BDF hosts US SOUTHCOM Command Chaplain
BDF Media Release | 24 AUG 18
Photography credit: Lt S Gollop
BDF’s Senior Chaplain, Reverend Hugh Sandiford, recently hosted US SOUTHCOM Command Chaplain Colonel Greg Woodbury and his wife for brief presentations to the Barbados Defence Force. During his visit Colonel Woodbury engaged the other chaplains of the Force about the purpose and benefits of religion and faith to the Command of an Army, the impact of military spiritual counselling and the need to cater to all denominations of the Force.
Colonel Woodbury further indicated that Chaplains are the Force’s multipliers, the first resources for counselling and the blessing of the Force evolutions. He highlighted that the religious affairs of the Force are the command’s responsibility, as the chaplains are uniquely gifted and trained to be command’s advisors.
Colonel Woodbury implored the senior command to recognize the importance of the Chaplaincy in command decisions, counselling and being the Force’s intercessors.
CO BR (Ag) Major Wendy Yearwood and other senior BDF Officers during Col Woodbury’s presentation.
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.
