ABSTRACT
The half-yearly change of quarters of the brigade of Guards took place this morning. The 1st battalion of the Grenadier Guards, consisting of about 540 men of all ranks, let the Tower, where they have been quartered, and proceeded to the Waterloo terminus of the London and South Western Railway, whence they were conveyed by special train to Windsor. The battalion, which is accompanied by 84 women and 107 children, was timed to arrive at Windsor at about eleven o’clock, and will take up the quarters just vacated by the first battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards at the Sheet-street barracks. A detachment of the battalion arrived at Windsor from the Tower yesterday afternoon. The 1st battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards’ also numbering about 540 of all ranks, and accompanied by about 50 soldiers’ wives and 80 children, left Windsor this morning by special train, and on arriving in London marched to the new Chelsea barracks. The other changes of quarters were as follows:—The 2nd battalion of the Grenadier Guards, from the new Chelsea barracks to St. George’s barracks; the battalion from Wellington barracks (new wing) to the old wing and out barracks; the 1st battalion of the Coldstream Guards, from St. George’s barracks to the Tower; and the 2nd battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards, from the old to the new wing of the Wellington barracks. The change does not affect the 2nd battalion of the Coldstreams, who still remain at Dublin.
