GLITTERING PAGEANT

Evening Star, Issue 20177, 17 May 1929, Page 12

GLITTERING PAGEANT

GRENADIER GUARDS REVIEWED BY DUKE OF CONNAUGHT (British Official Wireless.) fi'css Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, .May fG. (Received -May J 7, at 12.15 p.m.) The review of the Grenadier Guards It v (ho Duke of Connaught this morning on the Horse Guards Parade was u veritable pageant. All three battalions of the Grenadiers were on parade, the first battalion having come from its quarters at the Tower of London and the other two battalions from the Chelsea Barracks and Wellington Barracks respectively. The Grenadiers, in their brilliant scarlet uniforms and bearskin headgear, moved into position like beautiful machines, their bayonets glittering in the bright sunshine and The standards buttering in the breeze. The Duke of Connaught, wearing the uniform of the Grenadiers, of whom he has been colonel for twenty-live years, arrived in the company of the Prince of Wales, who was in the uniform of the Welsh Guards. They rude to the saluting base just beneath the Horse Guards 7 arch. In the window of the archway sat the Duke and Duchess of York, Trineu Arthur of Connaught, and the Princess Royal. On the parade ground were also Grenadiers of yesterday and 20U stalwart London policemen, who once wore the uniform of the regiment, stood drawn up oil the Duke’s loft, their dark-blue uniforms and helmets presenting a strange contrast to the scarlet of the soldiers. On the Duke’s right were drawn up lines of civilians who were once in the Grenadiers. The Duke rode along the ranks inspecting the battalions and ex-Guards-men. Then to the music of the bauds of the regiment the battalions marched in column of companies past the saluting base. As each battalion’s colour party passed the Duke and the Prince of Vries the historic bags were dipped in salute. After the march-past the Duke led the Grenadiers along the Mall, and took the salute once more at the gateway of Clarence House, his home, while the band played the famous air * The British Grenadiers. 3 ’

Half an hour later flic first battalion were marching back through Die city to the Tower of London. They exercised their ancient privilege of inarching through the city with fixed bayonets, and from the balcony of the Mansion Hons the Lord Mayor (’Sir Kyuastou Studd) took their salute.