Vice Lord Lieutenant Rt Hon Sir Hugh Robertson represented The Lord-Lieutenant at the 2025 Corps of Royal Engineers Memorial Service at Rochester Cathedral. During the service, which was attended by a number of serving Royal Engineers, their families, old comrades and civic representatives, The Chief Royal Engineer, Lieutenant General Sir Chris Tickell KBE laid a wreath at the Royal Engineers Memorial in the Cathedral. The Vice Lord-Lieutenant subsequently took the salute as the regiment exercised its right to the Freedom of the City by marching down the High Street.
The photo includes, from left to right, Very Revd Dr PhilIp Hesketh DL, Dean of Rochester, Lt Ten Sir Chris Tickell, Chief Royal Engineer, Lauren Edwards MP, MP for Rochester and Strood, Rt Hon Sir Hugh Robertson, Vice Lord-Lieutenant
