Post by Tim Purbrick
Military Cultural Property Protection
77th Brigade Reconstitution dinner Images: 1 Alastair Aitken, former Commander 77th Brigade, with Lt Gen Zac Stenning, Commander Land Forces 2 Maj Nick Champion 3 The General speaks 4 The dinner card 5 2015-2026 for this iteration of the Brigade 6 Badges of the Brigade - note, lower right, the #Blue Shield of the #1954HagueConvention worn as a Formation Recognition Flash by the British Army’s #CulturalPropertyProtectionUnit (#CPPU); the badge of the CPPU is the Crowned #Medusa head (from the Garde républicaine) enclosed by a circlet with the words #RespectAndProtect from #Eisenhower’s Directives of 1943 and 1944 and the 1954 Hague Convention; lower left, badge of the Media Operations Group (Volunteers); middle left, the stag badge of 15th Psyops Group; at top, the Chinthe of 77th Brigade