* • * Last Saturday the memorial to the Guards'
Division was unveiled at the Horse Guards by the Duke of Connaught. The Guards' Division had earned a position for their memorial on the edge of the most famous parade ground in the Empire. Higher praise cannot be given. If anyone .wants to prove the importance of scrupulous attention to small details in military affairs he has only to point to the consummate ceremonial competence of the Brigade of Guards and to add that the same men have always excelled on the battlefield. The unfaltering ritual of last Saturday was made more, not less, impressive by the presence of a great many ex- Guardsmen in civilian clothes. An unforgettable service was brought to an end by the playing of the " Flowers of the Forest "—the famous Scottish coronach—by the massed pipers of the Brigade of Guards and then, of course, by the heart-piercing Last Post and the merciful relaxation of the Reveille. We print elsewhere an appreciation of the memorial itself.
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