Freedom of The City
The Freedom of the City is an honour bestowed by a municipality upon a valued member of the community, or upon a visiting celebrity or dignitary. Arising from the medieval practice of granting respected citizens freedom from serfdom, the tradition still lives on in countries such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand – although today the title of “freeman” confers no special privileges.
The Freedom of the City can also be granted by municipal authorities to military units which have earned the city’s trust; in this context, it is sometimes called the Freedom of Entry. This allows them the freedom to parade through the city, and is an affirmation of the bond between the regiment and the citizenry.
The honour was sometimes accompanied by a “freedom box”, a small gold box inscribed to record the occasion; these are not usual today. In some countries, such as the United States, esteemed residents and visitors may instead be presented with the Key to the City, a similarly symbolic honour. Other US cities award Honorary Citizenship, with just a certificate.
Freedom of the City is an ancient honour granted to martial organisations, allowing them the privilege to march into the city “with drums beating, colours flying, and bayonets fixed”.
This honour dates back to ancient Rome which regarded the “pomerium”, the boundary of the city, as sacred. Promagistrates and generals were forbidden from entering it, and resigned their imperium immediately upon crossing it. An exception was made for victory celebrations (called triumphs), during which the victorious general would be permitted to enter for one day only. Under the Republic, soldiers also lost their status when entering, becoming citizens: thus soldiers at their general’s triumph wore civilian dress. Weapons were also banned inside the pomerium for religious and traditional reasons. (The assassination of Julius Caesar occurred outside this boundary.)
Similar laws were passed by other European cities throughout the Medieval era, to protect public security and civic rights, even against their own king’s troops. As a result, soldiers would be forced to camp outside the walls of the city during the winter months. The Freedom of the City was an honour granted only to troops which had earned the trust of the local populace, either through some valiant action or simply by being a familiar presence.
Today, martial freedom of the city is an entirely ceremonial honour, usually bestowed upon a unit with historic ties to the area, as a token of appreciation for their long and dedicated service. The awarding of the Freedom is often accompanied by a celebratory parade through the city.
Entitlement to civil privileges
A slightly more common freedom of the city is connected to the medieval concept of “free status”, when city and town charters drew a distinction between freemen and vassals of a feudal lord. As such, freemen actually pre-date ‘boroughs’. Early freedom of the boroughs ceremonies had great importance in affirming that the recipient enjoyed privileges such as the right to trade and own property, and protection within the town.
In modern society, the award of honorary freedom of the city or borough tends to be entirely ceremonial, given by the local government in many towns and cities on those who have served in some exceptional capacity, or upon any whom the city wishes to bestow an honour.
United Kingdom
Before parliamentary reform in 1832, freedom of the city or town conferred the right to vote in the ‘parliamentary boroughs’ for the MPs. Until the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 the freemen were the exclusive electorate for some of the boroughs. These two acts together curtailed the power of the freemen and extended the franchise to all ‘householders’ (defined as local rate payers; in fact therefore property owners). The private property belonging to the freemen collectively was retained. The freemen of York, Oxford and Newcastle upon Tyne still own considerable areas within their towns, although the income is effectively given to support charitable objects. The Local Government Act 1972 specifically preserved freemen’s rights.
The Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 removed any restrictions entitling only men to be freemen.
Today, the grant of honorary freedom in the United Kingdom is governed by the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended by the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009). The 1972 Act enabled the councils of cities, royal boroughs, boroughs, and parishes (or, in Wales, communities) with the status of a royal town to confer the status of honorary freeman on “persons of distinction and persons who have, in the opinion of the council, rendered eminent services” to the local area.[4] The 2009 Act extends the ability to grant the status of honorary freeman to any county, city, district, borough, town, parish or community council (so removing the requirement for the town to have ‘royal’ status, and also enabling county councils to confer the honour). A special meeting of the council can grant the honour by passing a resolution with a two-thirds majority at a specially convened meeting.
The exact qualifications for borough freedom differ between each city or town, but generally fall into two categories, ‘patrimony’ (inheritance) and ‘servitude’ (apprenticeship).
For example, in Chester, only the children or grandchildren of freemen may apply for admission. In York, this extends to great- and great-great-grandchildren, and apprenticeship to a freeman of the city will also allow admission.[6] In Great Grimsby, the widow of a freeman passes his rights to her second husband, who retains the privilege after either divorce from or death of the widow. The borough freedom is strongest in York, Chester, Newcastle upon Tyne and Coventry; in Coventry, freedom is qualified by having served an apprenticeship. Durham and Northampton have extended their admission criteria to those who have served an apprenticeship without being ‘bound’ (trained) by a freeman directly. Freemen of Newcastle upon Tyne are bestowed the right to graze cattle on the town moor.
Freedom of the City of Belfast
Recipients of this honour have included athlete Mary Peters,[8] actor Kenneth Brannagh, diplomat John Jordan, industrialist Andrew Carnegie and Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Freedom of the City of London
In England, the most established borough freedom is that conferred by the Freedom of the City of London, first recorded in 1237. This is closely tied to the role and status of the livery companies. From 1835, the freedom “without the intervention of a Livery Company” has been bestowed by a general resolution of Common Council, by “redemption” (purchase), at one time for an onerous sum. Now the Freedom can be obtained by servitude, by patrimony, by nomination, or by presentation via a Livery Company. Freedom through nomination by two sponsors is available for a fee (known as a “fine”) of £100, but is free to those on the electoral roll of the City
New freemen are enrolled in a ceremony in Guildhall, when they receive a guide to conducting their lives in an honourable fashion and a sealed certificate. Freemen’s children get admission preference at the City of London Freemen’s School. There are a number of rights traditionally but apocryphally associated with freemen—the right to drive sheep and cattle over London Bridge; to a silken rope, if hanged; to carry a naked sword in public; or that if the City of London Police finds a freeman drunk and incapable, they will bundle him or her into a taxi and send them home rather than throw them into a cell. While sheep have occasionally been driven over London Bridge by Freemen on special occasions, these “privileges” are now effectively symbolic.
Mark Stephens with a sheep on London Bridge in 2009
The right to herd sheep and cattle across London’s four bridges technically no longer applies, as there are no livestock markets in the city. Nevertheless, this right has been exercised, or the city has granted permission, on several occasions in modern times:
On 19 August 1999, Jef Smith, a freeman of London walked two sheep over Tower Bridge to bring attention to the rights of older citizens.
On 17 June 2006, a flock of about thirty sheep was driven across the Millennium Bridge to mark the start of London Architecture Week.
On 31 August 2008, Amanda Cottrell, former High Sheriff of Kent, marched six rams across London Bridge to promote fundraising for the restoration of Canterbury Cathedral and “a scheme backing local food production”.
On 17 September 2008, the Lord Mayor of London, David Lewis, and some 500 freemen drove a flock of Romney ewes in relay across London Bridge to raise funds for the Lord Mayor’s charities (Orbis and Wellbeing of Women).
On 7 April 2013, actor and presenter Stephen Fry drove Grace, a year-old lamb, over London Bridge for a documentary about becoming a freeman, Stephen Fry’s Key To The City.
On 27 April 2019, freeman of the city Simone Lakmaker drove Mark, a ram from Spitalfields City Farm, over London Bridge as part of her 80th birthday celebrations and to raise awareness for her charity the Speaking Out Forum.
By 2015, the driving of sheep across the bridge had become an annual event, organised by the Worshipful Company of Woolmen livery company, typically to raise funds for the Lord Mayor’s Appeal and the Worshipful Company of Woolmen.
Freedom of the City of York
York has a long history of freemen dating back to the Anglo-Saxon period, with records dating back to 1272.
Freemen may claim their rights through patronage (as far back as their great-great-grandparent, there are records of women being admitted in York in medieval times, a right forgotten for a time until the late 1970s when the gild carried out research and rediscovered it) or apprenticeship. Once ‘sworn in’, freemen can join the Gild (archaic spelling used) of Freemen who continue to take an interest in the affairs of the city. New admissions are made every year (usually October) following an admission ceremony with the Lord Mayor at the Guildhall.
Ireland
This section is about Ireland. For Freedom awarded specifically in Dublin, see Freedom of the City of Dublin.
In Ireland, borough freedom of the city is generally given to noted foreign and national dignitaries and the list rarely exceeds a few dozen. As in the United Kingdom, the title generally comes with various ancient privileges – for instance, freemen of Dublin are allowed the right to vote in certain elections, bring goods for sale in the city without customs and the right to pasture sheep on common ground such as College Green and St. Stephen’s Green.
Key to the city
In some countries, such as the United States, an ornamental key – the “key to the city” – is presented to esteemed visitors, residents, or others whom the city wishes to honour. This practice is a variation on the freedom of the city tradition, and has a similar symbolic meaning; evoking medieval walled cities, the gates of which would be guarded during the day and locked at night, the key symbolises the freedom of the recipient to enter and leave the city at will, as a trusted friend of city residents.
In some cities in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany, the key to the city is given to the so-called “prince carnival [nl]” who leads the carnivals which take place the week prior to Septuagesima. The tradition is that the mayor steps down for this period and power is transferred to the prince carnival, who then returns the key at the end of Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras. Today, the handing over of the key is mostly symbolic and marks the start and end of the carnival.
In Canada, major cities including Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal may award a key to the city to influential business leaders, musicians, and political leaders. In 2016, the Canadian recording artist Drake received a key to the city of Toronto, presented by the mayor John Tory. Also, artist Travis Scott received the Key to the City of Houston presented by the mayor Sylvester Turner on February 13, 2019. In a local tradition, Calgary has opted to award esteemed visitors a symbolic cowboy hat instead of a key; this is usually followed by reciting one of two oaths (one formal, the other more silly) to become honorary Calgarians.
A Great Day.
With all the pomp and celebration of a great day, with the freedom of the city, a parade will pass this way, the grandeur of uniforms on display, military music a band will play.
Flags and bunting flap in the wind, laughter and voices and faces that grin, barriers to keep the masses in, so from in-front of the parade, there’s no wondering.
Children get exited as the time grows near, they keep asking how soon the soldiers will be here, will they have their guns, will they fire them in the air, what about a band, is that them we can hear.
A week of rehearsal, to make the day look great, square-bashing, a soldier’s pet hate, nothing fancy, just the timing to get right, polish your boots and iron your kit, not worn it for a while, so hope it still fits.
Come the day, we all hope it’s by bus, after all the bulling, a truck, no way, scuff your boots, or an oily stain, the RSM will go insane, hope for the sun, dreading the rain.
