Two BDF Pioneers Join Lancashire Cricket Foundation
BDF Media Release| 10 May 19
Photography credit: Lieutenant S Gollop
Headquarters Barbados Defence Force is extremely pleased to recognize the achievements of Pioneers Damario Goodman and Vataly Wilkinson, cricketers of the BDF Sports Programme.
Goodman a Left-arm spinner and Wilkinson an all–rounder, will be embarking on a four-month cricketing attachment with the Lancashire Cricket Foundation (LCF). This attachment is a continuation of the Barbados Cricket Association’s partnership with the LCF.
Both players credit the Barbados Defence Force, its Sports Programme and the Barbados Cricket Association for the disciplined instilled in them, the commitment to the development of their skills and the unwavering support to ensure possible international opportunities were fully explored.
The BDF Sports Programme aims to develop a unique body of highly trained athletes in various sports, capable of representing Barbados at the highest levels of competition and also rounded in their social, educational and moral development.
Highlights
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.
