The colours are a regimental flag. Back in the day it was quite easy to get lost in a battle the colours were a rallying point for soldiers of that regiment. . They are usually large colourful with identifying regimental badge on them they will usually have battle honours embroidered into them. The names of famous battles the regiment has fought.
@@宋亚伟-f9c The colours would be carried by ensigns the most junior officers. The Colour Sergeant or Colours Sergeant looked after the ensigns, Protecting them and the colours.
@@jtr549 As children in 50s and 60s we all knew about the Colour and the reason it was trooped. Education in this country is rapidly going to Hell in a handbasket.
Firstly the bearskin is designed to make them look taller so that musket ball would usually MISS the head. The METAL chin strap sits just below the bottom lip so that a sword slash would hit the metal strap and not carve your face open. With the Kings Mounted Artillery they have gold bullion frogging on the front of their tunics and that acts as body armour. I advise watching the COMPLETE trooping of the colour (the colour being the regimental standard with battle honours presented to them by the MONARCH) It takes about an hour and a half. The strange 'spin wheel' motion of the band has never been written down but it all depends on ONE band member at the centre.
You also do not wear any strap for a helmet under your chin as was demonstrated to me by the petty officer in charge when I was on Guard at a shore base, he went behind me and pulled the front of the helmet back, choking me. I never wore a helmet held by a chin strap again. Once bitten twice shy.
@@robertsibley6330 The Blues & The Royals wear their straps below the chin (whereas the Life Guards wear theirs just below their lips). Historic photos show WWI and WWII, and modern, soldiers wearing helmet straps under the chin. As I read one former soldier put it, a helmet doesn't do any good if it fallen off your head.
My Dad was in the Coldstream guards and for many years I didn't know why the Colour was trooped. Dad told me that back in the day 17 century thereabouts and until electronic devises were invented the Colour (flag) was marched on the battlefields so the soldiers knew how to find their comrades and the bugle calls alerted them . That is the reason it is treasured, it's all they had back in the day and our way of showing honour to its value . I hope that makes sense x💂♂️
The "spear" you saw being handed over is in face the Regimental Sergeant Major's pace-stick, that he would use on parade to measure out spacings between soldiers on parade. As the Escort for the Colour are about to take charge of the Colour (a regiment's flag by which they would historically be identified on the battlefield), the RSM is required to draw his sword to protect the Colour; as such, his pace-stick is collected by a guardsman to allow him to draw his sword. Interesting to note that the Escort for the Colour, upon taking charge of the Colour, become the Escort to the Colour. The actual trooping of the Colour, involves the Escort to the Colour marching their colour past the various other Guards on parade. The historical reasoning is that it would allow soldiers to become familiar with their own regimental Colour and be able to locate it on the field of battle.
You need to watch a full Trooping to understand, preferably with the proper commentary. The "colour" is the Regimental flag, the soul and history of the unit - like a Roman Legion or a Napoleonic Eagle and lists their most important Battle Honours. The Colour was the rallying point on a smoke filled battlefield - and it was considered important that the men of a Regiment, new recruits in particular, could recognise their own colour - hence the tradition of "Trooping the Colour".
Congratulations Ryan. You have now seen the most badass thing about any military in the world! The reason why the two guys in the front was swinging their arms simultaneously is because they are rank of officer. The other footguards swing their arms the same time. You have to watch "The Grenadiers Slow March", where they troop the colour down the ranks of the soldiers, that's definitely the most badass thing about the entire event!
This is The "QUEENS " OFFICIAL BIRTHDAY. The Colour is the Regemental Standard FLAG. Every year a different Regiment is Honoured by TROOPING THEIR Colour. You can identify them by the Buttons on thier Tunics. Plus the Plums in thier BUZBIES, Grenadies All Buttons down front, They started in 1656. The Coldstream Guards Two Buttons space Two Button 1650 Scots Guards 3 Buttons Irish Guards 2 Buttons Welsh Guards 1 Button This Happens every year in June Tickets for the Stands can be purchased from the Brigadier Whitehall London. UK in January no later. The People behind the Queens Coach are members of the Royal Family on Horseback. They are NOT Tin Soldiers, these are men who are fighting a war somewhere in the world. They are on Leave, but choose to Honour our Queen.
MsBeryl6 got a lot wrong. They wear BEARSKINS not buzbies. To tell the Regiments apart, Grenadiers have Single buttons down their tunics, Coldstreamers, who's motto is Second to none have sets of 2 buttons, Scots Guards have sets of three buttons, Irish Guards have 4 Button sets and the Welsh 5 buttons. The tunic collar is a fuze and grenade for Grenadiers, The Order of the Garter for the Coldstream Guards, Thistle for the Scots, Shamrock for the Irish Guards and a Leek for the Welsh Guards. The Plumes are more elaborate Grenadiers White plume Left Side, Coldstream Red plume right side, Scots Guards NO PLUME, Irish Guards Blue plume right side and Welsh guards white and green plume left side. All are active service members except for the Royal Family and do ceremonial in rotation with front line soldiering.