Last chance for a fag, before we load up, a bus for the band, bloody trucks our luck, a drive to the town, police escort, so in the traffic we don’t get stuck, could do with a beer, or a brew in a mug, not cup.
The excitement of the crowds begin to build, soldiers and guns, to see, the children are thrilled, a line of police, both sides of the street are filled, in the distance a loud voice, silence, the air feels chilled.
Off the bus, there’s no time to waste, a soldier’s speed with little haste, the voice of the RSM rings out, let no one within earshot, be of any doubt, the band strikes up, and as one, we move out.
The people come out onto the streets, waving their flags, the soldiers to meet, the joys of the day, on faces does show, cheers and clapping, so the soldiers do know, Freedom of Entry, through the city they can go.
Through the streets we march, and the crowds we could see, smiling faces and children happy, all that square-bashing, now pays off, mind in neutral, marching’s not too tough.
A day of colour and a day of pride, the joy of the people, no one did hide, soldiers and civilians stand as one, freedom of the city, for all is won, the pomp and celebrations for all begun.
Derrick W Sole. Copyright Protected, 2020
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Bendigo, Victoria
17th Construction Squadron Workshop: 20 October 2015.
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HMAS Darwin: October 1985.
Devonport, Tasmania
HMAS Stuart, RAN: 2014.
Gawler, South Australia
HMAS Gawler, RAN: 26 April 1986.
Gold Coast, Queensland
41st Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery: 1967.
1st Military District Band: 1989.
213 Squadron Australian Air Force Cadets: 30 October 2016.
221 Squadron Australian Air Force Cadets: 30 October 2016.
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232 Squadron Australian Air Force Cadets: 30 October 2016.
Gosford, New South Wales
TS Hawkesbury, Australian Navy Cadets.
Ipswich, Queensland
RAAF Base Amberley: 17 June 1970.
Kalgoolie, Western Australia
16th Battalion The Royal Western Australia Regiment.
Katherine, Northern Territory
RAAF Base Tindal: 29 September 2018.
Kingaroy, Queensland
The Defence Force School of Signals Electronic Warfare Wing: 8 July 2017.
Kogarah, New South Wales
9th Regiment RAA: 14 April 2018.
Lake Macquarie
HMAS Tobruk, RAN: 9 August 1991.
Liverpool
School of Military Engineering: 1959.
Maitland, New South Wales
HMAS Maitland, RAN: 30 September 2006.
Melbourne
HMAS Melbourne
Melbourne University Regiment
The Defence Force School of Signals.
Mosman, New South Wales
HMAS Penguin (naval base)
Newcastle, New South Wales
HMAS Newcastle: 13 December 1994.
Northam, Western Australia
10th Light Horse Regiment: 1979
Nowra, New South Wales
HMAS Albatross, RAN: 1979.
HMAS Creswell, RAN: 1979.
Onkaparinga, South Australia
40th Regional Cadet Unit Noarlunga: 1998.
Squadron 605 Australian Air Force Cadets: 2004.
Australian Navy Cadets TS Noarlunga: 2004.
619 Squadron, Australian Air Force Cadets: 2016.
Parramatta
The 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers: 18 October 1959.
HMAS Parramatta, RAN: 28 July 2003.
Perth
HMAS Perth, RAN: 4 March 1966.
16th Battalion The Royal Western Australia Regiment: 2 October 1960.
11th/28th Battalion The Royal Western Australia Regiment.
Port Stephens
130 Signals Squadron
Sale
RAAF Base East Sale: 1959.
Sydney
Royal Australian Navy: March 14, 2009
HMAS Sydney
3 Wing, Australian Air Force Cadets
Tamworth, New South Wales
12th/16th Hunter River Lancers.
Townsville
3rd Brigade Lavarack Barracks: 27 August 2014.
Wollongong
HMAS Wollongong, RAN: 27 August 2017.
4th/3rd Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment.
Belgium
Herentals
Ordnance Depot Antwerp: 1987.
Canada
Alberta
Airdrie
Calgary Highlanders
Banff
3 Squadron 41 Signal Regiment: 22 October 2016.
Rocky Mountain National Army Cadet Summer Training Centre (formerly BNACC)
Bon Accord
1 Combat Engineer Regiment: 3 June 2017.
Bonnyville
4 Wing Cold Lake: 5 May 2017.
Canmore
878 Banff/Canmore Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron
Calgary
Calgary Highlanders: 1956.
1st Battalion The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada: 11 June 1960.
King’s Own Calgary Regiment
Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians)
HMCS Calgary
4 Wing Cold Lake: 11 May 1999.
HMCS Tecumseh
41 Signal Regiment
14 (Calgary) Service Battalion
52 City of Calgary Air Cadets
538 Buffalo Squadron
22 RCSCC Undaunted
Cold Lake
4 Wing Cold Lake: 27 August 2004.
Drumheller
Correctional Service of Canada: 9 September 2017.
Edmonton
The Canadian Airborne Regiment: 1976.
The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (4th Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry)
15 (Edmonton) Service Battalion: 3 June 1995.
408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, RCAF: 2001.
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry: 10 August 2014. (on occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Regiment)
HMCS Nonsuch
1 Service Battalion: 26 August 2018.
Fort McMurray
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Wood Buffalo Detachment): 21 September 2013.
Gibbons
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry: 15 September 2014.
Canadian Military Engineers.
Lord Strathcona’s Horse: 22 October 2010.
Grande Cache
The Correctional Service of Canada: 17 October 2015.
High River
187 Foothills Squadron Royal Canadian Air Cadets: 22 September 2016.
Lethbridge
429 Transport Squadron, RCAF: 2008.
Medicine Hat
South Alberta Light Horse: October 2005.
CFB Suffield: 23 April 2015.
British Army Training Unit Suffield: 23 April 2015.
Morinville
1 Service Battalion: September 2011.
Okotoks
187 Squadron Royal Canadian Air Cadets: 24 May 2017.
Red Deer
41 Signal Regiment
Rocky Mountain House
198 Yukon Corps Royal Canadian Sea Cadets: 23 September 2018.
St. Albert
Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians): 11 June 2011.
Strathcona County
Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians): 24 August 2013.
Vegreville
41 Combat Engineer Regiment: 29 April 2006.
Wetaskiwin
1 Military Police Regiment: 27 June 2009.
British Columbia
Chilliwack
39 Combat Engineer Regiment: 26 October 2013.
Royal Westminster Regiment: 26 October 2013.
39 Service Battalion: 26 October 2013.
Comox
HMCS Quadra.
19 Wing Comox.
Courtenay
CFB Comox: March 1996.
The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s): October 1996.
HMCS Quadra: August 2008.
The Royal Canadian Legion (Courtenay Branch).
Esquimalt
3rd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry: 16 September 1972.
Kamloops
Rocky Mountain Rangers: 19 February 1980.
CFS Kamloops: 15 May 1984.
The Royal Canadian Legion (Branch No.52): 18 November 1986.
The Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans in Canada (Unit 290): 27 February 1990.
419 Tactical Fighter Training Squadron, RCAF: 1 July 1993.
Kelowna
British Columbia Dragoons: 11 February 1963
Maple Ridge
Royal Canadian Legion (Maple Ridge Branch 88).
The Royal Westminster Regiment.
Nanaimo
South Alberta Regiment: April 1941.
Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s): 5 October 1974.
Le Régiment de Hull: May 1943. Le Régiment de Hull was the first French speaking unit to be posted to the West Coast. It so worried the residents that they doubled their police force. The residents and the Regiment soon broke the linguistic barrier and formed a bond of friendship, often playing in softball tournaments and learning French-Canadien folk songs.
HMCS Nanaimo, RCN: March 1997.
Maple Ridge
354 RCSCC Invincible
New Westminster
Royal Westminster Regiment, then called the Westminster Regiment: 24 May 1963.
HMCS Discovery, RCN: 3 October 2010.
Pitt Meadows
The Royal Westminster Regiment: 22 September 2012.
Prince George
The Rocky Mountain Rangers: 21 April 2018.
The Royal Canadian Army Cadets
Richmond
12 (Vancouver) Service Company, then called 12 Service Battalion: 17 April 1993.
39 Service Battalion: 13 April 2014.
Saanich
11 (Victoria) Service Company, then called 11 Service Battalion: April 1994.
11 (Victoria) Field Ambulance, then called 11 (Victoria) Medical Company: September 1994.
39 Service Battalion: 2 May 2014.
Sechelt
2963 Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, RCACC: 29 August 1998.
Vancouver
HMCS Discovery, RCN: 13 February 1973.
15th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA: 12 June 1977.
Seaforth Highlanders of Canada: 6 December 1977.
British Columbia Regiment: 26 April 1983.
12 (Vancouver) Field Ambulance: 14 April 2007.
The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada: 16 April 2011.
Vancouver Police Pipe Band: 23 January 2014.
Vernon
Vernon Army Cadet Summer Training Centre: 4 August 1979
British Columbia Dragoons: 10 May 2008
Victoria
3rd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry: 15 June 1974
HMCS Malahat
Maritime Forces Pacific: 5 May 1985.
5th (British Columbia) Field Artillery Regiment, RCA: 4 November 1979.
2nd Battalion The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada:
The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s): 6 June 1964
Royal Roads Military College
Manitoba
Brandon
2nd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry: 22 May 2012.
CFB Shilo: 22 June 2017.
Winnipeg
2nd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry: 1989.
HMCS Chippawa: 5 May 1985.
Royal Winnipeg Rifles: 4 June 1983.
CFB Winnipeg: October 1992.
New Brunswick
Dorchester
Correctional Service of Canada: 27 July 2015.
Fredericton
1st Battalion, The Royal New Brunswick Regiment (Carleton and York): 1991
Royal Canadian Regiment: 2 June 1973
Moncton
The Royal Canadian Regiment.
Saint John
The Royal Canadian Regiment.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Gander
103 Search and Rescue Squadron, RCAF: 2 May 2017.
St. John’s
HMS Newfoundland, RN: 16 May 1944.
Royal Newfoundland Regiment: 1 July 1963.
HMCS Cabot, RCN: 24 April 1985.
HMCS St. John’s, RCN: 22 June 1996.
Royal Canadian Regiment: 19 June 2005.
56 Engineer Squadron: 31 October 2009.
Royal Newfoundland Constabulary: 18 August 2010
North West Territories
Yellowknife
HMCS Yellowknife, RCN: 18 June 1999.
Nova Scotia
Annapolis Royal
CSTC HMCS Acadia: 2004.
