{"id":1275,"date":"2024-11-04T13:37:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T13:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/events\/op-herrick-memorial-ride-north-east\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T13:37:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T13:37:45","slug":"op-herrick-memorial-ride-north-east","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/events\/op-herrick-memorial-ride-north-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Op Herrick Memorial Ride North East"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs\">With it now being 10 years since the UK ceased combat operations in Afghanistan I thought it time we marked the 457 lives lost during Op Herrick.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">This ride will visit the grave of a solder, killed in this conflict who is buried in each county of the Region, along with a special visit over the boarder into Cumbria to visit the grave of the first British servicewoman killed in Afghanistan.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">Guardsman Michael Sweeney, 1 Coldstream Guards, Killed by explosion while on foot patrol 01\/04\/2010 aged 19 years &#8211; Buried Links Road, Blyth, Northumberland.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">Daryn Roy, 21 Eng Rgt. 3\/5\/2010 aged 28. St Johns Church Dipton. North Rd, Dipton, Stanley DH9 9BB<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">Capt Richard Joseph Holloway, DEATH 23 Dec 2013 (aged 29) RE and SAS BURIAL Hamsterley Cemetery St James Church DL13 3RQ<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">Corporal Sarah Louise Bryant (n\u00e9e Feely) (17 December 1981 \u2013 17 June 2008), of the British Army&#8217;s Intelligence Corps, was the first British servicewoman killed in Afghanistan She is buried at Wetheral Cemetery. CA4 8HN<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">Route and timmings as follows<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">RV Melton Constable pub car park Seaton Sluice. NE26 4QL 0900 hrs Depart 0915 hrs<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Blyth link Cemetery (0920 hrs) to St Johns Church Dipton \u2013 24 miles 50 min<br class=\"html-br\" \/>St Johns Church Dipton DH9 9BB (1040 hrs) &#8211; St James Church Hamsterley &#8211; 19 miles 40 min<br class=\"html-br\" \/>St James Church Hamsterley DL13 3RQ (1150 hrs) \u2013 Alston via Stanhope 32 miles 60 min<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Alston &#8211; Wetheral Cemetery. CA4 8HN (1420hrs) 26miles 50 min<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Wetheral Cemetery. CA4 8HN &#8211; Newcastle via A69 52 miles 75 min<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">153 miles 4 Hrs 35 min ride time<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With it now being 10 years since the UK ceased combat operations in Afghanistan I thought it time we marked the 457 lives lost during Op Herrick. This ride will visit the grave of a solder, killed in this conflict who is buried in each county of the Region, along with a special visit over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":1276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":""},"tags":[],"mec_category":[10],"class_list":["post-1275","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-north-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}