NOT a Busby! Bearskin. The Busby - ie what the Royal Horse Artillery wear is from the Hungarian prémes csákó ("fur shako") or kucsma, a military head-dress made of fur, originally worn by Hungarian hussars! My dad asked a guardsman about his "busby" (to my everlasting shame) and promptly got his head bitten off! Like asking a Yeoman Warder why he is called a "Beefeater" - Hint, don't do it.
The chinstrap is actually a kind of armour from days when the sword was more widely used, It is on the chin to counter a sword strike to the chin or mouth intended to partly decapitate a soldier from Horseback so that’s why the chin strap is where it is, It’s also handy while on guard duty if it was above the chin an attack from behind the Bearskin would just fall of instead of choking the Guard.
The trooping of the colour has been done in front of the Monarch for their birthday since the time of King Charles II. Today the trooping of the colour takes places on the Queen's official birthday and is televised in a two hour long program that ends with a flyover of military planes over Buckingham palace. This clip is only a very very small part of it and missed the most important part and regretfully due to covid it hasn't been done properly since 2019. Normally while the flag is being trooped they fire the WW1 era field guns from the near by park.
Should have done research before then you might not miss something important that would help answer questions when you talk over it.i believe the queen rides in the trooping the colour on horse back from when she become in 52 up to 86.now she takes a carriage.
If I’m not mistaken, the color is the flag of either the British army entirely or just the grenadiers. Trooping the color is what I know the purpose of, it is simply to mark the monarch’s birthday despite being a few months late from the actual birthday. This song was pretty much in everyone’s ears during the revolutionary war so not the best history with us Americans but it is still amazing. The chinstraps were placed higher above the chin so in case the hat got shot it wouldn’t take off the soldier’s head, you have to understand that these hats are heavy. They were originally to mock the French after losing the battle of Waterloo but became a tradition instead. Also, voice cracks are common during any military event because of how loud you have to be when you are giving a command.
The colour is the regimental standard. The standard was a rallying point on a battle field. The parade is trooping the colour queen's annual birthday ceremony. There are 5 regiments of foot guards 💂♂️ Coldstream Guards Grenadier Guards Scots Guards Welsh Guards Irish Gaurds Two cavalry regiments Blues and Royals Life Guards They all make up the household division. British Army. The entire division are all professional soldiers some of these units dating back hundreds of years.
It's a parade to celebrate the Kings official birthday,it happens every year in June the diffrent regiments take it in turns to parade their Colours (flag),which has all their battle honour's embroidered on it,in wartime hundreds of years ago like WATERLOO,before the battle they would troop the colours in front of the troops,so that in the heat of battle if lost they would know where their regiment was and rally to the flag.
the bearskin hats were originally worn by napoleons elite troops the imperial guard, after their defeat to the british at waterloo the british started wearing them. I love all things napoleon you should check out epic history tvs videos on it
The colour is each units flag. It is there to be presented by the monarch, tt shows the battle honours won. It is also used as a rallying point in a battle and it must never be captured by the enemy. Each soldier must protect the colours with their lives...it is the Regiment.
The "Colour" is the company's flag that traditionally lead them into battle. Watch the whole show and see the Colour/Flag of the company being"trooped" - id shown to all the troops to instil honour and fighting spirit before the battle.
This only shows the Escort to the Colour moving forward to the spot where the Colour (Flag) is to be handed to the Officer (ensign (Officer in charge of the Escort). After the Clour is handed to the Officer, The Escort marches through the Ranks of the other Guards on parade. This is to show the Colour so that each soldier can recognise the Colour so they knew where to rally during the heat of Battle this was done before modern warfare. The Colours are treated with the utmost respect because of the history and what they represent. There are better vids on the Trooping of the Colour. also if you would like more information on the uniforms and The Foot Guards, just type in The Guards Museum and go from there, or have a look at Guarding the Queen. From personal experience doing the Troop is OK, but then I never liked all that side, more of what we call out in the field type of person (Real Soldiering) when I was a Guardsman.
