On Saturday 2 August 2014 the Due North Rum Club held their annual Mourning of the Black Tot ceremony and Christmas lunch at the Prince Alfred’s Guards Drill Hall in Central.
This ceremony is held annually to commemorate the demise of the naval rum ration on 31 July 1970.
In true naval fashion the colours of the Due North Rum Club were raised and lowered to half mast before we sat down.
We sat down to a “Christmas Lunch” and five tots of neat double rum each toasted at:
- 13h00: Prince Alfreds Guards
- 13h30: Our Land
- 14h00: Sweethearts and Wives, May they never meet
- 14h00: To us and none like us
- 14h30: Absent Friends
See two videos from the day below:
Piping of the Colours:
Three toasts of the day: