The Royal Artillery Officers’ Association and The Lancashire Artillery Volunteers [103 Regiment RA] held their traditional annual St Barbara’s Dinner at the Brigadier Philip Toosey Army Reserve Centre, Aigburth, Liverpool.

Principal guests included Brigadier Jez Bennett, Commander 1st Artillery Brigade, who proposed the traditional toast ‘St Barbara and the Royal Regiment’, Dame Lorna Muirhead, HM Lord-Lieutenant of Merseyside, and Brigadier Chris Coles, Commander 42 (North West) Brigade. St Barbara is the Patron Saint of the Royal Artillery.