Ulster Tatler – August 2019

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Royally Rewarded

This month Ulster Tatler features a selection of investiture photographs from those members of the

community recognised in the Birthday and New Year’s Honours.

NORMAN ESPIE BEM

Former Royal

British Legion’s

national standard

bearer, Norman

Espie, was

awarded a BEM

for services to

ceremonial duties

and remembrance

in the New Year’s

Honours List.

Mr Espie,

who hails from

Cookstown, has

been a member

of the legion

for almost four

decades. In 2007

he started his

training to be a

standard bearer.

In this role, he was

chosen to bear

the standard at

the organisation’s

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service in London on several

occasions. His duties also

involved taking part in

several pilgrimages in which

he took family members of

war veterans to see where

their ancestors fought during

World War One and Two.

Mr Espie attended his

investiture alongside his

family.

MR PERRY DONALDSON MBE JP

Perry Donaldson received his MBE from His Royal Highness

The Duke of Cambridge at an Investiture Ceremony held in

Buckingham Palace on Tuesday 19 March 2019. The MBE was

awarded in recognition of his voluntary service with The Boys’

Brigade, Lay Magistracy and Education. For over 60 years Perry has

been associated with 43rd Belfast Company Boys’ Brigade which

is attached to Dundonald Presbyterian Church and is currently a

Brigade Honorary Vice-President. He recently retired from his role

as a Lay Magistrate in which he carried out his duties in the Family

and Youth Courts for over 25 years. He was a member of the

Board of Governors of Dundonald Primary School for over 30 years,

20 years as Chairman. He was accompanied to the Palace by Mrs

Rosemary Beacom, Mrs Rosina Herron and Miss Sharon Mackey.

Olympic legend Lady Mary Peters has received the highest honour of chivalry in

the honours system, after being installed as a member of the Most Noble Order

of the Garter. The ceremony took place at Windsor Castle, with lots of pomp

and pageantry on show, and members of the Royal family along with foreign

Monarchs in attendance, at the annual service.

Lady Mary Peter’s friends and supporters at Windsor Castle: Allan and Eilish

Rutherford, Georgina McCluskey, Terry Crothers and Barry Funston.

HONOURS

Norman Espie BEM pictured with his wife

Linda and family. Picture courtesy of Aaron

McCracken.

Lady Mary Peters pictured at the Garter

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LADY MARY PETERS, LADY COMPANION OF

THE ORDER OF THE GARTER