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REGIMENT’S DAILY CEREMONY. SALUTE TO THE DEAD. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-—COPY RIGHT LONDON, Aug. 16. Beginning with a method of preserving its uniform to correspond with the colour of vellum pages, the East Kent Regiment, known as ‘"The Buffs,” has now arranged to perpetuate daily—for ever—the custom of saluting the regiment’s dead in the' Great War. it has been the custom to select a recruit of good behaviour to represent the regiment. The recruit parades liefore the adjutant and receives the colonel’s cane, on Avhich is engraved the commanding officer’s order. He proceeds to Canterbury Cathedral, where a verger solemnly conducts him to St. Michael’s Chapel. The recruit replaces his cap oil his head, unlocks an iron grille, salutes, and turns a new page of a golden book on which every name is inscribed, commencing with privates and ending Avith generals, again salutes, locks the gride and returns to duty The commandant says the custom has had a Avonderful influence on recruits, who compete with amazing eagerness for the daily honour of turning the next page.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 18 August 1927, Page 5
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