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	Yeomen Of The Guard - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The corps was originally officered by a captain (a post long associated with that of vice-chamberlain), an ensign (or standard-bearer), a clerk of the cheque (or chequer roll, his duty being to keep the roll of every one connected with the household), besides petty officers, captains, sergeants or ushers.
		Though the corps from the earliest day was composed of foot-soldiers, during royal progresses and journeys a portion of the Guard formed a mounted escort to the sovereign until the end of the Georgian period.
		When firearms came into use, a certain portion were armed with the harquebus, the Guard being given buff cross belts to support the weight on service.
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	The Monarchy Today > Ceremony and symbol > Ceremonial bodies > Gentlemen at Arms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Gentlemen at Arms also attend The Queen's garden parties, where their task is to form the lanes through which the members of the Royal Family walk.
		The Honourable Corps consists of five Officers (the Captain, the Lieutenant, the Standard Bearer, the Clerk of the Cheque and the Harbinger) and 27 Gentlemen.
		The Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms was instituted by King Henry VIII in 1509.
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	The Probert Encyclopaediat
		The King's Bodyguard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms was a body of 39 officers decorated for war services derived from the 'pensioners' of Henry VIII, and founded in 1862 as the first military bodyguard of the sovereign at official functions and ceremonies.
		She was armed with thirty-six 32 pounder guns on the lower deck and thirty-four 24 pounder guns on the main gun deck and a further ten 18 pounder guns on the upper deck.
		It was armed with two 7.9 mm MG 17 machine guns in the wings, one 7.9 mm MG 15 machine gun in the rear cockpit and it could carry a 1100lb bomb under the fuselage, or 4 110lb bombs on the wings.
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	Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In many armies, a corps refers to a unit of approximately 60,000 men, composed of usually three divisions, and typically commanded by a lieutenant general.
		This corps was renamed I Canadian Corps as a second corps headquarters was established in the UK, with the eventual formation of five Canadian divisions in England.
		The Royal Armoured Corps and the Corps of Infantry are looser groupings of independent regiments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Corps (1495 words)

	Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her Majesty's Bodyguard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms is a bodyguard to the British Monarch.
		The corps was formed as the Troop of Gentlemen in 1509 by King Henry VIII to act as a mounted escort, armed with spear and lance to protect the sovereign, in battle or elsewhere.
		The Corps today consists of five Officers (the Captain, the Lieutenant, the Standard Bearer, the Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant and the Harbinger) and 27 Gentlemen.
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	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (G-O)
		She was armed with ten 4.1 inch guns.
		A lancer was a cavalry soldier armed with a lance.
		It is armed with a M284 howitzer and a Browning 0.5 inch calibre anti-aircraft machine gun.
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	Victorian London - Publications - Social Investigation/Journalism - London Up to Date, by George Augustus Sala, 1895 - ...
		Gentlemen who were appointed to the Commission of Lieutenancy when this particular garb prevailed, are still suffered to wear it at St. James's.
		The colonnade is crowded with a dazzling assemblage of gentlemen in sumptuous attire; the military predominating.
		They are appointed to their honourable station by the Crown; and they have their mess-room in the palace, where Royalties sometimes dine with them.
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	The World WYKES Web: Devonshire Wills
		The children of "Roger de Wray" of Northwyke were contemporary with the Abbots of Wray, and it was probably for this reason that they abandoned the surname of Wray, an estate with which they had become disassociated, in favour of Wyke, the property with which for some generations they had been more closely identified.
		The latter's descendant, Sir John Halwell, appears to have assumed the arms of Cheverstone, and immediately after the accession of Henry VII., 1485, he commenced an action against Sir.William Courtenay of Powderham, for the recovery of the Cheverstone estates.
		After a tedious litigation, which extended over some years, it was ultimately decreed that the Courtenays should continue in the quiet possession of their land, as they have since done, but only after payment to the plaintif of the sum of.
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	Palmer Confirmation of Arms
		The Palmer arms are very elaborate and tell a genealogical story of the relationship between the Anglo-Irish Palmer, Smyth, and Ralphson families.
		The grant of arms mentioned as dating to 8 August 1674 refers to the Ralphson family and not the Palmers.
		The other sons must difference their arms, that is, they can be similar to the father's arms, but must differ in some way.
	mcguinnessfamily.org /palmer-arms.htm (0 words)

