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King Charles III Presents New Standards and Colour to the Life Guards
It was a great pleasure and privilege to attend the Sovereigns standard parade, yesterday and to witness the presentation of new regimental standar...

Supporting James Hewitt's Ukraine Aid Campaign in 2023
Here's a link to James Hewitt's blog relating to his excellent efforts as part of the team delivering aid to Ukraine.. www.fatchimp.co.uk sent 7 bo...

Happy Yorkshire type... :)
Thanks to Franc for sending in a pic of him with his new embroidered Yorkshire regiment. A fine regiment i'm sure, made up of some impressive histo...

How cap badges will change with new monarch King Charles III
King Charles III's new cypher has been revealed and over the coming years and months, it will gradually appear on Government buildings, state docu...

BATTLE OF BRITAIN TEE - As Modelled by Ian of The Red Lion. :)
A big shout out to Ian from the friendly top class Red Lion in Mawdesley for sending in this pic!
Ian has 'rightly so' a bit of a thing for spitfi...

Blues & Royals Veteran reunited with his Chieftain Tank
Well not quite, but thanks Geoff for sending in your pics of you and your new chieftain tee! Many thanks pal! Check out the Chieftain range at HERE...

British Army Ops Shooting Competition - Supply of Plaques
Fatchimp where asked to provide various bespoke plaque presentations recently for the Army Ops Shooting competition, Army 100. Well done to the win...

Hyde Park Bombing - Donate to Assist New Documentary
Gents, Ladies, Friends and followers, The Household Cavalry Museum and an ex-LG (Mau Gris) are trying to create a proper film documenting the exper...

Fat Chimp Summer Charity Challenge 2022
A small team from Fat Chimp will be hiking the full length of Hadrian's wall some 84 miles in 4 days in summer 2022. £18K was raised in total by t...

Veteran 5000 Mile Run in Aid of Head Up Charity Initiative
A big shout out and respect for Paul Minter who is currently running 5000 miles around the UK Coastline in aid of his Head Up Charity and to creat...

ARMY v NAVY RUGBY KIT 2022 - Twickenham
After a 2 year absence the annual rugby match between the Royal Navy and The British army is back on at Twickenham in April 2022.
The fixture date...

Rolling Thunder 3 OP STRIKE BACK
Well done to all the veterans and friends who attended the August 28th OP Strike Back in London in protest at the persecution of Northern Ireland V...