title: 'Departure of Reinforcements for the Guards in the Crimea', United Service Gazette, 28 October 1854, P. 6.
abstract: The Detachments of the three Regiments of Foot Guards, under orders for embarkation to join the Service Companies of their respective Battalions in the Crimea, making a total reinforcement of 230, marched to the terminus of the South-Western Railway on Thursday. The three Bands of the different Regiments accompanied the men, and played some lively airs along the streets, but on reaching the platform of the station the Fusiliers’ Band struck up the “Highland Laddie,” after which the Coldstream Ba