The King's Royal Hussars March Through Leyland

[Martin]

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Town stands still for Hussars

Town stands still for Hussars
Leyland Guardian 03 December 2008

It wasn't snow that brought Leyland to a standstill on Tuesday it was an army of 150 soldiers with their cavalry and band.

Crowds braved the freezing temperatures to line the streets of the town centre to give The King's Royal Hussars a heroes welcome.

The regiment, made up of soldiers from Leyland and across Lancashire, were exercising their Freedom of South Ribble and were met by a rapture of applause.

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[Dave Hewitt]

Bit different to their visit in 1818 when they attacked Millworkers from the Farington and Leyland Mills protesting against the corn laws on Preston road.

Our version of the 1819 Peterloo massacre in Manchester, when the Huzzars killed and maimed many men women and children doing the same thing.

[Martin]

I don't think any of the soldiers of 1818/19 are still alive Dave.

[Spitfire]

They couldn`t have picked a worse day for a march. Congratulations to all those who turned out to support them in such awful weather.
I was 20 minutes late in arriving for my stint at the museum, due to being stuck on South Paddock whilst the two armoured vehicles were unloaded from their transporters outside the civic centre.(it brought back memories of just how cold those tanks were in winter).

[Caroline]

I knew about Peterloo, but I hadn't heard of that happening locally- thanks for that, Dave.

[noel]

Farington Mill was only started in 1835 so I don't think Farington Mill workers would have been involved. Bashall and Boardman's factory as it was known was put up in sections. Spinning mill in 1835, the rest in 1838 got blowndown in a strong gale and had to be rebuilt. Does anyone have any info on the Leyland Mills at that time? (1818-19)

[noel]

The Kings Royal Hussars are marching through Leyland in what they call a Op-Herrick 16 home coming parade tomorrow, starts 11-30am at Civic Centre, walking up Lancastergate, along Towngate and Hough Lane up to the roundabout, and back again 12 at the Centre. It's a good forecast so let's welcome their return from Afghanistan. http://www.krh.org.uk/

[noel]

Operation Herrick is the codename under which all British operations in the war in Afghanistan have been conducted since 2002. It consists of the British contribution to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and support to the US-led Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). Since 2003, Operation Herrick has increased in size and breadth to match ISAF's growing geographical intervention in Afghanistan.
Operation Herrick superseded two previous efforts in Afghanistan. The first of these was Operation Veritas, which consisted of support to the war in Afghanistan in October 2001. The last major action of this was a sweep in east Afghanistan by 1,700 Royal Marines during Operation Jacana, which ended in mid-2002. The second was Operation Fingal, which involved leadership and a 2,000 strong contribution for a newly formed ISAF in Kabul after December 2001. Command was subsequently transferred to Turkey several months later and the British contingent was scaled back to 300. Since then, all operations in Afghanistan have since been conducted under Operation Herrick.

[APFaz]

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Was very good and wonderful to see so many turn up.

Apparently there were some 'Muslim Protesters' at the Civic Centre but when I went down I couldn't find them.

Did sadly bump into some ignorant troll on the way down whose response to her son when he asked "Mum can I have a poppy?" was "why the **** do I need one" who got told few words but then there are complete and utter prats all other the place these days, so suppose I should be grateful it was just the one seen.

[noel]