OFFICERS AND } NON-COMMISSIONED } The officers and serjeants will turn outwards, OFFICERS } the former recovering swords, the latter at the OUTWARDS } slope. TURN. } TAKE POST } IN FRONT OF } The officers and serjeants will step off; halting YOUR GUARDS. } and turning towards the line opposite their QUICK--MARCH. } proper posts; the former will carry swords as } they halt. { On the word MARCH, the officers and serjeants { will step off in slow time, the former recovering { swords as they take the first pace. The band TO YOUR { will play a slow march as the officers and GUARDS. { serjeants march to the line, and cease playing as SLOW--MARCH. { the latter arrive at their places. When the { officers are three paces from the line they will { mark time; the serjeants will mark time when on the { right of their guards. HALT, { The officers and serjeants will halt and turn ABOUT--TURN. { about, the former carrying swords. The field officer will take post fifteen paces in front of the centre of the line, give the command ORDER--ARMS, and signal to the band. 10. The band and drums will play a _Troop_, marching in time to the music from the right to the left of the line. On arriving near the Colour they will countermarch, halt, and cease playing. They will then play a _Quick March_, and move from left to right, countermarch, halt, and cease playing when in front of the right of the line. 11. The _Drummer’s Call_ will beat. On the first tap of the call the captain and lieutenant of the right guard will recover swords and turn inwards, and will move across in quick time; the captain placing himself three paces in front of the right file of the second guard, the lieutenant three paces in front of the lieutenant for the Colour, who will be three paces in front of the centre of the escort. If there are only two officers with the right guard the escort will be commanded by the subaltern from the second guard. The band and drums will be placed in front of the right guard, and the serjeant-major will fall in four paces in rear of the centre file of the escort, and draw his sword. 12. The field officer will then give the command, ESCORT FOR THE COLOUR, SLOPE--ARMS. REMAINDER, STAND AT--EASE; the sentries on the Colour remaining with ordered arms. _Escort, By the_ } The escort, preceded by the band and _Left. Quick--March._ } drums playing the “British Grenadiers,” _Left--Form._ } will move out the distance of a guard and a _Forward by_ } half from the line, then form to the left, _the Centre._ } and march straight to the Colour. The escort will be halted at rather more than forming distance from the Colour.