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Defence in the Media: 20 September 2016

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 20 September 2016 - Categories: Defence in the media
Pipes and Drums of 10 QOGLR perform for invited guests. Gurkha Welfare Trust has today received a donation of £300,000 from Defence Logistics VQ Trust at a special presentation held at St Omer Barracks in Aldershot. 10 Queen’s Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Reehal said “It is an extremely important day today; The Defence Logistics VQ Trust have been investing a significant amount of time and resources into giving young soldiers a vocational qualification. Today the trust is making a donation to Gurkha Welfare Trust, which will help those in Nepal. We as a Regiment are bringing together these two wonderful organisations to mark this very special occasion. This has given us the perfect opportunity for them to meet the many soldiers they have helped support over time.” The Defence Logistic Vocational Trust are a charitable organisation who provide education and vocational training to military personnel. They have worked with the Royal Logistic Corps for a number of years and have been responsible for hundreds of solders achieving civilian qualifications. Defence Logistic Vocational Trust CEO Mr Paul Downey “We are based in Yorkshire but we cover as a training facility the whole of the British Army throughout Germany, Northern Ireland and the UK mainland. We are an educational charity and we are in the process of winding the charity up after having delivered 20 years of service to the British military. In the process of winding up we have decided, with Charity Commission approval, to disperse the assets of the Trust which include property and monies and we are delighted that we are actually dispersing some £8 million to Service based charities and obviously one of those was the Gurkha Welfare Trust.” The Trust is the lead Gurkha charity that looks after Gurkha veterans in Nepal. The Trust represents their primary source of existence financially and the Trust is there to support them in all ways. They also support th

...air strikes in Syria. An MOD spokesperson said: We can confirm that the UK participated in the recent coalition air strike in Syria, south of Dayr az Zawr on Saturday,...

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Defence in the Media: 9 August 2016

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 9 August 2016 - Categories: Defence in the media

In the last 24 hours, the top defence news has included the latest RAF strike update announcing a number of strikes against a number of Daesh tankers in a Syrian...

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Defence in the media: 27 September 2015

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 27 September 2015 - Categories: Defence in the media

...who won the UK dog trials this summer. Nuclear submarine The Mail on Sunday speculates that a UK nuclear submarine has been caught on camera on Google Earth after it...

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