th June Portsmouth
Thu 05 D-day Service in Caen at 1100 France
Fri 06 D-Day 70th Anniversary
1130 Bayeaux Service, 1530 Swordbeach Service and 1800 Arromanches France
Tue 10-12 Sea Work Exhibition Southampton
Thu 13 HMT Lancastria Remembrance Service at St Katherine Cree London
Sat 14 Falklands Way memorial dedication at NMA Alrewas
Sun 15 Naval Services Memorial dedication at the NMA Alrewas
Sun 15 Falklands Chapel Service Pangbourne
Sat 21 Seafarers Awareness Week begins and the Longest Day UK
Sun 22 The Weymouth Memorial Service and Parade
Organise your weekend break in Weymouth for an excellent seafront B&B Weymouth
Sun 22 NVA organised Cenotaph Parade in honour of D-Day veterans London
Wed 25 IMO’s Day of the Seafarer Worldwide
Mon 23 Raising of the Armed Forces Day Flag at your local Council Offices UK
Sat 28 Armed Forces Day and in this WWI Anniversary year it is made more poignant as it is exactly the same date when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo 100 years ago. UK

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JULY:

Sat 05 MNA National Council mtg Birmingham
Mon 07
Tour de France reaches London for the ‘Grand Depart’
Stages 5 will pass Ypres with 6 and 7 following the Western Front
London
Sat 12 MNA Boston Branch HOG ROAST - live band playing Rock & Roll Sutterton
Sun 13 Sea Sunday UK
Tue 15 Merchant Navy Medal mtg Baltic Exchange
Thu 17 CONA mtg Portsmouth
Sun 27 Bristol Harbour Festival Bristol

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AUGUST:

Sat 02 New ‘Hospital and Troopships’ Exhibition HQS Wellington
Sun 03 Closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow UK
Mon 04 Britain entered World War I when the German army invaded France
Service at St Symphorien Military Ceremony…incl. India, Canada and Australia
Vigil at Westminster Abbey during the day and finishing at 2300hrs
Memorial Service at Glasgow Cathedral UK
France
London
Glasgow
Mon 04 Two children from every school in UK will visit the WWI battlefields over the next 4 years. Local awareness will be the focus of WWI school programmes
Tue 05 Solemn Commemoration Service W/Abbey
Sat 09 Vindicatrix Re-Union Sharpness
Sun 10 Drum Head Service at Castle and March to Holyrood House Edinburgh
Fri 15 George Cross Island Service at All Hallows and VJ day London
Fri 15 Another significant 100th anniversary-The Panama Canal…will the money be found to continue the widening and deepening for the larger vessels? Panama
Mon 25 Late Summer Bank Holiday…organise another mna25 recognition event MNA Branches

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SEPTEMBER:

Wed 03 Merchant Navy Day Service and Parade plus mna25 Reception MNA Branches
Sun 07 MNDCS – Arrive 1130, Parade 1230, Service 1300 London
Mon 8-11 International Shipping Week London
Thu 18 Scottish Referendum Scotland
Fri 19 ‘Talk Like a Pirate’ Day
Organise visits to local schools for MN WWI awareness and understanding UK
UK
Fri 19
MNA Boston Branch mna25 Veterans and Guests Supper Dance Spalding
Tue 23 Autumnal Equinox UK
Wed 24
NVA organised dedication for 70th Anniversary at NMA Alrewas
Sat 27 World Maritime Day Worldwide

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OCTOBER:

Wed 15 Annual National Seafarers Service St Paul’s
Thu 16 Maritime Foundation Service All Hallows
Sat 25 Islamic New Year Worldwide
Sat 25 mna25 AGM Birmingham
Sun 26 BST ends…retard clocks one hour UK

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NOVEMBER:

Sat 08 Festival of Remembrance at the Albert Hall London
Sun O9 Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph and local memorials London
Sun 09 Maritime Remembrance Service in Trinity Square Gardens London
Sat 15 Remembrance Service and parade with mna25 reception Newport
Mon 24 MNM Award ceremony Trinity House
Sun 30 St Andrew’s day UK

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DECEMBER:

Sun 21 Winter Solstice – Shortest Day UK

Thu 25

Christmas Day

Worldwide