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October 22nd, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
AAP
Queen Elizabeth has presented Australia’s Royal Military College (RMC) with a new set of royal colours, continuing a tradition started by her father in 1927 when she was just over a year old.
The new colours replace a set Her Majesty presented in Australia’s bicentenary year, marking the fourth such presentation since her first visit as monarch in 1954.
Displaying impeccable military precision, RMC’s 500 officer cadets and staff members at Duntroon in Canberra paraded for the British sovereign before a 5000-strong crowd at the RMC parade ground on Saturday.
Dressed in an electric blue dress, coat and hat by her chief dresser Angela Kelly, the Queen presented a silk banner displaying the Australian flag with the crown at the centre of a Union Jack.
The monarch said many RMC graduates had gone on to serve their nation with distinction on operations around the world, often in difficult and dangerous circumstances.
“Many have given their lives in defence of their country and their values,” she said.
“The presentation of colours is a special opportunity to recognise the past achievements, to give thanks for commitment and loyalty today, and to express confidence in the future.”
Some 24 of the new lieutenants of RMC class of 2011 can expect to deploy in 2012 to Afghanistan, where 29 servicemen have lost their lives.
One of the deployed could be Staff Cadet Harriet Pembroke, 26, who marched with special pride, for in the audience was her grandfather Arthur Bushy Pembroke, 83, a former RMC graduate.
In 1953, he attended Buckingham Palace to be awarded the Military Cross (MC) for bravery by the new Queen Elizabeth.
Bushy Pembroke – so nick-named because of the moustache that graced his face while serving in Korea – and his grand-daughter met the Queen, who was accompanied by Prince Philip, during a garden party in the grounds of RMC’s heritage-listed officers mess.
“I was very impressed today to see in fact that really, apart from the obvious slight ageing, she was still the young and beautiful Queen I saw in 1953,” he told reporters afterwards.
Bushy Pembroke won the MC for leading a platoon during the Battle of Maryang San, one of the signature events of Australia’s involvement in the Korean War, fought 60 years ago this month.
Chatting to Her Majesty, he told her another officer invested with another honour on the same day as him was decorated for a subsequent battle on the same ridge.
“How remarkable,” the Queen replied.
Cadet Pembroke, a former David Jones fashion buyer who decided on a military career last year, was immensely proud to be on parade in front of the Queen and her grand-father.
“When I was doing the march past the Queen I was nervous that Her Majesty was here and when we were marching towards where I knew Bushy was sitting, I put some extra drive into my left form,” she said.
RMC commandant Brigadier David Luhrs said the day went perfectly.
“It was a fantastic privilege for us to have Her Majesty come and present our colours,” he said.
The tradition of military colours dates back to ancient times when Roman legions carried the eagle standard.
A unit’s colours served as the rallying point for troops in battle but nowadays the role is purely ceremonial.
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