A REGIMENT’S DEAD
DAILY HONOURING SALUTING THE GOLDEN BOOK. London, Aug. 16. Beginning as a method of preserving the uniform colour of the vellum pages, the East Kent Regiment, known as the Bail's, has arranged to perpetuate daily for ever the custom of saluting the regiment's dead in the Great War. ft has been the custom to select a recruit of good behaviour to represent the regiment. The .recruit parades before the adjutant, receives the colonel’s cane, on which is engraved the commanding officer's order. He proceeds to Canterbury Cathedral, where the verger solemnly conducts him to St. Michael's Chanel. The recruit replaces his cap on his head, unlocks an iron grille, salutes, and turns a new' page of the golden book, on which ' every name ' is inscribed, commencing with privates and ending with generals. The recruit again salutes, locks the grille and returns to duty. The commandant says the custom has had a wonderful influence on recruits, who compete with amazing eagerness for the daily honnur of turning the next page.—(Sydney “Sun” cable.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 209, 18 August 1927, Page 6
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