Grenadier Guards

Right from the off, there's stuff for Jones to do.

On the afternoon of D-Day, on the 17th of September, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards tried to find a way around where the Irish Guards got stuck at Valkensvaard.

And Jones, who's at battalion headquarters, heard they're having trouble with a weak bridge.

So takes himself off to find out what the problem was and to help.

LAUGHTER That's

absolutely fab.

And he gets them to put the beams at the same width as the half-track's tracks, which means the Grenadiers are over the dike nice and quickly and over the canal.

And so that night, after leaguing and attending midnight O-groups, Jones is then sent out to look for routes that will take tanks southwest of the Valkensvaard.

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The band of the Grenadier Guards at Buckingham Palace played a medley of Star Trek themes in honor of Patrick Stewart, but not the theme of the show that he was on.

Oops.

Yeah, don't think they understood the

And My dad is, we're both, I guess where we are similar, we're both history geeks, but he made it so accessible and entertaining.

You know, he was talking to me about each division of the mass bands of the Grenadier Guards and what the plumes in their hats meant and who was riding in which carriage and what the carriages were.

And it was just an amazing opportunity to see it up close and personal.

And certainly for that, I'm very grateful.

Yeah, no, so the Tommy Trek is a 40-kilometer walk starting at midnight on, in essence, the anniversary of the D-Day landings.

RBV are really well versed in looking after you everything was set everything was clear and yet me and your relationship director who I hired from the Grenadier Guards Richard managed to take a couple of left turns or we were supposed to turn right So his orienteering may be coming into question here, but eight hours of tough walking in tough environments.

But it was absolutely amazing.

The absolute camaraderie throughout for using the term a civvy to feel like I'm on exercise with some armed force veterans in that instance.

She said, ''As we gather here a century later, our foremost purpose remains to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice.'' We honour the officers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the Guards Divisions who lay down their lives in the service of King and Country.

The Guards Memorial, designed by Gilbert Ledward, features five life-size bronze figures representing the Grenadier, Coldstreams, Scots, Irish and Welsh Guards.

The bronze used in the memorial was made from captured German artillery.

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Foynette, Brigade Major for the Household Division, said Standing here today connects the recruits of 2026 who face new threats and an uncertain world directly to the 15,000 veterans who marched past this plinth in 1926.

Three jewels have been fought over her.

A young English officer on the Grenadier Guard committed suicide last year because of her.

And a famous French banker is at present languishing in prison because her extravagances drove him to appropriate funds that did not belong to him.

Yes, Watson, she has an extremely colourful personality.

Just say it's like they're just getting the fans ready to cheer for the Ospreys next week.

Hamish Allen says, good and shit is driving my 19-year-old to Catterick to start basic training in the Grenadier Guards.

It's good because it's really what he really wants to do.

And he says, I'll make shit decisions when that's my own devices.

It is only if you are fired upon are you permitted to fire back.

So anyway, three battalions, including a group of the fellows with the big hats, what are they, the Grenadier Guards or something, go wandering with their red coats into the bush.

Like, you know, you're not going to see them coming, you know.

Anyway, they charge around, they're all hot, I forget the month, but it's eventually a group of Aborigines that tell one of these three bunch of soldiers where to find these renegades.