File:Blues and Royals Honour Guard MOD 45162446.jpg
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DescriptionBlues and Royals Honour Guard MOD 45162446.jpg |
English: Picture shows members of the Blues And Royals forming an Honour Guard outside of the Ministry of Defence for a visting Defence Minister.
The Blues and Royals were formed in 1969 from an amalgamation of the Royal Horse Guards, which was known as "the Blues" or "the Oxford Blues", and the Royal Dragoons, which was known as "the Royals". As a result of the Options for Change Review in 1991, the Blues and Royals formed a union for operational purposes with the Life Guards as the Household Cavalry Regiment. However, they each maintain their regimental identity, with distinct uniforms and traditions, and their own colonel. The Blues and Royals currently has two reconnaissance squadrons in Windsor, which are part of the Household Cavalry Regiment, and a mounted squadron in London as part of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment. Instead of being known as the Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons, the regiment is known as the Blues and Royals and is therefore the only regiment in the British Army to be officially known by their nickname as opposed to their full name. On ceremonial occasions, the Blues and Royals wear a blue tunic (inherited from the Royal Horse Guards, also known as "the Blues"), a metal cuirass, and a matching helmet with a red plume worn unbound, and against popular belief the regiment's farriers wear a red plume like the rest of the regiment but do not wear the metal cuirass. In addition, the Blues and Royals wear their chin strap under their chin, as opposed to the Life Guards, who wear it below their lower lip. On service dress, the Blues and Royals wear a blue lanyard on the left shoulder, as well as a Sam Browne belt containing a whistle. In most dress orders, the Waterloo Eagle is worn on the left arm as part of dress traditions. The Blues and Royals, as part of the Household Division, does not use the Order of the Bath Star for its officer rank 'pips,' but rather the Order of the Garter Star.
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Camera manufacturer | Canon |
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Camera model | Canon EOS 5D Mark III |
Author | PO Phot Owen Cooban |
Exposure time | 1/60 sec (0.016666666666667) |
F-number | f/4.5 |
ISO speed rating | 400 |
Date and time of data generation | 09:56, 1 February 2017 |
Lens focal length | 24 mm |
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Headline | Blues and Royals Honour Guard |
Credit/Provider | MoD/Crown copyright 2017 |
Source | MOD |
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City shown | London |
Width | 5,206 px |
Height | 3,705 px |
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Orientation | Normal |
Number of components | 3 |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Macintosh) |
File change date and time | 08:43, 16 May 2017 |
Exposure Program | Manual |
Exif version | 2.3 |
Date and time of digitizing | 00:00, 12 September 2016 |
APEX shutter speed | 5.906891 |
APEX aperture | 4.33985 |
APEX exposure bias | 0 |
Maximum land aperture | 4 APEX (f/4) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |
Color space | 2 |
Focal plane X resolution | 1,600 |
Focal plane Y resolution | 1,600 |
Focal plane resolution unit | 3 |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Manual exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Scene capture type | Standard |
Serial number of camera | 043023001984 |
Lens used | EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM |
Image width | 5,206 px |
Image height | 3,372 px |
Rating (out of 5) | 0 |
Date metadata was last modified | 09:43, 16 May 2017 |
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Category | MOD |
Original transmission location code | UNCLASSIFIED |
Writer | Harland Quarrington |
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Unique ID of original document | 4583A8A9B42A4F4996D137CE79860126 |
Copyright status | Copyrighted |
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Province or state shown | London |
Country shown | UK |
Sublocation of city shown | London |
IIM version | 2 |
Fixture name | Free |