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Oct 7, 2026
Katie CharlwoodHOST
Now, he did become captain of Rose House before leaving Eton in 1953 to undertake national service.
Katie CharlwoodHOST
He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in his father's regiment, the Coldstream Guards, and spent much of his service stationed in Krefeld, West Germany.
Katie CharlwoodHOST
Oh, um, naturally, he also played poker, 'cause apparently military service wasn't exciting enough.
Katie CharlwoodHOST
After leaving the army one whole year later...
Max HastingsGUEST
And I've written about one or two of them in the book.
Max HastingsGUEST
They knew there was one particular man called Captain Ian Little of the Coldstream Guards, and he performed an extraordinary action on April the 3rd, 1945, when his company was ordered to seize a bridge over the River Ems.
Max HastingsGUEST
And he took a look at the bridge and he could see huge aircraft bombs wired to an exploder.
Max HastingsGUEST
And he said, I'm not going to lead my company to storm the bridge because that's what the Germans were expecting.
Ailsa ClarkeHOST
Helena Bly, the wife
Bethan Briggs-MillerHOST
of an ailing officer in the Coldstream Guards.
Bethan Briggs-MillerHOST
William himself encouraged rumours that Helena was the illegitimate daughter of his favourite uncle, the Duke of Wellington.
Bethan Briggs-MillerHOST
Whether this was true is doubtful, but scandal followed William wherever he went, and he appeared to have enjoyed creating some of it himself.
GeorgeGUEST
And at the first opportunity, against my father's wishes, I sort of basically ran off and joined the circus, 15 and a half.
Sam KileyHOST
He first joined the Coldstream Guards, but George wanted more, so he found his way to the regiment's Pathfinder unit, and when that was disbanded, he had little choice, back to bearskins and red tunics, or go for selection to the SAS.
Sam KileyHOST
Then came Northern Ireland.
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GeorgeGUEST
And at the first opportunity, against my father's wishes, um, I sort of basically ran off and joined the service, 15 and a half.
Sam KileyHOST
He first joined the Coldstream Guards, but George wanted more, so he found his way to the regiment's Pathfinder unit.
Sam KileyHOST
And when that was disbanded, he had little choice, back to bearskins and red tunics, or go for selection to the SAS.
Sam KileyHOST
Then came Northern Ireland.
Steve MitchellHOST
So to try and catch hold of something of that as near as one could and portray it in performance was very necessary.
Steve MitchellHOST
Meeting him was a great help." And, uh, Fox goes on to say, "I did two years of national service, uh, began in the Coldstream Guards.
Steve MitchellHOST
The intention was that I should be an officer in the Guards, but I got to a certain point in officer training and I wasn't suitable for them, so I went into the Loyal or maybe Royal North Lancashire Regiment." Uh, he talks about Market Garden.
Steve MitchellHOST
He says, "They were stabbing in the dark, really.
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But in the seventeenth century he was accurately described by Montacuculi as a foot soldier who used a horse only in order to arrive with more speed at the place where military service was to be performed.
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The household infantry consisted of two regiments, which were then, as now, called the First Regiment of Foot Guards and the Coldstream Guards.
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They generally did duty near Whitehall and St. James's Palace.
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As there were then no barracks, and as, by the petition of Wright, it had been declared unlawful to quarter soldiers on private families, the redcoats filled all the alehouses of Westminster and the Strand.
PaulHOST
Major General Edward Braddock arrives in early 1755 with two regiments of British regulars and orders to take Fort Duquesne.
PaulHOST
He's about 60, 45 years in the Coldstream Guards, competent at everything the British Army does well, and completely unequipped for what he's about to walk into.
PaulHOST
He cuts a 12-foot road over the mountains for his artillery, which is a genuine engineering achievement and which takes so long that everyone in the Ohio country knows precisely where he is and when he will arrive.
PaulHOST
Washington, meanwhile, has resigned his commission.
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