Just a pointer (no pun intended) the "Spear" you saw being taken away, is actually a Pace Stick. It's basically 2 pieces of wood, hinged together, with a metallic spike on each piece, that can be used to measure the pace of a Marching step. It's a fine art, and international competitions take place. Think like a Maths compass but you spin it next to your leg, marking the wanted pace length. Here, this will be more educational than my ramblings, ua-cam.com/video/6VtR4CLTyiU/v-deo.html
Oh, and the chin strap question - It's not placed under the chin deliberately, so that if enemy Cavalry take a swipe at you, and hit the Bearskin, it just falls off, rather than takes your head with it. The chin strap also acts as protection against face slashes. The Household Cav Regiments are identifable not just through their Tunic colours, plumes and things but also how they wear their Chin straps. Blues & Royals wear it actually under the chin, Life Guards wear it just below the bottom lip. The Horses don't wear a helmet.
BIG RESPECT FOR THIS SOLDIER. THEY RE HARD WORK , AND THAT HAT IS HEAVY THAT IS NOT UNDER THE CHIN BECOSE OF THE HEAVYNESS, CAN BRAKE THE NECK ..RESPECT !!!
In Australia we celebrate the King\s birthday on 6th June. and trooping the colour is the celebration we do to honour our king. the colour are the gold bands on the flag commamorating battle honours
The chin strap is a thick leather strap overlaid with brass chains linked together and is a chain guard. It evolved as protection against cavalry sabres and is worn under the lip where it would provide better protection to the cheeks and chin. You’re unlikely to receive a slash under your chin. Not worn today but in the past when the ceremonial uniforms (No1 dress) that you see was the standard battle dress, a leather ‘stock’ was worn under the collar. It’s a thick buckled leather collar which was uncomfortable and cut into the skin if you dropped your head. It was designed to be so as it forced the heads of exhausted soldiers to remain upright, to bit sleep as they marched and not slump. It also provided some protection to the neck from sabres cuts. The officers at the front are marching in the same step as the men but because they’re carrying the swords in the opposite hand to the one which the men are shouldered/ordered their weapons, the opposite arm is swinging.
One. Its the Queen's annual birthday parade. Two. The colour is the regimental flag of the of the guards. 3.the ' spear' is a pace stick. The Gold guys are drum majors, 4.the strap keeps the head gear on (idiot). 5. Loud to be heard in battle. I know some Americans are not very knowledgeable about most things (if anything) so I hope this simple explanation was helpful?.
That white thing that looks like a spear is called "Pace stick". It was used to measure how wide you should walk in each pace. And the Colour is the Battle Flag that was given by the monarches to every Regiment in the british army. So it's the Regimental battle flag
Something you might want to check out we have the Festival of remembrance that takes place every November at the Royal Albert Hall London close to Remembrance Day. Try looking up the 2011 festival of remembrance clip of I vow to thee my country
Not a good video to react to (despite clocking up 3 million views which is why you might have picked that one). It's way too short and has a very misleading title; these are the Coldstream Guards not the Grenadier Guards and you never even see the Regimental Colour being paraded. The chinstrap is worn in different positions depending on the regimental tradition. The whole ceremony lasts about an hour and a half. One year the regiment on parade returned from Afghanistan only 4 weeks prior to the ceremony so had some pretty intense training to get things right and up to such a high standard.
The Grenadier Guards are foot guards that guard the Queen. There are five foot guard regiments, the Grenadier, the Welsh, the Scots, the Irish, and Coldstream Guards, then there are two Household Cavalry regiments.
Pronounced Gren -a -dier . The colour is the Regimental standard on a battlefield it would have been a rallying point. There are 5 regiments of foot guards. The object you referred to as a 'spear' is called a pace stick and is usually in the possession of a senior NCO throughout the British armed forces including the RAF Regiment, the Royal Navy, Marines. It's used for pacing out marching in other words, drill instructors use them. These soldiers on parade are professional troops and some of the gaurds regiments have been in existence for hundreds of years and have fought in many parts of the globe.
The video cut off before you could see the Regiment's Colours. It is the Regiment's battle flag. Every battle is commemorated on the Colour with a new applique. The ceremony started about 300 years ago and is meant to make certain the soldiers knew where to rally during a battle. About the chin straps.. above the chin is so that if a soldier is grabbed by helmet it will slip off rather than breaking his neck.
There are various differences with each guards regiment soldiers the number of buttons on each regiments tunic also the plume in each regiments bearskin helmet white for Grenadier Guards , red for Coldstream Guards , Scots Guards don’t have a plume, blue for Irish Guards and green for the Welsh Guards.
The reason the strap on the bear skin hat is above the chin is because in battle if they where charged at by a mounted soldier (soldier on a horse) their bear skin won’t snap their neck when struck with a sword and the bear skin will fall of allowing the guard to fight back.
The chin strap is there so that it will not snap your neck in combat. Better to lose the Bearskin than your head. That was a very short video. The whole event takes very much longer. You should watch the whole Trooping of the Colour. The Colour is the Regimental "flag" which bears all the battle honours of the Regiment. Originally carried into battle, it was a rallying point for the Regiment.