Halifax
78th Highlanders: 1998. (Exercised Annually)
The Princess Louise Fusiliers.
Maritime Forces Atlantic.
The Royal Canadian Regiment.
Kentville
Land Force Atlantic Area Training Centre Aldershot: 14 October 2012.
Sydney
29 Sydney Kiwanis and Band, Royal Canadian Air Cadets: 5 October 2018.
45 A/M Edwards, Royal Canadian Air Cadets: 5 October 2018.
562 Cabot, Royal Canadian Air Cadets: 5 October 2018.
129 Caribou, Royal Canadian Sea Cadets: 5 October 2018.
587 Whitney Pier, Royal Canadian Air Cadets: 5 October 2018.
591 Dunlap, Royal Canadian Air Cadets: 5 October 2018.
86 Dreadnought, Royal Canadian Sea Cadets: 5 October 2018.
693 Sydney Rotary, Royal Canadian Air Cadets: 5 October 2018.
3060 Coriano Ridge, Royal Canadian Army Cadets: 5 October 2018.
2878 Cape Breton Highlanders, Royal Canadian Army Cadets: 5 October 2018.
2 Sydney, Royal Canadian Sea Cadets: 5 October 2018.
70 New Waterford, Royal Canadian Sea Cadets: 5 October 2018.
Yarmouth
84th Independent Field Battery, RCA: 29 September 2018.
Ontario
Barrie
CFB Borden: 5 June 2016.
Belleville
The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment: 17 May 1964.
8 Wing CFB Trenton: 1978.
RCSCC Quinte 58: 2013.
Brampton
The Lorne Scots Regiment : 1969.
Brantford
56th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA: 1 October 1966.
Brockville
The Brockville Rifles: 1 October 2016.
Cobourg
Royal Canadian Horse Artillery: 1987.
Collingwood
The Canadian Forces Military Police Academy: 21 June 2014.
Dufferin County
The Lorne Scots Regiment : 1981.
Durham
The Ontario Regiment: 1979
Elgin County
31 Combat Engineer Regiment: 19 April 2008.
Elliot Lake
696 Air Cadet Squadron Royal Canadian Air Cadets: 26 May 2019.
Guelph
11th Field Regiment, RCA: 1966.
Halton Hills
The Lorne Scots Regiment : 1987.
Hamilton
HMCS Star, RCN
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry
705 (Hamilton) Communication Squadron: 25 July 1978.
31 Signal Regiment: 21 April 2012.
Kenora
116 Independent Field Battery, RCA: 1985.
Kingston
Royal Military College of Canada: 7 October 1976. (Freedom Exercised on 6 May 2012 and 5 May 2013)
HMCS Cataraqui (Freedom Exercised on 25 October 2009
Princess of Wales’ Own Regiment: 1963. (Exercised on 4 May 2013)
2nd Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery: 1983. (Exercised in 1996 and 26 May 2012)
Communications and Electronics Branch: 31 August 2003.
1st Canadian Signal Regiment: 21 Jun 1975
The Correctional Service of Canada: 31 May 2015.
58 A/C A. Dwight Ross GC CBE CD, Royal Canadian Air Cadets: 28 May 2016.
London
1st Battalion The Royal Canadian Regiment: 1980.
Markham
Button’s Troop The Governor General’s Horse Guards: 2 October 2010.
351 Silver Star Royal Canadian Air Cadets Squadron: 27 May 2012.
883 Air Commodore Leonard Birchall Royal Canadian Air Cadets Squadron: 27 May 2012.
Milton
The Lorne Scots Regiment : 2009.
Mississauga
The Lorne Scots Regiment : 2 July 2014.
The Toronto Scottish Regiment: 20 September 2014.
Oakville
The Lorne Scots Regiment : 1984.
Oshawa
The Ontario Regiment: 1966.
Ottawa
14th Battalion of Kingston: 1894.
1st Battalion The Royal Canadian Regiment: 1953.
2nd Battalion The Canadian Guards: 1964.
30th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA: 1968.
The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa: 24 May 1969.
Governor General’s Foot Guards: 1972.
3rd Field Engineer Squadron: 1977.
763 (Ottawa) Communications Regiment: 1978.
The Canadian Grenadier Guards: 1979.
HMCS Carleton, RCN: 1980.
4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards: 1981.
28th Service Battalion: 1981.
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry: 1985.
Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps “Falkland”: 1995.
HMCS Ottawa, RCN: 1996.
3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment: 1999.
26/28 Service Battalion: 2009.
33 Canadian Brigade Group: 2013.
7 Intelligence Company: 5 June 2016.
51 Squadron Aviation and Space Museum (RCAC): 19 June 2016.
Petawawa
The Royal Canadian Dragoons: 15 June 2019.
Rideau Lakes
Canadian Forces School of Communications and Electronics: 2008.
Sault Ste. Marie
49th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA: 1 July 1967.
31 Service Battalion: 26 September 1987.
2310 (Sault Ste. Marie) Squadron Royal Canadian Army Cadets: 1998.
Sudbury
2nd Battalion The Irish Regiment of Canada: 9 May 2015.
Thunder Bay
HMCS Griffon, RCN: 4 November 2018.
18 Field Ambulance, RCMS: 4 November 2018.
The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment: 4 November 2018.
Timmins
The Algonquin Regiment: 22 September 1977 (exercised on 22 September 2012)
Toronto
3rd Battalion The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada: 1948.
The Royal Regiment of Canada: 1962.
The 48th Highlanders of Canada: 1966.
The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery: 1966.
7th Toronto Regiment, RCA: May 1966
The Queen’s York Rangers: 1975.
709 (Toronto) Communications Regiment Signals Communications and Electronics Branch: 1978.
The Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother’s Own): 1982.
400 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, RCAF: 1982.
HMCS Toronto: 1983.
HMCS York: 1983.
2nd Field Engineer Regiment: 1984.
32 Canadian Brigade Group: 1998.
The Royal Canadian Dragoons: 2000.
32 Signal Regiment, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals: 2017.
Trenton
Trenton Air Cadet Summer Training Centre.
704 Airforce City Royal Canadian Air Cadets Squadron.
8 Wing CFB Trenton
Uxbridge
UNICEF Team Canada: 2008.
Waterloo
31 Combat Engineer Regiment
Westport
Canadian Forces School of Communications and Electronics: 2008.
Whitchurch–Stouffville
The Governor General’s Horse Guards: 16 June 2012.
Windsor
The Windsor Regiment: 1940.
31 Service Battalion: 10 June 2017.
Prince Edward Island
Charlottetown
HMCS Charlottetown, RCN: 2015.
The Royal Canadian Regiment.
PEI Corps Royal Canadian Sea Cadets: 15 September 2018.
Quebec
Beaupré
35 Combat Engineer Regiment: 4 May 2014.
Gatineau
Le Régiment de Hull.
Granby
Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke
Huntingdon
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: 1998.[141]
Matane
Les Fusiliers du St-Laurent: 1985.
Mont-Joli
Les Fusiliers du St-Laurent: 22 August 2010.
Montreal
Canadian Grenadier Guards
Le Régiment de Maisonneuve
3rd Field Engineer Regiment (34 CER)
The Royal Canadian Hussars
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: August 1992
438 Tactical Helicopter Squadron
HMCS Montreal
Ormstown
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: 1997
Port-Cartier
The Correctional Service of Canada: 19 September 2018.
Quebec City
Royal 22e Régiment: 1975 (Exercised 3 July 2006).
HMCS Montcalm: 6 May 1995.
5e Régiment d’artillerie légère du Canada: 25 September 2004.
Soldiers from the Royal 22e Régiment exercising the Freedom of the City in front of Quebec City’s City Hall, on July 3, 2006.
Rivière-du-Loup
Les Fusiliers du St-Laurent: 1991.
Rimouski
Les Fusiliers du St-Laurent: 1984.
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
Royal Military College Saint-Jean: 1 October 1977. (Exercised 1992, 1995, and 22 April 2012)
Sayabec
Les Fusiliers du St-Laurent.
Sherbrooke
Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke Hussars
Verdun
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: Fall 1999.
Westmount
2nd Field Regiment, RCA: 24 October 2015.
The Royal Montreal Regiment.
34 Signal Regiment 34 Canadian Brigade Group.
Saskatchewan
Moose Jaw
15 Wing Moose Jaw: 1978.
Prince Albert
The Saskatchewan Federal Penitentiary of the Correctional Service of Canada: 18 September 2017.
Regina
HMCS Queen, RCN: 1978.
734 Communication Squadron, Royal Canadian Corp of Signals: 1978.
HMCS Regina, RCN: 1996.
Royal Regina Rifles: 2 June 2007.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police: 25 May 2007.
38 Service Battalion: 12 September 2015.
10 Field Artillery Regiment: 12 September 2015.
16 Field Ambulance: 12 September 2015.
15 Wing Moose Jaw: 12 September 2015.
38 Signal Regiment Detachment Regina: 12 September 2015.
Saskatoon
HMCS Unicorn, RCN: 1983.
Yorkton
10th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA: 18 May 1985
Yukon
Whitehorse
Whitehorse Cadet Summer Training Centre: 24 July 2009.
France
Erquinghem-Lys
The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment: 12 November 2005.
Vis-en-Artois
The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (Duke of Edinburgh’s Own): 8 May 2019.
Germany
Bergen
111 Provost Company Royal Military Police
Berlin (Spandau)
7 Flight Army Air Corps: 22 October 1982.
Celle
14 Signal Regiment: 10 July 1987.
Hamelin
The Corps of Royal Engineers: 3 June 1977.
Paderborn
39th Regiment, Royal Artillery: 15 March 1980.
Rheda-Wiedenbrück
26th Regiment, Royal Artillery: 10 August 2017.
Stadt Soest
3 Regiment Army Air Corps: 8 May 1993.
Tiergarten
The Royal Military Police: 5 October 1990.
Xanten
101 Provost Company Royal Military Police: 15 March 1982.
Italy
Ortona
The Royal 22nd Regiment: 14 April 1993. [
Malawi
Zomba
Changalume Barracks: 31 March 2017.
New Zealand
Manawatu-Wanganui
Levin
The Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers: 7 February 1959.
Nelson
Nelson
1st Battalion Nelson, Marlborough, West Coast Regiment: 1958.
Otago
Dunedin
Otago and Southland Regiment.
2nd/4th Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment: 27 September 2016.
Taranaki
New Plymouth
5th/7th Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment
8 (City of New Plymouth) Squadron, New Zealand Air Training Corps
City of New Plymouth Unit, New Zealand Cadet Corps: 21 October 2018.
