CADETS from the air force and the Army gathered at Worcester Cathedral to celebrate their 150th anniversary.
Cadets from the West Mercian Air Training Corps joined Army cadets from Hereford and Worcester on Sunday.
The Lord Leiutenant for Worcestershire Michael Brinton and the Mayor of Worcester, Councillor Mike Layland, attended the service.
Bishop Stephen Verney, chaplain of the Armed Forces, took the service. He said: “We have come to acknowledge the noble ideas the cadet forces have inspired and to remind ourselves of how the world has benefited from the values they’ve nurtured.”
The cadets were set up in 1859, when several schools around the country began forming armed, uniformed units of adults and older boys with the purpose of protecting Britain in the event of an attack from overseas.
They were renamed the Officer Training Corps (OTC) in 1908.
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