Glad you enjoyed it!

Good!!!

Thanks for the comment. I was about to post something about this myself until I saw yours.

Thank you. I'll bear your advice in mind.

Spot on, The Real Deal. fills me full of Pride.

Regretably I'm not responsible for the elements.

Its called ' Perambulating '. Quite unique to them. If you watch the Guard Mounting video you'll see how the Cavalry do it.

I'm retired RN. Strangest about turn I've ever seen, and that includes witnessing a mixed parade of representatives from all Nato Army, Navy and Airforces in the early 80's.

@@veterans-tv ex NZ territorial army (infantry )and wondered a bout the officers movement .thanks .also enjoyed a career in pipebands -best of both worlds.hells bells that pace was fast ???112bpm-nearly up to ghurkas. great work.

Glad you enjoyed it

According to Google it seems to have to do with the defeat by the Duke of Wellington of the Mahratta army in India on 23rd September 1803. Not sure what those few blokes walking up and down are about. But who cares, the music's great!

I agree!

You can learn more about the battle of Assaye through a search engine. This parade was simply for replacing the Assaye colour (that's the flag with the elephant on it) because it was getting old and and tattered. This parade was held because the regiment is rightly proud to display their battle honours (this is what the colours represent). The current amalgamated regiment is 2 Scots and is the only British regiment to hold three colours. As a veteran of 1st Battalion Royal Highland fusiliers (that's the regiment that held the colours before 2 Scots), I was proud to attend this parade for the renewal of the Assaye Colour.

if you're not in a highland regiment but are in a parade with on of their bands they are hard as hell to keep proper pacing...either to slow or too fast. Usually to slow really throws of your cadence. But coming from Scottish blood the pipes make my hair stand up and I feel like getting drunk or in a fight...or maybe both.

The old 74th, whose Assaye Colour tradition is being marked here, later became 2nd Bn, The Highland Light Infantry (71st & 74th). Light infantry of the British Army march at a parade step of 140 paces a minute. The Assaye Day parade was then marked by the HLI for the next 78 years until 1959 when the HLI amalgamated with the Royal Scots Fusiliers to become the Royal Highland Fusiliers. In 2006 the RHF became the 2nd Bn, the Royal Regiment of Scotland, who are filmed celebrating Assaye Day here in such impressive fashion, wearing the kilt that the 71st and 74th wore until ordered to cease wearing Highland dress in 1809 and the 21st North British Fuzileers- never! (Hence the Drum Major wearing tartan trews and Fusilier bearskin cap ) The old Assaye colour is being marched on at light infantry pace evoking the HLI tradition inherited by the RHF and 2 SCOTS. Only in the British Army

@@japhfo thanks for that 🙂

@@joangordon3376 My pleasure

Glad you enjoyed

Its called Perambulating. Something they have always done.

Die bewachen die Zeremonie damit keiner wegrennt wenn er keine Lust mehr hat Dudelsack zu spielen... zudem halten sie das Publikum davon ab auf das Feld zu rennen und allen zu zeigen was sie unter dem Kilt tragen.

Its called ' Perambulating ' They sort of walk up and down till the parade is formed up.

​​@@veterans-tv would this not distract everyone else ??? please enlighten me on the white socks worn over the boots too ?

@@gathsfamily2866 not socks but gaiters 😆😆

@@gathsfamily2866 No the parade was shot on a TV camera from just in front of the stands. Very unintrusive. The boot coverings are called ' Spats '.

@@jlemos3450 ok ,but what are they for ? What purpose do they serve ?

Why?? What difference would it make??

in every country in the world the officers are almost never of working class origen and because of that have almost never regional accents, certainly not on official duty.

The C.O. clearly has an upper middle class West of Scotland accent.

Scots have held the highest commands in the British Military. Check your history.

Jack, its not the ' Regimental ' Colour which carries the Battle Honours etc of the Regiment. The Assaye Colour commemorates a single engagement of the Historical Regiment.

@@veterans-tv Understand. Thank you. Such bits of information are challenging to come by at times.

Neil, I'm told its a throwback to their Highland Light Infantry days. They were amalgamated with the HLI to become the RSF. Cant speak to the Dress Code as I was a tank man and we had none LOL.

@@veterans-tv they are the Royal regiment of Scotland train with all the other battalions used to be the RHF they trained at the Scottish Division Depot with rest of us didn't march at that pace then

@@neilchristie7637 yes but from what I understand it’s only the colour party that pace it out like that.