BDF All Arms Advanced Drill and Ceremonial Course 2018
BDF Media Release | 04 SEPT 18
Photography credit: Lt S Gollop
The Barbados Defence Force is conducting an All Arms Advanced Drill and Ceremonial Course 1/2018 during the period Monday 3 September to Friday 5 October 2018 at HMBS PELICAN, Spring Garden. The aim of the Course is to teach students how to deliver technical knowledge of Drill to their respective organisations.
Students on the Course are drawn from the Barbados Regiment (6), the Barbados Coast Guard (4), the Royal Barbados Police Force (5), Her Majesty’s Prisons Service (5), the Jamaica Defence Force (2) and from the Regional Security System Member States (Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force (2), Royal Grenada Police Force (2), Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force (2) and the Royal St Lucia Police Force (2)).
Course Coordinator Master Chief Petty Officer Class 1 David Knight noted that the Course will be physically demanding, provides students with improved standards of Drill, enhances prospects for promotion and develops each student’s ability to plan and execute a ceremonial parade.
All Arms Drill and Ceremonial Course participants.
Commodore (Cdre) Errington Ricardo Shurland was appointed Chief of Staff of the Barbados Defence Force (BDF) on 1 September 2021. He enlisted in the BDF in February 1984 and in a military career spanning over 34 years, has served in various operational and administrative appointments.
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.
