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The ceremony of "Trooping the Colour" dates back to the distant past. "The Colour" is the regimental flag with all their battle honours on it. So that they could properly recognise the flag, and thus know which side they were on and where they should rally, the Colour would be paraded (trooped) in
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wrote a script. Powell liked Milner, but said he was "more a sketch artist than a full blown dramatist" and "our collaboration was uneasy." He later said the film was "a broken backed feature when it should have been a family saga and an epic of military glory... We shouldn't have tried to compete
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ceremony on 11 June 1960. John is the son of retired guardsman Capt. Fellowes and Mrs. Fellowes. John's elder brother was also a Guards officer, but was killed in action; John feels that he is being forced to follow in his brother's footsteps.
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