The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-21
LORD KITCHENER SEES
GRAND PARADE Drill
Patrol 5000 Feet
Overhead While Soldiers
March On Ground BeIow,
Guards Still Sane at End Of
First Year In Field and
Trench
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British Headquarters IN France.
Sept ls-o Officers who have ben
through he campaign since its start
at Mons j year ago speak Of the re
cent review Of the British troops At
the front as one OF the most COM
pelling scenes they have ever wit
messed The spot Was parade
ground not many miles from the
trenches. Three hattah"ns of Guards
made a wall Of Khaki which melted
into the background of sward and
hills At a review in England tney
would have formed Il most brilliant
display in their gorgeou parade uili-
fOrmS-these famous crack regiments
| Officered by sons Of the famous farm
! lies Of England. Again aud again
their raIks had been thinu%d and re
filed officers Of the old regular
army who had come as spectators
recognized familiar faces If the sur
vivors among the officers and saw
many strange faces who Ia: taken
the place Of those who had fallen.
But the Guards are stn the
Guards Scots or Irish or GrenadIcrs
g.. Coidstream, said one IF The ofh-
GERS. Lord Kitchener and NJ. Miller
and the French minister OF War VINO
were seeing the British front tOgtth'r
were to review them. II was Ia"
4 t'N~'''
as every officer calls HIM.
Sir John French There.
Sir John French appeared ftr-t,
walking across the parade ground %
the reviewing station where he vel
coined Lord Kitchener and NJ NIL
lerand who arrived in big Limousine.
Ferha ps there were in all fifty specta-
tors, mostly officers stationed III the
!, neigh hbOrhoOd, of q scene which had a
thrill for all that no review IN Eng
and watched hy big concUurSe IN
Guiding gaily dressed women ever
had Not a woman was present not
/ civilian except the correspondents.
A bright sun was shining, Five or SIX
thousand feet overhead British
plane was patrolling the air IN great
! circle throughout the ceremony.
( AS the secretaries Of war of Eng
| land and France faced the Guards
! their bayonets rose at present arms
{ iii cleaning rigid lines. Lord Kitchen
Q er's khaki made him hardly discern
. BILE against the wall of hakl a the
: party walked the length Of the front
Q ranks in formal inspection NJ. Mi
= lerand in his black SUIT Win short
e coat and his SlOuCh travelling hat and
y trousers tucked into a pair Of Ehters
4 was distinct moving black point
i When they returned othe reviewing
e station the band struck up the Mar
seillaise and while Lord kltchen"i
y and Sir John and the other ofhcnr>
e stood at the salute that one cIVilaI
$ figure in this military scene stood un
covered.
h Then with the march past the hanC
,e played the airs associated with tn
e regiment whose companies Wer" Eorni
BY one officer at the head Of IA
veterans was conspicuous becauS" h'
saluted with his left hand flIs rIEh
f sleeve was empty Guardsnen mus
Il | be tall; and some Of the giants weT'
y taller than Lord Kitchener himself
4r number Of the men in the ~ nae
u fought at Mons and on the Alsne an'
s. survived too from the first and S'-c
ly ond battles Of Ypres. Others ha'
= Vet 10 see a battle Every rifle. ever,
! hand that held a rifle every foot a
II il was lifted seemed perfectly j
e line.
G. Guards Still Guards
THE Guards still know how I
march though they have been 10 wa
for a year said staff officer " b
n had been in the Guards.
II As the last company was going pa
IL another kind Of music was heard
n the chauffeurs of the party ~er
m cranking 40 their cars II Is W.
ed known that II" wants no time was
IS ed between functions and Inspection
. when ne is at the front Eolley
he clicks as limousine doors were ci"s'
is and the two war ministers who ar
he at the head Of the armies Of Franc
|. and England were away TO oihs
scenes Naturally they Also inSpeete
de portions Of the New Army i,h II
Sc French peasants and villagers all Ga
no u