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Object description
Large presentation album containing black and white and colour photographs of ceremonial occasions involving force from Singapore Base Area 1963-1970. Ceremonies covered are:
Queen's Birthday Parade - 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Highlanders, Selarang Barracks, 19 April 1963
Guard of Honour for C-in-C Far East - Admiral Sir Varyl C Begg, Phoenix Park, 24 April 1963
Annual Inspection of the Regimental Pay Office by Brigadier C H Stoneley, Tanglin, 6 March 1964
Investiture Ceremony - His Excellency the Right Honourable Viscount Head, British High Commissioner in Malaysia, Eden Hall, 3 April 1964
Queen's Birthday Parade, 40 Commando, Far East Training Centre, Nee Soon, 21 April 1964
Farewell Quarter Guard (Singapore Guard Regiment) for GOC-in-C Far East Land Force, Lieutenant General Sir Reginald H Hewetson, Tyersall Park, 4 June 1964
Farewell Quarter Guard ( 79 'Kirkee' Commando Battery, Royal Artillery) for GOC-in-C Far East Land Force, Lieutenant General Sir Reginald H Hewetson, Tanglin, 5 June 1964
Guard of Honour ( 79 'Kirkee' Commando Battery, Royal Artillery) for arrival of GOC-in-C Far East Land Force, Lieutenant General A Jolly, Tanglin, 9 June 1964
Guard of Honour (10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles) for the Minister of Defence (Army) the Rt. Hon. James Ramsden MP, Tanglin, 22 June 1964
Guard of Honour (1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) for the Minister of Defence (Army) the Rt. Hon. Fred Mulley MP, Tanglin, 9 January 1965
Guard of Honour (1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) for the Chief of the General Staff, General Sir James H Cassels, Tanglin, 15 January 1965
Guard of Honour for the Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Tanglin, 12 February 1965
Guard of Honour (45 Light Regiment, Royal Artillery) for Deputy C-in-C Thai Army, Tanglin, 26 November 1965
Remembrance Day Services at Kranji War Cemetery:
10 November 1963
8 November 1964
14 November 1965
13 November 1966
12 November 1967
? November 1968
? November 1969
8 November 1970
Physical description
Large blue cloth covered photograph album with black and white photographic prints dry mounted on the album pages. The front cover of the album has gold lettering: SINGAPORE BASE AREA CEREMONIAL - DAAG. The album pages are screw-threaded into the album. Annotations accompany the photographs and are either hand printed in ink, hand stencilled or printed on adhesive Dymo tape. The album has sheets of tissue paper interleaving the album pages.
