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The ceremony dates back to the 17th Century and sees regimental colours being displayed in front of the monarch - with the colours of the Coldstream Guards to be presented this year.

To stay rigidly in those positions, or to get back into the regimental order after a difficult moment, you need those "rest" periods.

“We are looking for things like regimental shoulder titles, cap badges, bits of uniform, bits of kilt, boots to show they are British,” Ms Bowers said.

After researching his regimental history, Wark now has a clearer picture about what her father did on those northern French beaches in 1944.

The taxi dropped us in front of a long gate that opened to low, concrete buildings hung with Asafo flags, the colorful regimental flags belonging to the Fante people, a Ghanaian ethnic group.