Now William can sleep more soundly...and Chris has a proper answer to his question. <g>
keith
Ryan Lee wrote:
Hi Chris,
Your post piqued my curiosity, and being obsessive, I embarked on a bit of a tedious quest to match tv's photo: http://www.bigdayphoto.com/reagan/040609-173122-6008.htm
with some regiment somewhere. I narrowed it down to the Grenadier, Welsh, Irish, Scots and Coldstream Guards. Interestingly, they're differentiated by button spacings on the tunics: http://www.irishguards.net/IG2.htm
However, that was a bit of a dead end, then I found out Canadian Grenadiers wear it too (after all, the hats come from their bears..). But alas, the uniform did not match.
Then I chanced upon an Encarta definition which mentioned drum majors too. Kept checking and definitive success: http://www.marineband.usmc.mil/abt_band_uni_drum.html
Cheers, Ryan
PS. Hilarious fact: Regarding the difficulties encountered while searching for a synthetic alternative to bearskin, "They were also subject to static electricity, which was rather embarrassing when they passed under (electricity) pylons." http://www.news-star.com/stories/081497/world2.html
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Stoddart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: reagan cortege - no political content!
I thought Tom's pictures were interesting and important regardless of anything political - all the funeral proceedings have had at least some exposure in the UK media. I know there are some knowlegeable people on this list (ahem), so this picture of Tom's here:
http://www.bigdayphoto.com/reagan/040609-173122-6008.htm
shows a soldier in a bearskin hat. Do American regiments wear these? Which ones, does anyone know? I thought they were a British-only phenomenon? (cue cliche shot of London No356, Guardsman standing outside Buck Palace).
Chris
