{"id":21427,"date":"2023-06-14T12:11:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T11:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=21427"},"modified":"2023-06-14T12:12:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T11:12:56","slug":"armed-forces-day-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2023\/06\/armed-forces-day-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Forces Day 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The\u00a0hugely popular Armed Forces Day will take\u00a0place\u00a0in Larne on Saturday\u00a017 June 2023 at Sandy Bay Playing Fields, from 10am.<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Every year the event is held in the United Kingdom to celebrate the service of personnel in the British Armed forces both past and present.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21431\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Artboard-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/>The action packed day will kick off with a parade to the venue and a drumhead service. The day will be filled with something for the whole family, including;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interactive &amp; static military displays<\/li>\n<li>Performance from Band of the Royal Irish Regiment<\/li>\n<li>Military village<\/li>\n<li>21 Royal\u00a0Gun Salute for the King\u2019s official birthday fired by 206 (Ulster) Battery RA<\/li>\n<li>Live music from the Music Yard, Swingtime Starlets and The Gold Tips<\/li>\n<li>Army Parachute display by Silver Stars RLC<\/li>\n<li>RAF Display team featuring BBMF Lancaster<\/li>\n<li>AAC Gazelle helicopter\u00a0(static display)<\/li>\n<li>RAFP Military Working Dogs display<\/li>\n<li>Children\u2019s entertainment<\/li>\n<li>Ulster Aviation Society static display<\/li>\n<li>STEM competition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The day will draw to a close with a Beating Retreat finale.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Please note; all stall and charity pitches have now been allocated<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For further information please go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.midandeastantrim.gov.uk\/things-to-do\/whats-on\/armed-forces-day-2023\">https:\/\/www.midandeastantrim.gov.uk\/things-to-do\/whats-on\/armed-forces-day-202<\/a>3<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0hugely popular Armed Forces Day will take\u00a0place\u00a0in Larne on Saturday\u00a017 June 2023 at Sandy Bay Playing Fields, from 10am. Every year the event is held in the United Kingdom to celebrate the service of personnel in the British Armed forces both past and present. The action packed day will kick off with a parade to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2023\/06\/armed-forces-day-2023\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21432,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427\/revisions\/21432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}