Dates for the Diary: June 2024

By Jane Harrad-Roberts • Cheshire Regiment News, Mercian Regiment News, Mu • Dates for the Diary: June 2024 • May 11, 2024

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June will be a busy month for Cheshire Military Museum, for serving personnel and for Cheshire.


- It is the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings on June 6 when the Cheshire Regiment fought on Gold Beach.
-There will be reservist exercises in Germany from June 7-24.
-Armed Forces Day at Chester Town Hall is on June 26
-Armed Forces Weekend is June 29-30.

The photo shows B Company of the Cheshire Regiment with a Vickers Machine gun on 14 June 1944 in the fields of France.