GRENADIER GUARDS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 142, 17 May 1929, Page 7

GRENADIER GUARDS

REVIEW ON HORSE GUARDS PARADE. VERITABLE PAGEANT. SEVERAL ROYAL PERSONAGES PRESENT. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireles.) Received May 17, 11.5 a.m. RUGBY, May 16. The review of the Grenadier Guards by the Duke of Connaught this morning on the Horse Guards Parade was a 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 their standards fluttering in the breeze. The Duke of Connaught, wearing the uniform of the Grenadiers, of whom he has been Colonel for 25 years, arrived in company with the Prince of Wales, who was in the uniform of the Welsh Guards. They rode to the saluting base just beneath the Horse Guards arch. In the window of the archway sat the Duke and Duchess of York, Prince Arthur of Connaught and the Princess Royal. On the parade ground were also the Grenadiers of yesterday. Two hundred satlwart Loudon policemen who once wore the uniform of the regiment stood drawn up on the Duke’s left, tlieir dark blue uniforms and helmets presenting a strange contrast with the scarlet of the soldiers.. On the Duke’s right were drawn up lines of civilians who were once in the Grenadiers. .

The Duko rode along the ranks, inspecting the battalions and ex-Guards-men.

Then, to music of the bands oPthe regiment, the battalions marched in a column of companies past the saluting base. As each battalion’s colour party passed the Duke and the Prince .of Wales the historic flags were dipped iu 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, liis home, while the banjl played the famous air, “The British Grenadiers.” Half an hour later the first battalion were marching back through the city to the Tower of London. They exercised their ancient privilege of marching through the city with fixed bayonets, and from the balcony of the Mansion House the Lord Mayor took their salute.