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Welsh Guards Corps of Drums at Windsor Castle - 4 July 2013
1st Battalion Welsh Guards Corps of Drums at Changing the Guard at Windsor Castle on 4 July 2013. The Corps of Drums accompanied the New Guard, on this day found by 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, from Victoria Barracks to Windsor Castle, returning with the Old Guard, on this day found by Nijmegen Company Grenadier Guards. When The Queen is in residence the ceremony occurs on the Quadrangle, otherwise it occurs in the Lower Ward adjacent to the King Henry VIII Gate, as it did on this day.
5th Regiment of Foot Guards, tunic buttons grouped in fives, the white/green/white bearskin plume was chosen when the Welsh Guards were formed in 1915 to represent the leek, also depicted on the shoulder epaulette, button, collar badge and belt buckle.
On this day the Corps is lead by a Lance Sergeant acting up as Drum Sergeant.
Welsh Guards Corps of Drums at Windsor Castle - 4 July 2013
1st Battalion Welsh Guards Corps of Drums at Changing the Guard at Windsor Castle on 4 July 2013. The Corps of Drums accompanied the New Guard, on this day found by 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, from Victoria Barracks to Windsor Castle, returning with the Old Guard, on this day found by Nijmegen Company Grenadier Guards. When The Queen is in residence the ceremony occurs on the Quadrangle, otherwise it occurs in the Lower Ward adjacent to the King Henry VIII Gate, as it did on this day.
5th Regiment of Foot Guards, tunic buttons grouped in fives, the white/green/white bearskin plume was chosen when the Welsh Guards were formed in 1915 to represent the leek, also depicted on the shoulder epaulette, button, collar badge and belt buckle.
On this day the Corps is lead by a Lance Sergeant acting up as Drum Sergeant.