[Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: February 22nd, 1919]

Considerable interest has been aroused in the county by the signal honour which has fallen to the Bedfordshire Regiment, which has now been chosen to provide the King's Guard at Buckingham Palace.

The 3rd Reserve Battalion is the unit upon which this distinction has fallen, they having been selected for duty under the London District HQ. They established a precedent on Wednesday when they paraded at the Palace for the first time, as on no previous occasion in history has the King's Guard been drawn from a Reserve Battalion of the Line.

The matter is of special interest to Luton, seeing that the command of the Battalion is at the present time held by a local man – Lieut-Col H. P. Green (pictured right), second son of Mr and Mrs J. W. Green, of The Larches, New Bedford Road.

Lieut-Col Green served in the recent campaign, going to France in October 1915. He was with then 2nd Battalion of the Regiment at Hill 60, and had many narrow escapes in the fierce fighting in that area, but fortunately came through the dangers without being wounded, though he suffered illness owing to the privations of active service.

The 3rd Battalion is to be congratulated on having such a fine body of men for the duty. The average height was 5ft 9in, and, in the opinion of military experts present, the parade would have been a credit to any regiment. To have seen the Guard marching from Wellington Barracks to the forecourt of Buckingham Palace, behind the band of the Grenadier Guards, one would with difficulty realised that these men had all but lately returned from the battle-scarred fields of France.