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1. When units of the British Army parade, they conform to a grouping of rules known as the 'Order of Precedence', so bearing this in mind, would you say that units of the Household Cavalry take precedence over all others under all circumstances?
2. On those occasions when members of all three armed services parade together, for the Remembrance Day parades at the Cenotaph in London for example, these parades are termed 'combined parades'. In these cases, Royal Marines and Royal Marine Reserve members would parade as a part of which contingent?
3. When presented to a unit, new colours, standards and guidons are consecrated by a member of the Royal Army Chaplain's Department during a service known as a 'drumhead service'. What criteria are applied to the selection of the denomination of the chaplain who will carry out this consecration?
4. During a visit to a cathedral you may have seen an example of a regimental chapel and its display of old regimental colours, some of which may be hundreds of years old and in various states of disintegration. What is the ultimate fate of these old colours?
5. On the arrival and departure of the sovereign at a parade, guards of honour will recognise the sovereign with a Royal Salute; Arms will be presented and standards, guidons and colours will be lowered. Any band present will play the complete first verse of the National Anthem for the sovereign and his or her consort, but what will they play for the heir to the throne?
6. The composition of The Household Division consists of regiments of Household Cavalry and regiments of Foot Guards. How many regiments of cavalry fall under the command of the Household Division?
7. I expect that you've seen a gun salute being fired on special occasions in Hyde Park, London. Queens Regulation, QR.8.062. States that gun salutes are only authorised from a very limited number of locations throughout the United Kingdom. Of the following, which is NOT an authorised location?
8. Queens Regulation, QR.J8.080. Details the approved method of saluting from an aircraft. What do you think is the correct method in carrying out this manoeuvre?
9. A royal salute fired from Hyde Park, London, will consist of 41 "guns"?
10. What is the maximum number of soldiers permitted to act as an escort at the military funeral of a soldier of any rank under that of commissioned officer and, additionally, how many rounds of small arms ammunition are permitted to be fired in salute?
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