Military salute

Press, 2 April 1980, Page 11

Military salute

NZPA-Reuter London Military units from Australia, Canada, and New Zealand will offer an eightieth birthday salute to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother as part of centennial celebrations of the Royal Tournament, according to tournament officials.

The annual showpiece of British military pageantry is scheduled from July 9 to July 26 at London’s Earls Court, and tournament officials anticipate capacity crowds in a year marking two anniversaries — the tournament’s centenary and the ■ Queen Mother’s eightieth birthday. ■ - An Army band from Kenya led by LieutenantColonel S. K. Kipsaita, of Nairobi, will also take part in a show which has become one of the well loved rituals of the Lon-

don summer season, with such attractions as the Changing of the Guard and the Henley Royal regatta. Britain’s premier duke, the Duke of Norfolk, who takes a special interest in the tournament said he hoped: every '.seat in the house would be filled. The tournament takes in naval field gun displays, a musical drive by the King’s Troop, a musical quadrille by the Household Cavalry in their breastplates and plumes, and other displays which a tournament booklet said would, not be found anywhere else in the world. The 22 regiments that will take part include the Black Watch of Canada’s Royal Highland. Regiment; the Toronto Scottish; the Canadian Forces Medical Services; and medical corps from Australia and New Zealand.