Rhodesia
Bulawayo
Rhodesian African Rifles: 5 September 1964.
Royal Rhodesia Regiment: 5 September 1964.
Salisbury
Rhodesia Regiment: July 1968
Rhodesian Air Force: 25 May 1971.
Rhodesian Light Infantry: 25 July 1975.
Marandellas
1st Field Regiment, Rhodesia Artillery (Southern Rhodesia Artillery): 17 May 1975.
South Africa
Barberton
The South African Irish Regiment: 2009.
The Transvaal Scottish Regiment: 2009.
The Witwatersrand Rifles Regiment: 2009.
The Regiment Botha: 2009.
Cape Town
The Cape Town Highlanders Regiment: 1967.
The Cape Town Rifles: 1967.
Mahikeng
South African Navy: 15 September 2012.
Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown)
The First City Regiment: 4 September 1962.
The 6 South African Infantry Battalion: 31 March 1967.
Johannesburg
The Transvaal Scottish Regiment: 13 December 1952.
The Witwatersrand Rifles Regiment: 24 April 1954.
The Rand Light Infantry: 27 September 1955.
The Light Horse Regiment: 5 September 1959.
The Transvaal Horse Artillery: 17 March 1963.
SAS Rand, SAN: 1963.
The South African Irish Regiment: 19 November 1966.
The Regiment Paul Kruger: 11 October 1969.
The Johannesburg Regiment: 27 February 1971.
The 2 Squadron, SAAF: 16 March 1984.
21 South African Infantry Battalion: 24 June 1986.
Area Military Health Unit Gauteng South African Military Health Service: 24 April 1990.
6 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment: 31 October 2002.
United Kingdom
British Overseas Territories
Bermuda
Hamilton
The Royal Bermuda Regiment: 13 November 2015.
Falkland Islands
The Royal Marines: 8 December 1976.
The British Army: 14 June 2012.
The Royal Navy: 14 June 2012.
The Royal Air Force: 14 June 2012.
The Falkland Islands Defence Force: 14 June 2012.
Gibraltar
The Royal Gibraltar Regiment: 25 September 1971.
The Royal Marines
1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment.
RAF Gibraltar: 2 April 2018.
Crown dependencies
Bailiwick of Jersey
The Royal Hampshire Regiment: 9 May 1992.
Isle of Man
Douglas
RAF Jurby: 7 July 1955.
Ramsey
HMS Ramsey, RN: 24 April 2010.
England
Abingdon
RAF Abingdon: 1953.
The Royal Logistic Corps: 2006.
Aldeburgh
3 Regiment Army Air Corps: 23 June 2012.
Aldershot
The Hampshire Regiment: 11 September 1945.
The Canadian Army Overseas: 26 September 1945.
The Army Physical Training Corps: 1960.
The Corps of Royal Engineers: 20 May 1965.
The Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps: 27 June 1973.
The Royal Army Medical Corps: 27 June 1973.
The Royal Army Dental Corps: 27 June 1973.
Amber Valley
The Mercian Regiment: 26 January 2010.
Amesbury
MoD Boscombe Down: 8 April 2018.
Appleby-in-Westmorland
2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: 18 July 2017.
Arundel
The Royal Sussex Regiment: 1954.
Ashford
The Intelligence Corps: 16 May 1979
The Queen’s Regiment: 13 June 1987
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment: 9 September 1992
133 Field Company REME (V): 7 May 2009
Aylesbury Vale
RAF Halton: October 2010.
Barking and Dagenham
The Royal Anglian Regiment: February 2010.
Barnet
HMS Fantome, RN: 28 March 1942. (Awarded by the Friern Barnet Urban District Council)
HMS Musketeer, RN: 20 December 1941. (Awarded by the East Barnet Urban District Council)
HMS Cromer, RN: 14 March 1942. (Awarded by the East Barnet Urban District Council)
The Queen’s Regiment: 16 April 1970.
240 (Hertfordshire) Squadron Royal Corps of Transport (Volunteers): 21 October 1979.
B Company 6/7 (Volunteer) Battalion Queen’s Regiment: 1979.
3 Company 10th (Volunteer) Battalion Parachute Regiment: 1979.
The Corps of Royal Engineers: 24 July 1982.
RAF Hendon: 29 July 1986.
Royal Logistic Corps, Postal and Courier Services: 19 April 1994.
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment: 23 February 1998.
The Royal Air Force Museum: 26 October 2018.
Barnoldswick
The Yorkshire Regiment: 8 September 2013.
Barnsley
The Light Dragoons
The Yorkshire Regiment
Barnstaple
The Commando Logistic Regiment, RM: 1 August 2018.
Barrow-in-Furness
Royal Navy Submarine Service: 2001.
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment.
Basildon
The Royal Anglian Regiment: 9 June 2011.
Basingstoke
The Royal Hampshire Regiment: 16 July 1966.
RAF Odiham: July 1968.
Bath
21st Signal Regiment (Air Support): November 2011
Battersea
4th Battalion The Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment (TA): 1964.
Bedford
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment: November 1955
RAF Cardington: 16 July 1959.
287 Regiment Royal Artillery: 5 May 1963.
201 (Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Battery Royal Artillery (Volunteers): 3 May 1986.
RAF Henlow: 26 September 1992.
1st Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment: 14 September 1993.
774th USAF Airbase Group: 15 December 1994.
134 (Bedford) Squadron Air Training Corps: 1 August 1999.
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Coldstream Guards: 25 July 2000.
Bethnal Green
HMS Crane, RN: 1942.
114 (1st London) Army Engineer Regiment (TA): 27 April 1961.
Bexley
17th Depot Regiment Royal Artillery
265 Support Squadron Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry: May 2010.
Beverley
RAF Leconfield: 2 May 1968.
Bicester
1 Regiment, RLC: 21 July 2018.
Birkenhead
4th Battalion The Cheshire Regiment: 1960.
Birmingham
Royal Warwickshire Regiment: 1946.
Grenadier Guards
Coldstream Guards
Scots Guards
Welsh Guards
Irish Guards
Special Air Service
The Royal Marines: 16 March 2017.
HMS Birmingham, RN.
HMS Forward, RNR.
HMS Daring, RN.
RAF Cosford: 19 May 2018.
Blackburn with Darwen
The East Lancashire Regiment: 5 February 1948.
The Lancashire Regiment: 6 November 1958.
The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment: 25 March 1970.
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: 1 July 2006.
Blackpool
R (Blackpool) Battery 288 (2nd West Lancashire) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery (TA): 1961.
HMS Penelope, RN: 1990.
The 12th Regiment Royal Artillery: 9 July 2005.
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: July 2017.
Blandford Forum
Queen’s Gurkha Signals: 11 September 2005.
Bolton
253rd Regiment Royal Artillery (TA): 18 April 1964.
5th Battalion Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) (TA): 18 April 1964.
HMS Dido, RN: 14 April 1973.
216 (The Bolton Artillery) Battery 103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery: 18 May 1994.
1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: 14 March 2009.
Bordon
The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: 27 June 2015.
Boroughbridge
9 Regiment Army Air Corps: 2 May 1992
6 Regiment Royal Logistic Corps: 7 May 2018.
Boston
RAF Coningsby: 16 May 1963.
Bournemouth
The Royal Hampshire Regiment: 13 September 1945.
Bracknell Forest
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst: 13 July 1997.
Bradford
The 70th (West Riding) Royal Field Regiment Royal Artillery (TA): 5 September 1945.
The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment: 26 April 1996.
The Yorkshire Regiment: 25 June 2010.
Brampton
RAF Spadeadam: 18 June 2017.
Brentford and Chiswick
264th Field Regiment Royal Artillery: 5 May 1951.
917th Company Royal Army Service Corps: 5 May 1951.
21st A A (Mixed) Signal Squadron, Royal Corps of Signals (TA): 5 May 1951.
44th (Home Counties) Infantry Division Signals Regiment, Royal Corps of Signals (TA): 5 May 1951.
53rd Squadron, Royal Signals Army Cadet Force: 5 May 1951.
Brentwood
124 (Essex) Transport Squadron, RLC: 2015.
Bridgnorth
RAF Bridgnorth: 12 April
Brighton and Hove
The Royal Sussex Regiment: 27 October 1944 (Borough of Brighton).
The Queen’s Regiment: 31 December 1966 (Borough of Brighton).
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment: 1996.
Bristol
The Rifles: 2007.
39 Signal Regiment: 2019.
Bromley
RAF Biggin Hill: 5 October 1980.
Bromsgrove
The Mercian Regiment: 20 January 2011.
Broxbourne
The Royal Anglian Regiment: 2 July 2017.
Broxtowe
170 (Infrastructure Support) Engineer group Royal Engineers: 2010.
Burghfield
The Royal British Legion: 18 June 2013.
Burnley
HMS Active, RN: 1989.
Burton upon Trent
The North Staffordshire Regiment: 1946.
The Staffordshire Yeomanry: 1946.
Bury
207 (Manchester) Field Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps: 20 October 2017.
Bury St. Edmunds
HMS Vengeance, RN: 14 June 2017.
TS St Edmund Sea Cadet Corps: 14 June 2017.
Calderdale
The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment: 27 July 2002.
Cambridge
The Cambridgeshire Regiment: 29 September 1946.
104 (City of Cambridge) Squadron Air Training Corps: 1999.
Cannock Chase
The Mercian Regiment: 7 November 2012.
Canterbury
5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland: 27 November 2008.
Carlisle
RAF Spadeadam: 2 June 2018.
Carterton
RAF Brize Norton: 21 April 2016.
Charnwood
The Royal Anglian Regiment: September 2006.
The 158 (Royal Anglian) Transport Regiment: April 2010.
The Royal Logistic Corps: April 2010.
Chelsea
40th Signal Regiment, Royal Signals (Middlesex Yeomanry) (TA): 21 December 1959.
London Irish Rifles, The Royal Ulster Rifles (TA): 21 December 1959.
101 (London) Field Engineer Regiment: 26 April 1960.
Cheltenham
Central Flying School, RAF: 2 May 1962.
RAF Innsworth: October 1986.
Government Communications Headquarters: 13 May 2019.
Cheshire East
The Mercian Regiment: 27 May 2010.
Cheshire West and Chester
The Mercian Regiment: July 2008.
Chester
The Cheshire Regiment: 1948.
The Cheshire Yeomanry: 1996.
HMS Albion, RN: 2003.
1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment: 26 March 2008.