The reason why the chin straps are on the upper chin is because the bear skin hats are very heavy and if they accidentally get shot, the chin strap will prevent the GG soldier from breaking his neck.
The strap is on the chin because the bearskin s are very heavy and if it was under neath the chin and the bearskin got shot off, it would fall back and possibly break your neck
The chin strap isn’t under due to tradition. It was placed above, because in the old days if you was shot in the bearskin you would get your neck broken if it was under.
There are two colours one is the regimental colours that carries all battle honours the regiment has earned And the queen’s colours that that displays the queen’s standard traditionally the were carried to the battle field and were protected until the last man fell. And the chin strap crossed the Cheeks as a tradition now but was originally designed in a time of mounted cavalrymen in order to try protect your face from the cavalrymans sabres
It's GREN A DEERS because they used to lob grenades. I expect it's one of the 1,000s of French words we were forced to learn, but have really murdered (according to the French :)).
Disappointing that Ryan didn't bother to do any 'homework' prior to his video and his comments demonstrated a lack of sincerity because he didn't bother to do even minimal research at all.
The chin straps are really heavy thick chains, in days gone by in battle they offered facial protection and also made it harder for the enemy to workout where their face was. They also wear red as it is harder to see buttons and embellishments on red, this made it hard for the enemy to identify the uniform and who they were. The colour is the emblem of each regiment, each regiment has one and it’s in the form of a flag.
Ryan seems frankly underwhelmed. I fear that the Birthday Parade (aka Trooping the Colour) is just too far out of his experience and the extract shown is just too short for him to learn anything useful.
The chin strap is worn differently in different regiments, the colour is the flag specific to the regiment. You really must watch a longer video to get the full effect.
We have a saying: "To nail on'es colours to the mast" which may ring a bell. As mentioned below the colour is the rgimental flag and it is trooped through the ranks so that the men can instantly recognise it. In most battles confusion reigns and the men sometimes need a colour to rally to. The victorious French armies instead had an eagle in place of a flag and it was the redcoats' job to capture it if they could. See 'Sharpe's Eagle' for details, although it is fiction. The Sharpe series descibes the little-known successful Peninsular campaign when Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) kicked Napoleon's best generals out of Spain and Portugal.
The colours are a regimental flag. Back in the day it was quite easy to get lost in a battle the colours were a rallying point for soldiers of that regiment. . They are usually large colourful with identifying regimental badge on them they will usually have battle honours embroidered into them. The names of famous battles the regiment has fought.
So, like a person with many medals? Well that is maybe why Colour Sergeants are called that.
@@宋亚伟-f9c The colours would be carried by ensigns the most junior officers. The Colour Sergeant or Colours Sergeant looked after the ensigns, Protecting them and the colours.
@@宋亚伟-f9c yes
To put it in simple terms the colour is a massive flag
This is not Disney or a costume.. this is a real uniform. Ffs
I don't think he was taking the piss at all, I didn't know wtf the colour was when I first watched it either and i'm british
@@jtr549 As children in 50s and 60s we all knew about the Colour and the reason it was trooped.
Education in this country is rapidly going to Hell in a handbasket.
@@karenblackadder1183 ok Karen
Firstly the bearskin is designed to make them look taller so that musket ball would usually MISS the head. The METAL chin strap sits just below the bottom lip so that a sword slash would hit the metal strap and not carve your face open. With the Kings Mounted Artillery they have gold bullion frogging on the front of their tunics and that acts as body armour. I advise watching the COMPLETE trooping of the colour (the colour being the regimental standard with battle honours presented to them by the MONARCH) It takes about an hour and a half. The strange 'spin wheel' motion of the band has never been written down but it all depends on ONE band member at the centre.
*King’s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery.
You also do not wear any strap for a helmet under your chin as was demonstrated to me by the petty officer in charge when I was on Guard at a shore base, he went behind me and pulled the front of the helmet back, choking me. I never wore a helmet held by a chin strap again. Once bitten twice shy.
Frogging never acted as body armor; its not strong enough to stop a bullet or sword. It is purely decorative type of fastener for a tunic or dolman.
@@robertsibley6330 The Blues & The Royals wear their straps below the chin (whereas the Life Guards wear theirs just below their lips). Historic photos show WWI and WWII, and modern, soldiers wearing helmet straps under the chin. As I read one former soldier put it, a helmet doesn't do any good if it fallen off your head.
