 | ||
A church parade is a military parade by service personnel or members of a uniformed organization for the purposes of attending religious services. Mandatory church parades were abolished in the United Kingdom in 1951.
Military chaplains depended on a church parade to speak to the entire military formation, with many chaplains feeling the soldiers did not resent the compulsion to attend, but only resented the intense preparation of each soldier's kit to attend the service.
References
Church parade Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA