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Sharp Claws. The British War Office announced that it would have 20,000 British troops in China by the end of February. Ten thousand picked infantrymen, including a battalion of the crack Coldstream Guards, embarked at London last week for China, and 450 Punjabis from British India were rushed from Hongkong to Shanghai...
...Foot Guards, comprising the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards and the Scots, Welsh and Irish Guards are perhaps the most glamorously traditional of any extant fighting unit. Recently Londoners turned out by the tens of thousands as the Regiments of Guards assembled in their bright uniforms and beneath their 18-inch bearskin hats for the dedication of the Guards Memorial. Field Marshal H. R. H. the Duke of Connaught, uncle of the King-Emperor, unveiled the Guards Monument, taking in his hand as he did so the hand of General Higginson. Londoners cheered the Royal Duke and the Centenarian General...
...Guard from another?" Super-papas and super-mamas might have replied: "Although they all wear scarlet tunics with blue collars, cuffs and shoulder straps, blue trousers and towering, rounded bearskin hats, you should note that the Grenadier Guards wear a small white plume in the bearskin, the Coldstream Guards a red plume, the Scots no plume and the Irish a blue-green, (not "emerald") plume. To further distinguish the Guards, the buttons on their coats are spaced in a different manner for each regiment...
When the short service within the church was concluded, ten tall Coldstream Guardsmen bore the coffin on their shoulders to the gun carriage; and it was drawn at a walking pace to Wolferton Station, two miles away, where a funeral train waited to carry it to London...
...Household Cavalry led his troop and the small procession passed out into the Mall beyond the Victorial Monument amid deafening cheers from a million uncovered heads and the flutterings of handkerchiefs from the hands of the heads that were covered. On either side soldiers of the five Guards Regiments (Coldstream, Grenadier, Irish, Scots, Welsh), standing rigidly with presented arms, lined the streets from the Palace, along the Mall to the Admiralty Arch, down Whitehall, to Westminster...