No the strap Is below the chin because if it someone struck the bearskin it would not break his neck
My Dad was in the Coldstream guards and for many years I didn't know why the Colour was trooped. Dad told me that back in the day 17 century thereabouts and until electronic devises were invented the Colour (flag) was marched on the battlefields so the soldiers knew how to find their comrades and the bugle calls alerted them . That is the reason it is treasured, it's all they had back in the day and our way of showing honour to its value . I hope that makes sense x💂♂️
The "spear" you saw being handed over is in face the Regimental Sergeant Major's pace-stick, that he would use on parade to measure out spacings between soldiers on parade. As the Escort for the Colour are about to take charge of the Colour (a regiment's flag by which they would historically be identified on the battlefield), the RSM is required to draw his sword to protect the Colour; as such, his pace-stick is collected by a guardsman to allow him to draw his sword. Interesting to note that the Escort for the Colour, upon taking charge of the Colour, become the Escort to the Colour.
The actual trooping of the Colour, involves the Escort to the Colour marching their colour past the various other Guards on parade. The historical reasoning is that it would allow soldiers to become familiar with their own regimental Colour and be able to locate it on the field of battle.
The metal chinstrap was designed to protect the chin from sword slashes
The chin strap is held in place with a section of suede that keeps it in place. It’s traditional use was to protect the wearers face from swords.
It is not an entertainment,it is honouring the Regiment.
You need to watch a full Trooping to understand, preferably with the proper commentary. The "colour" is the Regimental flag, the soul and history of the unit - like a Roman Legion or a Napoleonic Eagle and lists their most important Battle Honours. The Colour was the rallying point on a smoke filled battlefield - and it was considered important that the men of a Regiment, new recruits in particular, could recognise their own colour - hence the tradition of "Trooping the Colour".
Congratulations Ryan. You have now seen the most badass thing about any military in the world!
The reason why the two guys in the front was swinging their arms simultaneously is because they are rank of officer. The other footguards swing their arms the same time.
You have to watch "The Grenadiers Slow March", where they troop the colour down the ranks of the soldiers, that's definitely the most badass thing about the entire event!
This is The "QUEENS " OFFICIAL BIRTHDAY. The Colour is the Regemental Standard FLAG. Every year a different Regiment is Honoured by TROOPING THEIR Colour. You can identify them by the Buttons on thier Tunics. Plus the Plums in thier BUZBIES, Grenadies All Buttons down front, They started in 1656.
The Coldstream Guards Two Buttons space Two Button 1650
Scots Guards 3 Buttons
Irish Guards 2 Buttons
Welsh Guards 1 Button
This Happens every year in June
Tickets for the Stands can be purchased from the Brigadier Whitehall London. UK in January no later.
The People behind the Queens Coach are members of the Royal Family on Horseback. They are NOT Tin Soldiers, these are men who are fighting a war somewhere in the world. They are on Leave, but choose to Honour our Queen.
I may have left a few things out, so please forgive me.
MsBeryl6 got a lot wrong. They wear BEARSKINS not buzbies. To tell the Regiments apart, Grenadiers have Single buttons down their tunics, Coldstreamers, who's motto is Second to none have sets of 2 buttons, Scots Guards have sets of three buttons, Irish Guards have 4 Button sets and the Welsh 5 buttons. The tunic collar is a fuze and grenade for Grenadiers, The Order of the Garter for the Coldstream Guards, Thistle for the Scots, Shamrock for the Irish Guards and a Leek for the Welsh Guards. The Plumes are more elaborate Grenadiers White plume Left Side, Coldstream Red plume right side, Scots Guards NO PLUME, Irish Guards Blue plume right side and Welsh guards white and green plume left side. All are active service members except for the Royal Family and do ceremonial in rotation with front line soldiering.
NOT a Busby! Bearskin. The Busby - ie what the Royal Horse Artillery wear is from the Hungarian prémes csákó ("fur shako") or kucsma, a military head-dress made of fur, originally worn by Hungarian hussars! My dad asked a guardsman about his "busby" (to my everlasting shame) and promptly got his head bitten off! Like asking a Yeoman Warder why he is called a "Beefeater" - Hint, don't do it.
The chinstrap is actually a kind of armour from days when the sword was more widely used, It is on the chin to counter a sword strike to the chin or mouth intended to partly decapitate a soldier from Horseback so that’s why the chin strap is where it is, It’s also handy while on guard duty if it was above the chin an attack from behind the Bearskin would just fall of instead of choking the Guard.
The trooping of the colour has been done in front of the Monarch for their birthday since the time of King Charles II. Today the trooping of the colour takes places on the Queen's official birthday and is televised in a two hour long program that ends with a flyover of military planes over Buckingham palace. This clip is only a very very small part of it and missed the most important part and regretfully due to covid it hasn't been done properly since 2019. Normally while the flag is being trooped they fire the WW1 era field guns from the near by park.
Trooping the Colour, not of the Colour please.
