serve with the colours

Below this list are given the names, so far as they have been obtained, of all Bengeworth men serving with the colours.

During World War I, the annual report noted that many tenants 'are at present serving with the colours or at munitions making and some are soldiers wives or widows'.

Her letter also includes details of a gift awarded by Princess Mary to her father and "every person who was serving with the Colours in any part of the world on Christmas Day, 1914".

Civil servants who are required to carry on the work of their Departments obviously have a genuine reason for not serving with the colours, and are to that extent, presumably, qualified to register in a Volunteer Training Corps.