Stockton launched its Armed Forces Week celebrations with a traditional flag raising ceremony outside of the Municipal Buildings on Monday 19 June in a short service led by the Mayor Of Stockton Councillor Jim Beall.

Serving members of the Armed Forces were on parade as were veterans and standard bearers from all branches of the armed forces, reserve and territorial members too with the mayor being joined on the dais by Neil Schneider DL, Deputy Lord Lieutenant of County Durham and The Countess Peel DL, Deputy Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire with both Glenn Eastick the Mayor of Thornaby and his wife Tracy the Mayoress, Matt Vickers MP and council officers also in attendance. Making sure that it all ran with military precision was Parade Marshall Mark Thompson, himself a former soldier in the Parachute Regiment.

Photographs and details courtesy of David Thompson.