The Honourable John King Visits St Ann’s Fort
BDF Media Release | 02 JUL18
Photography credit: Lieutenant Shímar Gollop
Today, the Chief of Staff Colonel Glyne Grannum; Commanding Officer Barbados Regiment Major Wendy Yearwood, Building Rehabilitation Project Manager Major Lubin Maxwell and Mr Peter Stevens, Vice President of the Barbados Garrison Historical Consortium Incorporated and the President of the Barbados National Trust; welcomed the Minister of the Creative Economy, Culture and Sports, the Honourable John King to St Ann’s Fort, the Garrison.
The purpose of the visit was to get a first-hand view of the buildings and among other things, to be briefed on the UNESCO World Heritage site’s status and on the scope of restorative work required.
Minister King toured key areas on the base, such as the Officers’ Mess and the Iron Barracks. At the end of the tour he was presented with copies of 2 books authored by the Late Major John Michael Hartland; Great Guns of Barbados and A Concise and Illustrated Military History of Barbados.
Minister King enters Officers’ Mess via tunnel.
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.