Should have done research before then you might not miss something important that would help answer questions when you talk over it.i believe the queen rides in the trooping the colour on horse back from when she become in 52 up to 86.now she takes a carriage.
My dad used to force my brother and I to watch this every year. We were bored to tears!! I can appreciate it now I'm a lot older!!!
Now that we are “older” it’s fun to revisit those things our parents forced us to see as kids.
If I’m not mistaken, the color is the flag of either the British army entirely or just the grenadiers. Trooping the color is what I know the purpose of, it is simply to mark the monarch’s birthday despite being a few months late from the actual birthday. This song was pretty much in everyone’s ears during the revolutionary war so not the best history with us Americans but it is still amazing. The chinstraps were placed higher above the chin so in case the hat got shot it wouldn’t take off the soldier’s head, you have to understand that these hats are heavy. They were originally to mock the French after losing the battle of Waterloo but became a tradition instead. Also, voice cracks are common during any military event because of how loud you have to be when you are giving a command.
The Colour is a flag..
The colour is the regimental standard. The standard was a rallying point on a battle field.
The parade is trooping the colour queen's annual birthday ceremony.
There are 5 regiments of foot guards 💂♂️
Coldstream Guards
Grenadier Guards
Scots Guards
Welsh Guards
Irish Gaurds
Two cavalry regiments
Blues and Royals
Life Guards
They all make up the household division. British Army.
The entire division are all professional soldiers some of these units dating back hundreds of years.
It's a parade to celebrate the Kings official birthday,it happens every year in June the diffrent regiments take it in turns to parade their Colours (flag),which has all their battle honour's embroidered on it,in wartime hundreds of years ago like WATERLOO,before the battle they would troop the colours in front of the troops,so that in the heat of battle if lost they would know where their regiment was and rally to the flag.
the bearskin hats were originally worn by napoleons elite troops the imperial guard, after their defeat to the british at waterloo the british started wearing them. I love all things napoleon you should check out epic history tvs videos on it
Every year for the Monarch’s birthday. The colour is the Flag.
The colour is each units flag. It is there to be presented by the monarch, tt shows the battle honours won. It is also used as a rallying point in a battle and it must never be captured by the enemy. Each soldier must protect the colours with their lives...it is the Regiment.
The "Colour" is the company's flag that traditionally lead them into battle. Watch the whole show and see the Colour/Flag of the company being"trooped" - id shown to all the troops to instil honour and fighting spirit before the battle.
The "Gold Guys" are the drum majors,and their gold uniform/costume can cost up to £12,000!
I’d highly recommend watching more of it, pretty much from where this video ended to the end of the March past
The uniforms worn by drum majors are priceless
This only shows the Escort to the Colour moving forward to the spot where the Colour (Flag) is to be handed to the Officer (ensign (Officer in charge of the Escort). After the Clour is handed to the Officer, The Escort marches through the Ranks of the other Guards on parade. This is to show the Colour so that each soldier can recognise the Colour so they knew where to rally during the heat of Battle this was done before modern warfare. The Colours are treated with the utmost respect because of the history and what they represent. There are better vids on the Trooping of the Colour. also if you would like more information on the uniforms and The Foot Guards, just type in The Guards Museum and go from there, or have a look at Guarding the Queen. From personal experience doing the Troop is OK, but then I never liked all that side, more of what we call out in the field type of person (Real Soldiering) when I was a Guardsman.
For all the pomp and ceremony they only get to show the monarch-the queen- the flag-colours- for about 15 seconds!!
Just a pointer (no pun intended) the "Spear" you saw being taken away, is actually a Pace Stick. It's basically 2 pieces of wood, hinged together, with a metallic spike on each piece, that can be used to measure the pace of a Marching step. It's a fine art, and international competitions take place.
Think like a Maths compass but you spin it next to your leg, marking the wanted pace length.
Here, this will be more educational than my ramblings, ua-cam.com/video/6VtR4CLTyiU/v-deo.html
Oh, and the chin strap question - It's not placed under the chin deliberately, so that if enemy Cavalry take a swipe at you, and hit the Bearskin, it just falls off, rather than takes your head with it. The chin strap also acts as protection against face slashes.
The Household Cav Regiments are identifable not just through their Tunic colours, plumes and things but also how they wear their Chin straps. Blues & Royals wear it actually under the chin, Life Guards wear it just below the bottom lip. The Horses don't wear a helmet.
BIG RESPECT FOR THIS SOLDIER. THEY RE HARD WORK , AND THAT HAT IS HEAVY THAT IS NOT UNDER THE CHIN BECOSE OF THE HEAVYNESS, CAN BRAKE THE NECK ..RESPECT !!!
Nothing beats pomp and pageantry of british trooping the colour and the precision march of chinese military . So I see the world’s best two .
