10-27-2010, 01:21 AM
Quote:(and by the way, dressing up for a village pageant type event was exactly how the ESG started ! )
I know I have seen "the historic documents"! Upon enlistment I was even issued with a fibre-glass helmet! Fortunately a metal version arrived soon afterwards so I never wore the fibre-glass one into action so to speak. That was 12 years after the founding of the Guard just to indicate the length of time it took when nothing was available off the shelf! The Guard was proud of its origins and the improvements it made.
If anyone would have seen the pictures of the Italian event way back then they would have been amazed and that probably would have been seen as the standard to aspire too.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
