TROOPING OF THE COLOUR

[Gil Boyd]

The Official H.M The Queens Birthday today in Horseguards.
Sad to see Lord Guthrie ex SF and a great leader and man, collapse on his horse and then fall to the ground just before Buckingham Palace. He is an outdoors guy, and hates being trust up like a chicken in all the breast plate and hot ceremonial material and helmet they have to wear as Field Marshalls.

I was lucky to have been invited last saturday to the Colonels Review and it was roasting on Horseguards. For those that have never been, its a windless parade sqaure closed on three sides and has no wind.

The corner men who hold the flags that mark the truning points on the parade sqaure are there an hour before anyone marches on the square and there an hour after the parade which lasts an hour........spare a thought for them, only saving grace is, they have no SA80 weighing in at 4.68 kilos to hold too.

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