Girls' Brigade


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Girls' Brigade

n
(Other Non-sporting Hobbies) (in Britain) an organization for girls, founded in 1893, with the aim of promoting self-discipline and self-respect
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She was honoured at the company's annual inspection with a special poem highlighting her many contributions to the company and the Girls' Brigade across the decades, and was presented with flowers and a gift.
Girls' Brigade on parade The 2nd Stirling Company Girls'Brigade had their parents evening at St Ninians Old Parish Church Hall in April, 1979.
Now 15-year-old duo Mairi Pratt, a Girl Guide, and Jackie Allison, of the Girls' Brigade, marched out with the lads.
Charity nomination The 1st Shotts Girls' Brigade Company is in the running for this year's Asda Foundation's Green Token giving award.
| May, 1954: Bass drum player Lily Mullany concentrates hard as she beats time for the 2nd Battalion of the Girls' Brigade.
His children fondly remember sitting on the back of the cart and eating raw peas - and later sitting in Arthur's 11-seat van with their baseball team, hockey team, Girls' Brigade members, and anyone else he could fit in.
| Diana Seeney, 76 of Kingswinford, gets an MBE after 67 years' service with the Girls' Brigade. She has founded groups, supported the Smile International development charity and enabled hundreds of Girls' Brigade members to visit the Smile Centre in Kosova, Eastern Europe.
This year we celebrate our 110th anniversary making us the third oldest Girls' Brigade in the world, something we are very proud of.
Anne Goodlet, my former Girls' Brigade leader, has been mentioned in this column a few times over the years.
Representatives from 20 contingents, including the 250 Gurkha Signal Squadron (30th Signal Regiment), Royal British Legion, ex-service organisations, the Territorial Army, Girls' Brigade and Boys' Brigade, will gather on Sunday before marching on parade to the War Memorial gates in Hillmorton Road.
Six members and one officer of the Boys' Brigade and two members of the Girls' Brigade from Teesside were chosen to represent the north of England by selling official programmes at the wedding at Westminster Abbey in July 1986.
A TEENAGE girl was hospitalised and six others rescued after a group of Girls' Brigade members were trapped on a mountain.