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Photograph (possibly a copy photo) of King George VI’s Birthday Parade (Trooping the Colour), Horse Guards Parade, 9th June 1949. The main group pictured marching are the 13th Company Grenadier Guards Training Battalion, which formed the No. 3 Guard of the Sovereign’s Escort. They march in two long lines wearing full dress with bearskin caps and with their rifles and fixed bayonets on their shoulders. They were led by Capt A G Way MC, Lt C C W Hammick and 2/Lt E H L Aubrey Fletcher. Several other escort groups can be seen marching and a large crowd watches the ceremony. From an album of 96 photographs entitled: ‘The Regiment 1940s’; with images taken between 1940 and 1949 in places such as Windsor, the Guards Depot, Germany, Belgium and Tunisia.

Trooping the Colour (Ceremonial Events)