Trooping The Colour On Horse Guards Parade (1938)

[@georgeallen7101]

The Lee Enfield with that bloody great bayonet on the end was very impressive, gleaming in the sun !

[@hughthomson6201]

I am old enough to have drilled with a Lee Enfield and an 18 inch bayonet. Looking back at my old photos we weren't half bad!!

[@bulouvusonawalowalo1711]

Love the commentator. God bless our gracious Queen.

[@davidgray3321]

Fabulous to see the continuity of excellence in the Guards then and now, the music reassuringly familiar, but one difference that does strike me is the length of the bayonets, plenty of gleaming steel on parade there. Rather sadly I am sure many of these men didn’t see the end of WW2.

[@davidgray3321]

@@sirhumphreyappleby8399 Hello, I am interested to know how you reach your conclusion? Perhaps you would like to share your insight with us, ex military or well read and researched ? Or both? Or possibly a thought whilst playing with your train set? Or passed on information from a bloke you once met in a pub who worked in a supermarket? Do tell.

[@sirhumphreyappleby8399]

@@davidgray3321 While I might make some claim to being reasonably well researched, I don't claim to have been a serving soldier, nor would I wish to be for the "You-kay". What exactly would I be fighting for, increasingly a foreign country which has no connection to the one my descendants helped to build. Our economy was certainly more real and far better in the 1930s. Our military wasn't a bad joke either in those days. We had a culture to speak of, and religion hasn't yet been pushed out of society. Ditto the criminal justice system and the education system. In exchange for all of the above we've become a more diverse and democratic society. Whopdey doo.

[@sh-hg4eg]

@@sirhumphreyappleby8399 unfortunately, correct. This is a very bitter pill to swallow and is only now clear in hindsight. Many of these men were well intentioned, it was our elite who led us down the wrong path.

[@figjam59]

The only difference between then and now is the number of soldiers on parade.

[@patriot4786]

figjam 59 not only that, but how they look, how they march, how they did their drill were very much better back then compared to now, now there are fat guards in parade, and marching now is done in the sloppiest manner ever, they dont do it like the era in this video again

[@Dischingo]

except most soldiers who do it now a days are real combat soliders.

[@vladislav_aleksandrov2761]

RoniiNN that is true

[@Jake-ui4wz]

@@RoniiNN that is very much true. All of the guards regiments see active service or have done in Afghanistan and Iraq. Most of the battalions of the regiments are out seeing combat at one time. It's what their job is. Drill also looks much better now than before in my personal point of view.

[@lucastodd2052]

@@patriot4786 I disagree. The marching apppears to be slower in this video, and the guards don't appear to be raising their arms in line with their shoulders.

[@kevinadamson5768]

Love the old footage.

[@ianorr7623]

Little did we know that the following year they'd be Trooping the Colour at Dunkirk.

[@NeillMistry]

3:13 Truth

[@jct35j]

The Guards look much fitter here than they do in 2022, too many fat ones amongst them these days.

[@arslongavitabrevis5136]

What do you expect of Little Britain?

[@simonrobson2293]

True I was in guards till eighties it was same then now they look all different heights and a few fatties

[@bobawolf]

I was one year old.

[@GarrethCowen]

"Regards from the empire" gleeming

[@riotagus]

Those where the days when men used to be men, and the Gerrys used to be afraid !

[@Makeyourselfbig]

Yeah. They were quaking in the boots at Dunkirk.

[@gazza2933]

@@Makeyourselfbig Then again at Normandy.

[@Makeyourselfbig]

@@gazza2933 You know if you disparage the courage of the enemy you also disparage the courage of your own soldiers as well. If the enemy were as quick to run away as you suggest there would be no need of courage at all.

[@Kreatorisbackyt]

Great

[@embreis2257]

3:13 'you can take your goosestep, your Roman march or anything else you like...' that's when you know this is actually from 1938. 😗

[@АннаМаркова-з2з]

Физическая форма полка, выправка и строевая подготовка полка сейчас в 2024 гораздо хуже,чем в 1938 году.Странно, что вы этого не замечаете

[@heinkle1]

2000 guardsmen?!

[@tommedlicott6250]

march at around 1.55? Thanks in advance!

[@sirhumphreyappleby8399]

The "Old Pananama March", and you're most welcome.

[@Kreatorisbackyt]

@@sirhumphreyappleby8399 3:33 March name

[@midnightteapot5633]

@@sirhumphreyappleby8399 Old Panama hehe

[@midnightteapot5633]

@@Kreatorisbackyt Hielan Laddie , Scots Guards regimental quick march

[@Kreatorisbackyt]

@@midnightteapot5633 4:08 march name please

[@yeye4888]

March at 1:40?

[@MichaelJ44]

Yes they are marching

[@wasawat.cnetprahas]

old panama march

[@yeye4888]

ปุราณ วิจักษณ์ thank you very much

[@Kreatorisbackyt]

3:33 March name

[@joshuachin1850]

@@Kreatorisbackyt Hielan Laddie