The Surrey Veterans' Parade, which took place on the Horse
Guards' Parade last Saturday, showed that we hare in the trained men with whom the War Office have hitherto failed to keep in touch a military asset of no small import- ance. The Register of the Surrey Veterans now numbers two thousand men, of whom close on fourteen hundred were actually present. Of these, who included some seventeen officers, about half were ex-Regulars and half ex-Volunteers. Of the Regulars the number of men with war medals was most remarkable, while no small proportion of the ex- Volunteers were similarly decorated. To pass down the ranks and look at the medals was to read in flesh and blood the history of the military achievements of the British Army during the past twenty years in India, in Egypt, and in South Africa.
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