Royal Danish Guards Association of Singapore

Link to:

- xxxxxxxxx"Singapores Garderforening"
- xxxBestyrelsen / The Board
- xxiiixxxThe history of the Danish Royal Guards Association
- x          xx2009 and the AGM 2010.
- xxxDGU: Royal Danish Guards Associations in Foreign Countries
- xxx"Garderportal" (Links to Royal and Royal Guards web sites)
- xxxxxxxxMindesider for de gardere, der er faldet i Afghanistan

ANDRE BESTYRELSEMEDLEMMER:
Kasserer:                   DEC 95 Peer G Rasmussen
Vinkældermester:      MAR 83 Jannik von Freisleben
Bestyrelsesmedlem:  Peter B. Svarrer
Suppleant:                 APR 82 Christian Vang
Revisor:                     OKT 80 Hans Erik Schmidt

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Tidligt i 2009 havde vi den store fornøjelse at have et medlem fra London´s Garderforening, Flemming R. Jacobs, på besøg i Singapore. Singapore Garderforening håber at gardere, der kommer forbi Singapore, vil give besked så vi kan give en rundvisning i det smukke Singapore og samtidigt berette lidt om foreningens virke.

Fungerende formand Søren Bo Duvier Nielsen mødtes med Flemming som det ses paa billedet her, der er taget ved Raffles Hotel indgang.

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GENERALFORSAMLINGEN 2010.

Den 15. marts afholdt Singapores Garderforening den årlige generalforsamling. Mødet blev afholdt på Raffles Hotel´s Long Bar. Det var en passende ramme for en solid afsked med, og tak til, den tidligere næstformand Torben Nissen, som har varetaget sine opgaver upåklageligt, men efter en årrække i Singapore vender tilbage til Danmark.
På samme møde blev der givet en varm velkomst til tiltrædende næstformand Sonnich Thomsen og en konstruktiv dialog om foreningens videre forløb blev foretaget.
Alt i alt forventer vi et aktivt og spændende år 2010 for foreningen.
 

Her ses formanden (til venstre) med den tiltrædende Sonnich Thomsen SOM-2004 og afgående næstformand Torben Nissen JUL-92

The Royal Danish Guards Association has 69 chapters in Denmark, 9 in foreign countries and a total of 14.000 members.
We all have one thing in common: We have served in the Danish Royal Guards Regiment which for 349 years has been the only regiment guarding HM the King of Denmark, the Royal Family and the Royal palaces.

The regiment is the only one to which the national servicemen are drafted from right across the country, and although it is well known that the boot camp training and discipline is physically and mentally  much more demanding than in any other Danish regiment, most of the guardsmen have voluntarily asked to do their national service in the regiment, often because their father, grandfather - and sometimes  even great grandfather - have served there.

The first Royal Guards Association was founded in Copenhagen in 1885.
Other associations soon followed, and in 1911 there was 25, spread all over Denmark.  At that time it was decided to establish an umbrella organization which could represent the guards associations and publish a monthly magazine. That organization was called Danske Garderforeninger (Danish Guards Associations) and the DG which you see in the top left hand corner of this web page was chosen as the logo for the association and its members. HM King Christian X, who started his military service as a recruit in the Royal Guard, gave permission to place the Royal Crown on top of the DG. Now DG has 69 chapters in Denmark.

At the initiative of Johan Schmidt, who for many years served as president of "Garderforeningen i København" (the Royal Guards Association of Copenhagen) the first Guard Society outside Denmark was established in New York in 1928.
Johan Schmidt was visiting an old Guard friend, John Jorgensen, in New York and they decided to start a chapter in the U.S. Through advertising in the now defunct Danish language newspaper "Nordlyset" they managed to gather 12 former guardsmen living in the U.S. at the time.
In 1936 Lauritz Melchior, the world renown wagnerian opera singer, joined the New York Guard Society, and through his tireless efforts new chapters were founded in Los Angeles 1942, Chicago 1943, Calgary, Canada 1944, Toronto 1958 and Vancouver / Seattle 1968. From 1943 to 1963 there was an active chapter in Argentina. In recent years three new chapters have emerged, in Australia 1990, another in Great Britain 1992 and now (2003) in Singapore.