AN Army regiment will be awarded the Freedom of the New Forest District on Sunday next week.
New Forest District Council will officially make the award to 17 Port and Maritime Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps, in Lyndhurst on Sunday, September 25.
More than 200 personnel from the Marchwood-based regiment and band will parade through the town, starting at the Beaulieu Road junction with Lyndhurst High Street, passing up the High Street to the Forestry Commission’s Queen’s House and back down again.
The parade is expected to reach the High Street at around 2.30pm.
Roads will be closed between 2.20pm and 3.30pm, including the A35 Southampton Road, the B3056 Beaulieu Road, the High Street car park and the A337 at several junctions.
The Freedom of the District will confer upon the regiment "the honour and distinction of marching through the streets of the New Forest District on all ceremonial occasions with swords drawn, bayonets fixed and drums beating, bands playing and colours flying".
For more information visit newforest.gov.uk/freedom
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