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THE GUARDS MAGAZINE JOURNAL OF THE HOUSEHOLD DIVISION
No: 207 Summer 2023
Coronation Edition
CONTENTS
EDITOR’S NOTES ........................................................................................................................................................... 6 THE CORONATION OF KING CHARLES III Introduction by The Major General ..................................................................................................................................... 8 Operation GOLDEN ORB - An Overview by the Brigade Major .................................................................................... 11 Reflections from the Garrison Sergeant Major .................................................................................................................. 14 Aldershot Coronation Training Area ................................................................................................................................. 18 ‘Back To The Future’ - The Move In By Train ................................................................................................................. 24 Marshalling the Coronation Procession ............................................................................................................................ 26 Music for the Coronation Procession ................................................................................................................................ 28 Waterloo Station ............................................................................................................................................................... 31 The Tri-Service Guard of Honour ..................................................................................................................................... 32 The Sovereign’s Escort ...................................................................................................................................................... 36 From Kenya to the Coronation .......................................................................................................................................... 38 The Best of Both Worlds - The Household Cavalry Regiment ......................................................................................... 40 The Making of the Anointing Screen ................................................................................................................................ 43 The King’s Company, Grenadier Guards .......................................................................................................................... 45 A Sacred Duty - Bearing the Anointing Screen ................................................................................................................ 47 Street Lining ...................................................................................................................................................................... 51 Processional Group 8 - The Household Division .............................................................................................................. 53 Colour Drill: Standards, Guidons, Colours and Truncheon of the British Army .............................................................. 55 The Coronation - Reflections ............................................................................................................................................ 57 Buckingham Palace Garden .............................................................................................................................................. 58 The Windsor Concert ........................................................................................................................................................ 60 Swan Feathers - A TV Commentator’s Perspective .......................................................................................................... 62 FEATURES Tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ....................................................................................................................... 83 The Scots Guards in the Falklands .................................................................................................................................... 84 Exercise REDSTRIPE ....................................................................................................................................................... 85 A Memorial for Sir Richard Sharples and Captain Hugh Sayers ............................................................................................ 86 RSM ‘Tibby’ Brittain ........................................................................................................................................................ 89 70 Years On: Preparations for the Coronation in 1953 ...................................................................................................... 70
NEWS Honours and Awards .......................................................................................................................................................... 67 Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Commissions ............................................................................................................ 68 People, Places and Events .................................................................................................................................................. 69 Sport ................................................................................................................................................................................... 95 Regimental Intelligence ..................................................................................................................................................... 99 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ....................................................................................................................................... 126 BOOK REVIEWS .......................................................................................................................................................... 128 OBITUARIES ................................................................................................................................................................ 134
Information on the digital and online versions of this magazine are on page iii.
Front Cover: His Majesty King Charles III in the Gold State Coach, en route to Buckingham Palace following the Coronation in
Westminster Abbey. Saturday 6th May 2023. Photographer: Corporal Tim Hammond, RLC. Ministry of Defence Back Cover: Processional Group No 8, The Household Division, passing the Cenotaph on the day of the Coronation,
Saturday 6th May 2023. Photographer: Giles Anderson. Ministry of Defence