1st Battalion The Royal Welsh
Chesterfield
The Sherwood Foresters: 17 July 1946.
The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment: 27 July 1970.
HMS Danae, RN: 12 February 1974.
The Mercian Regiment: 12 December 2007.
575 Field Squadron Royal Engineers (V): 20 July 2011.
The 9th/12th Royal Lancers: 10 February 2012.
Chichester
Royal Sussex Regiment and its respective successors, the Queen’s Royal Regiment and the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment: 30 June 1951.
RAF Tangmere, a Royal Air Force station which played a crucial role in the Battle of Britain: 1960
The Royal Military Police: 7 January 1981.
Chippenham
RAF Rudloe Manor: 1992.
Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment: 1994.
9 Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps: 19 January 2012.
1st Battalion The Rifles: 19 January 2012.
Chorley
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: 2007.
3 Medical Regiment: 6 June 2015
The Lancashire Constabulary.
Christchurch
The Royal Hampshire Regiment: 19 October 1987.
The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment.
The Rifles: 1 May 2008.
Colchester
156 Provost Company Royal Military Police: 8 April 1998.
16 Air Assault Brigade: February 2008.
Congleton
The Cheshire Yeomanry: 1906.
The Cheshire Regiment: 1969.
Copeland
Army Cadet Force: 27 June 2010.
Sea Cadet Corps: 27 June 2010.
Air Training Corps: 27 June 2010.
Corby
Royal Anglian Regiment: 3 May 2012.
Corsham
Ministry of Defence Corsham: 26 June 2010.
Cotswold
29 Regiment RLC: 10 March 2005.
Coventry
HMS Diamond, RN: 16 October 2014.
Crewe
2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment: 19 February 2015.
Crewe and Nantwich
The Cheshire Regiment: 1986.
1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire)
Croydon
41 (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Signal Squadron Royal Corps of Signals (Volunteers): 1993.
151 Regiment RLC (Volunteers): 1993.
2 Company 10th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (Volunteers): 1993.
C Squadron Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry The Royal Yeomanry: 1993.
2nd Battalion The Rifles: 2010.
Dacorum
RAF Halton: 2009.
The Royal Anglian Regiment: 24 September 2014
Darlington
The Light Infantry: 1996.
The Rifles: 17 Sep 2010.
Dartmouth
Britannia Royal Naval College: 1955.
Deal
The Royal Marines: 14 February 1945.
Derby
The Royal Navy Submarine Service: 28 April 2002.
Diss
The Royal Anglian Regiment: 7 November 2012.
Doncaster
The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry: 1945.
RAF Finningley: 1975.
The Rifles: 8 September 2007.
Dudley
Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry (TA): 30 June 2012.
RAF Cosford: 4 December 2017.
63 Military Intelligence Company Intelligence Corps: 30 June 2019.
Durham
The Rifles: 2007.
HMS Bulwark, RN: 2010.
607 Squadron, RAF: 6 December 2017.
Ealing
562 (Transport) Squadron 151 (London) Transport Regiment: 16 April 2013.
Eastbourne
The Royal Sussex Regiment: 1951.
Eastleigh
The Royal Hampshire Regiment: 14 September 1991.
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment: September 1992.
Ellesmere Port and Neston
The Cheshire Regiment: June 1986.
The Mercian Regiment: 2007.
Ely
The Royal Anglian Regiment: 11 June 2011.
Epping Forest District
56 Squadron RAF: June 2018
Epsom and Ewell
135 Independent Geographic Squadron Royal Engineers (Reserve): 1999.
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment: 2010.
Exeter
The Royal Marines: April 1977
243 (The Wessex) Field Hospital (V): July 2002
The Rifles (formerly The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment): June 2007
The Coldstream Guards: July 2011
RAF Brize Norton: July 2013
HMS Defender, RN: March 2014
Falmouth
RFA Mounts Bay, Royal Fleet Auxiliary: 25 April 2007.
Fareham
HMS Collingwood: 2 July 1974.
Finchley
HMS Tartar, RN: 1942.
461 (Middlesex) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery (Territorial Army): 26 February 1951.
HMS Tartar, RN: 14 August 1963.
Folkestone
2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles: 18 June 2009.
The Canadian Armed Forces Serving Within the United Kingdom: 4 July 2018.
Gateshead
72 Engineer Regiment: 9 July 2011.
Gillingham, Dorset
Devonshire and Dorset Regiment: 1998
The Rifles: 2007
Gillingham Platoon of the Dorset Army Cadet Force: 2010
Gillingham, Kent
The Royal Engineers: 21 August 1953.
Gloucester
RAF Innsworth: 7 April 1960.
14 Signal Regiment: 28 April 1966.
The Rifles: 2 April 2011.
Gosport
The Engineering Training School Royal Navy: 1974.
The Royal Marines: 10 November 2005.
33 Field Hospital 2nd Medical Brigade RAMC: 23 April 2010.
HMS Sultan, RN: 22 March 2013.
Grantham
RAF Spitalgate: June 1952.
Gravesend
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment: 19 July 2011.
Great Aycliffe
124 Recovery Company (V) Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: October 1987.
Great Yarmouth
901 Troop Royal Marines Cadets: 28 September 2012.
The Royal British Legion (Great Yarmouth Branch): 2 November 2012.
HMS Dauntless, RN: 11 June 2013.
Greenwich
The Royal Regiment of Artillery: 24 May 1966
The Royal Naval College: 24 May 1966
Grimsby
HMS Grimsby, RN: 2001.
Guildford
Queen’s Royal Regiment: September 1945.
Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment: 1959.
1st Battalion The Queen’s Regiment: 1 January 1967.
Women’s Royal Army Corps: 22 June 1988.
Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment: 1992.
Army Training Centre Pirbright: 7 March 2017.
Hackney
3 Military Intelligence Battalion (Volunteers): 2008.
Halifax
The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment: 18 June 1945.
Halton
The Cheshire Regiment: 1988.
Hammersmith and Fulham
Headquarters Squadron 31 Signal Regiment (Volunteers): 1981.
The Royal Yeomanry (TA): 26 January 2011.
Harborough
The Royal Anglian Regiment: 7 April 2011.
Harlow
The Essex Yeomanry: 25 April 2009
The Royal Anglian Regiment: 27 September 2012.
Harpenden
The Royal Anglian Regiment: 12 September 2013.
Harrogate
The Army Foundation College.
Harrow
131 Independent Commando Squadron, Corps of Royal Engineers (Volunteers): 10 March 1983.
47 (Middlesex Yeomanry) Signal Squadron, 31st (Greater London) Signal Regiment Royal Corps of Signals: 10 March 1983.
257 (Southern) General Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers): 10 March 1983.
RAF Stanmore Park: 20 October 1988.
RAF Bentley Priory: 20 October 1988.
Roxeth & Harrow Coy, Church Lads’ & Church Girls’ Brigade 20 October 1994
Royal British Legion (Harrow Branch): 18 July 1996.
1454 (Harrow) Squadron Air Training Corps: 1 May 2014.
Hartlepool
The Rifles: 19 March 2015.
Haslingden
The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment: 1964.
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: 2006.
Hastings
The Royal Sussex Regiment: 1947.
Havant
47th Regiment Royal Artillery: 3 July 2012.
Havering
The Royal Anglian Regiment: Was in place as of September 2014.
Heddon-on-the-Wall
Humberside and South Yorkshire Squadron Army Cadet Force: 1960.
Helston
HMS Seahawk, RN: 1958.
Hendon
The Middlesex Regiment: 22 October 1955.
High Peak
The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment: 1974.
The Mercian Regiment: 18 December 2007.
The Royal British Legion (6 Local Branches): 7 November 2018.
High Wycombe
RAF High Wycombe: 1971.
7th Battalion The Rifles (TA): 9 June 2013.
Hillingdon
RAF Uxbridge: 1960.
RAF Northolt: 2000.
47 (Middlesex Yeomanry) Signal Squadron: 2007
Hornsey
7th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment: 10 May 1948.
Hounslow
2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers: 2009.
The Royal British Legion: 12 March 2017.
Hove
The Royal Sussex Regiment: 1958.
Huddersfield
The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment: 2 July 1952.
The Yorkshire Regiment: 25 October 2008.
Hunstanton
67th Special Operations Squadron, USAF: 4 October 2014.
Huntingdon
RAF Wyton: 17 September 1955.
RAF Brampton: 1995.
The Royal Anglian Regiment: 21 January 2010.
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment: 23 November 2017.
The 501st Combat Support Wing, USAF: 21 September 2018.
Huntingdonshire
RAF Wyton: 17 August 2013.
Ilford
The Essex Regiment: 14 June 1947.
The 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot): 9 September 1958.
Ipswich
1st Battalion The Suffolk Regiment: 1953.
HMS Ganges, RN: 27 July 1971.
HMS Quorn: 6 February 2011.
The Royal Anglian Regiment: September 2011.
4 Regiment Army Air Corps: 22 March 2002.
202 (Ipswich) Transport Squadron 158 (Royal Anglian) Transport Regiment (Volunteers)
Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight Troop 266 Port Squadron 165 Port and Maritime Regiment Royal Logistic Corps: 28 November 2015.
Islington
The Honourable Artillery Company: October 2009
The Islington Veterans’ Association: March 2015.
The Islington and Holloway Fire Stations of the London Fire Brigade: March 2018.
Keighley
The Yorkshire Regiment: 2011.
Kendal
The Border Regiment: 25 October 1947.
The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment: 1 October 1959.
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: 1 July 2006.
Kensington
The Army Phantom Signal Regiment: 6 October 1959.
Kennsington and Chelsea
The Royal Hospital Chelsea: 28 June 2006.
(City of London) Signal Regiment (V)
Kensington Regiment (Princess Louise’s) Signal Squadron 38 Signal Regiment
D Company (London Irish Rifles) The London Regiment
10 Company 4th Battalion, Parachute Regiment
21 Special Air Services Regiment (Artists Rifles) (V)
256 (City of London) Field Hospital (V)
The Royal Yeomanry
The University of London Air Squadron (V)
University of London Royal Naval Unit
Kettering
The Royal Anglian Regiment: 14 December 2011.
Kidderminster
The Mercian Regiment
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk
RAF Marham: 1981.
The Royal Anglian Regiment.
42F (King’s Lynn) Squadron Air Training Corps: 11 October 2014.
67th Special Operations Squadron USAF: 4 October 2014.
Kingston upon Hull
The East Yorkshire Regiment: 1 June 1944.
The Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire: 5 June 1958.
The Yorkshire Regiment: 16 November 2006.
440 (Humber) light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery (TA): 28 June 1960.
440 (Humber) light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery (Territorials): 3 August 1967.
RAF Patrington: 16 May 1970.
150(N) Transport Regiment Royal Corps of Transport (Volunteers): 1 February 1990.
RRH Staxton Wold: 3 March 1994.
150 (Yorkshire) Transport Regiment Royal Logistic Corps (Volunteers): 3 March 1994.
HMS Iron Duke, RN: 3 March 1994.
250th Field Ambulance (Volunteer Unit): 15 July 1999.
Hull Unit Sea Cadet Corps: 27 February 2014.
Kingston upon Thames
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment
256 (City of London) Field Hospital (Volunteers): March 2009
Kirklees
3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Volunteers: 25 March 1979.
4th Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment: 25 October 2008.
Knowsley
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: 12 October 2009.
Lancaster
King’s Own Royal Regiment: 29 August 1953.
Ledbury
HMS Ledbury, Royal Navy: 2007.
Leeds
RAF Church Fenton: 1971.
5th Battalion The Rifles: 1 August 2009.
Leicester
The 9th / 12th Royal Lancers: 30 June 2011.
Lewes
The Royal Sussex Regiment: 1953.
Lewisham
1475 (Dulwich) Squadron Air Training Corps (Date unknown)
Lichfield
The Staffordshire Regiment: 7 November 1960.
3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment: 2007.
The Depot, The Prince of Wales’ Division, Lichfield: 25 April 1981.
The Army Training Regiment, Lichfield: 12 April 2000.
The Joint Medical Command, Whittington Barracks: 12 September 2011.
DMS Whittington: 28 September 2016.
Lincoln
RAF Waddington: 25 April 1959.
RAF Scampton: 14 May 1993.
The Grenadier Guards: 8 May 2008.
Littlehampton
30 Commando, RM: 5 October 2013.
Liverpool
Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: 14 September 2008.
War Widows Association (Merseyside Branch): 1 December 2014.
208 (3rd West Lancashire) Battery 103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery: 14 October 2017.
City of London
Freedom of the City of London is a status into which only persons are admitted. The following units of HM Forces hold City Privileged Regiment status and consequently have the right to march through the City of London with drums beating, bayonets fixed and colours unfurled. Military units honoured in this fashion may only enter the City when the permission of the Lord Mayor of London has been sought and granted. All military units entering the City of London do so by permission of the Lord Mayor, they do not have ‘the Freedom’ even if they hold City Privileged Regiment status. Her Majesty’s forces have no general right of entry to the City unless the Lord Mayor has granted permission[citation needed]. A civic officer going by the title of the City Marshal escorts all military units of HM Forces through the City.
The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment): 1672.
City of London Imperial Volunteers: 12 January 1901.
The Royal Marines: 1924.
The Honourable Artillery Company: 1924.
The Grenadier Guards: October 1915.
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers: 13 October 1924.
HMS Westminster, RN: 11 December 2005.
600 (City of London) Squadron, RAuxAF: 18 June 2010.
1475 (Dulwich) Squadron Air Training Corps: 2015.
HMS President, RN: 15 November 2016.
The Parachute Regiment
3 Military Intelligence Battalion The Intelligence Corps: 1 April 2019.
Loughborough
The Royal Anglian Regiment: June 19, 2007
Louth
The College of Air Warfare Manby: 21 October 1965.
Ludgershall
26 Engineer Regiment: 30 May 2015.
Lyme Regis
The Dorset Regiment: 1945.
The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment: 1958.
The Rifles: 2007.
Macclesfield
7th Battalion The Cheshire Regiment: 1949.
1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment: 19 March 2009.
Malmesbury
9 Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps: 29 June 2010.
Manchester
The Manchester Regiment: 1946.
613 (City of Manchester) Squadron, RAuxAF: 1957.
The King’s Regiment: 1962.
The Grenadier Guards: 1964.
HMS Manchester, RN: 1998.
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: 16 April 2010.
207 (Manchester) Field Hospital (Volunteers): October 2011
March
The Air Training Corps: 1996.
The Army Cadet Force: 2001.
Market Drayton
1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment: 21 April 2012.
RAF Shawbury.
Marlborough
4 Military Intelligence Battalion: 28 June 2011.
Maryport
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: 20 May 2015.
Medway
The Royal Corps of Engineers: 17 January 2008.
HMS Chatham, RN: 12 February 2011.
C Company 3rd Battalion The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment: 25 January 2018.
Royal Marines
Melksham
2385 (Melksham) Squadron Air Training Corps: 12 May 2012.
Melton
The Defence Animal Centre: 1977.
HMS Quorn, RN: 18 March 2007.
Merton, Devon
The Coldstream Guards: 5 July 2011
Middlesbrough
The Green Howards: 13 May 1944.
The 34th (Northern) Signal Regiment (Volunteers): 29 April 1972.
HMS Marlborough, RN: 15 March 2000.
The Yorkshire Regiment: 25 October 2006.
Mid Sussex
The Royal Yeomanry: 23 July 2014.
Mole Valley
Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court: 25 May 2010.
Mossley
The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment: 8 July 1967.
Newark-on-Trent
RAF Cranwell: 2002.
Newbury
42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic), RE: 1997.
Newcastle upon Tyne
The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers: February 1948.
The Northumberland Hussars: January 1969.
The 15th/19th The King’s Royal Hussars: May 1972.
HMS Newcastle, RN: March 1978.
101st (Northumbrian) Field Regiment Royal Artillery (Volunteers): January 1980.
201 (Northern) General Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers): July 1984.
The Royal Naval Reserve (Tyne Division): October 1985.
The Royal Marines: July 1989.
RAF Boulmer: 19 May 2018.
Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Staffordshire Regiment: 1973.
New Forest
The Royal Hampshire Regiment: 8 July 1986.
17 Port and Maritime Regiment, RLC: 16 May 2016.
Newham
G Company 7th Battalion The Rifles: 23 June 2012.
Northampton
Northampton Unit Sea Cadet Corps: 26 March 2012.
49th/12th Royal Lancers: 5 November 2012.[
North East Lincolnshire
45 Commando, RM: 16 May 2015.
North Tyneside
Royal British Legion (Whitley Bay and Forest Hall Branches): 15 October 2009.
2344 (Longbenton) Squadron Air Training Corps: 16 December 2014.
Northumberland
HMS Northumberland, RN: 2004.
39th Regiment Royal Artillery: 3 September 2005.
RAF Boulmer: 24 September 2010.
101st (Northumbrian) Regiment, Royal Artillery: 30 April 2016.
North Warwickshire
HMS Atherstone, RN: 1996.
Norwich
1st East Anglian Regiment: 1964.
1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment: 1984.
RAF Marham: 2008.
Nottingham
The Sherwood Foresters: 1945.
The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment: 1970.
The Mercian Regiment: 15 October 2007.
73rd Engineer Regiment (Volunteers)
East Midlands Universities Air Squadron: June 2011
E Battery Royal Horse Artillery: 20 January 2014
MS Sherwood, RNR: 14 May 2018.
Nuneaton and Bedworth
Junior Leaders Regiment, Royal Artillery: 1972.
30th Signal Regiment: 2002.
250 Gurkha Signal Squadron: 2002.
2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers: 12 September 2010.
Oadby and Wigston
B Squadron Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry, Royal Yeomanry: 17 April 2012
Oakham
16 Regiment, RA: 24 April 2013.
Odiham
RAF Odiham: June 2000.
Oldham
41st (Oldham) Royal Tank Regiment (TA): 3 March 1954.
75 Engineer Regiment (Volunteers): 13 June 1999
Oxford
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry: 1 October 1945.
1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd): 7 November 1958.
Royal Green Jackets: 1 January 1966.
The Rifles: 1 February 2007.
Oxfordshire
4624 (County of Oxford) Movements Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force: May 2013.
Peterborough
RAF Wittering: 1983.
115 (Peterborough) Squadron Air Training Corps: 28 April 2014.
Plymouth
42 Commando, RM: 1955.
The Merchant Navy: 22 March 2009.
The Rifles: 25 September 2010.
The Royal Naval Reserve
Poole
The Rifles: 19 March 2010.
Portsmouth
The Royal Hampshire Regiment: 20 May 1950.
The Royal Marines: 1959
Portsmouth Command of the Royal Navy: 1965
HMS King Alfred: 2003
HMS Endurance: 2007
Preston
The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire): 7 August 1952. (This was subsequently transferred to:)
The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment: 9 September 1972.
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: 1 July 2006.
The 14th/20th King’s Hussars: 6 November 1992.
The Kings Royal Hussars
Purbeck
Bovington Camp: 2010.
Ramsey
Ramsey Division Army Cadet Force: 2 September 2018.
Ramsgate
The Royal Hampshire Regiment: 1959.
Reading
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment: 1960.
The Rifles: 8 May 2016.
Redbridge
3rd Battalion (16th/44th Foot) Royal Anglian Regiment: 18 May 1965.
45th (Essex) Signal Regiment (TA): 18 May 1965.
36 (Eastern) Signal Regiment: 1967.
Redcar and Cleveland
The Yorkshire Regiment: 2008.
Redditch
The Mercian Regiment: 20 May 2009.
37 Signal Regiment: 28 June 2014.
Ribble Valley
The 14th/20th King’s Hussars: 24 August 1992.
The King’s Royal Hussars: 2 December 1992.
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: 10 March 2011.
Richmond
The Yorkshire Regiment
The Royal Corps of Signals
HMS Richmond, Royal Navy
The RAF Regiment
150 Provost Company Royal Military Police: 22 April 2006.
1 Close Support Battalion Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers in 2012.
The Royal British Legion in 2013.
Richmond upon Thames
HMS Richmond, RN: 2002
The Royal Military School of Music: 2007
The Poppy Factory: 12 December 2018.
Ripon
The Royal Engineers: 27 July 1949.
RAF Leeming: 14 September 2015.[
Rochdale
The Lancashire Fusiliers: 5 June 1947.
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers: 24 August 1977.
HMS Middleton, RN: 20 May 1992.
Romsey
The Royal Hampshire Regiment: 26 September 1959.
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment inherited the Freedom from the Royal Hampshire Regiment as a result of the 1992 Options for Change merger with the Queen’s Regiment.
Rossendale
Queen’s Lancashire Regiment: June 2004.
