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Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh. The massed bands and drums were in the centre, and, flashing silver, blue and scarlet, in the southeast corner mounted troops of the Royal Horse Guards and Life Guards...
...Ernest Aldrich Simpson was born of a British father and a U. S. mother in 1897 in Manhattan. From Harvard ('19) he went to Britain's swank Coldstream Guards and into his father's London firm of ship charterers, Simpson, Spence & Young. He married in 1923 and in 1925 was divorced from a Manhattan Social Registrite now in reduced circumstances, by whom he has a 12-year-old daughter Audrey. In 1926 he married the present Mrs. Simpson. She was Wallis ("Wally") Warfield of Baltimore and in 1916 gave her age as 22 when she married Earl...
...twenty-first week. Abruptly 15,000 British troops, already drawn up in mock battle array for war games in Sussex, were piled aboard trains, rushed to Aldershot where overseas war equipment was issued to them, and shown to transports for Palestine. One battalion each of the King's Coldstream and Scots Guards was left in Britain but the rest of the First Division was headed for Palestine by ' week...
...Garden Opera season by leasing a box, though he attended no operas up to last week. May 16 saw privately his first stage performance since he came to the Throne, the last act of Storm In a Teacup presented in the home of Lady Cunard. May 20 inspected the Coldstream Guards at Aldershot, shouting in at the mess hall door "Any complaints?" May 25 inspected the Queen Mary prior to her maiden voyage, flying from his snuggery, Fort Belvedere at Sunningdale, to Southampton and back to Sunningdale, while Queen Mary went by train. May 28 proclamation that His Majesty will...
...Windsor Castle Edward VIII last week inspected the Coldstream Guards. Visiting the barracks he found a Sergeant Jenkins, lately transferred from the Welsh Guards. Sergeant Jenkins was the proud possessor of a photograph of the finish of a regimental foot race which a drummer-boy named Davis was winning, with Edward of Wales running second and Sergeant Jenkins a close third...