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Royal Marine Cadet`s Memorial.

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MartinR:
The red lights were written into the Scout Handbook by 1970, and were also in Air Cadet instructions.  Today Highway Code rule 5 (organised walks) requires red lights at the back and white lights at the front.

stuartwaters:

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Oops, my mistake......

grandarog:
As an after math of the tragedy it was Made Forces Law that the  Rear Guard and Marker of any body of Marching Men should carry Red Lanterns.

MartinR:
Put "dock road cadets" into your favorite search engine and you will get many results.  Among them:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillingham_bus_disaster probably the best write-up.
* https://volunteercadetcorps.org/royalmarinescadets/history/chatham/ the Cadet Force's own page, which includes the Movitone film of the funeral.
* https://www.historicmedway.co.uk/localdisasters/gillingham_bus_disaster.htm which also includes quotations and photographs of the graves.
* Volunteer Cadet Corps (Royal Marines) official tribute.  Includes additional contemporary footage.

stuartwaters:
It was on the old Forum. They were marching from Melville Barracks towards the Dockyard, in dense fog when they were hit by the bus.


The site of the former Melville Barracks is now occupied by the Melville Court Estate.


The dead are buried in the Military Cemetery on Woodlands Road, Gillingham in a plot maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission I believe. There was also a scandal around the fate of money donated for the families. All was detailed on the original Forum.

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