Ross-on-Wye
The Rifles: 13 July 2013.
Rotherham
The Yorkshire Regiment: 3 August 2009.
Royal Wootton Bassett
8 Training Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: 6 July 2017.
Runnymede
94 Signal Squadron Berkshire Yeomanry: 25 July 2009.
Rushcliffe
RAF Newton: 1984
Rushmoor, Hampshire
The Royal Hampshire Regiment: 20 May 1981.
The Royal Military Police: 22 March 1984.
The Royal Army Physical Training Corps: 17 September 2011.
The Royal Gurkha Rifles: 30 July 2015
Salford
The Lancashire Fusiliers: 18 October 1947.
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers: 26 April 1975.
Salisbury
The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry: 1944.
Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment: October 2004.
The Rifles: 20 November 2010.
32nd Regiment, Royal Artillery: 7 July 2016.
The Royal Military Police: 13 June 2018.
Sandbach
The Mercian Regiment: 29 June 2014
Sandhurst
The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst: 1997.[519]
Sandwell
The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment – Oldbury
210 (Staffordshire) Battery, Royal Artillery (Volunteers) – West Bromwich
237 Transport Squadron, The Royal Army Logistics Corps (Volunteer) – West Bromwich
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers – Rowley Regis and Smethwick
3rd Battalion of The Mercian Regiment – Sandwell
116 Provost Company Royal Military Police TA (West Bromwich) – Sandwell: 9 January 2007.
4 Regiment Royal Military Police: 9 January 2007.
Scarborough
64 Medical Squadron 5 Medical Regiment: 2007.
3 Medical Regiment: May 2015.
The Yorkshire Regiment
Scunthorpe
HMS Ariadne, RN: 1984.
Sefton
238 (Sefton) Squadron 156 Regiment Royal Corps of Transport: 6 March 1982.
238 (Sefton) Squadron 156 (North-West) Transport Regiment Royal Logistic Corps (Volunteers): 13 April 2002.
RAF Woodvale: 3 July 2011.
HMS Mersey, RN: 17 November 2016.
The Royal Military Police: 19 January 2017.
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: 20 June 2017.
Shaftesbury
The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment: 1998.
The Rifles: 5 September 2009.
Sheffield
The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment: 13 April 2002.
106 Field Squadron Royal Engineers: 2002.
Shoreham
HMS Shoreham, RN: 17 February 2011.
Shrewsbury
HMS Talent, RN: 7 June 2002.
1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards: 10 December 2014.
The Rifles: 9 September 2016.
Skipton
The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment: 4 May 1991.[
Snaith and Cowick
51 Squadron, RAF: 13 May 2013
Southampton
The Royal Hampshire Regiment: 25 April 1946.
17 Port and Maritime Regiment, RLC: 26 January 2000.
HMS Southampton, RN: 26 January 2000.
Southend-on-Sea
1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment: 17 June 2010.
South Derbyshire
1211 (Swadlincote) Squadron Air Training Corps: 2 November 2017.
South Ribble
The King’s Royal Hussars: 1992.
South Tyneside
HMS Euryalus, RN: 1981.
205 (3rd Durham Volunteer Artillery) Battery Royal Artillery: 2007.
South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade: 11 May 2017.
Southwark
256 (City of London) Field Hospital (Volunteers): 30 June 2013.
The Royal Marines Reserve (City of London): 30 June 2013.
D Company The London Regiment: 30 June 2013.
2nd Battalion The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment.
Spenborough
The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment: 24 February 1959.
Stafford
RAF Stafford: 16 December 1954.
22 Signal Regiment: 19 April 2008.
Tactical Supply Wing RAF: 19 April 2008.
3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment.
HMS Collingwood, RN.
Staffordshire Police.
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service.
Stamford
RAF Wittering: 1 July 1961.
St Albans
HMS St Albans, RN: 18 June 2004.
201 (Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Parachute Battery RA (V): 8 July 2012.
St Edmundsbury, East Anglia
RAF Honington: 1972.
United States 3rd Air Force: June 2004.
677 Squadron Army Air Corps (Volunteers): 12 December 2006.
3 Regiment Army Air Corps (Wattisham): 22 June 2010.
HMS Vengeance, RN: 18 May 2017.
St Edmund Unit Sea Cadet Corps: 18 May 2017.
St Helens
The Royal Military Police Association (Merseyside Branch): 29 February 2012.
St Ives, Cambridgeshire
42 Engineer Regiment, RE: 3 July 2018.
St Neots
The Royal Anglian Regiment: 5 July 2014.
423d Air Base Group, USAF: 5 July 2014.
2500 (St Neots) Squadron Royal Air Force Air Cadets: 19 October 2017.
Stockport
The Cheshire Regiment: 1969.
1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment: 11 November 2010.
Stockton-on-Tees
1 Close Support Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
The Rifles.
The Yorkshire Regiment.
Stoke-on-Trent
The Queen’s Royal Lancers: 4 December 2013.
Stowmarket
Wattisham Airfield: 26 March 2010.
Sunderland
463 (mixed) Heavy Anti – Aircraft Regiment: 10 October 1951.
The Durham Light Infantry: 10 October 1951.
582 Light Anti – Aircraft Searchlight Regiment: 10 October 1951.
4th Regiment Royal Artillery: 19 December 1973.
251 (Sunderland) Field Ambulance RAMC (V): 24 April 1985.
HMS Arrow, RN: 14 October 1989.
HMS Ocean, RN: 26 July 2004.
3rd Battalion The Rifles: 10 September 2010.
Surrey Heath
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst: 20 January 2014.
Swindon
The Wiltshire Regiment: 1960.
RAF Lyneham: May 1964.
The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry: 2002.
The Rifles: 9 April 2016.
Tameside
The King’s Regiment: 22 October 1994.
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: 17 April 2007.
The Mercian Regiment: 21 May 2013.
Tamworth
Tamworth and Wilnecote Unit St. John Ambulance: 25 September 2015.
Royal British Legion: 2014.
Royal Naval Association: 2014.
Mercian Regimental Association: 2014.
Royal Air Force Association: 2014.
The Mercian Regiment.
The Defence Medical Services.
RFA Fort Rosalie, Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Taunton Deane
The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry: 30 September 1961. (Borough of Taunton)
10 Commando, RM: 2003.
The Light Infantry
Telford and Wrekin
The Rifles: 29 May 2010.
Test Valley
22 Engineer Regiment, RE: 28 April 1982.
The Royal Hampshire Regiment: 25 June 1986.
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment: 9 September 1992.
The Army Air Corps: 25 September 1987.
School of Army Aviation: 25 September 1987.
Tewkesbury
Central Vehicle Depot Ashchurch RAOC: 5 June 1971.
The Gloucestershire Regiment: 30 March 1974.
RAF Innsworth: 28 April 1977.
The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment: 15 February 2000.
Allied Rapid Reaction Corps: 17 September 2012.
Allied Rapid Reaction Corps Support Battalion: 17 September 2012.
Thatcham
The Royal School of Military Survey: 20 July 2011.
Thetford
RAF Honington: 9 June 2019.
Thurrock
The Burma Star Association (Thurrock Branch): 26 November 2008.
Tiverton
HMS Hermes, RN.
HMS Enterprise, RN.
Tonbridge and Malling
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment.
29 Squadron, RAF.
Torbay
HMS Torbay: 20 May 2015.
RAF Brize Norton: 21 June 2018.
Torpoint
HMS Raleigh, RN: 1997.
Tower Hamlets
114 (1st London) Army Engineer Regiment (TA): 27 April 1961.
Trowbridge
14th Regiment Royal Artillery: 28 June 2014.
Truro
The Rifles: 1 June 2009.
Tunbridge Wells
HMS Brilliant, RN: 20 November 1982.
579 Field Squadron (EOD)(V): 18 October 2008.
Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment: 15 July 2013.
Ulverston
2223 (Ulverston) Squadron Air Training Corps: 18 April 2015.
Uppingham
2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment: 3 May 2016.
Uttlesford
33 Engineer Regiment, RE: 2009.
101 Engineer Regiment, RE: 14 October 2011.
Uxbridge
RAF Uxbridge: 18 March 1960.
Vale Royal
The Cheshire Regiment: 1988.[
Vale of White Horse
3 Regiment RLC: 11 May 2016.
4 Regiment RLC: 11 May 2016.
The Rifles: 11 May 2016.
Wakefield
The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry: 1945.
The Yorkshire Regiment: 13 March 2010.
The Rifles: 11 September 2010.
Wallingford
RAF Benson: 1957.
Walsall
The South Staffordshire Regiment: 1946.
The Staffordshire Regiment: 1959.
The Mercian Regiment: 2007.
Waltham Forest
68 (ICCY) Signal Squadron: 1998.
Wandsworth
The London Regiment: 1992.
2nd Battalion Royal Tank Regiment: 2011.
The Royal Marines Reserve: 30 January 2017.
Wanstead and Woodford
45th (Essex) Signal Regiment (Volunteers): 1963.
Wantage
Scots Guards: 2 August 2010.
HMS Queen Elizabeth, RN: 14 October 2019.
Freedoms within Vale of White Horse and Oxfordshire apply to Wantage
Warminster
3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment: 21 September 2012.
Warrington
South Lancashire Regiment: 17 September 1947.
The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment: 25 March 1970.
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: 1 July 2006.
75 Engineer Regiment: 20 May 2013.
Warwick
MoD Kineton: 4 April 2013.
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers: 26 November 2013.
Warwickshire
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers: 28 March 2014.
Watford
1st East Anglian Regiment: 1959.
Royal Anglian Regiment: 1964.
Waverley
2nd Battalion The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment: 15 June 2011.
Wells
The Somerset Light Infantry: 6 April 1956.
HMS Somerset, RN.
The Rifles.
Wem
RAF Shawbury: 1 August 2018.
West Lancashire
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: 22 October 2011.
City of Westminster
HMS Westminster, RN: 11 December 2005.
Weston-super-Mare
40 Commando, RM: 21 June 2014.
Weymouth and Portland
HMS Portland, RN: 2009.
Weymouth Unit Sea Cadet Corps: 23 January 2017.
Whitehaven
Whitehaven Unit Sea Cadet Corps: 27 June 2010.
Whitehaven Detachment Army Cadet Force: 27 June 2010.
1030 (Whitehaven) Squadron Air Training Corps: 27 June 2010.
1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: 20 May 2013.
Wigan
D Squadron (TA Reserve) Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry: 27 February 2008
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment: 2 December 2019.
