page_title: Trooping the Colour
section_title: March on
hierarchical_section_title: Trooping the Colour / Ceremonial commands and troop movements / March on
caption_attribution_description: part of the Marker Detail on Horseguards Parade for Trooping of the Colour (the Colonel's Review) 2008
context_page_description: Trooping the Colour is a ceremony performed by regiments of the British and Commonwealth armies. It has been a tradition of British infantry regiments since the 17th century, although its roots go back much earlier. On the battlefield, a regiment's colours, or flags, were used as rallying points. Consequently, regiments would have their ensigns slowly march with their colours between the ranks to enable soldiers to recognise their regiments' colours.
  Since 1748, Trooping the Colour has also marked the official birthday of the British sovereign. It is held in London annually on the second Saturday in June at Horse Guards Parade by St James's Park, and coincides with the publication of the Birthday Honours List. Among the audience are the Royal family, invited guests, ticket holders and the general public. The ceremony is broadcast live by the BBC within the UK and is also shown in Germany, Austria and Belgium and via live streaming on BritBox in both the United States and Canada. In the parade of 2018, Associated Press provided live streaming of the event to viewers across the world on the Time magazine YouTube channel and the Facebook page of the British newspaper The Telegraph.
context_section_description: A detail of guardsmen bearing marker flags marches on, to mark the positions of Nos. 1-6 Guards. (These marker flags are the respective company colours from each regiment.)
  Preceded by their regimental bands, Nos. 1-6 Guards march into position. No. 1 Guard is "Escort for the Colour."
  Nos. 1-5 Guards align in two ranks on the west side of the parade ground facing Horse Guards Building.
  No. 6 Guard lines up perpendicular to them on the north side, thus making an "L" shape.
  The massed bands are on the south side, by the gardens of 10 Downing Street.
  Adjacent to No. 6 Guard is the Colour Party made up of 3 soldiers. A snare drummer joins them in the march on. As the party takes its place the drummer marches off and the colour's casing is removed, revealing the colour to be trooped.
  The King's Troop, the Household Cavalry, and their mounted band form up behind Nos. 1-5 Guards.
  With the foot guards in their home service order and the mounted band in state dress uniform, the assembled ranks of Household Division make a colourful spectacle.
  Guards half-companies line up on the road to Horse Guards Parade to provide security to the Royal Family that will arrive later and to the marching and mounted contingents.
caption: Part of the Marker Detail marching at end of parade.
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