Royal Auxiliary Air Force celebrates 100 years' service with Buckingham Palace parade

Members of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force have celebrated their centenary with a parade at Buckingham Palace.

And for the first time the King's Colour of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAuxAF) was paraded in a special Changing of the Guard ceremony.

The parade in London was reviewed by HRH Duke of Gloucester, who is currently the Honorary Air Commodore in Chief of the RAuxAF.

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A new musical composition was also commissioned and composed to mark the achievements of the past 100 years and to give the RAuxAF its very own march.

The new march, Comitamur, was recorded by Royal Air Force musicians at RAF Cranwell.

The title of the march comes from the motto of the RAuxAF, Comitamur ad Astra – We go with them to the stars – which alludes to the role of the RAuxAF in supporting the operational work of the RAF, whose motto is Per Ardua ad Astra – Through adversity to the stars.