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Joe Hadden

Coldstream Guards mark 375th anniversary with return to birthplace Berwick

Members of the Coldstream Guards, wearing their full ceremonial dress of scarlet tunics and bearskin caps, parade through their birthplace in Berwick-upon-Tweed (PA) - (PA Wire)

The Coldstream Guards have made a symbolic return to their roots in Berwick-upon-Tweed by train, 375 years after the regiment was formed in the border town.

Soldiers in full ceremonial uniform – red tunics and bearskin caps – boarded an early morning LNER train from King’s Cross Station on Tuesday to mark the occasion, joined by the Band of the Coldstream Guards.

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