Trooping The Colour
Sir,—Perhaps you will permit an ex-Guards'man to make one or two observations on the account of the Trooping of the Colour in today’s issue. Oddly enough, I received this morning a copy of the actual programme of the ceremony sent to me by air from England. First, your article refers to “rows of guardsmen in 71b bearskins.” Those “seven-pounders” must have been the ones that got away; for even our officers’ bearskins, far bigger than the men’s, never weighed anything like that, though they may well have felt like it on occasions. Second, why no mention of the Coldstream, in the opinion of some not the least among such exalted company? According to the programme, there were seven guards on parade, each of three officers and 70 other ranks—two each from the Grenadiers, Coldstream, and Irish; one from the Scots, plus the Coldstream band of one officer and 51 musicians, like the others.—Yours, etc., ’ NULLI SECUNDUS. June 14,' 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31086, 15 June 1966, Page 16
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