That's my son's Regiment the Coldstream Guards.
Its a quick march because grenadier companies used to be the quicker regiments.
A terrible video to react to, try a full video of the event it will explain things more
or try using his computer to research what he is reacting to.
Thats my Son's Regiment,Coldstream Guards
In Australia we celebrate the King\s birthday on 6th June. and trooping the colour is the celebration we do to honour our king. the colour are the gold bands on the flag commamorating battle honours
If you got shot in the hat with the strap on your chin, your neck would break,that’s why they wear the strap just above it.
The chinstrap: The Blues wear it under the chin, the Lifeguards under the lip.
An American watching all of those red coats.
The chin strap is a thick leather strap overlaid with brass chains linked together and is a chain guard. It evolved as protection against cavalry sabres and is worn under the lip where it would provide better protection to the cheeks and chin. You’re unlikely to receive a slash under your chin. Not worn today but in the past when the ceremonial uniforms (No1 dress) that you see was the standard battle dress, a leather ‘stock’ was worn under the collar. It’s a thick buckled leather collar which was uncomfortable and cut into the skin if you dropped your head. It was designed to be so as it forced the heads of exhausted soldiers to remain upright, to bit sleep as they marched and not slump. It also provided some protection to the neck from sabres cuts. The officers at the front are marching in the same step as the men but because they’re carrying the swords in the opposite hand to the one which the men are shouldered/ordered their weapons, the opposite arm is swinging.
Those Drum Major's in gold one for each Regiment
The colour is the regimental flag. It is embroiderer whith the battle honours of the regiment.
When new battle colours are presented to the Australian army they are celebrated at Duntroon Military college in Canberra.
One. Its the Queen's annual birthday parade. Two. The colour is the regimental flag of the of the guards. 3.the ' spear' is a pace stick. The Gold guys are drum majors, 4.the strap keeps the head gear on (idiot). 5. Loud to be heard in battle. I know some Americans are not very knowledgeable about most things (if anything) so I hope this simple explanation was helpful?.
That white thing that looks like a spear is called "Pace stick". It was used to measure how wide you should walk in each pace. And the Colour is the Battle Flag that was given by the monarches to every Regiment in the british army. So it's the Regimental battle flag
All N.C.Os in British armed forces carry one including drill instructors in the Royal Navy.
Something you might want to check out we have the Festival of remembrance that takes place every November at the Royal Albert Hall London close to Remembrance Day. Try looking up the 2011 festival of remembrance clip of I vow to thee my country
Colour is the flag of battles won over the centuries
Not a good video to react to (despite clocking up 3 million views which is why you might have picked that one). It's way too short and has a very misleading title; these are the Coldstream Guards not the Grenadier Guards and you never even see the Regimental Colour being paraded.
The chinstrap is worn in different positions depending on the regimental tradition. The whole ceremony lasts about an hour and a half. One year the regiment on parade returned from Afghanistan only 4 weeks prior to the ceremony so had some pretty intense training to get things right and up to such a high standard.
“What is the colour?” Red mate. Or the colours of 🇬🇧 which “y’all” had to adopt lol
The reason why the guards have the straps below the nose is because the hat is heavy and if shot will break their neck
The strap is worn such because, if it were under the chin and in battle, a shell hitting you Bearskin would take your head off. Hence under the nose
The Grenadier Guards are foot guards that guard the Queen. There are five foot guard regiments, the Grenadier, the Welsh, the Scots, the Irish, and Coldstream Guards, then there are two Household Cavalry regiments.
I'm American , and I think you said it all very well. 👌 Bewildered and entertained, that is my personal summary.
Nice to see an American kid get an education in Military peacetime splendor ..
Try watching the West Point Graduating Class Parade.
Mate this has been done over 250 years!
The hats are so heavy that is you put it under the chin and someone hits it hard enough, it can break their necks.
Pronounced Gren -a -dier .
The colour is the Regimental standard on a battlefield it would have been a rallying point.
There are 5 regiments of foot guards.
The object you referred to as a 'spear' is called a pace stick and is usually in the possession of a senior NCO throughout the British armed forces including the RAF Regiment, the Royal Navy, Marines. It's used for pacing out marching in other words, drill instructors use them.
These soldiers on parade are professional troops and some of the gaurds regiments have been in existence for hundreds of years and have fought in many parts of the globe.
Americans could only dream of being able to get anywhere near this .
Even American Regiments must have Regiment Colours.
colour is the regiment flag. they take it into battle, allthe different guards regiments have the strap or helmet different, its tradition
The video cut off before you could see the Regiment's Colours. It is the Regiment's battle flag. Every battle is commemorated on the Colour with a new applique. The ceremony started about 300 years ago and is meant to make certain the soldiers knew where to rally during a battle. About the chin straps.. above the chin is so that if a soldier is grabbed by helmet it will slip off rather than breaking his neck.
