They mean 170 fewer troops lining the route for the Birthday Parade.

Metropolitan Police Commander on duty at the Queen's Birthday Parade.

That same year the 2nd Battalion took part in the Queen's Birthday Parade.

In 1996 the battalion deployed once more to Ireland and the following year the regiment takes part in the Queen's Birthday Parade.

The Queen's colour was trooped there for the first time on the Queen's Birthday Parade in 1956, a practice which has continued since then.

The Queen rode her in the annual Birthday Parade every year after that until she was retired after the 1986 ceremony.

You have my very best wishes for the future, and I look forward to seeing my Colour trooped at the Birthday Parade next month.

A rehearsal (known as The Colonel's Review) usually takes place a week before the actual Birthday Parade.

During the Queen's Birthday Parade in 1977, he collapsed from sun stroke but recovered .

Uncle Sam's 200th Birthday Parade illustrated by Frank Brugos (1974)