Men’s Breakfast – Colonel Edward Armitstead CBE ex Coldstream Guards will be joining for a talk

Men’s Breakfast Community Event monthly speaker

Edward Armitstead was educated at Shrewsbury School and commissioned into the Coldstream Guards from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1967. He served in Germany (BAOR), Northern Ireland and as part of the United Nations Force in Cyprus during the Turkish invasion in 1974 as well as in a ceremonial role in Windsor and London. He commanded the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards in Hong Kong, London and West Belfast from 1987 to 1990. He retired from the Army in 2001.

On retirement Edward was Chairman of the Oak Hill College Council from 2001-2015 and during this time he was also a lay member of the Church of England’s General Synod. He is a Vice President of the Soldiers’ and Aviators’ Scripture Readers’ Association. Edward was Mentioned in Despatches for his service in Northern Ireland in 1982, he was awarded the OBE in 1993 and the CBE in 2001.