The chimney strap is designed to lower the risk of neck injury. It will fall off rather than break their neck if unbalanced.
There are various differences with each guards regiment soldiers the number of buttons on each regiments tunic also the plume in each regiments bearskin helmet white for Grenadier Guards , red for Coldstream Guards , Scots Guards don’t have a plume, blue for Irish Guards and green for the Welsh Guards.
The chin strap, it doesn't go under the chin in case of enemy shots taking the head with a shot to the hat.
Ryan the escort to the color command and also accompanying music is to collect the color(flag)
The reason the strap on the bear skin hat is above the chin is because in battle if they where charged at by a mounted soldier (soldier on a horse) their bear skin won’t snap their neck when struck with a sword and the bear skin will fall of allowing the guard to fight back.
Grenn ah deers.
The chin strap is there so that it will not snap your neck in combat. Better to lose the Bearskin than your head. That was a very short video. The whole event takes very much longer. You should watch the whole Trooping of the Colour. The Colour is the Regimental "flag" which bears all the battle honours of the Regiment. Originally carried into battle, it was a rallying point for the Regiment.
The reason why the chin straps are on the upper chin is because the bear skin hats are very heavy and if they accidentally get shot, the chin strap will prevent the GG soldier from breaking his neck.
GREN-A- DEARS
The strap is on the chin because the bearskin s are very heavy and if it was under neath the chin and the bearskin got shot off, it would fall back and possibly break your neck
What's it like to have a small member of the family watch this video you will find out
the colour is the flag
Oh dear!!
Sir i am german
Show respect to Britain
The Escort to the Colours is the Coldstream Guards.
Trooping the colour is a flag
The chin strap isn’t under due to tradition. It was placed above, because in the old days if you was shot in the bearskin you would get your neck broken if it was under.
There are two colours one is the regimental colours that carries all battle honours the regiment has earned
And the queen’s colours that that displays the queen’s standard traditionally the were carried to the battle field and were protected until the last man fell.
And the chin strap crossed the Cheeks as a tradition now but was originally designed in a time of mounted cavalrymen in order to try protect your face from the cavalrymans sabres
It's GREN A DEERS because they used to lob grenades. I expect it's one of the 1,000s of French words we were forced to learn, but have really murdered (according to the French :)).
Hello Ryan, I also wanted to ask exactly the same question, does the marines or American military do this kind of drill, trooping the color?
Of course they don't it is a British tradition.
Disappointing that Ryan didn't bother to do any 'homework' prior to his video and his comments demonstrated a lack of sincerity because he didn't bother to do even minimal research at all.
He has to shout it's a big parade ground
The British do not scream while getting shot at
It's on the chin so it doesn't snap the guards necks
You picked the wrong one. The colours are presented before the Queen on her offical birthday
The guys are the guard for the queen or now is the king
The reason that they wear the straps is so that if the bear skin falls off it slips off there head and doesnt strangle them
The chin straps are really heavy thick chains, in days gone by in battle they offered facial protection and also made it harder for the enemy to workout where their face was. They also wear red as it is harder to see buttons and embellishments on red, this made it hard for the enemy to identify the uniform and who they were. The colour is the emblem of each regiment, each regiment has one and it’s in the form of a flag.
Britain only wore red because Oliver Cromwell introduced it in the new model army as it was the cheapest colour
that;s not a spear its a S W O R D
What you talking about everything went great
Ryan seems frankly underwhelmed. I fear that the Birthday Parade (aka Trooping the Colour) is just too far out of his experience and the extract shown is just too short for him to learn anything useful.
The chin strap is worn differently in different regiments, the colour is the flag specific to the regiment. You really must watch a longer video to get the full effect.
Watch the1 hour 30 one and it makes a lot more sense
Spear ? It's a sorwd
We have a saying: "To nail on'es colours to the mast" which may ring a bell. As mentioned below the colour is the rgimental flag and it is trooped through the ranks so that the men can instantly recognise it. In most battles confusion reigns and the men sometimes need a colour to rally to. The victorious French armies instead had an eagle in place of a flag and it was the redcoats' job to capture it if they could. See 'Sharpe's Eagle' for details, although it is fiction. The Sharpe series descibes the little-known successful Peninsular campaign when Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) kicked Napoleon's best generals out of Spain and Portugal.
And the French eagles were taken to London to prove that Napoleon had been defeated.
After Waterloo.
FAN - TASTIC
The Colour IS the Regiment
Not a spear a SWORD
The title is misleading this the coldstream guards trooping their colour