Fawn (colour) Fawn (colour) Fawn is a light yellowish tan color. It is usually used in reference to clothing, soft furnishings and bedding, as well as to a dog's coat color. It occurs in varying shades, ranging between pale tan to pale fawn to dark deer-red. The first recorded use of "fawn" as a colour name in English was in 1789. The fawn coat color is found in many breeds, such as Boxers, Great Danes, and Pugs. Genetically, in most cases the color is due to the recessive a gene at the Agouti locus. Some breeds, such as Chows and Doberman Pinschers
Trooping the Colour Mohammed Mechanised Battalion. Kenya is one of two African countries that still practices the traditional British ceremony of Trooping the Colour. This takes place every 12 December on Jamhuri Day (the day when Kenya became an independent nation and later a republic), but unlike the British one all the three services of the Kenya Defence Forces takes part in the Trooping the colour. The service whose battalion is trooping the colour provides number one and number two guards. The ceremony normally begins at 11:30 after the arrival of the President of Kenya, who takes the national salute. After finishing his