Wimborne Minster
The Rifles: 2010.
Wincanton
1st Regiment Army Air Corps: 26 May 2016.
Winchester
The Royal Army Pay Corps: 1970.
The Adjutant General’s Corps: 1996.
Winchester Army Training Regiment: 17 April 2004.
The Royal Hampshire Regiment: 15 September 1945.
The Kings Royal Hussars 1946
The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own): 1946.
The Royal Green Jackets: 1 January 1966.
The Rifles: 1 February 2007.
Windsor and Maidenheadhe Royal Berkshire Regiment: 1959
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment: 1960
The Household Cavalry: 1965
The Brigade of Guards: 1968
The Berkshire Yeomanry: 1993
The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment: 1999
The Rifles: 2006
Wirral
The Cheshire Regiment: 1996.
The Royal Marines: 1998.
1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment: 2009.
234 (Wirral) Transport Squadron, RLC (Volunteers): 18 February 2012.
107 (Lancashire and Cheshire) Field Squadron (Volunteers): 18 February 2012.
HMS Astute, RN: 6 July 2015.
Wallasey Sea Cadet Corps: 6 July 2015.
Woking
The Army training centre Pirbright December 2016
Wokingham
The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: 21 October 1978.
Wolverhampton
Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering, DCAE Cosford
The Staffordshire Regiment
210 (Staffordshire) Battery 106th (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery
West Midlands Fire Service
HMS Forward RMR.
Woodbridge
23 Parachute Engineer Regiment: 2011.
The Royal Air Force: 11 June 2016.
The Royal British Legion (Woodbridge Branch): 11 June 2016.
Wood Green
7th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment: 20 September 1945.
Woolwich
The Royal Artillery: 28 March 1954.
Worcester
The Worcestershire Regiment: 15 April 1950.
The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment: 1970.
The Mercian Regiment: 1 September 2007.
The Queen’s Royal Hussars: 2014.
Worthing
H (Worthing Company) 2nd Volunteer Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment: 1901.
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment: 4 July 1949.
Wychavon
The Mercian Regiment: 29 March 2011.
Wycombe
RAF High Wycombe: April 2011.
Yeovil
RNAS Yeovilton: 1962
York
The Royal Dragoon Guards: 24 April 1999.
2 Signals Regiment: January 2001.
A Squadron The Queen’s Own Yeomanry: 3 December 2009.
RAF Linton on Ouse: 19 September 2010.
The Queen’s Gurkha Signals: 8 September 2015.
Scotland
Aberdeen
4th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland: 1 July 2006.
Angus
45 Commando, RM: 2003.
The Black Watch Regiment: 2006.
Dumfries
The King’s Own Scottish Borderers: 1953.
Dundee
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment): 1954.
East Lothian
1st Battalion The Royal Scots Borderers: 2012.
E Squadron The Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry: 6 July 2019.
Edinburgh
The Rifles: 5 November 2012.
603 Squadron RAF: 3 July 2018
Glasgow
The Highland Light Infantry
Royal Marines: 1 November 2014
Highlands
The Royal Regiment of Scotland: 15 October 2015.
Inverness
The Queen’s Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons): 1961.
Kirkcaldy
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) : March 1996.
Perth
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment): 19 July 1947.
The Royal British Legion (Scotland): 8 May 2004.
51st Highland Volunteers The Royal Regiment of Scotland: 8 May 2010.
South Ayrshire
A Squadron Queen’s Own Yeomanry
HMS Gannet, RN: 17 July 2009.
RAF Prestwick: 17 July 2009.
Stirling
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders: 1947.
43 Squadron RAF: 2005.
The Royal Regiment of Scotland: 10 March 2012.
Sutherland
HMS Sutherland, RN: March 2011.
Wales
Aberconwy
The Royal Welch Fusiliers: 2 September 1989.
Aberystwyth
The Welsh Guards: 1955.
Anglesey
RAF Valley: 1974.
The Royal Welsh: 8 December 2011.
The Royal Naval Submarine Service: 28 May 2019.
Arfon
The Royal Welch Fusiliers 5 November 1975.
Bangor
The Royal Welsh: 23 July 2011.
Barry
RAF St Athan: 1959.
Blackwood
1st Battalion The Royal Welsh: 25 September 2010.
Blaenau Gwent
The Royal Welsh: 19 February 2011.
Brecon
The South Wales Borderers: 11 June 1948.
Gurkha Demonstration Company The Brigade of Gurkhas: 21 November 1985. 7
The Small Arms School Corps: 20 April 2017.
Bridgend
The Royal Welsh: 30 August 2008.
The Welsh Guards: 11 May 2011.
Caernarfon
The Royal Welch Fusiliers: 1946.
The Royal Welsh: 25 April 2009.
Caerphilly
The Royal Welsh: 26 September 2010.
Cardiff
The Welch Regiment: 10 June 1944.
The Welsh Guards: 7 April 1957.
The Royal Regiment of Wales: 11 June 1969.
The Royal Welch Fusiliers: 7 November 1973.
The 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards: 29 July 1985.
HMS Cardiff, RN: 3 February 1988.
203 (Welsh) Field Hospital 2nd Medical Brigade: 21 April. 2014
HMS Dragon, RN: 18 May 2014.
Carmarthen
The Welch Regiment: 1945.
The Royal Regiment of Wales: 1969.
The Royal Welch Fusiliers: 8 July 1998.
Carmarthenshire
2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh: 2008.
Ceredigion
2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh: 25 April 2009.
The Welsh Guards: 24 June 2020.
Chepstow
1st Battalion The Rifles; 17 November 2011.
Clwyd
The Royal Air Force.
Conwy
The Royal Welch Fusiliers: 19 April 1958.
1st Battalion The Royal Welsh: 20 September 2010.
Cowbridge with Llanblethian
RAF St Athan.
Delyn
The Royal Welch Fusiliers: 24 April 1976.
Denbighshire
1st Battalion The Royal Welsh: 13 June 2011.
Flint
384th Anti-tank Regiment Royal Artillery: 1947.
Flintshire
The Royal Welsh: 24 April 2009.
Haverfordwest
HMS Goldcrest: 1964.
14 Signal Regiment: 4 March 2009.
Llandudno
RAF Valley: September 1995.
Llandudno Lifeboat Station, RNLI: January 2002.
203 (Welsh) Field Hospital (Volunteers) RAMC: 19 September 2009.
Merthyr Tydfil
The Royal Welch Fusiliers: 15 April 1994.
Monmouth
The Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers: 1953.
HMS Monmouth, RN: 18 January 2004.
Monmouthshire
The Royal Welsh: 4 March 2011.
Neath Port Talbot
The Royal Regiment of Wales: July 1993.
The Royal Welsh: 2006.
Newport
The 104th Regiment Royal Artillery (TA): 1978.
The Royal Welch Fusiliers: 15 September 2001.
HMS Severn, RN: 19 June 2006.
Pembroke
HMS Pembroke, RN: 15 September 2006.
1st Battalion The Royal Welsh: 15 September 2018.
Pembroke Dock
HMS Pembroke, RN: 15 September 2006.
Pencoed
2426 (Pencoed) Squadron Air Training Corps: 4 December 2014.
Powys
The Welsh Guards: 2011.
Prestatyn
119 (Holywell) Recovery Company (V) Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: 12 September 1992.
Rhondda Cynon Taf
The Royal Welsh: 2010.
The Welsh Guards: 15 May 2013.
MOD St Athan: 2 June 2018.
St Davids
245 Signal Squadron 14 Signal Regiment: 12 May 1997.
948 (Haverfordwest and St Davids) Squadron Air Training Corps: 2 May 2020.
Swansea
The Welsh Guards: 15 September 1948.
The Welch Regiment: 17 February 1960.
The Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers: 15 April 1978.
The Royal Regiment of Wales: 20 February 1981.
HMS Arethusa, RN: 27 June 1981.
Her Majesty’s Coastguard (Swansea Station): 8 December 1982.
The Mumbles Lifeboat Station, RNLI: 23 April 1987.
The Royal Welch Fusiliers: 1 March 1994.
HMS Scott, RN: 15 September 2006.
The Royal Welsh: 13 September 2008.
1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards: 2009.
215 (City of Swansea) Squadron, Air Training Corps: 12 March 2016.
HMS Cambria, RNR: 17 March 2018.
157 (Welsh) Regiment, RLC: 27 July 2019.
Tenby
HMS Tenby, RN
Torfaen
Royal Welsh: 5 June 2010.
Vale of Glamorgan
RAF St Athan: 18 May 1974.
The Merchant Navy Association: 16 April 2005.
The Welsh Guards: 16 March 2006.
The Royal Welsh: 21 February 2009.
203 (Welsh) Field Hospital (Volunteers) RAMC: 17 April 2010.
HMS Cambria, RN: 31 March 2012.
Wrexham
Royal Welch Fusiliers: 5 June 1946.
101 Force Support Battalion, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: 5 April 2013.
The Welsh Guards: 18 July 2014.
Wrexham Maelor
The Royal Welch Fusiliers: 17 September 1983.
Northern Ireland
Bangor
The Police Service of Northern Ireland: 25 March 2012.
Belfast
The Royal Ulster Rifles: 6 February 1954.
The Royal Sussex Regiment: 1961.
Castlereagh
The Ulster Defence Regiment: 1984.
The Ulster Special Constabulary Association: 1992.
The Regimental Association of the Ulster Defence Regiment: 1994.
The Royal Irish Regiment: 1995.
The Royal British Legion: 1996.
The 204 (North Irish) Field Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers): 1998.
The Royal Ulster Constabulary GC: 2000.
The Northern Ireland Prison Service: 2004.
The 152 (North Irish) Regiment RLC (Volunteers): 25 May 2013.
The 152 Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Workshops: 25 May 2013.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland: December 2014.
Causeway Coast and Glens
152 (Ulster) Transport Regiment, RLC: 25 October 2008.
206 (Ulster) Battery, Royal Artillery (Volunteers): 2015.
The Royal Air Force: 31 May
Coleraine
The Ulster Defence Regiment: 28 March 1981.
206 (Ulster) Battery, Royal Artillery (Volunteers): 1992.
Larne
The Royal Irish Regiment: 1 November 2008.
Lisburn
The Royal Irish Regiment: May 2011
Mid and East Antrim
B Squadron Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry: 31 January 2016.
Zimbabwe
Bulawayo
3 March 1989: Bulawayo District Zimbabwe National Army.
3 March 1989: 1 Brigade Zimbabwe National Army.
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