	Military Cross, Victoria Cross and Civilian Heroes of Manchester including John Henry Code, James Kirk, Graham Thompson ...
		Issy Smith died on the 10th September 1940 and was buried with full military honours in the Hebrew section of the Fawkner Cemetery in Melbourne.
		Lieutenant Kirk, armed with a Lewis Gun, and under intense enemy fire, paddled across the canal on a hastily constructed crude wooden plank raft to give covering fire to his comrades.
		Ultimately, he was wounded in the face and arm and died as a result of a head wound on 4th November 1918.
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	YEOMEN OF THE GUARD - Online Information article about YEOMEN OF THE GUARD
		CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat.
		House of Lords that the Guard conducted it in 1690 and that it has been continuous since 176o, but Sir Reginald HenneIl's contention is that it dated from 16o5 and has since been regularly observed.
		Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms." See The History of the King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard, by See also:
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	Untitled Document
		On the same night, it is said, that armed only with a sergeant's sword he faced a guard of 27 men.
		He transferred to The Madras Staff Corps in 1884 where he was in the Burmese Expedition, gaining the Medal and Clasp for 1885-87.
		Arming himself with a rifle and hand-grenade he started to crawl towards his objective, and when he had advanced about 100 yards another soldier came forward to give covering support.
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	Memorial Sites > HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother > Background > Military ceremonial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		HM Bodyguard of the Honourable Corps of the Gentlemen at Arms
		The Bodyguard is the oldest military corps in existence.
		Nowadays the Corps is confined to ceremonial duties.
	www.royalinsight.gov.uk /textonly/Page1024.asp (0 words)

	Glorious Tradition of the British Army by G F Bacon
		Sir Walter Scott, in The Talisman, alludes to this bodyguard, although it is to be hoped for the sake of their honour, that no real foundation existed for the story of their want of vigilance which nearly cost their Royal master his life, when the fanatics dagger was arrested by the disguised knight.
		It is true that four years earlier Charles II formed a corps of Life Guards to which he added a regiment of Horse Guards and 3 regiments of Foot Guards; but it was not until 1660 that the Life Guards were placed upon a proper footing.
		A portion of the Heavy Camel Corps took part in the march of Stewart's Column across the desert from Corti to Metammeh and back which no less an authority but Von Moltke declared to be the work not only of soldiers, but of heroes.
	www.regimental-art.com /history_life_guards.htm (0 words)

	Memorial Sites > HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother > Background > Military Ceremonial > HM Bodyguard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Corps was first designated 'The King's Speres' but later, when the battle axe was introduced for dismounted work, as 'The Bank of Gentlemen Pensioners'.
		The Corps nowadays performs ceremonial functions only, but in the past it appeared on active service with the Sovereign, notably during the French wars with King Henry VIII.
		The Corps consists of five Officers and 27 Gentlemen.
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		Four at each time, service men took their places in the vigil over the coffin, creating a scene of magical royalty and tradition.
		In the picture on the left, Her Majesty's Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms stands vigil.
		In the centre, the officers Royal Company of Archers (the Queen’s Bodyguard in Scotland) stand vigil and on the right, a beautiful picture of an officer of the Blues and Royals as he bows his head during the vigil.
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	Royal Insight > July 2003 > Focus > Parties at the Palace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Each member of the Royal Family walks through a 'lane' kept open through the throngs of guests by Her Majesty's Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, founded by Henry VIII in 1509.
		For garden parties, members of the Corps wear morning dress rather than their uniform of red, blue and gold.
		Members of an even older body - the Gentlemen Ushers, whose office has been known since the 15th century - are also in the lanes, to make a random selection of guests to meet The Queen and the other senior Royal Family members present.
	www.royalinsight.gov.uk /textonly/Page2492.asp (0 words)

	Berks FHS Family Historian) Dec 2000 Genealogical source in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle
		The only two bodies correctly described as 'bodyguards' to the monarch are the Yeoman of the Guard (not to be confused with the Yeomen Warders of the Tower of London) and the Gentlemen at Arms (formerly known as Gentlemen Pensioners).
		Their names may also appear in the Household Index, but otherwise records of these bodies are held by the Exon, the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard and the Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant, Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, at St. James's Palace, London SW1A 1JR.
		Records of Drawing Rooms, Courts and Levees, at which ladies and gentlemen were presented to the Sovereign, may be found in the Lord Chamberlain's records at the PRO for the nineteenth century and possibly earlier.
	www.berksfhs.org.uk /journal/Dec2000/dec2000RoyalArchives.htm (0 words)

	Cambridgeshire History - Cambridgeshire
		Establishment of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms by King Henry VIII.
		An Inquisition records enclosures at Cheveley, Childerley, Cottenham, East Hatley, Longstowe, Orwell, Shingay and Steeple Morden; to these could possibly be added Arrington and Tadlow; all this amounted to under 10% of Cambridgeshire's cultivated acreage.
		The college was later renamed Gonvill and Caius in his honour.
	www.cambridgeshirehistory.com /cambridgeshire/timeline/timeline13.html (0 words)

	Barnabas quotidianus » Lunch with the Queen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Yesterday the national service of Thanksgiving to celebrate the 80th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II took place in the wonderful setting of St Paul’s Cathedral.
		I had the great honour of representing the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the UK at the service and took part in a procession of non-Christian faith representatives before the service began.
		Her Majesty’s Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms follow the Yeomen of the Guard and then proceed by way of the Centre Aisle to take up their positions under the Dome.
	www.leithjb.net /blog/2006/06/16/lunch-with-the-queen (0 words)

