The Ceremony of
Trooping the Colour
of the Second Battalion
The Royal Canadian Regiment
London, Ontario — 19th October, 1957
On 19 October, 1957, the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, performed the ceremonial parade for Trooping the Colour. Commanding the Battalion was Lieutenant Colonel G.C. Corbould, DSO, OBE, CD, and the Regimental Sergeant Major was WO I G.H. Fuller, CD. Second Lieutenant A.J. Lawson was the Ensign for the Colour. Taking the Salute was General Charles Foulkes, CB, CBE, DSO, CD.
Trooping the Colour is an historic ceremony whereby, with due solemnity, the Regimental Colour (or Queen's and Regimental Colours if a Royal or Vice-Regal personage is present), is paraded before the soldiers of a Battalion. Trooping the Colour displays for all the soldiers the unit's most prized possession, representing the history, service, and sacrifice of those who have gone before them, and charging them with their duty to continue to uphold that honour in the future.
The following is the musical program for the 2nd Battalion's Trooping (links go to a variety of artists on Youtube):
1. "Advance" is sounded by the Buglers of the Corps of Drums. The Guards march on to the Square to the 2nd Gloucestershire March.
2. Corps of Drums: "Drum Section March "
3. Corps of Drums: "Officers' Call" and play the "Assembly "
4. Regimental Band: "Slow March" "Pro Patria "
5. Regimental Band: "General Salute "
6. Regimental Band: "Troop" "Pageantry" "The Colours "
7. Regimental Band: "Slow March" "The Duke of York"
"Quick March" "Sons of the Brave"
"Drummers' Call"
8. Regimental Band: "British Grenadiers"
9. Regimental Band: "Regimental March"
10. Regimental Band: "Slow March" "Grenadier March"
11. Regimental Band: "Quick March" "The Maple Leaf Forever"
12. Regimental Band: "Slow March" "Kynegard Slashers" "1st Gloucestershire"
13. Regimental Band and Corps of Drums: "Quick March" "The Regimental March"
14. Regimental Band: "Quick March" "The Maple Leaf Forever"
15. Regimental Band: "Quick March" ""The British Grenadiers"
16. Regimental Band: "General Salute"
17. Regimental Band and Corps of Drums: "Quick March" "The Regimental March"
Photo (above): RSM Fuller receiving the Colour from Sgt Wilkinson.
Below, excerpted page from the regimental journal of The Royal Canadian Regiment; Summer, 1957:
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