In Pictures
The Duchess of Gloucester meeting cadets at the Historic Dockyard Chatham on Armed Forces Day [Picture: POA(Phot) Amanda Reynolds, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester meeting a veteran from St Dunstan's Association on Armed Forces Day at the Historic Dockyard Chatham [Picture: POA(Phot) Amanda Reynolds, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester meeting Simon Weston, former Welsh Guard and veteran of the Falklands conflict, on Armed Forces Day at the Historic Dockyard Chatham [Picture: POA(Phot) Amanda Reynolds, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Veterans on parade for Armed Forces Day at the Historic Dockyard Chatham [Picture: POA(Phot) Mez Merrill, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Veterans and British Legion standard bearers attending the Armed Forces Day parade at the Historic Dockyard Chatham [Picture: POA(Phot) Mez Merrill, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force personnel on parade at at the Historic Dockyard Chatham on Armed Forces Day [Picture: POA(Phot) Mez Merrill, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
The Drumhead church service at the Historic Dockyard Chatham on Armed Forces Day [Picture: POA(Phot) Mez Merrill, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Lily Rose Tonkin, aged 11 from Chatham, blows a kiss to Private Luna of the Royal Logistic Corps [Picture: Sgt Andy Malthouse, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Charlie Weekes from Deal in Kent shares his ice lolly with Corporal Coleman of the Royal Marine Reserves (London) [Picture: Sgt Andy Malthouse, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
David Kidd, aged 6 from Chatham, gets a lift from two gunners from 2 Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment [Picture: Sgt Andy Malthouse, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
The parade of Armed Forces personnel arrives at Chatham Historic Dockyard [Picture: Sgt Andy Malthouse, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
The parade of Armed Forces personnel arrives at Chatham Historic Dockyard [Picture: Sgt Andy Malthouse, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Laura Ozbirn, aged 4 from Kent, supporting Armed Forces Day at the Historic Dockyard in Chatham [Picture: Cpl Rachel Malthouse, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Veteran vehicles at the Armed Forces Day Parade held in Kingswood, Bristol [Picture: Andrew Linnett, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Vice Admiral Andy Mathews, Chief of Materiel (Fleet), meets King's Own Scottish Borderers veteran John MacDonald at the Armed Forces Day Parade held in Kingswood, Bristol [Picture: Andrew Linnett, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Army Cadets give a demonstration on the climbing wall outside Birmingham's Symphony Hall [Picture: Stuart Bingham, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Trainees from the Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering at RAF Cosford parade in the Bull Ring, Birmingham [Picture: Stuart Bingham, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Soldiers from The Royal Irish Regiment parade in the Bull Ring, Birmingham [Picture: Stuart Bingham, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Trainees from the Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering at RAF Cosford are inspected by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Councillor Michael Wilkes [Picture: Stuart Bingham, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
The Armed Forces Day Parade passes the Symphony Hall, Birmingham [Picture: Stuart Bingham, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Councillor Michael Wilkes, takes the salute as veterans and serving soldiers march past [Picture: Stuart Bingham, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Members of Sapper Mark Quinsey's family in the Hall of Memory - Sapper Quinsey was murdered by Real IRA gunmen outside an Army barracks in Northern Ireland on 7 March 2009 [Picture: Stuart Bingham, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
A photograph and poppies are laid as an act of remembrance inside the Hall of Memory on Armed Forces Day 2009 in Birmingham [Picture: Stuart Bingham, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards on The Mound in Edinburgh [Picture: Mark Owens, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, chats to soldiers of The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, on Armed Forces Day [Picture: Mark Owens, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards set off from Edinburgh Castle on the Armed Forces Day Parade to The Mound [Picture: Mark Owens, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, set off from Edinburgh Castle on the Armed Forces Day Parade to The Mound [Picture: Mark Owens, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards on The Mound in Edinburgh to celebrate Armed Forces Day [Picture: Mark Owens, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]