The Archive · 1937

THE "KING'S GUARDS"

The battalion of Italian troops sent to join the international defence force guarding the boundary of the Settlement belongs to a regiment which traces its history right back to the sixteenth century. Now known as the Savoy Grenadiers, the regiment was originally the Piedmont Grenadiers, and had the distinct tion of being part of the Kings Guards. This Old-established regiment was re-organized at the time of the Italo-Abyssinian campaign, when its name was changed to the Savoy Gienadiers. The regiment took part in the campaign, and south of the Saddles. Moderate cyclonic easterly to south-easterly alan; tion with rain around Kiusiu. A ihe north of Palau is apparently advancing west-north-westward.—Siccawel Observatory.

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