BDF All ARMS ADVANCED
DRILL AND CEREMONIAL
COURSE 1/18 GRADUATION
BDF Media Release| 05 AUG 18
Photography credit: Lcpl Bellamy C
The BDF All Arms Advanced Drill and Ceremonial Course 1/18 culminated with a Parade and Sunset Ceremony, at St Ann’s Fort the Garrison, in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bridgetown and its Historic Garrison, on Friday 5 October 2018.
Participants were from: the Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force, the Barbados Defence Force, the Royal Barbados Police Force, the Barbados Prison Service, the Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force, the Royal Grenada Police Force, the Jamaica Defence Force and the Royal St Lucia Police Force.
The Chief of Staff Barbados Defence Force, Colonel Glyne Grannum, was the parade’s Reviewing Officer. In his feature remarks, he reminded the successful students of the inseparability of drill, leadership and teamwork. This he argues was necessary because, “Our careers in the protective services require us to go into inconvenient, uncomfortable and at times dangerous spaces and places for the betterment of those we serve and protect. As the security environment continues to evolve those there will be ample time, space and places where we will be called into action. The opportunity you all now have, is that as a Drill Course Graduate and leader, we must always see and identify the circumstances to apply your knowledge (directly or indirectly) to make a difference through leadership.”
All Arms Advanced Drill and Ceremonial Course participants on Parade
Commodore (Cdre) Errington Shurland enlisted in the Barbados Defence Force in February 1984.
Colonel Glyne Grannum joined the Barbados Defence Force (BDF) on 18 October 1985 and underwent career development training at the Canadian Forces Officer Candidate School, Chilliwack and the Combat Training Centre, Gagetown New Brunswick, Canada. He subsequently attended the Infantry Training Centre and the Signal Wing in Warminster, UK (PCBC and RSO Courses respectively), the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy; the Lester Pearson Canadian Peacekeeping Centre, the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College, Kingston, the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College, Toronto, the National Defence University of the People’s Liberation Army People’s Republic of China and the Centre for Hemispheric Defence Studies, National Defence University, Washington. He also attended a Defence Resources Management programme at National Defence Headquarters, Ottawa, Canada. In addition to being a qualified infantry officer, Col Grannum is a qualified Regimental Signals Officer and a former Operations Officer and Finance Officer of the BDF.
Colonel Banfield joined the Barbados Battalion of the South Caribbean Force in 1941 having just left the Cadet Corps at Combermere School, and was granted a commission as a Second Lieutenant in 1942. He was a Platoon Commander and a Company Commander during the war and served in Barbados, Dominica (as part of the Gale Force), St Lucia and St Vincent.
Warrant Officer Class 1 Colin Marshall is a graduate of the St Michael, and was born on the 5 November 1969 and enlisted in the Barbados Defence Force on 16 August 1994. He was promoted to the rank of Lance Corporal in August 1997, Corporal in 1999, Sergeant in 2007, Color Sergeant in 2014, Warrant Officer Class Two in 2017 and Warrant Officer Class One in 2020. He was Most Outstanding Student on Junior Leadership Course in 1998, the Most Outstanding Student on Junior Non Commissioned Officer Cadre in Jamaica in 2000, best at Leadership on the Search Adviser Course in Jamaica in 2007 and the Most Outstanding Student on the Warrant Officer Course in Jamaica in 2015.