	Indian Army
		Fighting his way through them he rejoined his men, where he at once, wounded as he was, placed himself at the head of the troop and with no other weapon than the hilt of his broken sword, pursued the enemy for miles, completely routing them.
		Lieutenant Watson had received a blow on the head from a tulwar, another on the left arm, severing the chain gauntlet-glove, another on the right arm, dividing the sleeve of his jacket, and a blow on the leg, which lamed him for some days.
		He was shot through the left arm, received a spear-wound in the chest, and a bullet through the right sleeve of his coat.
	www.armynavyairforce.co.uk /indian_army.htm (0 words)

	Ceremonial Funeral Procession
		The coffin is carried on a gun carriage, escorted in a long procession by members of all the armed forces and by members of the Royal Family, to Westminster Hall where the body lies in state, allowing ordinary people to pay their last respects by filing past the coffin.
		In a tribute evocative of Arthurian legend, four officers march down the steps of the Hall, past the heraldic beasts, across the stone floor and mount the catafalque, one at each corner of the coffin.
		The coffin is guarded in this way, during the lying-in-state, by officers from Household Division, The Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard, Her Majesty's Bodyguard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms and The Royal Company of Archers in turn and turn about.
	www.trooping-the-colour.co.uk /funeral/home.htm (0 words)

	Everything about Aulaxanthus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		right Her Majesty's Bodyguard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms is a bodyguard to the British Monarch.
		It was formed as the Troop of Gentlemen in 1509 by King Henry VIII to act as a mounted escort, armed with spear and
		Muhammad Ismail Marcinkowski is a name formerly used by Dr. Christoph Marcinkowski (born May 21 1964), award-winning German scholar in Islamic, Iranian, and Southeast Asian studies.
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	South African Military History Society - Journal - The Silver Highlander
		It is a beautiful example of the silversmith’s craft, correct even to the detail of the dress sporran, and there can be few pieces of regimental silver anywhere in the world treated with greater ceremony and deference than the “Silver Highlander”.
		Lt.-Col. McLintock, commanding the 2nd Gordon Highlanders in Scotland at the time (the 1st Battalion was on overseas service), felt that it would be a fitting gesture to present the officers of their new South African sister-regiment with a piece of silver for their Mess.
		In 1900, Queen Victoria had appointed him a Segeant-at-Arms in Ordinary, while from 1903 till 1939 he was a member of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-st-Arms, standing guard at the lying-in-state of three British sovereigns — Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V, and also that, of Queen Alexandra.
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	Janus: The Papers of Field Marshal Lord Cavan
		On the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, he was appointed to command the 2nd Brigade of the 1st London Division of the Territorial Force and shortly afterwards was sent to France and promoted temporary Brigadier General.
		He led 14th Corps in Italy, 1917-18, and assumed command of British forces in Italy, 1918.
		He was Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, 1929-31, and promoted Field Marshal, 1932.
	janus.lib.cam.ac.uk /db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0014/CAVN (0 words)

	The Scotsman - Celebrating changes that were nowhere to be seen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Queen, dressed in peacock blue, walked from the North Door down the long expanse of Westminster Hall with her customary dignity.
		She was preceded by a posse of beefeaters and Her Majesty’s Bodyguard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, a troupe of elderly gentleman who appeared, like so much of the cast, to have stumbled from a dress rehearsal for an amateur production of Gilbert and Sullivan.
		Twenty-five years ago, on a similar occasion to mark her silver jubilee, the Queen had archly reminded a Labour government bent on devolution that she was "crowned Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=466912002 (0 words)

	The Queen Mother 1900-2002
		A Guard of Honour found by Nijmegen Company, Grenadier Guards, with the Royal Standard of the Regiment and the Band of the Regiment, under the command of Major Martin David, Grenadier Guards, is formed up in Parliament Square facing the gates of New Palace Yard.
		The procession includes clergy and Her Majesty's Insignia, followed by the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother after which the coffin surmounted by Her Majesty's Crown is carried in by the Bearer Party.
		They are followed by Captain Mark Grayson Equerry to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, The Honourable Nicholas Assheton Treasurer and Extra Equerry to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Captain Sir Alastair Aird Private Secretary and Comptroller to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Major Raymond Seymour Assistant Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
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	F's - www.victoriacross.co.uk
		Out-gunned and on fire Jervis Bay maintained the unequal fight for three hours, although the Captain's right arm was shattered and his bridge was shot from under him.
		He was Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms in 1924.
		He ordered one Troop to dismount and engage the enemy while he led the remaining three troops to the charge, passing over the lines, killing many of the enemy then wheeling about and galloping at them again.
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	100 years ago
		Whatever the difference in numbers may be, the personal changes in the town have been very considerable.
		It was a matter of comment last week among some gentlemen interested in Poor Law Administration, that the Newark Union had lost nearly all its officials in the short space of three years.
		A well deserved honour has been conferred upon Major John MacRae Gilstrap, of Newark, by his appointment as one of his Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms.
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