From Stockport Council:

The Mercian Regiment received the Freedom of the Borough of Stockport during a parade through the town centre. The Freedom of the Borough scroll was presented to Brigadier John Donnelly CBE by the Mayor of Stockport, Councillor Hazel Lees, in Stockport’s historic Market Place.

A total of 450 soldiers, including between 50 and 75 from Stockport, formed a 200m marching column, consisting of four companies and the Band of The Prince of Wales’s Division all led by the Regimental Mascot, a ram named Pte Derby XXIX.

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