1st Battalion The Queen's Regiment Last Beating Retreat

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"The final event of the celebrations was a ceremony of Retreat at which the battalion's flag was lowered for the last time. At the end of the ceremony the Drum Major, Colour Sergeant Barden, as hard-nosed a Londoner as ever served the Regiment, marched up to
ask permission to march off from the reviewing Officer. This was the last Commanding Officer of 1 Queen's Surreys and the first Commanding Officer of 1 QUEEN'S, Colonel JW Sewell. Those watching could clearly see that it took all Barden's self discipline to master his emotions as he came forward , but even he could not hold back the tears. He was not alone."

(From "Soldiers of The Queen" by Lt-Col JP Riley)