COLONIAL REGIMENT OF GUARDS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2967, 28 September 1882, Page 3

COLONIAL REGIMENT OF GUARDS.

The London “ Evening Standard ” save i —“ A correspondent writes to the < United Service Gazette ” to the effect that there should he five regiments of Guards —the English Guards, the Scots Guards, the Irish Guards, the Colonial Guards and the Indian Guards, ‘ The English (Grenadier and Scots Guards,’) he adds, ‘exist; the Ooldstreams could be transformed into Irish, and our Co'onial and Indian subjects would only here quifed to contribute a regiment each. Is not the suggestion worth consideration ? It most undoubtedly is; but it needs to be put into more practical shape. A colonial regiment of guards could be easily recruited, and to sanction the organisation of such a force, would be hailed as a gracious tribute to the patriotism of our fellow countrymen in Australia, the Cape, and Canada, and be in a sense a new fi vetting of the bonds of connection with the Home land. As regards India, the idea is beset with some obstacles, mainly of climate and race; but a battalion of native troops might be brought by rotation as a sort of premium on good conduct, for service in London, much as the Turcos were in Paris under the Second Empire."