The exigencies of time and place made it impossible for
the men to go through any evolutions. All that was possible was to form the fourteen companies into which the Veterans were divided into three sides of a hollow square,—a formation which, though four deep, occupied the whole of the Horse Guards' Parade.—The Horse Guards' Parade was kindly placed at the disposal of the Surrey Territorial Association by General Codrington, the General commanding the Home District, for whose helpful interest in the parade all those con- nected with it are deeply grateful.—In order to get the men into their positions a good deal of marching and counter-marching of the companies had to take place, and this gave rise to what was perhaps in some ways the most striking incident of the whole parade. Every now and then a company, though com- posed of men who had never seen each other before that afternoon, and many of whom could not have been drilled for perhaps seven or eight years, moved with such precision and elasticity that a spontaneous cheer would break out from their twelve hundred comrades on the ground.
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