Business in Windsor - Salute to Coldstream Guards this Saturday

The Royal Borough is to welcome home more than 500 Windsor soldiers who have been serving in Afghanistan at a special parade to be held next week.

Troops from the 1st Battalion the Coldstream Guards, based at Victoria Barracks, will take part in a welcome home parade through the town on Saturday April 26.

Mayor of the Royal Borough, Cllr Leo Walters – who first called for a parade to welcome home soldiers serving in Afghanistan last autumn - will take the salute at the Guildhall as men and women from the Coldstream Guards march past from their barracks in Victoria Street.

The Mayor will be joined at the Guildhall by General Sir Michael Rose, Colonel of the regiment, as well as councillors, past mayors and freemen of the borough as the parade passes at about 11.30am.

Led by the band of the Coldstream Guards, the parade will leave the barracks from the Sergeant's Mess Gate in Victoria Street at 11.15am and follow a route along Victoria Street, Charles Street, Goswell Road, Barry Avenue, River Street, Thames Street and High Street, returning through the front gates of the barracks in Sheet Street.

The parade will take place after the usual guard change to minimise disruption to the town.

To accommodate this event there will be road closures along the route outlined above but they are not expected to last for long.

I hope you all will get a chance to come out and support the troops.

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