A spokesman for the Coldstream Guards Association, Sunderland Branch, said: 'It is unfortunately my sad duty to inform those that knew him, that Major (Retd) Hugo Rosen has sadly passed away.

Also making history was a Guards veteran whose final Trooping the Colour parade marks the end of a four decade Army career. Drum Major Steve Staite, 55, has taken part in Trooping the Colour at ...

Major McElligott was later questioned by the army's special investigations branch at the Coldstream Guards HQ in Chelsea. Today he faced a panel of five high-ranking army officers and a judge ...