Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-23 | Page 7 | Formal Ceremonies Schedule at Fort

ML CEREiilS eCHEBH FORI Retreat, Regimental Review and Formal Guard Mount Ordered. A combination of the three most elaborate elabo-rate and impressive military ceremonies of a regiment will be witnessed at Fort Douglas this afternoon at 4 o'clock. At this hour the entire Twentieth infantry in-fantry will be turned out upon the main parade field of the past for retreat parade and regimental review, immediately alter which there: will be formal suard j mounting. i At tlie retreat parade the 200 men of the regiment will form in battalion ranks j across the Held, facing Ihc flagstaff of the post. At a signal from the field ' music the sunset gun will he fired, then I the entire regiment will come to present i arms and every officer in the post wiU'j face the flag and stand at saluie while ! the band plays "The Star Spangled Ban- I ner" and the flaj is slowlv lowered from the staff. Immediately after this impressive and formal ceremony the regiment will be put through the manual of arms and then will pass in review before Colonel Alfred Hasbrouck. regimental and post commander. com-mander. The regiment will be headed by the Twentieth in!antry band, which will furnish the martial music for the ceremony. cere-mony. Inst aftfr the resri merit passes in review and marches off the held, tlie band will again take Its place a.nd the company detailed for guard duty will march upon the field and the ceremony of formal : guard mounting t ill take place. j Yesterd;i y afternoon a t -1 o1m k there was a battalion parade by the Third battalion bat-talion of the regiment, retreat parade and formal guard - mounting following.