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The massed bands during the Beating Retreat in 2008. The Beating Retreat is a massive gathering of the band's of the Household Division on Horse Guards Parade.It is based on a 16th-century military ceremony in England that was first used to recall nearby patrolling units to their castle.
Drum major of the Household Division (Welsh Guards) with bearskin headdress and ceremonial mace. A drum major in the military is the individual leading a military band or a field unit (corps of drums, fanfare band, pipe band or drum and bugle corps). It is an appointment, not a military rank.
This pattern is the very uniform commissioned by King Charles II for the drummers, trumpeters and timpanists of the Household Division then, and is in gold with the royal cypher of the reigning monarch and Colonel in Chief of the Household Division, with the cypher on the baldric. All five band drum majors, as well as the drum majors of the ...
Some historical accounts have documented instances of members of the Household Division engaging in same-sex relationships and prostitution, with reports of such activities dating back to the 19th and 20th centuries. [5] From 1950 to 1968, the Household Division was known as the Household Brigade. [6]
Drum horses hold the rank of major and the monarch assigns their official name from classical mythology. Earlier drum horses have been named Hector, Leonidas, Janus, Spartacus, Constantine, Horatius and Mercury—those in service as of 2023 are Perseus, Atlas, Apollo and Juno. [16] [17] [18]
“It is when a group of regiments called the household division — and they’re the seven regiments [of a] five-foot two cavalry — who [guard the] official royal residences. The king
The band of the Welsh Guards plays regularly for occasions and events as part of the Massed Bands of the Household Division. [4] Some of these events that are most famous are listed below, although this is not a comprehensive list. Changing of the Guard; The Festival of Remembrance; Trooping the Colour; Beating the Retreat
Troopers in the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment assembled in the Parade Square at Hyde Park Barracks to take part in an annual event to find the best turned out soldier and horse.